Chao Garden: Evolved 1.5.4
A fix for chao portraits that sometimes stayed blank in the mode pickers — Karate, Race, School, Arena, Board and Clash — until you went back to the garden. Market thumbnails that could get stuck the same way are fixed too.
Portraits
- Chao portraits in the mode pickers no longer hang. Opening Karate, Race, School, the Arena, Chao Board or Chao Clash could sometimes leave the chao picker full of empty cards, and they only filled in once you walked back into the garden. It depended on timing, which is why it happened on some visits and not others, on PC and Android alike. The garden was still reporting that it was preparing graphics after it had closed, and the portraits waited on it forever.
- A single portrait can no longer get stuck empty. A chao’s portrait waited for its graphics to finish loading before drawing, and in a few cases — the chao’s look changing at just the wrong moment, or a phone putting the app in the background — that wait never ended. It now always does.
- Rebuilt portraits fill in faster. A picker full of chao that had already been shown once could take several seconds to come back, one card at a time. They come back much faster now.
- The market’s item thumbnails had the same problem, and are fixed the same way.
Under the hood
- A new headless test covers how the game waits for graphics to be ready, including checks that the old behaviour really did hang, so this cannot quietly come back.