CTF-EpicBoy Crash

[Barbie]

I got the impression that the mapper had accidentally imported a screenshot picture with wrong settings (eg not 8 bit color depth) and because trying to remove that crashes his editor, he simply added a new screenshot in a group named - hmm, how can we call this? Well, "X" would be a nice name.

[SilverSound]

It's funny to see that even companies can make mistakes. I laughed a bit when I thought of the scenario.

[rjmno1]

Yep i have the simular critical error.
It apears only when i did online play.
If you close ut 99 after offline play the error message does not apear.
A few mounths ago i did have simular erros message but it dit have something todo with the sound driver.
This error has something todo with the graphic driver or textures.
This one wich i have can simply remove when i do install the proper audio driver for ut99.

Spoiler

[papercoffee]

Interesting "work" and called EpicBoy.
For sure the fix will be a little tricky since simply checking those textures = instant Editor crash - this seems to occur as well.

Ok ...is it possible to replace this texture with another one without seeing them in the editor?

[EvilGrins]

Bah, these sort of things in using more or less hacked ways to load a stupid screenshot never fascinated me.

Not a hack, a basic of maps. When you're still in the selection window before starting a game there's a tiny pic representing what the map looks like. Sometimes there isn't one, sometimes it's a slideshow of different parts of the map, but inside the map's MyLevel the file is Screenshot.pcx which I thought might be the problem.

If something goes wrong with the Screenshot.pcx in MyLevel it could be causing the crash.

Added: Which, now as I re-read the thread it looks like everyone already got that.

Tried opening the map on my system, and as soon as I go into MyLevel UnrealEd crashes. Which is weird as I can play the map fine, go figure.

[sektor2111]

Not a hack, a basic of maps.

Confusion, I was talking about properties of that imported image for being a future screenshot. What I think about "a basic of maps" ? Let's see that I need a picture in size 256×256 with 256 colors as PCX or BMP. Import as Whatever and DONE - this rule won't be a headache. You can push limits ONLY if you know what you do or else quality turns into sh!t.

Aside looks like Barbie was digging deeper and found a stupid duplicate - perhaps General Failure was there with his army , that's explain a lot - it's crashing even if you want to see all textures from MyLevel with Editor - to be honest this is not a cute thing but is a Bonus, LOL.
As talking about hacky ways I fooled editor when was coming about A.I. - pure server duty - without causing troubles for player, when comes to pixels and colors chapter that thing for sure is pain - display types and settings are in a bunch of combinations and doing things against rules for sure will make some player to suffer. That picture for screenshot I think has more than 256 colors because Editor is able to import such things as BMP but for the rest of things... none stability. Is crashing like from a sneeze.

[JackGriffin]

I've been debating for a while making a mutator that deletes the map's screenshot when it loads and supply a generic one to prevent these type of crashes.

[papercoffee]

Interesting "work" and called EpicBoy.
For sure the fix will be a little tricky since simply checking those textures = instant Editor crash - this seems to occur as well.

Ok ...is it possible to replace this texture with another one without seeing them in the editor?

*cough*

[JackGriffin]

Yes, but it will require a hex edit.

[Barbie]

Ok ...is it possible to replace this texture with another one without seeing them in the editor?

Yes, IMO: export the map in t3d format, create a new map in editor, preload all textures (without that broken one), music, sounds and then import that t3d file into that new map.

EDIT: Except there is no user created sub classed stuff.

[Higor]

> Uses OpenGL
> Screenshots never crash
Sheesh, one day ppl is actually going to upgrade their UT.

[Gustavo6046]

No Higor, not those in Intel drivers due to CPU usage. :/

[sektor2111]

And also seeing mapper learning how to add animated screenshots compatible with everything as long as on my Intel Video card runs properly as it is, but OpenGL is not a good looking thing.

[Gustavo6046]

See why Intel sucks? We must upgrade to NVidia!

[sektor2111]

What I have is an On-Board video and this is an old brand HP, while d3d9 looks perfect, I don't care about other options - this was not a cheap thing after all. Seriously, if some people are unable to create a retarded screenshot, that's why I need to drop my PC in trash-box ? Are we kidding ? Okay I get it, is a joke let's laugh then... HA HA HA, I laugh, what's next ?