Inventory/Weapon temporary loops in netplay

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Buggie
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Inventory/Weapon temporary loops in netplay

Post by Buggie »

I look in UT code and find interesting comments for Inventory loops in ChallengeHUD:

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	i = 0;
	for ( Inv=PawnOwner.Inventory; Inv!=None; Inv=Inv.Inventory )
	{
		if ( Inv.IsA('Weapon') && (Inv != PawnOwner.Weapon) )
		{
			W = Weapon(Inv);
			if ( WeaponSlot[W.InventoryGroup] == None )
				WeaponSlot[W.InventoryGroup] = W;
			else if ( (WeaponSlot[W.InventoryGroup] != PawnOwner.Weapon)
					&& ((W == PawnOwner.PendingWeapon) || (WeaponSlot[W.InventoryGroup].AutoSwitchPriority < W.AutoSwitchPriority)) )
				WeaponSlot[W.InventoryGroup] = W;
		}
		i++;
		if ( i > 100 )
			break; // can occasionally get temporary loops in netplay
	}
https://github.com/Slipyx/UT99/blob/a26 ... UD.uc#L746

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	ArmorAmount = 0;
	CurAbs = 0;
	i = 0;
	BestArmor=None;
	for( Inv=PawnOwner.Inventory; Inv!=None; Inv=Inv.Inventory )
	{ 
		if (Inv.bIsAnArmor) 
		{
			if ( Inv.IsA('UT_Shieldbelt') )
				bShieldbelt = true;
			else if ( Inv.IsA('Thighpads') )
			{
				ThighAmount += Inv.Charge;
				bThighArmor = true;
			}
			else
			{ 
				bChestArmor = true;
				ChestAmount += Inv.Charge;
			}
			ArmorAmount += Inv.Charge;
		}
		else if ( Inv.IsA('UT_JumpBoots') )
			bJumpBoots = true;
		else
		{
			i++;
			if ( i > 100 )
				break; // can occasionally get temporary loops in netplay
		}
	}
https://github.com/Slipyx/UT99/blob/a26 ... UD.uc#L437

I can confirm, this loops really happens. I can get it few times when want leave MH server and fast drop all my weapons to another player via ThrowWeapon key.

UT crash in my code in PostRender HUD, where exists loop:

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for( Inv=me.Inventory; Inv!=None; Inv=Inv.Inventory ) {
Also there another loop:

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ForEach me.AllActors(class'Weapon', weap) {
And I am not remember exactly, where crash happen.

In any case, if you have some loops which similar, better implement similar check for avoid UT crash on some cases.
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Re: Inventory/Weapon temporary loops in netplay

Post by TheDane »

This is why I never end my loops with the break command. I end my loops by 100% control over i, e.g. i=999;

This runaway looping only happened to me in loops where I called functions from within, just like the two examples you post.
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