Game IE on air unit death.

NakedCrook · Medic **Joined**: 22 Jan 2009

All right basically here is my problem. I have a certain air unit that will cause an IE upon its death. It is a cargo plane that drops guys onto the battle field. it works fine up until it gets shot down by anti air units.

I know it is not a problem with the code because when I attach the "image=" tag to its rules codes (to change what it looks like) it works 100% fine but when I revert it back to its original appearance, it will IE upon its death.

This is annoying because I coded this unit 4 months ago and only until 10 minutes ago has it stopped working and started causing IE.

I suspect its something wrong with the vxl/hva/art coding but I am having my doubts.

-it cant be the vxl because I just re downloaded the vxl from the site I found it at and it still IE
-I replaced the HVA 4 times already, most recently with re downloaded hva and it still IE
-the art code is an exact duplication of the other para drop planes in the game.

So...any ideas?

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

DeathWeapon?

NakedCrook · Medic **Joined**: 22 Jan 2009

here, let me post some code:

Code:

[PDPLANE2]
UIName=Name:PDPLANE
Name=Cargo Plane
Strength=1000
Category=AirLift
Armor=light
TechLevel=-1
Primary=ParaDropWeapon
Spawned=yes
LeadershipRating=10
Selectable=no
RadarInvisible=no
Sight=0
MinDebris=0;2
Landable=no
MoveToShroud=yes
PitchAngle=0
Speed=15
Owner=Neutral
Points=30
ROT=2
Crewed=yes
Ammo=100
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
MaxDebris=0
Locomotor={4A582746-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1}
MovementZone=Fly
ThreatPosed=0
DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys
ImmuneToPsionics=yes
CanPassiveAquire=no
CanRetaliate=no
MoveSound=PDPlaneMoveLoop
DieSound=
CrashingSound=PDPlaneDie
ImpactLandSound=GenAircraftCrash
DeathWeapon=SuperCrashEffect
DeathWeaponDamageModifier=0.5
FlyBy=true

Code:

[C5]
UIName=Name:C5]
Name=Drop Plane
Strength=5000
Category=AirLift
Armor=heavy
TechLevel=-1
Primary=ParaDropWeapon
Spawned=yes
LeadershipRating=10
Selectable=no
RadarInvisible=no
Sight=0
Landable=no
MinDebris=0;2
MoveToShroud=yes
PitchAngle=0
Speed=15
Owner=Neutral
Points=30
ROT=2
Crewed=yes
Ammo=100
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
MaxDebris=0
Locomotor={4A582746-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1}
MovementZone=Fly
ThreatPosed=0
DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys
ImmuneToPsionics=yes
CanPassiveAquire=no
CanRetaliate=no
MoveSound=PDPlaneMoveLoop
DieSound=
CrashingSound=PDPlaneDie
ImpactLandSound=GenAircraftCrash
DeathWeapon=SuperCrashEffect
DeathWeaponDamageModifier=0.5
FlyBy=true

as you can see these two planes are exact copies of each other. The C5 will cause an IE upon its death while the PDPLANE2 will work just fine. The art codes are exactly the same as well.

so whats going on here?[/code]

Javier · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:45 am Post subject:

Can you post the code for DeathWeapon=SuperCrashEffect?

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Dark Templar X · Commander **Joined**: 26 Feb 2009

The death weapon causes the error on impact and if you say this crashes on being killed, it's something else.

I looked through and this is suspiciously like a bad ShadowIndex or a bad SHP... I can't tell which yet so I'll confer with DCoder...

After a little conferencing with DCoder...

Add these to your new plane and test again;

Code:

DisableVoxelCache=yes
DisableShadowCache=yes

NakedCrook · Medic **Joined**: 22 Jan 2009

Hey guys, thanks for all your input, I really appreciate it but I decided that this was a very fruitless endeavor to pursue. I just decided to backup my current rulesmd.ini and artmd.ini and restore one of my mod backups (which functions perfectly with no IE). I am just going to accredit this glitch to a corrupt mix or vlx/hva.

@Dark Templar X

I already had those tags in the art coding but thank you for your suggestion.

anyways, thanks again guys.