Strange Problem

[shane ward]

OK, I have included two files for you all to investigate. ("Right Click" and "Save As".)

http://82.9.70.47:8192/Mytmp/bbtun01.odf
http://82.9.70.47:8192/Mytmp/bbtun01.xsi

The thing is that if I use these tunnels in the editor they work fine, I can fly the ship through them fine without jumping back onto the surface or stopping dead for no reason.

But as soon I start the game and have it going it all goes strange.

First I did have the problem of popping up to the surface and out of the tunnel but I then added "canCollide = 1" which then stops me dead in my tracks and I cannot go any further. this also happens in the editor, but when "canCollide = 1" is off I can pass through OK in the editor but not pass in the game.

Any Ideas, Or something wrong with the model...... I have it embedded into a map and I did not know this happened until I played the map. Now it is kinds messed up without the tunnel.  Help urgently needed.

Thanks

[BNG Da BZ Fool]

Are you using 1.3 or 1.2? Try it out in both versions, and see if it behaves the same way. Also, the way the files appear when I click on them in my browser look very strange without their' normal formating making it difficult to notice any obvious issues. Did the original odf have an animation as I see an entry in your odf? I don't really know if that makes any difference other then perhaps checking into the possiblity that the game engine needs to see like a dummy SI_AnimationKey entry in the xsi file. BNG.

[shane ward]

The ODF editor added that, and It did not cause this problem as it was allready there, I used the editor to add other values that might work. It did not however.

The tunnel was tested on 1.3bp I have a feeling it might work OK on 1.2 but not sure.

The 1.3 editor seems to work fine with the tunnel, but the 1,3 game program has a problem.

I think you will have to Save File as when you click on the links, as they are opened.

[bigbadbogie]

mate... that model gave me a stack overflow, do you realize how bloody big it is??

youve gotta make it smaller - into segments even!!!

[shane ward]

  It is made for a big map, Not the little ones used in BZ2. I like to do things ...... BIG!!!!!!

Try the Map I posted a few weeks back, If you still got it. It should fit into that map perfectly!!!. Note I have not included any entry or exit modules, you will have to move your ship into the tunnel before saving then playing it.

[shane ward]

Anyone that does not have the map, they will need a level that has a terrain set to in the trn file: -

[Size]
MetersPerGrid=32.0
HeightGranularity=0.1
MinX=-1024
MinZ=-1024
Width=2560
Depth=2560
Height=100
Tile=1

The model will fit perfectly in to the map.

[TheJamsh]

im curious... what does stack overflow do and what is it?

[OvermindDL1]

It is when a program has used more memory on the stack then the stack has been allocated, hence overflowing the stack, usually corrupts a program at that point.
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[bigbadbogie]

no - shane - the model will not work in the game because it is too large - even on the correct size map it will not work

[shane ward]

no - shane - the model will not work in the game because it is too large - even on the correct size map it will not work

It works fine when I loaded it up and if you read my first post it says I can fly through it, but in the game, I jump out the tunnel at some point, like a face or something is out of place or something to do with collition.

[Nielk1]

no - shane - the model will not work in the game because it is too large - even on the correct size map it will not work

BBB, that is not true, test before you say things like that and asert them as facts.

I have objects 50 times larger than that. I was running into fog issues though.

[shane ward]

Umm Pritty sure I solved the problem,

The tunnel seems to be fine, it is the buildings that might be the problem.

EG I have this huge tunnel under the ground and any building I put in or over the top of the tunnel will interfear with the it, and if a building is destroyed like a guntower turret then a hole of somesort will open in the tunnel and the player will jump to the surface of the map making the tunnel unusable.

I have solved this problem by removing guntower class turrets out and above the tunnels, but I realy wanted to use them.

Also removed any buildings around the top of the tunnel on the surface as this also made holes in the tunnel.

Any Idears how I use guntower turrets in the tunnels.  Seems the building classes are conflicting with the tunnel.

Hope this gives new Idears...

Shane

[bigbadbogie]

BBB, that is not true, test before you say things like that and asert them as facts.

I have objects 50 times larger than that. I was running into fog issues though.

really... you have buildings that take up a 128000x128000 map?? id like to see that!!!

[Nielk1]

So you know the map squares where also huge.

I was trying to make a planet to scale from a space mod. Don't go for perfect 1:1 scale, trust me.

On the bright side, I can get some rather huge things in reasonably.

[bigbadbogie]

a... planet... to... scale.....

wow!!! -- im having problems putting in a carrier that is tiny compared to that -