Good news: I managed to reproduce in a controlled environment the corruption of a spriteset. Bad news: because I had no idea what was the possible cause of such corruption, I just went through a random set of deletions and then a random set of recycling of the released blocks. And repeating the process from a sane initial spriteset until the \”checker\” tool reports something abnormal
One interesting thing, though: what\’s abnormal is abnormal twice: not only I shouldn\’t have \”cross clusters\” in my sprite pages (two slots on two pages actually referring to the same tiles), but I possibly shouldn\’t have \”0\” at all (it is reserved on most spriterams) and I definitely shouldn\’t have some odd tile number since the smallest allocation unit so far is 4 tiles.
edit: Another curious thing, on the \”animations\” subset: one page makes reference to tiles that are not in the spriteset! possibly unused things that were inserted when the page was first created and then deleted before first saved into the spriteRAM. I guess I\’ll need to make sure I have some automated test that do something like that, too.
edit++: I think I got most issues fixed now. I\’ll have to give it a run on a real device and see whether I accidently broke something with all the \”refactoring\” …
Bouli's Homebrew Blog 
# step one: generate a 'checkme' by killing some things and then try to add some blocks to it.while perl SpriteEditor/test/tester.pl cleaned.spr c0 k3 n0 acc && cp /tmp/checkme.spr kills.spr && perl SpriteEditor/test/tester.pl kills.spr c2 k0 n2 acc ; do echo \”AGAIN\” ; done
LikeLike
block #0 has been forbidden, but when it was on a 32×32 page, the blocks 1-3 were not returned to the free list.
LikeLike
[%x:%{tbBh6?!@}] is produced during SpriteRam::unpack().- hex value is the location- letter indicates the kind of mark (is it one free tile, a 2×2 free block, …)
LikeLike
[%x->%lx %lx] is produced by SpriteRam::mark()- first is a tile location- next two are generated bitmask
LikeLike
When a page is wrongly referring to a tile that has no valid content (e.g. is on the free list), sprck cannot automatically decide to clean it. It has to be done manually with -s pageno blockno_in_page tileno_in_ram (usually with 0xffff as tileno_in_ram to mark it unused).
LikeLike