Topic: SFC3's Star

[Fallen_Warrior]

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[TarMinyatur]

I know this may not apply to SFC3, but in SFC2 the star's graphics are not dependent on the three star entries (CY, CR, CW) in shiplist.txt. You can delete these units from the roster and the sun still appears! Looking at the code with IDA, the game uses a rapid sequence of 4 bitmaps to create that fiery effect. The model of "yellowsun" doesn't appear to be used. There is no yellowsun.mod file. Perhaps the stars in shiplist.txt allow these units to "attack" ships that get too close with its solar weapon (whose chart hasn't been found).

SFC2CE has a serious flaw in the star graphics. Random images from ships are added to the sequence! It seems like an array is being read beyond its intended capacity of 4.

[TarMinyatur]

As I said in a previous post, the only time I've seen a specific SFC model start grabbing other textures of other generated models is when it's texture size is too big. What are the texture sizes of the Star's model?

I don't know. The stars relative sizes aren't listed in model.siz because they don't use a normal model (*.mod). The star's properties aren't easily modifiable. They could be hex-edited once found.

[TarMinyatur]

Adam, bug about the sun "blinking" has been listed in the bug forum for Community Edition for 3 years.

http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php?issue=293.0

The sun in OP (and EAW) is working as intended.

[[UFP]Exeter]

I have the CE code ans will get copy of original EAW code to see if I can locate it.

[TarMinyatur]

Good idea, FW. But it didn't work. I'll try to follow the code with IDA's debugger.