Game crashes when ship finishes building

posted on July 26th, 2009, 2:04 pm

I'm working on a ship for our mod and when it finishes building (or when i place it via map editor) it makes the game minimize itself (only on the first monitor) and won't open back up. What's odd is that it only happens for 1 avatar variation of the ship. I made sure that the only differences between the crashing odf and a non crashing version are changes that wouldn't cause this. So what could do it?

posted on July 26th, 2009, 2:13 pm

Are the weapons in the odf spelt correctly?

posted on July 26th, 2009, 6:42 pm

ok, like tyler said.  it could have to do with weapons, psychics, even sprites.  But it is usually because of weapons missing, or misspelled.

posted on July 26th, 2009, 7:46 pm

Missing physics never crashed my game, the ship just won't move (and gets stuck inside the yard.

By 'Psychics', I assume you meant 'physics'? There is a little difference...

posted on July 26th, 2009, 8:35 pm

yeah, sorry dumb spell check.

I have gotten a crash from an error  in the physics file though.

posted on July 27th, 2009, 7:01 pm

I encountered a similar problem when I was making a custom ship.

Did you make a seperate .odf file of the ship for each avatar?

posted on July 27th, 2009, 8:16 pm

Ive had my game crash to the desktop with messed up ships but no minimize... are you sure the game window minimizes?

posted on July 28th, 2009, 3:15 am

Yes iv'e made a separate ship for each avatar.
It minimizes, which is what makes it so strange..

posted on July 31st, 2009, 8:20 am

that's strange. are you sure it minimizes the game, or does it switch to windowed mode? as soon as a crash occurs (faulty odf), fleet operations switches to window mode to show it's exception box...

posted on July 31st, 2009, 8:29 am

I'm sure... I just tried it by setting fed_saber.odf's weapon to a nonexistent one and it did the same thing. You can try it yourself!

posted on July 31st, 2009, 8:47 am

currenty i cannot, i am on vacation but i will try when i am back home

please continue discussion in your other thread: Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - Bug in fleetops when nonexistant weapons are used on a ship

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