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Draconisaurus wrote:I want to stress here that I have whitnessed Trespasser crashing due to combo-errors. That is, minor errors that don't crash a level on their own, may crash a level when compounded together. Like Tres has an inner tolerance for certain things that eventually breaks, especially with highly-developed levels.

TheIdiot wrote:

Draconisaurus wrote:I want to stress here that I have whitnessed Trespasser crashing due to combo-errors. That is, minor errors that don't crash a level on their own, may crash a level when compounded together. Like Tres has an inner tolerance for certain things that eventually breaks, especially with highly-developed levels.

I know what you mean, yeah. The key is trying to find what's causing the error and finding out if there's a way to circumvent it.

One other thing to note is that Trespasser is more or less stable depending on your hardware. In my experience, a computer which initially has difficulty running a particular map is far more likely to crash than one which runs it at 60+ FPS (Tres Legacy comes to mind). That being said, my computer can run all Trespasser maps I've encountered at 40+ FPS, and this level is still crashing for me, so it must be something else.

LCountach wrote:I just found a very interesting bug. I have started working on Pine Valley again for a few more little touches. It seems that "Trespasser CE" doesn't allow you to complete the main puzzle. However ATX does. Whats missing is the initial green lights in the control room for the complete puzzle to finish. You can do all the normal steps in CE. Its just the lights that usually start out green start red and stay red when playing the level in CE.

LCountach wrote:I found another strange... bug? In the turbine room where there are three levers and three dials/gauges. I can remember in the past having to mess with the three levers to make the light come on in the control room. I dont seem to have to do that anymore. I did a fresh install of build 96 on another PC and it is the same. The turbine room dials are active and the green light comes for the turbine after turning the 2 big red valve/wheels outside. I dont remember it being like that. How about anyone else?

Note: I am running ATX2.

tatu wrote:Whenever you get back here and can have a look. During TheIdiot's and my project we have combined BE, JR, PH, IJ and IT into one big level.
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I will attach the crash.dmp and hope it tells you something.

When loading in GUIApp, this is the end of the DebugLog where it crashes:

TheIdiot wrote:is there any way to either implement into the code or create a .NUT script for a trigger which fires when you push a customizable button on the keyboard? I assume it would work similarily to your implementation of the Sprint system (with the addition of the key to the Controls menu and such), except instead of increasing player speed, it activates a trigger.

I can see a lot of good use for such a function, and already have a few ideas of my own. I remember that you said something about this being doable with scripts, and if that is the case, it would be wonderful if you could write up a template script for this with the functions listed above as configurable modifiers.

would it be possible to write a triggered script which fades in an overlay image, and then fades it back out either after a set period of time or if another script/trigger removes it? I imagine this should be doable using the same scripting as the HUDs you've made for CE, except this element would be static instead and its size and position would be the key modifiers. This would mostly be used as a replacement for the broken retail ActionType which permanently displays a .BMP image on-screen, which presumably uses .tga files as your other scripts do, allowing for much greater flexibility

class MyScript extends GameScript
{
	function OnHandleInput()
	{
		if ( bKeyHit(uCMD_USER1) )
			TP_Engine.u4DisplayFormattedString("Hello", 2.0, 0, 0, TP_Engine.rgb(255,255,255), 0, ETextType.ettUNKNOWN);
	}
}

Draconisaurus wrote:

LCountach wrote:I just found a very interesting bug. I have started working on Pine Valley again for a few more little touches. It seems that "Trespasser CE" doesn't allow you to complete the main puzzle. However ATX does. Whats missing is the initial green lights in the control room for the complete puzzle to finish. You can do all the normal steps in CE. Its just the lights that usually start out green start red and stay red when playing the level in CE.

Lee Arbuco wrote:

Draconisaurus wrote:

LCountach wrote:I just found a very interesting bug. I have started working on Pine Valley again for a few more little touches. It seems that "Trespasser CE" doesn't allow you to complete the main puzzle. However ATX does. Whats missing is the initial green lights in the control room for the complete puzzle to finish. You can do all the normal steps in CE. Its just the lights that usually start out green start red and stay red when playing the level in CE.

There are so many PV levels in the download section, I don't know what I'm supposed to look at.

Lee Arbuco wrote:

tatu wrote:I believe they might have used that GroffBuild to create GRF files. However, it looks for .MDF (MultiIndex), and so far I have not found any Max Script exporting into that.

I've only very briefly looked at GroffBuild, and built a quick test groff. I don't know if it was used, at all, prior to the Max exporter being ready, or in combination with the Max exporter. I don't think it was used for level groffs, but for other data. You can build groffs without MDF files. Simply drag and drop files, like for example image files, into the list. Set a groff filename by pressing "Groff Name", then press "Generate Groff!" in the menu and it will create a GRF containing the files.