Sudden Crash

I was working on my map, when I decided to add in a cinematic a friend sent me, and some custom cameras to go with it. I then added in a new model and skin. I try and play the map, and now it just crashes over and over with this error.



I don't know whats wrong. I deleted the cinematic trigger, and the cameras, but still no luck.

Do you have a pre-addition version of the map that you can go back into? It'd be helpful if you could re-add the parts a piece at a time to find out which one causes the game to crash.

yah panto's advice is best. I actually prefer errors that crash the game, while fatal, they're usually fairly easy to pinpoint, i have an error in my map that doesn't crash it (but gives that same window) and I've been searching for it for months.

It's probably not anything to do with models or skins. My guess is it's improper use of a function, variables don't seem to crash the game usually but just screw it up.

I personally was creating a small cinematic and got a crash error when I used an auto-pan function (pans to an area instantly if far away or moves over slowly if close... i think). I switched to the basic pan function and now it works. If you're using pan functions try switching them around...that's the kind of little change your friend may have made without testing.

I've gotten that error on the map I'm working on right now, actually. For me, the problem was conflicting data for abilities/units (for example, with the Spellbook ability, I had 4 abilities listed in it, but I forgot to change the "max spells" and "min spells" data slots to 4 and left them both at 3. So if you've been messing with the Object Manager, that might be the source of the problem. It's also a good idea to test your map as frequently as possible, so if there's a problem, it's easier to pinpoint.

From what you say, it sounds like a problem with the model/skin, since you say deleting the cutscene and cameras had no effect. I'd try getting rid of the model/skin and, if it works, try to find out what about the model/skin caused WC3 to crash (I'm not very good with models and skins, though, so I'm not much of a help there). Hope this helps! :>