No unique sprite for Jess in the Eddings house?

[toojays]

I've just started playing Unavowed, really enjoying it so far. But I've come across one oddity. In the Eddings house, Jess looks exactly like the player character.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1749351052
Is this a bug in the game? Or an artifact of me playing the game using Proton maybe?

[MASTAN]

I don't remember how they looked, played too long ago. But definitely not like player character.

[Wadjet Eye Games]

I am not sure what Proton is, but that white sprite is supposed to be black. Is Proton some kind of emulator? It looks like whatever you are using is screwing up tinting and shading.

[toojays]

Thanks for your reply, and confirmation that something wasn't right.

Proton is a version of WINE that Valve have now built into Steam on Linux. They also call it "Steam Play" sometimes. Unavowed has a platinum rating on ProtonDB[www.protondb.com] so I thought I'd give it a shot. Either this issue was too subtle for those other players to notice or it's specific to my setup (Proton 4.2, Intel Iris Graphics 540, Mesa 19.0.2, Ubuntu 18.04).

I have added "driver=D3D9" to ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/336140/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Saved Games/Unavowed/acsetup.cfg and now that scene looks like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1751212932

[Wadjet Eye Games]

Oof. I am not sure! Are you able to run the winsetup.exe file? Currently the graphics filter is set to "OpenGL". Try setting it to Direct3D or DirectDraw and see if that fixes it. You lose a LOT of the effects without the tinting. In fact, the opening must have been VERY confusing because the characters are supposed to be draped in shadow!

[Wadjet Eye Games]

Ah. I should read. You DID try direct3D and it worked. Awesome.

[toojays]

Yeah all good here now, I've done a full playthrough of the game with no further problems.

And actually it is possible to switch to Direct3D from the config program which is presented as an option when starting the game within Steam. Out of habit I just ignored that and went straight for the acsetup file. Doh!

[MASTAN]

Originally posted by toojays:

Out of habit I just ignored that and went straight for the acsetup file. Doh!

Why not run winsetup.exe? It's there in most games with AGS engine. Or run

<game.exe> --setup

if it's absent(actually winsetup.exe does exactly that)

[toojays]

Originally posted by MASTAN:

Originally posted by toojays:

Out of habit I just ignored that and went straight for the acsetup file. Doh!

Why not run winsetup.exe? It's there in most games with AGS engine. Or run

<game.exe> --setup

if it's absent(actually winsetup.exe does exactly that)

Do I really need to elaborate on "out of habit"? Ok.

I never played a Windows build of an AGS game before, so I wasn't familiar with winsetup.exe. The first couple of AGS games I played, half my time was spent playing the game, the other half of the time I was wiring up AGS's OpenGL driver to work on Linux[github.com]. I did a lot of futzing with acsetup.cfg during that time to test various things, so am pretty familiar with editing that file directly.