Disappearing ground units...?

Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: Disappearing ground units...?

I just came across a very strange bug that I've never seen or heard of before Confused

I was just randomly playing D-day & everything was going fine when all of a sudden every single ground unit on the map disappeared. The units were still there tho but the voxels were no longer being displayed, like the game couldn't find them. Any newly built units or ones found via bonus crates had the same problem.

Even more confusingly tho jumpjet & air units were unaffected & carried on working fine, I didn't have a shipyard at the time so couldn't test any naval units.

Well anyway has anyone else ever experienced all the ground units disappearing mid game before? I'm worried this could be Ares related but I don't know what triggered it so can't test it any farther.

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Krow · Commander **Joined**: 30 Jan 2010 **Location**: Malaysia

I take it that they are still selectable?

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Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject:

Selectable, moveable, fireable but not visible...

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Hmmm, thats something I've never seen or heard of till now. are you using the Ares feature [#include] for seperate ini's ? Course, sounds more like an art issue. Maybe the game had a fart and stopped reading your mix file with your vxl's in it?

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject:

Do you mean the voxels disappeared but it still displayed the shadows?

Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:47 pm Post subject:

Nope no shadows, the alpha images that a few of them had still worked tho.

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

Your not using any UseBuffer=yes etc on the voxels i figure, that is bad generally and should lose it from all or how about the cache functions ?

Else, the glitch sounds all new... maybe memory fart since voxels are generally loaded to memory to my understanding...were the units preplaced lets say on a map that loaded? in cases of if you loaded a savegame while inis have been changed since, i wouldnt be surprised...

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Check if all voxel debris have a hva. In TI we got the strangest bugs due to a missing voxel debris hva. (and no the game isn't giving instantly an IE when it spawns the debris)

I don't know if the key works different in RA2, but you can also check if the DemandLoad key is correctly used. This can lead to strange problems too if used wrong (at least in TS it causes the win98 compat bug beside other sideeffects).

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Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:45 pm Post subject:

I don't use the buffer on any units & cache only on jumpjet (which weren't effected).

No preplaced units, was an empty testing map...

All hva files are there & DemandLoad is used on all civ buildings, but that's normal for RA2.

It probably was a "memory fart" but what confuses me is why just the ground voxels & not anything else, seams very specific :/

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Next time it happens, try to dump it out and send it up to the Ares tracker for analysis. There's a command to generate dump in Debugging, IIRC.

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

DemandLoad does absolutely nothing in RA2/YR, redundant code, only applies in TS where it should not be touched. Same for DemandLoadBuildup...i removed the both from my mod art ini entirely and no issues. oh and same for also FreeBuildup=