Error Messages

[sektor2111]

Translated to bad english...
Trojan Horse:
I'm a modder doing pawns, I'm gonna copy the worst codes from bad classes doing "news" in purpose to crash games - will refresh servers so to speak. Mapper will get files adding them in his/her Level and doing an useless work which won't be used as expected but stuff for firsts moments is good to break the fun of MH hunters. Nothing else too special, the same garbage morphed into new pawn types.

Do you really need these ? All right, get ready for a new mismatch file version.

[SC]-[WARTZ_{HoF}]

[sektor2111]

Yes it's a kind of awesome support:

function Killed(pawn Killer, pawn Other, name damageType)
....
while ( aPawn != None )
{
if ( (aPawn.IsA('PlayerPawn') || aPawn.IsA('ScriptedPawn'))
&& (VSize(Location - aPawn.Location) < 500)
&& CanSee(aPawn) )
{
if ( SetEnemy(aPawn) )
{
GotoState('Attacking');
return;
}
}
aPawn = aPawn.nextPawn;
}
Target = Other;
GotoState('VictoryDance');
}
else
GotoState('Attacking');
....
State Attacking
....
if ((Enemy == None) || (Enemy.Health <= 0))
{
if (Orders == 'Attacking')
Orders = '';
WhatToDoNext('',''); //I'm interested about this
return;
}
....
function WhatToDoNext(name LikelyState, name LikelyLabel) //rewritten in child classes
{
local Pawn aPawn;

aPawn = Level.PawnList;
while ( aPawn != None )
{
if ( (aPawn.IsA('PlayerPawn') || aPawn.IsA('ScriptedPawn'))
&& (VSize(Location - aPawn.Location) < 500)
&& CanSee(aPawn) )
{
if ( SetEnemy(aPawn) )
{
GotoState('Attacking');
return;
}
}
aPawn = aPawn.nextPawn;
}

Super.WhatToDoNext(LikelyState, LikelyLabel);

...
state VictoryDance
...
function PickDestination()
{
local Actor path;
local vector destpoint;

if (Target == None)
{
WhatToDoNext('Waiting', 'TurnFromWall'); //Suure - it's just rewritten in subclass
return;
}

}

What a "coincidence" aka dumbness !? Something has been murdered and pawn do try to look for next threat. No threat ? Ok, see WhatToDoNext. And What I am supposed to do Next ? Look for Next Threat - again like a moron. If these states are skating or by chance they intend to be operated twice then we have 4 Sequences doing sucks. This utterly shit happens when dumb people are copying codes without to know this stuff - ITERATIONS LIMIT. Actually these iterations are useless. When our pawn at first attempt failed to see an enemy then why we need to retry a second time and blabbering PawnList like that in many classes from this package ? Oh Well... I don't have an answer for this case... just enjoy...
I'm not a candidate for making a separate mutator in purpose to fix the trash which others are doing and WHICH are NOT STOCK.

[Barbie]

Hierarchy of that Pawns:

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class QuakePawn extends ScriptedPawn;
class qDemon expands QuakePawn;

Both QuakePawn and qDemon (and probably all other derived classes - I didn't check that) have identical duplicated code for function WhatToDoNext - the keyword Super was not known to the coder obviously.

QuakeMPAK2 WhatToDoNext

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function WhatToDoNext(name LikelyState, name LikelyLabel)
{
	local Pawn aPawn;

	aPawn = Level.PawnList;
	while ( aPawn != None )
	{
		if ( (aPawn.IsA('PlayerPawn') || aPawn.IsA('ScriptedPawn'))
			&& (VSize(Location - aPawn.Location) < 500)
			&& CanSee(aPawn) )
		{
			if ( SetEnemy(aPawn) )
			{
				GotoState('Attacking');
				return;
			}
		}
		aPawn = aPawn.nextPawn;
	}
	
	Super.WhatToDoNext(LikelyState, LikelyLabel);
}

I don't see any error here but iterating the PawnList may be a problem: what happens if the list changes while iterating? I've sometimes seen code like this in iterating lists:

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i++;
if ( i > 100 )
	break; // can occasionally get temporary loops in netplay

Actually these iterations are useless.

Yes, but it is not responsible for that endless loop AFAIS.

[sektor2111]

Barbie, this list is called multiple times > Killed VictoryDance Attacking WhatToDoNext - all are doing PawnList because NOBODY was rewriting that crap. When Level is nasty loaded things goes in trash. Berserker is not a surprise for me but looks like is a surprise for that guy who did this copy-paste coding - actually is not coding... Is a harmful code for many pawns in Level - I know what I'm saying.

[Barbie]

My first trace has lead me to Pawn.LineOfSightTo(APawn) returns FALSE and Pawn.CanSee(APawn) returns TRUE - but as far as I had read this can never happen because CanSee is a kind of "subset"?

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LinkedList.Next == LinkedList

Can this ever happen for lists handled by the engine? It would easily explain some runaway loops.

[sektor2111]

If you are interested about visual things you might do some check in a simply cube doing a custom actor as a Lamp or such and Broadcasting in several conditions inside a tick or a fast timer.
If PlayerPawn
- CanSee(Self)
- LineOfSightTo(Self)
- Player.VisibleCollidingActors - if self is through list
- PlayerCanseeMe() - native - enjoy here...
- whatever custom trace based
- FastTrace
Go drew conclusions...

Hint there is a map posted somewhere in forum I guess in XC stuff when Higor was fixing something... Pretty cute for testing...

[Barbie]

[qDaemon runaway loop] What happened?!?

Can you reproduce this error?

[EvilGrins]

[qDaemon runaway loop] What happened?!?

Can you reproduce this error?

Not on purpose. Last 2 weeks I've been playing the same map over and over, making slight changes to monster selections & weapons and textures.

That's what caused this, as I'm using some unusual (and old) monsterpacks.

[papercoffee]

Ok ...I got this error and can't figure out what happened. Can someone elaborate please... I played this map many times and now this?!

[Barbie]

Ok ...I got this error and can't figure out what happened.

I did a forum search for you viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5969&start=18

I played this map many times and now this?!

Has it ever worked on your "new" PC? You might have a different graphic setup now.

[papercoffee]

Thanks ...it was something with the D3D driver ...I downloaded the OMPatch from old-unreal before the laptop went kaput.
I used OpenGL.

Now on the "new" machine, UT keeps crashing the whole system after +/- 15minutes (black screen and a sound-loop) with OpenGL. I tried D3D and suddenly on this map it didn't worked and crashed (this time only UT). I don't want to play in software render mode.

I have to use the onboard video card for now as it seems.

[Barbie]

UT keeps crashing the whole system after +/- 15minutes

I can imagine two reasons:
1) the power supply is over loaded
2) the graphic card and/or CPU over heats.
I'd try other programs stressing the graphic card to see if system freezing is related to it; also testing it with "FurMark" might be an option.

[Chamberly]

I have had similar issue on my laptop, it was in fact, viruses, causing too much work in the background awhile you're playing. Overheating issue related to crashes to happen or something... but idr what was the errors were. But it was shutting down so might be barely related. xD

[papercoffee]

It's a new set up machine with separated user (restricted) and admin (PW-protected) accounts ...so a virus shouldn't be the cause for that.

@Barbie
How long should FurMark run? I reached 100°C after 3 minutes. I have no clue how hot a video card can get before it's unhealthy.
Software Render uses only the CPU?