i found this one when i made a teleporter that transports you from the land level with light greyblue shading to the forest level with black shading.
i made a grass flooritem that is used into both levels.
when i teleport into the forest, the grass keep the light greyblue shading color.
then i tried with a rock flooritem. if i "see" it in the land, and then go to the forest, it keeps the light greyblue shading too.
other flooritems in the forest have a black shading, because they weren't seen in the land...
[Not a bug] flooritem (and probably other stuff) shading
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Hmmm - that is actually working as intended.
The issue is that flooritems are specified by *actual* bitmaps for each scaling (as opposed to, say monsters, which only have a single bitmap and the engine scales and shades it).
Your flooritem is (presumably) making use of the auto-scaling feature for floor bitmaps. When the bitmap is scaled then it becomes an *actual* bitmap (which is logically completely independent of the original). The problem comes when you change areas to a differently shaded one at which point the engine *shouldn't* re-shade your bitmap (because it is a bitmap that you've specified).
The way to get around this is simply to have two different objects, one for use in each shading area - BTW this is what DM-II does for things like the stone table and mud in the graveyard / thicket areas...
The issue is that flooritems are specified by *actual* bitmaps for each scaling (as opposed to, say monsters, which only have a single bitmap and the engine scales and shades it).
Your flooritem is (presumably) making use of the auto-scaling feature for floor bitmaps. When the bitmap is scaled then it becomes an *actual* bitmap (which is logically completely independent of the original). The problem comes when you change areas to a differently shaded one at which point the engine *shouldn't* re-shade your bitmap (because it is a bitmap that you've specified).
The way to get around this is simply to have two different objects, one for use in each shading area - BTW this is what DM-II does for things like the stone table and mud in the graveyard / thicket areas...