Dropping Starting Gear/Items Illuminates a room

Necrucifer · 2013-09-09T10:49:58.000Z

SDL Version 0.7.1-1632-gc613180

So I found some hiking boots that fit so I decided to put those on and take off my sneakers. I decided to drop my sneakers in the basement of the evac shelter to make room for a bottle of water so I would not have to drop my weapon. Well it seems dropping the sneakers illuminated the whole basement. I picked them up then it was dark again only being able to see one square ahead. Drop them again then I could see the whole basement again.

I took the sneakers upstairs and closed all the curtains to see how far it illuminated. Once I dropped them it illuminated the whole floor, I was sure because the floor turned from grey .'s to cyan .'s. 

Well I dropped a matchbook, it illuminated the room as well. I picked it up and tryed it again (I had 2 matchbooks at this time.) It did not work. I dropped the other matchbook then it lit the room up again. I decided to pick it up and drop my jeans, it lit the room. I am guessing the items on you at start apparently illuminate the room upon dropping but other items in the world seem to work as intended.

John_Candlebury · 2013-09-09T12:47:57.000Z

Is that version by any chance old?

It seems to be already fixed since then

Necrucifer · 2013-09-09T13:59:39.000Z

No, it’s the latest SDL experimental build as of 5 hours ago when I downloaded it unless another has been updated since. I Tried to recreate it by resetting and generating a new world but to no avail except one other time. So I must of done something to trigger it I suppose or it’s just random upon world gen that it has a chance of happening other than that no clue.

kevin.granade · 2013-09-09T14:48:19.000Z

We changed the way we handle light-emitting items just recently, this is obviously tied to that.
My guess is that when it reads save data from a previous version it ends up setting the flag that makes the item glow.

AtomicDryad · 2013-09-09T18:36:17.000Z

Necrucifer:

No, it’s the latest SDL experimental build as of 5 hours ago when I downloaded it unless another has been updated since. I Tried to recreate it by resetting and generating a new world but to no avail except one other time. So I must of done something to trigger it I suppose or it’s just random upon world gen that it has a chance of happening other than that no clue.

Tried to reproduce; no bueno…the thing -should- be 0 by default and the json loader doesn’t touch a variable if it’s unsaved. If you encounter this and can catch it in a save, send it my way?

Rivet · 2013-09-09T18:51:59.000Z

Stealth artifact - glowing sneakers.

Necrucifer · 2013-09-09T21:20:39.000Z

AtomicDryad:

[quote=“Necrucifer, post:3, topic:2973”]No, it’s the latest SDL experimental build as of 5 hours ago when I downloaded it unless another has been updated since. I Tried to recreate it by resetting and generating a new world but to no avail except one other time. So I must of done something to trigger it I suppose or it’s just random upon world gen that it has a chance of happening other than that no clue.

Tried to reproduce; no bueno…the thing -should- be 0 by default and the json loader doesn’t touch a variable if it’s unsaved. If you encounter this and can catch it in a save, send it my way?[/quote]

Well either way it works both ways since both meanings are similar. If I happen to get another save in which it happens sure thing.

[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:4, topic:2973”]We changed the way we handle light-emitting items just recently, this is obviously tied to that.
My guess is that when it reads save data from a previous version it ends up setting the flag that makes the item glow.[/quote]

Ah, that would make sense then. I left my sneakers in my cabin to illuminate the room with the fireplace I sleep in, apparently it stopped glowing though at some point in time. I came back and the room was dark so it has a limited time apparently but it lasted a couple in-game days anyway. I dropped my matches to see if they would still emit a light and they did…

Rivet:

Stealth artifact - glowing sneakers.

Yeah, would be neat if they would have kept glowing after putting them back on for night anyway so I would not have to waste batteries haha. I just would drop my matchbook when I needed light if I was somewhere else. I hate exploiting things though but I figured might as well till it’s fixed haha.