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Weird crashes

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Post Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:30 pm

Weird crashes

Whenever I try to purchase the Rhino, FL crashed the moment I hit the buy button the first time (can't get to the transfer screen).

I nailed this down and found the cause, the scanner. Whenever I put a different scanner in the package, it works, and when I put the Rhino's scanner on a different ship, it crashes when I want to buy that one.

Well, I checked the nicknames several times, also copy and pasted them again (in case I had overseen a typo), even copied the stats of an existing one and renamend it, yet always the crash.

Here's the package from goods.ini:
[Good
nickname = lfr_package
category = ship
hull = lfr_hull
addon = ge_lfr_engine_01, internal, 1
addon = li_freighter_power01, internal, 1
addon = fr_s_scanner_01, internal, 1;////////// This scanner is the cause!
addon = li_s_tractor_01, internal, 1
addon = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight01, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight02, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight03, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight04, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight05, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight06, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight07, 1
addon = contrail01, HpContrail01, 1
addon = contrail01, HpContrail02, 1
addon = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01, 1
addon = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight02, 1

And the scanner entry in misc_equip.ini (btw I made several new scanners there, and only that one cause problems):
[Scanner
nickname = fr_s_scanner_01
ids_name = 263750
ids_info = 264750
volume = 0.000000
mass = 10
range = 4500
cargo_scan_range = 500
lootable = false

Post Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:48 pm

just a guess... is it possible (unlikely however) that the fl crc produced is clashing with another?

+++ out of cheese error - redo from start +++

Xtreme Team Studios

Post Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:56 pm

So that the plain nickname is the problem. Hmm, could be possible, FLspew said something about trailing references, and that over 20 lines or so after each other at the bottom of the file...

I had always thought CRC values are unique for each string...

This is all weird. frei_s_scanner01 caused crashes too as a name, now called it ge_s_scanner03 and it worked. However, other naming like pol_s_scanner01 etc. worked all great.

Edited by - Mephistopheles on 12/8/2004 2:03:31 PM

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