Halley's weird eyes...

RickDeckard · 02-07-2006, 12:31 PM

Hi,I've bought Goldfish Aquarium 2 and I love it,Prolific did a awesome job! It's really amazing to see improvements made since the first release, especially faces of the Goldfishes and their realistic animations but after long observation I've noticed a little bug on the animated face of Halley...It's eyes seem to duplicate during the animation of the gill cover and that give Halley a weird look...

Has anyone noticed that detail?
Thanks for responses!

-RickDeckard-

edaniels · 02-08-2006, 08:32 AM

Hey, Rick... Thanks for kind words! Also, thanks for the heads-up; I'll look at Halley tonight and see if I can figure out what's causing the problem. Maybe we'll be needing to put out a 2.01 release soon...?

Pham Huu Hanh · 02-08-2006, 11:41 AM

Please post the picture.

RickDeckard · 02-08-2006, 12:49 PM

Thanks Eric for this lightning response!

Here is a screenshot of Halley:look at the left and upper ones ...

edaniels · 02-10-2006, 10:51 AM

Wow. Once you see it, it's really obvious! I'll try to fix it in the next release, or the one after that. Thanks for catching that, Rick!

feldon34 · 02-10-2006, 11:01 AM

Are you saying that you can actually see the other eye 'clipping' through?

RickDeckard · 02-10-2006, 12:38 PM

That's right Feldon.

feldon34 · 02-10-2006, 01:35 PM

Eric,

Does Draw Order keep you up nights?

edaniels · 02-10-2006, 05:31 PM

LOL... Actually, I think this problem is even lamer than that, it looks like a combination of three mistakes I made: somehow I left Halley's eyeballs a tiny distance away from her body, AND the texture map of the body includes the dark eyes... AND I'm animating the gills such that they pull away from the eyes on each breath... D'oh!!! It's amazing that nobody ever caught that before. Probably because she's such a little, inconsequential-looking fish... poor thing.

RickDeckard · 02-10-2006, 05:49 PM

So Eric is going to deal out justice to this pretty young thing!Thanks for her!

Tiny Turtle · 02-11-2006, 03:55 PM

Originally posted by RickDeckard:

. . . this pretty young thing . . .

You're talking about Morgan, right?

RickDeckard · 02-11-2006, 06:06 PM

Sure!

Jim Sachs · 02-11-2006, 08:37 PM

Ha, ha - it's amazing that bit of humor made it through all the required language translations.

Falz · 03-31-2006, 08:19 PM

I noticed the same thing immediately. His eyes deform strangely when his mouth moves! It looks quite freaky. I have a 40 L tank with nothing in it right now, and I'm a little sick of having to have a big heater in these things. So I'm thinking of maybe a variety of coldwater species. Luckily there is more to choose from then just comets

02-07-2006, 12:31 PM	#1
RickDeckard Be Smart! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 11	Halley's weird eyes... Hi,I've bought Goldfish Aquarium 2 and I love it,Prolific did a awesome job! It's really amazing to see improvements made since the first release, especially faces of the Goldfishes and their realistic animations but after long observation I've noticed a little bug on the animated face of Halley...It's eyes seem to duplicate during the animation of the gill cover and that give Halley a weird look... Has anyone noticed that detail? Thanks for responses! -RickDeckard-

02-08-2006, 08:32 AM	#2
edaniels Goldfish Aquarium Developer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Glendale, California Posts: 82	Hey, Rick... Thanks for kind words! Also, thanks for the heads-up; I'll look at Halley tonight and see if I can figure out what's causing the problem. Maybe we'll be needing to put out a 2.01 release soon...? ---------------------------------- E R I C D A N I E L S, a n i m a t o r Goldfish Aquarium Screensaver ----------------------------------

02-08-2006, 11:41 AM	#3
Pham Huu Hanh Registered Join Date: May 2003 Location: Viet Nam Posts: 102	Please post the picture. PHH

02-08-2006, 12:49 PM	#4
RickDeckard Be Smart! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 11	Halley's weird eyes... Thanks Eric for this lightning response! Here is a screenshot of Halley:look at the left and upper ones ...

02-10-2006, 10:51 AM	#5
edaniels Goldfish Aquarium Developer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Glendale, California Posts: 82	Wow. Once you see it, it's really obvious! I'll try to fix it in the next release, or the one after that. Thanks for catching that, Rick! ---------------------------------- E R I C D A N I E L S, a n i m a t o r Goldfish Aquarium Screensaver ----------------------------------

02-10-2006, 11:01 AM	#6
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	Are you saying that you can actually see the other eye 'clipping' through? "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

02-10-2006, 12:38 PM	#7
RickDeckard Be Smart! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 11	That's right Feldon.

02-10-2006, 01:35 PM	#8
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	Eric, Does Draw Order keep you up nights? "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

02-10-2006, 05:31 PM	#9
edaniels Goldfish Aquarium Developer Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Glendale, California Posts: 82	LOL... Actually, I think this problem is even lamer than that, it looks like a combination of three mistakes I made: somehow I left Halley's eyeballs a tiny distance away from her body, AND the texture map of the body includes the dark eyes... AND I'm animating the gills such that they pull away from the eyes on each breath... D'oh!!! It's amazing that nobody ever caught that before. Probably because she's such a little, inconsequential-looking fish... poor thing. ---------------------------------- E R I C D A N I E L S, a n i m a t o r Goldfish Aquarium Screensaver ----------------------------------

02-10-2006, 05:49 PM	#10
RickDeckard Be Smart! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 11	So Eric is going to deal out justice to this pretty young thing!Thanks for her!

02-11-2006, 03:55 PM	#11
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Originally posted by RickDeckard: . . . this pretty young thing . . . You're talking about Morgan, right? Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

02-11-2006, 06:06 PM	#12
RickDeckard Be Smart! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France Posts: 11	Sure!

02-11-2006, 08:37 PM	#13
Jim Sachs Developer Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 9,788	Ha, ha - it's amazing that bit of humor made it through all the required language translations. Jim Sachs Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium

03-31-2006, 08:19 PM	#14
Falz Registered Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 118	I noticed the same thing immediately. His eyes deform strangely when his mouth moves! It looks quite freaky. I have a 40 L tank with nothing in it right now, and I'm a little sick of having to have a big heater in these things. So I'm thinking of maybe a variety of coldwater species. Luckily there is more to choose from then just comets