Unwanted camera movement when accessing containers

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• Hurricane Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 730

  February 2015

  Additional information:
  
  This is a well-known annoyance that has been present in all Baldur's Gate games since vanilla BG1. It is caused by the way the engine handles the size of the bottom GUI bar.
  
  The bar consists of the bottom buttons and the combat log. When you extend the combat log, the vertical size of the bar increases accordingly. When you now open a container, the size of the bar is reduced as if the combat log were completely folded in. However, if the camera is at the bottom edge of the screen, the reduction of the bar's size forces the game to shift the camera position upwards, which causes the unwanted camera movement.
  
  The problem only happens if the combat log is folded out to mid size or full size. If the combat log is completely folded in, there is no reduction when you open a container because the size of the bottom bar stays the same.
  
  The solution to this problem is to not change the size of the bottom bar when a container is opened. Instead, the engine should treat the bottom bar as always having the size determined by the current state of the combat log.

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• 3leeTbger Member Posts: 71

  February 2015 edited February 2015

  Hurricane said:

  This is a well-known annoyance that has been present in all Baldur's Gate games since vanilla BG1.

  If you mean including all versions, then you're wrong, both above bugs weren't present in bg2:ee 1.2

  Post edited by 3leeTbger on February 2015

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• Hurricane Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 730

  February 2015

  I don't know about the left-to-right problem. I was only talking about the camera movement issue when accessing containers. I just checked my backup copy of BGII:EE v1.2 and it happens there as well.

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• 3leeTbger Member Posts: 71

  September 2015 edited September 2015

  Any chance this one can get reconsidered / tagged?

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