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Anyone have an idea?
My Coruscant maps runs ok first time but if it loads a second time the Game freeze in "loading" screen and the taskmanager says that battlefront runs at 100 percent CPU time.

Bfront error message doesn´t report something usefull about this bug:

Opened logfile BFront.log 2005-07-07 0013

Message Severity: 2
.\movie\RedMovie.cpp(467)
Segment 0xb4da9edb does not exist in movie 0xb86e8e36

Message Severity: 2
.\source\VehicleSpawn.cpp(126)
Vehicle spawn outside command post "CP1" control region

I have no idea where to start searching for the bug?

I do not want to be pessimistic, but maybe there are too many entities on your map...

If so then it wouldnt load the 1st time ..or at least it would crash.

It could work the first time, but the CPU charge would be "full". Reload this map a second time - while memory has not been cleaned yet - may crash the computer...

Leviathan,
what do you mean with entities?
I´ve no 3rd fraction caracters on the map. Only the Coruscant dome vehicles are 3rd party. From regular troops CIs and Rebs there are only 30 per side on the map.

Excuse me, I considered entities as Spawn points, Turrets, etc... And buildings ! Maybe those constructions have too many details, or they are two many...

ok thx for clarifying. Hm, will there be a way to check this in sbtest.exe?

too much vehicles i guess. Last time i tried 16 attes that happened to me as well

Walkers uses MUCH more 'power' than other things in the game so I 'hope' you game lagged a LOT -_-

actually 12 attes was still okay... look at this pic first of all

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a391/ ... t_0518.jpg

P.S. if u saw this pic on swbffiles, this is MY pic, so dont worry about me stealing someone's pic.

i´ve only a handfull flyers on the map. nothing else except some dome models but even without the dome models the map crashed.

iv noticed that shadowvolumes make a big difference in 'lag' . Especially complex models ....im currently editing mine so have much less polygons / edges .

Iv noticed in munge that my models have sometimes 4000 edges ...what i was doin was duplicating my model for the shadowvolume ....so thats double that for 1 prop!!!


I should really get a hold of myself when modeling ...but i cant help but add tons of details

Rends, if I were you, I'd try to remove some buildings from your map to see if it makes a difference...

No! Coruscant is too good to be cursed with a mystery problem! It's going to need to be on servers everywhere! Why is this happening!!!

Unfortunately, the problem is there for unknown reasons...

Leviathan,
you put me in the right direction.
I deleted half of the odf files so only the basic building would be loaded and it seems to work fine. So i think it is either too many objects on the map or one of the objects made this problem. Now i will go on to put the files back one after one...

I don´t think it´s shadow poly count related because most shadows doesn´t have more than 100-200 edges and only 2 or 3 have more than 400 edges. I guess it will be a wrong odf file or to many cloud clusters i used on the map. we will see...

yeah - I'm glad its working now

good luck Rends

and Ace: Are you a big Rends Fan or what since you want his maps all over MP? lol JK (well, its not that I dont understand why because I'm Rends Fan too )

It IS the cloud cluster.
Seems that i still miss something.
Maybe someone knows more about the needed files and entries.
I´ve copied so far from the Bespin map:

to ODF folder:
bes1_prop_cloud
bes1_prop_cloud_cluster

to MSH folder:
EDITOR_prop_cloud.msh
cloud.tga
cloud.tga option

and into sky req (dome section)
CloudLayer()
{
// Odf("bes1_prop_cloud_cluster");
Odf("bes1_prop_cloud");
Height(20.0);
}

But it still crash while second load.

You should use another cloud effects... (Look at Geonosis, Hoth, Naboo, etc... folders)

I fixed the bug.
Instead of placing the cloudcluster on the map it only need to be activated in the sky Req.