[solved] Hud bug

[The Jo]

Whenever I kill a bot with a rocket (using the latest trunk), the radar hud is flashing red.

[greenman]

do you mean the steerable rocket or the self-seeking rocket ?

[x3n]

I can confirm this with the steerable rocket. It's probably the red radar dot of the bot which becomes too big... maybe because the rocket was very close to it

[greenman]

hm.. I'm not sure if i remember correctly (did some changes there once ago) but i thought that actually the radar should remain bound to the spaceship and not to the rocket, shouldn't it?

[x3n]

fixed in trunk in r8737.

If the player spawns a steerable rocket, the SpaceShip's HUD gets destroyed. As soon as the rocket explodes, the player's view jumps back to the SpaceShip and the HUD is re-created. But at this point, the enemy's SpaceShip still exists, so the HUD Radar creates a red dot for the enemy. However the HUD Radar will not be ticked until the next tick, hence the size of the dot is 1.0/1.0 which fills the whole Radar. The solution was to call radarTick(0) manually after creating the dots.

By the way, the Radar flashed red after each hit with the rocket, not only if the enemy was killed.

You may wonder why the Radar didn't flash every time the player spawns: this is simply because the player is created before the radar gets ticked, so we were simply lucky in that case.