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Ghost drone shadow weirdness - Roomba - 08-25-2016

I suicided with handcuffs (the tearing your brain out one) so I could ghost drone around and fix up stuff. While droning around, someone stuck my brain back in my body but  got interrupted before he could clone me. I got dragged out of my drone body and became a ghost. While being a ghost, this is what the world looked like.

[Image: 2RwGkbp.png]

Later on, someone who joined after I became a drone entered the room, and this is what it looked like.

[Image: s3inGVa.png]

Observing other people also resulted in the same silhouette weirdness. Also, I was ineligible from becoming a new ghost drone after that.

E: and yes to clarify in advance, I know that's what people are supposed to look like for ghost drones. Less so regular ghosts.

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - atamusvaleo - 08-25-2016

Bug aside that looks really cool. Like the darkness figures almost.

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - Wire - 08-25-2016

The bug here is you being ripped out of your drone body to begin with. That shouldn't be possible. The overlay weirdness is just a secondary side effect.

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - misto - 08-25-2016

you can also see ppl fine when they ride on the utility tractor, forklift, etc i think

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - Wire - 08-25-2016

(08-25-2016, 03:29 PM)misto Wrote: you can also see ppl fine when they ride on the utility tractor, forklift, etc i think

That is a different bug related to overlays (the mob doesn't actually exist when inside one of those vehicles, just a "snapshot" of the mob sprite). Probably a huge pain to fix.

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - Noah Buttes - 08-25-2016

(08-25-2016, 03:51 PM)Wire Wrote:
(08-25-2016, 03:29 PM)misto Wrote: you can also see ppl fine when they ride on the utility tractor, forklift, etc i think

That is a different bug related to overlays (the mob doesn't actually exist when inside one of those vehicles, just a "snapshot" of the mob sprite). Probably a huge pain to fix.

Simple and easy fix: blur out the entire sprite of any occupied vehicles.

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - Roomba - 08-25-2016

Honestly it doesn't seem like a big deal really, even with the silhouettes it's pretty easy to tell who people are and you're forbidden by drone law to interact with them regardless.

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - NateTheSquid - 08-26-2016

If your byond isn't updated right you can't see people AT ALL as a ghost drone

RE: Ghost drone shadow weirdness - misto - 08-27-2016

i know this is probably a separate issue to the player silhouettes, but i recently turned on my flashlight as a ghost drone, stored it (which still keeps the flashlight aura active), and followed an emagged floorbot around fixing the holes it made. the newly fixed floors appeared nearly pitch black