Matrix entity positions have problems loading in-game. about froglord HOT 3 CLOSED

Things to try:

• If marking an entity as immortal bypasses the problem.
• It seems like the entity problem has to do with positional sorting. It seems like the entity id is the problem, not the entity list order. I need to figure out which axes are weighted the most significant, or basically how the entity id is impacted.

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I'll try those things. I've just got things set up so I'll try them soon.

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It appears this is likely only related to the position, nothing else.

I've narrowed it down to the specific part of the Frogger code which fails.
The problem is, I'm have a really difficult time figuring out how the value in the file is turned into the number the code uses. The value I leave in the file seems to not be the value the code gets, and I can't seem to figure out why this is.

Another mystery is why the 16 lower bits seem to always be 1 or always be 0, with no discernable pattern why this is.

Even though this doesn't make sense, I managed to get positions to seemingly always work when X and Z are positive by doing this.

Shifting XYZ >> 16, when making the vector.

Editing with 4 bits fixed point decimal.

Shifting everything << 16 when it's time to put the position data back in the matrix.

Why this requires shifting by 16 is completely beyond me. I have to be missing something, since it just doesn't make sense to me.

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