Empty SOD question

posted on August 10th, 2009, 3:25 pm

Ok, so I was adding ships and stations to the game and On certain objects when I put my mouse over them the spinning error sod appears inside of it.  Has anyone experienced this before, and do you know how to fix it?

posted on August 10th, 2009, 3:27 pm

The SOD must not be properly refered to... either that or the SOD is corrupted.

...... Umm... Okay it could be the first one more likely than the second one.

posted on August 10th, 2009, 4:24 pm

so the models appear fine up until you hover them with the mouse where then additionally to the correct model an error sod appears?

posted on August 10th, 2009, 5:07 pm

Exactally.  I would post a pic, but it would be a spoiler, so I will hole off until absolutely necessary.

posted on August 10th, 2009, 5:09 pm

Exactally.  I would post a pic, but it would be a spoiler, so I will hole off until absolutely necessary.

Send a pic of the error but black out the model...

posted on August 10th, 2009, 5:30 pm

Oh! The selection SOD is missing! That is why! You need a selection SOD!

[Anonymous]

posted on August 10th, 2009, 9:11 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on August 10th, 2009, 9:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

wht?!?  What is a selection sod?  the ring around the station?

ok, that was it, but now it crashes after I select it.  is there anything else like that that might be missing?

The stack stuff in the error report says something like StringCopy

posted on August 10th, 2009, 10:17 pm

you could send me an error report via email (change the the subject so i can easier identify it). i will try to help you with whats going wrong there

posted on August 10th, 2009, 10:25 pm

ok, I will do that.  Should I send it to the error report email, or yours? 

Also I changed the cursor just now, and it crashes, so I will put it back the way it was before I changed it, then I will send it to you.

posted on August 10th, 2009, 10:27 pm

send it to the default address, they all get forwarded to me anyway

posted on August 10th, 2009, 10:33 pm

ok.

Strange, I have never encountered problems like this in all my time writing odfs.

posted on August 10th, 2009, 10:48 pm

ok, i haven't received your mail yet, i guess you are not done yet with reversing the changes to the cursor. it's 00:44 here right now so i can only give you some directions from what you told me before i go to bed. the crash could be caused by a too long odf name for a weapon or sprite or by a non terminated string (tooltip etc). hope that helps somehow.
good night

posted on August 10th, 2009, 11:36 pm

That sounds right.

I am grill'in burgers atm, so I haven't had time to do it yet, but I will do it asap.

posted on August 11th, 2009, 7:52 am

looks like an issue with the associated sound events, however could also be caused by something else that is overwriting the ids of the sound events in memory which again could be a too long string somewhere.

posted on August 11th, 2009, 10:09 pm

So are strings refered to as only tooltips and things in the D_L_S.h file, or is there something else refered to as strings?