Inaccurate comparer report about wzcomparerr2

[Kagamia]

A trial feature is committed. c713999

Maybe it is useful for reducing the file size of comparing reports.

[KENNYSOFT]

For reference: GMS download links

v182
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/182/MSSetupv182.exe
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/182/MSSetupv182.z01
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/182/MSSetupv182.z02
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/182/MSSetupv182.z03
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/182/MSSetupv182.z04
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/182/MSSetupv182.z05

v181
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/181/MSSetupv181.exe
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/181/MSSetupv181.z01
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/181/MSSetupv181.z02
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/181/MSSetupv181.z03
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/181/MSSetupv181.z04
http://download2.nexon.net/Game/MapleStory/FullVersion/181/MSSetupv181.z05

[Kagamia]

Client compressing patch. 😆

[KENNYSOFT]

Yes, I agree with @Kagamia. There "IS" a change in 0002100.img, which deletes a image and replace it with link. It can decrease client size, like KMS did.

[Kagamia]

KMS/CMS replace the linked images with a 1*1 size dummy canvas, but GMS use a "(link)" string stuff instead according to the screenshot.
Funny. 😆

[KENNYSOFT]

@Kagamia No, that's not a string. It's just a linked node and I added a function for follow linkNode in comparer. See https://github.com/KENNYSOFT/WzComparerR2/blob/master/WzComparerR2/Comparer/EasyComparer.cs : line 507.

[Kagamia]

So that is why it takes more time to compare. 😃

But I heard that GMS client has compressed since v177?

[Sunaries]

That particular change for that NPC also occurred during the comparison of 180->181. Something's not right.

Also, GMS has their client optimized and reduced in size a few patches ago. Again, this is only happening with GMS. I've tested: KMS, JMS, MSEA and it works fine.

[Kagamia]

Maybe GMS has not fully completed optimizing during previous patch.

You could compare the file size of Npc.wz from v.180 to v.182. The top of the comparison reporting also shows the file size before and after patching.

[Sunaries]

@Kagamia If that were the case, then it would be told in a patch note, no? I experienced this in the past where it outputted existing files with GMS.

I deleted the comparison of v180 to v181 since it was taking too much space. Overall it was around 2 GB. The size of v181 to v182 is also 2 GB...

[KENNYSOFT]

I downloaded GMS v181/v182 and compared these. I found that there really "IS" a change; they move some PNGs to other img and adjust links. I don't know why they did like this, but one thing is that they have not to tell this in a patch note. Below shows the difference in v181/v182.

▲ v181 01680075.img

▲ v181 01680081.img

▲ v182 01680075.img

▲ v182 01680081.img

[Sunaries]

Hmm. A solution to remove the linked node comparisons is to remove that particular code that you added @KENNYSOFT ?
The image seems to be shown through 'outlink' rather than PNG.

Because this makes it extremely difficult to check the changes unaffected by the changed link nodes.

[KENNYSOFT]

No, the code that I added is just for print the destination node, not for comparing. If you want to skip node if the linked item is same, then you should change something in EasyCompare.cs.

[Sunaries]

GMS released new update today. Version 183.

▲ 182 → 183

▲ 181 → 182

Comparing for GMS takes incredibly long and so hard to notice new/modified content. 😢

[Kagamia]

2001.img->2012.img->2010.img
Nexon can't find the right place. 😃