Terrain labels (not) showing?

[kurt751]

I have a scenario where several places have labels (like "Tower of This", "Mountain of That", for orientation purposes).
When i start this scenario (from the previous), those labels don't show, even if I'm standing on the hex. If I save the game and reload that save, they do appear.

What's going on?
(1.16 on Linux)

[Ravana]

Verify on newer version.

[kurt751]

To do so I'd need to port the whole campaign to 1.18 and replay it (several scenarios), which I haven't the time right now.

What I actually asking for is if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is a known issue (1.16 must have been the newest version for a time, didn't anybody notice back then?).

[Ravana]

You really dont need to play anything specific. Basically open any random scenario and run your [label] commands with viewtopic.php?t=56440

[kurt751]

Thanks, but I have no knowledge of programming in general or more specifically Lua (besides knowing it exists), and thus I don't understand a single word of your (I'm sure) very interesting test method...
Sorry...

[Ravana]

It may be useful if you showed example how you set one of the labels with issue.

[kurt751]

Like this:

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[label]
	color="221,221,221,0"
	immutable=yes
	team_name=""
	text=_ "The Signal Tower"
	visible_in_fog=yes
	visible_in_shroud=no
	x=45
	y=15
[/label]

[Ravana]

Use color="221,221,221". Remove or set team_name.

[kurt751]

Will do, thanks.
But do you think this is the reason labels only appear after loading a save?

[gnombat]

Will do, thanks.
But do you think this is the reason labels only appear after loading a save?

According to the documentation, the format is "r,g,b". So the 4th number is invalid. Because it's invalid, the 4th number probably doesn't get saved to the save file. So it just gets saved as color="221,221,221" in the save file. Then it "works" when you load it from the save file.

[kurt751]

According to the documentation, the format is "r,g,b". So the 4th number is invalid.

Actually the label code is more or less straight what the 1.12 map editor wrote so I never questioned it, even those apparently useless empty entries.
As for the 4th number, I assumed it was transparency. As I said, it's straight out of the map editor.