Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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Britannicus
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Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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Hey, I was playing Isle of the Damned yesterday and encountered a weird little graphical bug.

When the northern Lich recruited a ghost, it's sprite was replaced with the Lich's on and off, around once every two seconds for a few frames. The bug persisted during the next turn after the ghost had started moving.

I am playing the Steam version with the latest update.
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Re: Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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i encountered same bug
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Re: Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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I ran into something similar a few days ago. I have a custom unit with the Dwarvish Runesmith as a [base_unit], so it has the standing 'bob' animation, and another unit with the same image as the White Mage (not a [base_unit] though). Once, when I started a scenario with both of them in it, it looked like one of the frames in the Runesmith's bob was replaced with the White Mage image. I quit back to the title screen, refreshed (f5) and reloaded the scenario, and the problem was still there. Then I restarted the entire game and the bug was gone.

I didn't bother reporting it, since I have no way to reproduce it. Out of curiosity, I used :choose_level to skip to Isle of the Damned, but nothing unusual happened there.

I'm playing on windows 10, and like the OP, BfW 1.14.3 from steam.
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Re: Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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Samonella wrote: July 21st, 2018, 11:04 pm Out of curiosity, I used :choose_level to skip to Isle of the Damned, but nothing unusual happened there.
Same here. I haven't been able to reproduce this so far.
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Re: Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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This happened again today. Still nothing to really go on, but I have a little more information, and screenshots.

This time I have 2 types of units, one is based off the Silver Mage, one off the Elvish Ranger. A had a couple of each at the start of the scenario, and all the Elvish Ranger's pictures were replaced with the Silver Mage ones. Still just a single frame of the standing animation swapped out, but this time the standing animation only has one frame. (It's just the default animation of course, I didn't actually make a [standing_anim]).
Bugged screenshots:
Like before, quitting to title screen didn't fix it, but quitting the game entirely did.
Screenshot after re-load:
I also have the save, but I doubt that's any use.

EDIT: As an afterthought, both times I encountered this were after many times tweaking the scenario, refreshing at the title screen and re-opening it. Could easily be coincidence, but it also makes sense if it's some part of some cache getting messed up after running wesnoth for hours straight.
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Re: Lich/Ghost flicker bug

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Samonella wrote: July 24th, 2018, 8:40 pm both times I encountered this were after many times tweaking the scenario, refreshing at the title screen and re-opening it. Could easily be coincidence, but it also makes sense if it's some part of some cache getting messed up
I've done the same thing without seeing a bug like this, but you can find out for sure by deleting the cache under Preferences-->General-->Cache.
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