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Vaporific
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I need help with a minidumpling

January 22, 2012 1:33:25 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Hello

 

I'm working on a mod for entrenchment and i have run in to a little problem, i minidump when i try to build some vasari structures, this is the repair platform and the phase inhibitor.

 

The only change i have made in the entity files for those 2 is stripping out the abilities because i wish to use my own custom abilities at a later time.. I find it difficult to believe that this has caused the game to dump, but obviously something's amiss, any clues or ideas of where to look?

The Dev exe does not come up with any errors related to either structure when the mod or map loads.

 

 

Thanks,

Vap

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AdmiralAckbar42
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Reply #1 January 22, 2012 1:37:45 PM
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Have you tried lowering your graphics quality? Or unchecking some of the options in that menu like debris and bloom?

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Reply #2 January 22, 2012 1:49:10 PM
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Unfortunately that didn't work

 

EDIT:

Seems that the other 3 races do the same thing, i'm starting to suspect that it does indeed have something to do with the abilities i took out, some dependancy somewhere that i haven't found maybe. I'll keep looking.

If someone has any clues that'd be great

 

 

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GoaFan77
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Reply #3 January 22, 2012 2:43:21 PM
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You did only delete what was in the parenthesis right? Also are your reference files up to date?

 

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Reply #4 January 22, 2012 2:56:44 PM
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If by parenthesis you mean the "" then yes, i only deleted the contents, still got 2 "" sitting there without a space between them.

 

I am indeed starting to worry that it's the case of an old file, it has been some months since i last worked on this mod and i believe there was the .053 update in that time? So i probably have to start porting the mod >.<

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harpo99999
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Reply #5 January 22, 2012 6:01:07 PM
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vaporific, here is a link(https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/378266) to my thread that offers the various reference  file sets from different versions, and I try to upload a new set within a day of an update.

harpo

 

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Peter1x9
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Reply #6 January 23, 2012 12:29:31 AM
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Does the minidump happen right at the start of the map, or does it happen during the game?

If it happens at the start, you probably just have to port your files to the newer version.

If it doesn't happen until the game is in progress, then I would suspect an AI minidump.  Maybe the AI player is scripted to use abilities based on planetModuleRoleType (it does expect the structure with planetModuleRoleType "REPAIRPLATFORM" to be able to repair ships, after all), then dumps out when it can't. 

I know for a fact that the AI uses roletypes for building and using ships...and if it can't find one of the roletypes in its build lists it will minidump.  What could be happening is that it once it builds the building with planetModuleRoleType "REPAIRPLATFORM", it tries to tell its platform to repair one of its ships and then can't because the ability it is scripted to use isn't there anymore. 

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Reply #7 January 23, 2012 9:03:02 AM
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@Harpo

Cheers mate, I've allready grabbed those files, excellent resource, just haven't started porting yet.

 

@Peter

The minidump happens when I place the structure, as the player, and not until i place the structure, I'm not sure if the AI's considerations still count, but i wouldnt be surprised. However, i have restored the original abilities to the repair platform, with original entity's, so i don't know..

 

I'll experiment a bit more with it, thanks everyone for the help and ideas so far.

/Vap 

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Reply #8 January 23, 2012 2:41:33 PM
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Where are the dumplings? I want some.

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