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So I created this map, and I load it up normally and it crashes every time I spawn. I've narrowed it down to this (from BFront2.log):

I think I've fixed this one, I put it up to 30: This one I can't seem to find in my ABCc_con.lua or ABCg_con.lua: Remember, all I really need is the location of the "SoldierAnimation" one, and if I should raise the "ClothData" one higher than 30.

soldier animation you need to add the line

add it right above cloth data


SetMemoryPoolSize("SoldierAnimation", ###)

###= number obviously

also those two shouldn't be crashing your map...post your whole error log please

Actually, the SoldierAnimation pool can easily cause a crash. In fact, it's often the cause of random crashes. I usually set it to 1700, as recommended by some of the senior members on GT.

wow guess you learn something new everyday

YaNkFaN wrote:soldier animation you need to add the line

add it right above cloth data


SetMemoryPoolSize("SoldierAnimation", ###)

###= number obviously

also those two shouldn't be crashing your map...post your whole error log please

I forgot to mention, I found absolutely NO Message Severity 3's whatsoever, but I'll post my entire BFront2 anyways: I didn't include the first part about movies and such.
EDIT: Oh, looks like phazon_elite posted before me... thanks guys, I'll fix it and see if it works!
EDIT 2: NOOO!!! It still doesn't work! Now what?

try with just adding the soldieranimation line

if that doesn't work then post your sky file

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Message Severity: 2
.\Source\SkyManager.cpp(122)
Skyfile FarSceneRange is in old format

Hold on... my sky file? Does that mean... I think I just figured it out! You see, I changed the sky file to the Geonosis one, does this mean I have to change other files, like msh's and odf's and such?

what exactly do you mean

you need the right textures and skydomes look in the assets/worlds/geo/world2 i believe for all the sky textures

Darn it, I copied everything that had the word "sky" in it from the GEO/world1 folder over to the ABC/world1 folder, and it STILL crashes when I spawn. The only idea I have left is to get rid of all the Yavin sky files from ABC/world1... would this do anything (be it good or bad)?

could you post the file abc.sky and did you try a manual clean

Here's the SKY file (ABC.sky): And... *goes and looks to see what a manual clean is*
EDIT: Oops. I've stopped the munging proccess a couple of times when munging this map... could that affect it? (The last munge I didn't stop) And if that doesn't matter, should I do an un-manual clean before a manual clean?

try a manual clean first

I did a manual clean and it still crashes.

try deleting this part of the sky

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SkyInfo()
{
Enable(1);
FogColor(0,0,0);
FogRange(0.0, 0.0);

PS2()
{
NearSceneRange(0.2, 180.0, 200.0);
FarSceneRange(500.0);

NearSplitScreenRange(0.5, 180.0, 200.0);
FarSplitScreenRange(500.0);

}
PC()
{
NearSceneRange(50.0, 220.0, 60.0, 300.0);
FarSceneRange(450.000000, 1000.0);
}
XBOX()
{
NearSceneRange(0.5, 210.0, 680.0);
FarSceneRange(700.0);
NearSplitScreenRange(0.5, 180.0, 200.0);
FarSplitScreenRange(700.0);

}
}

I tried that and again, it crashes. I'm going to try to create an empty map and try to munge it, if that doesn't work, I've got a problem.
EDIT: It works, which is good. Now I've gotta figure out what's making it crash...

If it's crashing on the unit select screen or when you actually spawn as a unit there's an issue either with a unit's animations, or a custom weapon.

Teancum wrote:If it's crashing on the unit select screen or when you actually spawn as a unit there's an issue either with a unit's animations, or a custom weapon.

Well, EVERYTHING is the same about the troopers and weopons, so it has to be that SoldierAnimation thing, but I raised it up to 1700 at the advice of phazon_elite... should I raise it higher?

Do you have ANY custom sides at all?

Nope, not at all. Unless I accidently changed something I wasn't supposed to...

you probably corrupted something when you didn't let it munge completely...not sure why a clean wouldn't fix that though. Do you have any trouble opening your map in ZE?

I would suggest checking all the ABC.??? files in your world1 folder. If there are big areas of whiteness in any of them, except the terrain file, they are most likely corrupted. It happened to me once when my computer lost power while saving in ZE (odds of this happening are terrible, btw) and all I had left was the planning file and the barrier file.

If it makes you feel any better, my computer crashes either during loading, after loading, after spawning, or randomly in the middle of as many as half the mod maps ever made, and also enjoys crashing randomly in Naboo. It seems to have a special dislike for water, and is a dual core Mac with Vista (just asking for problems, I know) that due to it's inability to use two cores for battlefront 2, ends up about 40 mhz short on processing power. IDK if that's why it crashes though.

So, does yours crash on any other maps? Do you have a lot of water, or a lot of objects in general? Or any complicated custom objects with code?