V-Gears/doc/TODO.md

TODO

Notes of things found while playing through the fields that still have to be reviewed.

Long pauses between messages in chrin_1b

Some scenes in chrin_1b (the opening, and the ones after it) wait a long time between messages, so it looks as if the game had frozen. Not investigated yet.

Suspects:

• The script scheduling in ScriptManager::Update: a script that yields with wait(0) now lets the next script of its entity run in the same cycle.
• The priority of the talk script, INTERACT_SCRIPT_PRIORITY in EntityManager.cpp.
• The durations of WAIT and script:wait that the installer converts (frames to seconds).

First step: play the scene with log level 3 and look at the time between the dialog_open and Start script lines.

Background parallax

BGPDH and BGSCR are converted, but the meaning of their values (ratio = distance / 4096, speed in 1/256 of a pixel per frame, sign of the speed) has not been checked against the original game. The far layer of mds5_4 has no such opcodes and still scrolls with the rest, and it is not known why it should not.