5 days a stranger: in Day 3 intro Trilby switches to a wrong view

[ivan-mogilko]

During the Day 3 opening sequence (a dialog with Jim), Trilby periodically switches to a wrong view. From the looks of it, that is a view of a window with a grappling hook thrown over (from the game opening cutscene).

See screenshot:

The bug does not occur in the original game.

Affects modern engines v3.5.1 - v3.6.2.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Play the game through day1 and day2.
2. At the end of day2 you will have to flush water from the pool and go in.
3. Couple of sequential cutscenes follow, including a dream cutscene. You may skip them with Esc.
4. After DAY 3 is announced, there will be a conversation between Jim and Trilby. Notice how Trilby occasionally switches to a wrong view during this dialog.

Save made by a 3.6.0 engine right before going down into the pool:
5days-endofday2.zip

[ivan-mogilko]

This happens because the character's view appear to be "locked" to a view 13 somewhere during a cutscene and not unlocked properly. I presume that's a view with special animations. Because it never gets unlocked by a script command, the character returns to it after finishing talking animation.
Afterwards character is changed to a normal walking view.

The old engine probably had this view unlocked automatically at some other event, idk which one though. This issue is because of different engine behavior related to locked views.

[rofl0r]

any updates on this?

[ivan-mogilko]

I was not working on this yet. This seem like a change in engine behavior somewhere in early v3.x, and it may take a while to figure out how exactly it should be emulated. For that I'd have to write test games in v2.x and compare them with v3.