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"AutoShowMetal is deprecated"

Open GoogleFrog opened this issue 9 months ago • 2 comments

This is probably something ancient that ZK does to avoid showing the engine metal map, that has now been removed from the engine by default.

GoogleFrog avatar Mar 31 '25 10:03 GoogleFrog

No, it's the default engine behaviour where mexes show the metal view. The engine decided that this is now deprecated with zero transition period and zero patches to known games even though the replacement is a trivial game-agnostic widget with less than 50 lines including the boilerplate.

I decided not to fight it and to let it through, because a precedent of confused gamedevs complaining is going to be useful ammo for shooting down this kind of stupid approach in the future.

sprunk avatar Mar 31 '25 16:03 sprunk

As in metal view has been removed? Then all we need is to put an engine check around the bits of ZK that removed it.

GoogleFrog avatar Apr 01 '25 11:04 GoogleFrog