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My map randomly crashes when I play as my custom melee unit. The only Severity 3 errors I get from the log are: Could the problem be with the combo? Any help would be appreciated.

You didn't edit any MSH's? At all?

No, but I did scale the weapon that it uses.

How random is it? Is it within the first ~20 seconds of the game usually?

It usually crashes when I block and attack consecutively and quickly (button smashing). I did munge a new animation set using the human_sabre basepose, sidious' three saber swings, and vader's dash attack. Could this be a problem?

Try de-scaling the weapon. See if that works. If it does, apparently scaling the weapon messes it up and you'd need to model a new one. The Render thing makes me think it's the msh....

That didn't seem to work.

I decided to fix up the lua to have 16 of the melee units against 16 Han Solos. The game crashed about 20 to 30 seconds into playing the map. The error log came up with the same errors as posted above along with some memory pool errors. I raised the pools and munged. The map still crashed the same way with the same errors (minus the memory pool errors).

I originally had two Obi Wans, Jangos, Bobas, Chewies, and two of my melee units before I had increased the unit count in the lua and it took a lot longer for the crash to occur. So is my animation set flawed or is it something else?

You can:
Post a picture of your animation's folder (in SoldierAnimationBank),
Post your .combo

OR

Remove things one at a time - first the model, then the combo/animations, etc. until you find the problem.

First option: The combo:

Check and see if you, or an ai has died with a specific character in any fashion, to trigger the crash.

Check if said characters were eating by a rancor/fell into a death pit.

Check each and every combo attack you do, and watch for animation glitchs/glitchyness.

Get back to me when you've done those 3 things.

You need to move your Dashattack state (all three states, DASHATTACK, DASHATTACK2, and DASHATTACK_RECOVER) to the end of the combo (I would put it after the ATTACK3 state and before the jumpattack states). Then you need to change from this:

State("DASHATTACK2")
{
Posture("Stand");
Animation("stand_dashattack")
{
AimType("FullBody");
BlendInTime(0.10);
BlendOutTime(0.25);
BlendTimeTo("stand_attack1c", 0.4);
}

to this:

State("DASHATTACK2")
{
Posture("Stand");
Animation("stand_dashattack")
{
AimType("FullBody");
BlendInTime(0.10);
BlendOutTime(0.25);
BlendTimeTo("stand_gam_guard", 0.4);
}

Your first tip should be that you're trying to reference an animation that doesn't exist - however, the reason you not only change the animation but move the state as well is because that animation hasn't been declared (animations need to be declared before they can be referenced in BlendTimes).

So I fixed up the combo according to your advice like so: Then I munged my sides. In-game, my map still crashes a few seconds into playing as the unit. It tends to crash when I either block or block and deflect. Is there anything else wrong with my combo? I've also removed the dark_sabre_stand_idle_emote_full file from my animation's folder since it's just the human_sabre one.

Try what I said.

1. The unit dies like a human.

2. There aren't any rancors or death pits on my map.

3. When the unit does the last swing of the combo while moving, it slides.

3. that sounds like you "forgot" to lock the keys in the combo while playing the last swing anim
maybe you used an unit that normally can walk while doing the last swing

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:3. that sounds like you "forgot" to lock the keys in the combo while playing the last swing anim
maybe you used an unit that normally can walk while doing the last swing

That state is directly lifted from the Emperor's combo, the animated move is part of it. With the Emperor it probably doesn't matter, since his feet don't move normally.