Urgent Help Needed - Fatal Errors in my TD.

07-09-2009, 08:17 PM

Been bugging me for like few months ... so much testing to no avail. So as a last resort im gonna post an unprotected ver of my TD so that someone might be able to figure out what is causing the fatal errors. It usually occurs after 20 min into the game when there are a lot of towers.

Will give a lot of credit if you can help!!

If you need to know anything about the map just ask here.

Thanks in advance.

07-09-2009, 08:53 PM

CixxyZ

found this

Quote:

Originally Posted by tamisrah

Ability Connected:
- Chainlightning: end game crash
- orb effect + attack ground
- modified flamestrike interacting with non modified
- tooltip with invalid expression followed by atleast 63 characters
- spellbook inside spellbook
- morph, alternate destroyer form, avatar, metamorphosis: various bugs & errors

Triggers
- call GetWorldBounds on global initialization
- using a rect created upon init
- Player(n) 15<n or 0>n
- non existant array index
- handling null handles <- not confirmed
- ExecuteFunc on non-existant function
- non initialized event responses (GetExpiredTimer)
- doing stuff outside map bounds
- H2I + Addition
- BJDebugMsg(H2S(someHandle))
- infinte loop
- moving a destroyed lightning
- native -> codevar

Other:
- ColorCodes within Team Names <- not confirmed

When the Thor tower attacks, it creates 5 dummies and they cast a total of 5 chain lightnings simultaneously. Do you guys think it could be that?

edit. Tested in single player and made 10 thors... no crash.

07-09-2009, 10:16 PM	#3
Alevice	with an 1.21b instllation use grmoire, enable war3err iirc and check the crash dump and post it

07-09-2009, 11:09 PM	#4
Anopob	After playing 21 minutes with all types of towers (besides Lucifer and that other tower, because I didn't know how to get those), I did not have a fatal error like you described. Perhaps it's something you're doing? Or look over multiple replays, comparing ones that crashed and ones that didn't.

07-09-2009, 11:46 PM

CixxyZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alevice

with an 1.21b instllation use grmoire, enable war3err iirc and check the crash dump and post it

I would but that sounds way too complex. Could you please post instructions on how to do that because I don't know any of the tools you described and also how to get a 1.21b installation without reinstalling.

Quote:

After playing 21 minutes with all types of towers (besides Lucifer and that other tower, because I didn't know how to get those), I did not have a fatal error like you described. Perhaps it's something you're doing? Or look over multiple replays, comparing ones that crashed and ones that didn't.

Well ta for playing so long. The thing is, it's not possible to save reps when it fatals. . . Also even if I have reps I wouldn't know what the problem resides in.

07-09-2009, 11:51 PM

CixxyZ

Trigger:

Thanatos Copy

Events

Unit - A unit Is attacked

Conditions

(Unit-type of (Attacking unit)) Equal to Thánatos Esper

Actions

For each (Integer A) from 1 to 5, do (Actions)

Loop - Actions

Set TempThanatosGroup[(Player number of (Owner of (Attacking unit)))] = (Units within 1000.00 of TempPoint matching (((Owner of (Matching unit)) Equal to Player 12 (Brown)) and (((Matching unit) is alive) Equal to True)))

Set TempPoint = (Position of (Attacking unit))

Unit - Create 1 dummy [thanatos] for (Owner of (Attacking unit)) at TempPoint facing Default building facing degrees

Set TempUnit = (Random unit from TempThanatosGroup[(Player number of (Owner of (Attacking unit)))])

Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Neutral Alchemist - Acid Bomb TempUnit

Unit - Add a 1.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)

Unit - Cause (Attacking unit) to damage TempUnit, dealing 66.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Death

Set TempInteger = (Random integer number between 1 and 20)

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

TempInteger Equal to 6

Then - Actions

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to False

Then - Actions

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of TempUnit) using Objects\Spawnmodels\Undead\UndeadDissipate\UndeadDissipate.mdl

Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)

Floating Text - Create floating text that reads Death!!! above TempUnit with Z offset 0.00, using font size 12.00, color (75.00%, 0.00%, 75.00%), and 0.00% transparency

Floating Text - Set the velocity of (Last created floating text) to 96.00 towards 90.00 degrees

Floating Text - Change (Last created floating text): Disable permanence

Floating Text - Change the lifespan of (Last created floating text) to 1.50 seconds

Floating Text - Change the fading age of (Last created floating text) to 0.00 seconds

Unit - Kill TempUnit

Else - Actions

Do nothing

Else - Actions

Do nothing

Unit Group - Remove TempUnit from TempThanatosGroup[(Player number of (Owner of (Attacking unit)))]

Custom script: call DestroyGroup (udg_TempThanatosGroup[GetConvertedPlayerId(GetOwningPlayer(GetAttacker()))])

Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_TempPoint)

I think it might be this trigger. I created 3 of these towers close by and it crashed. They are supposed to be a multiple shot tower that has a chance for instant death. Any one know if this trigger has bugs?

07-10-2009, 02:14 AM	#7
Dark.Revenant	It could possibly create an infinite loop. The darndest things will set those off, even if it shouldn't be possible. The base WC3 code sucks...

07-11-2009, 12:41 PM

Gorman

Hey Archer, still having this bug i see :(

Well, the trigger you posted appears to be fine as far as i can see. However you could make it a little better by placing

Trigger:

Set TempPoint = (Position of (Attacking unit))

before the loop, as they dont change.

Dunno what could be breaking it, if it was that trigger... Unless its something weird like Dark said, or it could be attacking unit screweing up your arrays or something.

All i can think of is making attacking unit a local variable and seeing if that fixes it. (instead of just using Attacking Unit)

EDIT: sweet fixed

The problem is that you have so many triggers on the map, so its very hard to go through and find them.

07-12-2009, 07:35 PM

Sophismata

Actually, it may be that the problem has to do with one of the Macintosh-specific bugs.

You seem to be running the game through WINE or Cider (CrossOver)?

Also, you're triggers are slightly off. You're calling TempPoint when you define TempThanatosGroup[playerID], but you don't define TempPoint till after TempThanatosGroup[playerID].

Here:

Trigger:

Thanatos Copy

Actions

Set TempPoint = (Position of (Attacking unit))

For each (Integer A) from 1 to 5, do (Actions)

Loop - Actions

[Actions go here]

Trigger:

making things a bit neater

Unit - Cause (Attacking unit) to damage TempUnit, dealing 66.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Magic

Set TempInteger = (Random integer number between 1 and 20)

If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)

If - Conditions

TempInteger Equal to 6

((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to False

Then - Actions

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of TempUnit) using Objects\Spawnmodels\Undead\UndeadDissipate\UndeadDissipate.mdl

Special Effect - Destroy (Last created special effect)

Floating Text - Create floating text that reads Death!!! above TempUnit with Z offset 0.00, using font size 12.00, color (75.00%, 0.00%, 75.00%), and 0.00% transparency

Floating Text - Set the velocity of (Last created floating text) to 96.00 towards 90.00 degrees

Floating Text - Change (Last created floating text): Disable permanence

Floating Text - Change the lifespan of (Last created floating text) to 1.50 seconds

Floating Text - Change the fading age of (Last created floating text) to 0.00 seconds

Unit - Kill TempUnit

Else - Actions

Do nothing

Unit Group - Remove TempUnit from TempThanatosGroup[(Player number of (Owner of (Attacking unit)))]

Custom script: call DestroyGroup (udg_TempThanatosGroup[GetConvertedPlayerId(GetOwningPlayer(GetAttacker()))])

Custom script: call RemoveLocation (udg_TempPoint)