Golem Ice wave spell is black/gray

[mztulip]

Describe the bug
1.Golem Ice wave spell is black as presented in video.
2. This spell should freeze me from moving for a moment.
3. This spell should freeze me in the ice around me. In opengothic this effect seems to be present, but is significantly smaller.
4. In vannila it seems that ice blocks are increased with second hit.

Save-game/Log-file/Screenshots/Video

ice_golem.zip

ice_golem_spell.webm

Original engine for comparison:

golem_vanilla_spell.webm

[Try]

Hi, @mztulip !

I've investigated some of the points:

1. Particles are setted up by the game as alpha-blended, so they do receive shadowing, from the mountain and affected by light direction. At night time they do look more like original DX7 rendered, but still there wont be 1:1 match.
2. Yeah, that was a regression, after fixing soft-lock for orks. I have a partial fix now, but need to investigate further: script locking player in the ice indefinitely, due to it's own bugs
3. Second hit resets release timeout. Whole logic is managed by script - should be same.

[Try]

Pushed a temporary fix for ice-wave, for now. Haven't look into sprite sizes yet.

@thokkat I have had to comment your code related to isPlayerEnabledState for now.
In the script, AI_StartState(slf, ZS_Attack, 1, ""); in script causes froze-animation to cancel. While there are some code in B_StopMagicFreeze it has no effect due to further call to npc_clearaiqueue.

Possibly.. isPlayerEnabledState should not disallow to start state, but suppose to end it immediately for player?

[thokkat]

Lock in freeze animation is a vanilla bug. State is just prevented from starting, no start/end cycle.

The workaround in place before hard-coded states was in GameScript::ai_startstate

    if(!self->isInState(ScriptFn()) && self->isPlayer()) {
      // avoid issue with B_StopMagicFreeze
      self->aiPush(AiQueue::aiStandup());
      return;
      }

Back then my reasoning was that player doesn't survive 20s freeze anyway so I did not adjust and just removed it.

[Try]

@thokkat thanks for looking into!

Also I've checked vanilla - buggy in multiple ways: animation doesn't reset, but after a bit after freezing, you can still have bit of control over character.
Controls a bit tricky: up/backward not working, but left-right does O_o
And, controls are back now after state is finished, but after VFX dissapears.

Well, I'll push new workaround, once done with collisions.

[mztulip]

I think that last change broke something.(I play using 143bed3)

save_slot_1_skepeton_fight.zip

Currently, when I fight skeletons, I can walk, but I cannot use my sword, spells, etc...

2026-03-22.12-40-38.mp4

[Try]

Currently, when I fight skeletons

Is it after been hit by ice wave (maybe some time ago), or just a general issue?

[mztulip]

I was hit by ice wave some time ago.

[Try]

@mztulip

I've checked your save: apparently my previous fix was indeed quite bad. It allow any-state to hero, and as the result he got some ai-related parts active.

93a3e10 should fix freezing properly and accidentally do cleanup, once you receive hit by skeleton

[mztulip]

I tested 93a3e10 and it works.