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haven't noticed this before... never...

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Heh, neither have I. Which version of the game is this?
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if I notice this correctly this phenomenom can be seen within KEENE4 v.1.4 as well as KEEN6E v.1.5 and KEEN5E (v.?).

take a look:
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also all of these mods are "infected":
(The Keys of Krodacia, The Eight Accumulators, Valentine Bash, Zoltan's Revenge, Mirror Menace, Intelligent Intellect, Marooned on Mars Galaxy)
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But there is one weird exception: In Dr.Colossus Terror From Outerspace you will find two different flag behaviours. that's strange, isn't it?!
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In short both the flag and scorebox are sprites spawned in the level much like Keen is. The Flags are given a foreground behavior of 3, the same as the scorebox, to ensure they appear over *all* tiles. However the scorebox is nearly (nearly!) always spawned first, putting it higher up the foreground list, meaning a sprite 'equal' to it will appear in front.

This patch fixes the issue, for Keen 4, but means that some foreground tiles the Flags will not appear in front of:

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#Change flag foreground
%patch $E307 $0002W
%patch $E369 $0002W
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way to easy...
I wish it would have been more mysterious.
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Post by KeenRush »

I noticed this the previous millennium. :old
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Is this on the wiki anywhere?
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yip, since 1 August 2016 there is a clipping section added: shikadi.net/keenwiki/Patch:Flags#Clipping&foreground
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Post by Levellass »

No, I meant the flag bug.
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ok, got ya... gonna take care of that.
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Nisaba wrote:gonna take care of that.
"Now I'm going down to Emmett's Fix-It Shop to [put flags all over the place]."
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