[3.13] Bug Report - Background black for wonder/diplo windows

[ButSam]

This bug has been discussed, but I don't see it in the bug report forum yet.

When building a wonder, the "city zoom/rotate" occurs, then the screen goes black and the wonder movie plays.

Likewise, when entering diplomacy, the background goes black.

I have problems running movies on high quality setting, but that should not make a difference. Still, it would be nice if someone could confirm the issue exists on high quality movies as well.

Sam

 

[ButSam]

I noticed an option in the CivilizationIV.ini file that contains the following:

; Dont show the game background during movies - may speed up movie playing
HideMovieBackground = 0

I don't know if this used to be in the Civilization4.ini file before; I don't recall seeing it. For kicks, I tried setting HideMovieBackground = 1, and the same thing occurred -- all backgrounds were black (although this time it was not in error, since the ini file indicated to hide movie backgrounds). Perhaps in the code just before playing a movie, this value is not checked properly? If someone familiar with the layout of the code could check, that would be great! Sounds like it may be as simple as checking a parameter in a structure before blackening out the background...though I am not familiar with the code at all. I can start poking around...

Sam

 

[Bhruic]

AFAIK, the code to play movies is in the executable itself, not the CvGameCoreDLL.dll file. So there's really no changes we can make to modify them, beyond the configuration settings.

Bh