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01-02-13, 5:02 PM

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I was playing The Last Story on the Wii the other day when I ran into an interesting glitch. One of the side quests in Lazulis City involves Zael chasing a boy who stole a key through town. The town itself is virtually stream-less, but as I rounded a corner I ran into an interesting predicament. Instead of the town being fully loaded, that section of the town was not there. Instead there was a blue field with a number of NPC walking around. You could see the rest of the city in the background. I could run across the blue plane, and as I ran the rest of the city loaded.

Anyway, I was wondering just what that glitch is called. I wasn't out of the over world, obviously, but it was obviously some sort of loading glitch. Does anyone know its proper name?
 
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01-03-13, 10:00 AM

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That sounds more like a rendering error than a loading error. If that section wasn't loaded, you probably would have just fallen through.

I'm sure there's a technical term for just about everything, but unless you're a debugger there's not much point to knowing them. Simply describing the glitch is good enough for most people. In this case, I'd just say "unrendered section" or "rendering error."
 
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01-04-13, 8:23 AM

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AbstractCalamity said:
That sounds more like a rendering error than a loading error. If that section wasn't loaded, you probably would have just fallen through.

I'm sure there's a technical term for just about everything, but unless you're a debugger there's not much point to knowing them. Simply describing the glitch is good enough for most people. In this case, I'd just say "unrendered section" or "rendering error."

OK, that's a good enough answer for me. Thanks!
 
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