[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM] #10835: QFG4: Mage stuck unable to cast spells in endgame crystal room

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#10835: QFG4: Mage stuck unable to cast spells in endgame crystal room
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  Reporter:  Vhati              |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect             |     Status:  new
  Priority:  high               |  Component:  Engine: SCI
Resolution:                     |   Keywords:  SCI32 original
      Game:  Quest for Glory 4  |
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Comment (by sluicebox):

 That's funny, I'm juggling script ownership too.

 What do you mean by moving project off crystal and onto the room? Do you
 have that backwards? project is already the room's script (not counting
 casting a spell at the crystal since that only works after avis is dead),
 so did you change it so that project is crystal's script? If so, won't
 that dispose crystal's existing script sTimeItOut and prevent it from
 expiring?

 Won't setting sMessages as avis' script dispose sUltimateJoke if it's
 already started and prevent it form expiring too?

 I assigned sMessages to midBlast as it's a Prop that's always initialized
 and doesn't have any scripts to conflict with. I changed sAdavisDies from
 hero's script to the room's script to force project's disposal even if it
 got interrupted with the view/loop change in avis:getHurt. For the death
 animation I just added a local2 test to sTimeItOut state 1.

 The last detail I'd like taken care of is the holes that that his create
 between hands off and hands on. There was already one, but reassigning
 things so that project can complete while sMessages runs creates others,
 and you can the spell cursor when you shouldn't and can shoot multiple
 projectiles at once if you click fast. Without patches, doing this crashes
 reliably with the Grcycler null from other bug reports. I'd like to get it
 in hands off from the moment you throw/cast a projectile until all the
 work is done (getHurt aborting or sCastMessages completing), but that's a
 hard detail.

 This is an impressively broken room! Cast a spell into nowhere or switch
 to sneak/run to go walk around in the air

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