Entry 126

Characters in no room are not drawn

2026-10-167mrender

Filescrates/rugrats/src/world/game/mod.rsrooms.rscrates/rugrats/tests/play.rs

A check for characters drawn in their bind pose (no part has a rotation), 90 frames into each level, found some. The ANM of their level has none of their animations:

• the hub's Angelica (id 600);
• level 4's Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica (1492, 1776, 600);
• level 5's char 36 (142);
• level 6's Reptar (507);
• level 7's Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Stu and Didi (1492, 1776, 608, 609, 15, 16).

All are cinematics' actors (the level docs: cines 38, 47 and 48).

The original draws objects only from the object lists of the rooms (+0x48, +0x4c). An object goes into a list by its room +0x3b, which comes from 0x8002b660 at load. An object placed in no room is in no list and is never drawn. The hub's Angelica, at (21733, -706, -13634), and all six of level 7's are outside every room. The port drew every character wherever it stood.

Game::npc_rooms now keeps each character's room. It starts from the character's place and is kept up each frame with the portal lookup (worklog 122), hinted by the last room; the last room found stays when none is. A character with no room is not drawn.

Left as they are: level 4's three are in room 56, level 5's 142 is in room 30, and level 6's Reptar is in room 9, the room play goes on in. The original draws those if their rooms are seen, so they stand in their bind pose there as well. That has not been compared.

Test: characters_in_no_room_are_not_drawn. The hub's Angelica and level 7's babies have no room; some of the hub's characters do.