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Attached an example hold.

Game Effect commands are not handled on the turn the player dies. This is especially annoying when you have a fake explosion that can kill the player, but it does not display if you're actually killed at it (there's that level in Chance for Paradise).

Similarly, you may be using ImageOverlay for an effect that repeats or changes or moves every turn and it'll disappear the next turn.

I think both should be displayed on the turn the player dies.

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And a PR

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Can confirm in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-18 that game effects are displaying on the turn you die.

However the image overlay in 1E in the attached example hold is NOT displaying on the turn you die.

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Interesting, for it worked. Some other change must've regressed it.

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kieranmillar wrote:
However the image overlay in 1E in the attached example hold is NOT displaying on the turn you die.

PR

This was broken by the fix to this. Short version: when advancing image overlay state now a static time is used, which is updated once per frame, rather than just taking current time which can change in between processing overlays. But when the effect is created it accepts "current time" as an argument, which WAS SDL_GetTicks() which in most cases would be a millisecond or two later than the static time mentioned above, causing the effect on the first frame rendering with 0 transparency.

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Took a look at this hold again in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-10-29.

The issue of the image overlay not showing up on death turn is fixed.

But now I have also noticed that the fuse effect does not show up during death turn. It turns out this was happening in alpha 10-18 too as I just double-checked, I guess I overlooked it last time.

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Okay you asked me to fix fuses when dying so I fixed dying altogether. PR

Here is what happened:
- The old dying animation code would cache the render of some layers of the room and use that when animating player and fading. The issue was that it would cause some effects to be promoted from lower layers, so O-Layer image overlays would suddenly appear on top of everything. This also had some other smaller issues.
- I changed it so that all cases (normal gameplay, double placement and dying) use the same rendering logic, the only difference being some things only appear during certain states, others don't appear during certain states.
- Death fade is smooth now, but also will be slightly more computationally intensive
- All effects continue animation upon death. This should really only have any serious impact on Image overlays, but given how sparingly they were used it should not be a problem.
- Everything will redraw every frame during death animation to avoid any issues with effects and fadeout
- Raindrops/Snowflakes will no longer generate during the time when the game is not animating them, to avoid hundreds/thousands being created and lagging/crashing/looking awful
- Player, dying required hero & killing monsters are now drawn on top of everything, always, and fade has been moved to draw aftere verything else to remove all weird edge cases
- Fuse sparks animate during death animation

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This all seems good now in 5.1.1.alpha.2020-11-04. I don't see any issues with effects or overlays or death animations.

Something that was always there but I didn't notice until now, when you use Game Effect Swirl, it is always drawn over the player and not at the coordinates where you ask it to draw. I assume that's intended?

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kieranmillar wrote:
Something that was always there but I didn't notice until now, when you use Game Effect Swirl, it is always drawn over the player and not at the coordinates where you ask it to draw. I assume that's intended?

It's intended but for 5.2 I want to add a swirl that also can be placed.

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