ok i am just on my testmap testing out some orbital bombardments. it was working fine all day untill i tested my 3rd orbital. my 3rd orbital shoots rockets that use the lightning effect for arccasters as a trail and i made the rocket invisable. i'll post the .odfs now

cis_weap_inf_orbital_attack3 cis_weap_inf_orbital_attack_ord3 cis_weap_inf_orbital_attack_salvo_ord3 cis_weap_inf_orbital_attack_salvo_exp3
here is the error log i found some type 3 errors talking about missing .LVL chunks what do they mean and how do i fix them

Orbital strike weapons are memory intensive. They tend to crash the game if used too many times within a short period. The best way to remedy this is to maybe increase the delay time from usage to usage. Try upping the ReloadTime and/or ShotDelay vaules perhaps.

AQT wrote:Orbital strike weapons are memory intensive. They tend to crash the game if used too many times within a short period. The best way to remedy this is to maybe increase the delay time from usage to usage. Try upping the ReloadTime and/or ShotDelay vaules perhaps.

oh yeah forgot to say that it crashes right after loading before the map shows up. and i tested it all day today using like 7 at once and it didn't crash... and that was with my more powerful one that shot like 1000000 shots...

Dakota wrote:ok i am just on my testmap testing out some orbital bombardments. it was working fine all day untill i tested my 3rd orbital. my 3rd orbital shoots rockets that use the lightning effect for arccasters as a trail and i made the rocket invisable.

I can't say absolutely, but I think this type of effect is specially made for emitter ordnance and only works when used as lightning effect odf property, as it is in the arc caster and force lightning. I haven't tested it as a trail effect, so IDK for sure if it would make a crash, but I think it would.

kinetosimpetus wrote:

Dakota wrote:ok i am just on my testmap testing out some orbital bombardments. it was working fine all day untill i tested my 3rd orbital. my 3rd orbital shoots rockets that use the lightning effect for arccasters as a trail and i made the rocket invisable.

I can't say absolutely, but I think this type of effect is specially made for emitter ordnance and only works when used as lightning effect odf property, as it is in the arc caster and force lightning. I haven't tested it as a trail effect, so IDK for sure if it would make a crash, but I think it would.

i'll try testing that. heres something i forgot to say, i changed the skins for the rep sides. i had already changed the trooper and the SBD before it started crashing. but when i changed the others it started saying that it was missing level chunks. but i made sure the commpression thing was off and i saved it right so i am not sure...


and the reason i made it have lightning for a trail and it is an orbital is because i wanted a lightning storm effect. i kinda just wanted to see it.

anyway i am going to go test it without the lightning effect and then come back.

EDIT: ok i just tested it with a different trail effect which is the cis stinger rocket one. it still crashes just the same way as before so the trail isn't the problem...

The log makes it look like you didn't load the rep side correctly, post your lua?

Snork wrote:The log makes it look like you didn't load the rep side correctly, post your lua?

i doubt it is the lua because it worked before and i haven't changed the lua since then but here it is anyway...

Questions:
-Do I have rep.req and the other rep req's set up correctly?
-Is there a rep.lvl in my mod's side folder?
-Does the map work without custom sides?

CressAlbane wrote:Questions:
-Do I have rep.req and the other rep req's set up correctly?
-Is there a rep.lvl in my mod's side folder?
-Does the map work without custom sides?

1. yes, it was working before it started crashing and i haven't changed it or had reason to change it, i have only been skinning and modding weapons.

2. yes, its there

3. yes, and the map is just "flat map" i added nothing to the map it is just my test map that i use to test sides on.

EDIT: in the lack of any posts on this i have just been testing the mod. i have narrowed down the problem to just the weapon. when ever i use this weapon it crashes and says it is missing a lvl chunk but this isn't like when my weapons crash due to odf error, instead of a crash about half way through loading this crashes about a dot or two before the end of the load, so it now baffles me, anyone else ever have a problem like this?