Fatal Error Help - Dear God Save Me

[ihatecapslock]

My map! My precious map, it wont start up anymore, as soon as it does it crashes because of a fatal error. I have absolutley no idea how to fix this. Someone ;_; im gonna cry.

 

[Gilles]

I am pretty sure you can't. Sorry mate, it's happened to all of us. Always remember to back up on another HD if possible.

I am pretty sure system restores won't work either. You go back in time and it's broken still. I wouldn't bother trying this.

 

[ihatecapslock]

I can edit the map in worldeditor, it just crashes as soon as I start playing. Would that make a difference?

 

[donut3.5]

It quite does. At least you can edit your map. Typically the two main causes of maps crashing are faulty imports, and bad triggers that cause infinite loops.
Post your map here, perhaps someone could help.
--donut3.5--

 

[ihatecapslock]

After randomly disabling triggers I found the culprit ... err i think does anyone see anything wrong with this:

• Forest Init
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: |CFFFF8A08Level 1|R...
    • Player - Set the current research level of Level 1 to 1 for Player 12 (Brown)
    • Player - Set the current research level of Spirit Number to 2 for Player 12 (Brown)
    • Player - Set the current research level of Eater Number to 1 for Player 12 (Brown)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • journal_level Equal to 1
      • Then - Actions
        • Set tmp_point = (Random point in Forest <gen>)
        • Unit - Create 1 Dark Artifact for Player 8 (Pink) at tmp_point facing Default building facing degrees
        • Set journal_unit = (Last created unit)
        • Hero - Create Mysterious Journal and give it to journal_unit
        • Trigger - Add to Journal Drop <gen> the event (Unit - A unit comes within 400.00 of journal_unit)
      • Else - Actions
    • Destructible - Kill Long Natural Bridge (Vertical) 0482 <gen>
    • Set tmp_point = (Random point in Forest <gen>)
    • Unit - Create 1 Dark Artifact for Player 8 (Pink) at tmp_point facing Default building facing degrees
    • Set currentartifact = (Last created unit)
    • Hero - Create Dark Heart of the Woods and give it to currentartifact
    • Trigger - Add to Kill Artifact <gen> the event (Unit - A unit comes within 400.00 of currentartifact)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_tmp_point )
    • Custom script: call DestroyTrigger(GetTriggeringTrigger())

This is the trigger for level 1 of the map .. i have 8 levels and this didnt start acting up until now, I found this strange ... but it loads, now if only I could get my level 1 working again ^^;

 

[Gilles]

You should have mentioned that you could open it in WE, it makes all the difference in the world. Which you just found out! lol

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

I'm not sure, but maybe this is the problem:

Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds

Set it to this:

Time - Elapsed game time is 0.10 seconds

 

[Samo]

Generally Putting too many things at the start of the map is the thing that crashes maps. Just try to put it a wait of 1 seconds or 2. This will work. Also try to put as many as less actions as possible.

 

[ihatecapslock]

Now it waits 2 seconds and then crashes, so there must be something wrong with the trigger itself.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I'm not sure, but maybe this is the problem:

Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds

Set it to this:

Time - Elapsed game time is 0.10 seconds

It also just works with 0.01 fine.

Cant you do the trigger again? just delete it and then remake it? i did that once i believe.. and then it worked fine..

 

[YoshiRyu]

Trigger - Add to Journal Drop <gen> the event (Unit - A unit comes within 400.00 of journal_unit)

Trigger - Add to Kill Artifact <gen> the event (Unit - A unit comes within 400.00 of currentartifact)

Could you try to disable these two actions and tell if it work?

 

[ihatecapslock]

@Yoshi, still doesn't work
@The_wand_mirror : Tried that still doesnt work

• Kill Artifact
  • Events
  • Conditions
    • Or - Any (Conditions) are true
      • Conditions
        • (Owner of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Player 11 (Dark Green)
        • (Owner of (Triggering unit)) Equal to Player 12 (Brown)
  • Actions
    • Set tmp_point = (Position of (Triggering unit))
    • Unit - Move currentartifact instantly to tmp_point
    • Unit - Kill currentartifact
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_tmp_point )

• Journal Drop
  • Events
  • Conditions
    • ((Owner of (Triggering unit)) is an ally of Player 1 (Red)) Equal to True
    • (Owner of (Triggering unit)) Not equal to Player 8 (Pink)
  • Actions
    • Set tmp_point = (Position of (Triggering unit))
    • Unit - Move currentartifact instantly to tmp_point
    • Unit - Kill journal_unit
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_tmp_point )

Those are the other 2 triggers.

 

[YoshiRyu]

the idea i had is not the right... i've no other idea
try to disable all action one by one to see wich one could by the bad one

 

[DesKaladA]

Do you use WEU
that might be whats killing your map

 

[busterkomo]

Attach your .j File

 

[wd40bomber7]

I'm almost certain (90%) that the problem is the last laction. Destroying a trigger is not the same as turning it off. Destroying a trigger thats not disabled is not smart! Remove that line of code and try it again.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Nope, destroying an on trigger works fine for me with local triggers in jass.
I say your problem is your adding items to a unit that has just been created, try inserting a wait after you create the unit before adding the items.

Also make sure the unit has inventory to carry the items.

 

[ihatecapslock]

Nope, that still causes it to crash, now it just waits a bit before it does so.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Then that proves it, the crash is caused by the adding of the items, try disabling the adding of the items.

Anyway, the crash is caused by your set X = lasted created unit, as the GUI create unit action makes a group not a single unit. Thus it is set to null so your adding an item to no unit so it crashes.

 

[ihatecapslock]

Sooo how would I fix this (you can't play the game without the artifacts T_T) should I switch to JASS?

 

[YoshiRyu]

add a wait between unit's and item's creation
DSG has already told you that

 

[Dr Super Good]

That will not fix it. To fix it you will have to add it to the last created unit, which via locals in jass is excedingly easy. In GUI I am not sure. As last created units will always be a group and you need a unit.

 

[YoshiRyu]

but in jass you can create "1 unit" and not "n units" with n=1
so with a custom script line, that would be ok :

• Custom script: set udg_journal_unit = CreateUnitAtLoc(ConvertedPlayer(8), ???, udg_tmp_point, bj_UNIT_FACING)

??? is the unit id, i can't know it, to know it use it in a temporary trigger, convert it into text and search the value between simple quote, looks like 'U003' or something like that

 

[ihatecapslock]

Ahhh see now thats a smart idea thanks to both of you I'm going to try that right now. And also Yoshi just press Ctrl+D in the Obj Editor to see the raws for everthing.

And it worked!
Here's the trigger for future reference.

• Forest Init
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 2.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: |CFFFF8A08Level 1|R...
    • Player - Set the current research level of Level 1 to 1 for Player 12 (Brown)
    • Player - Set the current research level of Spirit Number to 2 for Player 12 (Brown)
    • Player - Set the current research level of Eater Number to 1 for Player 12 (Brown)
    • Destructible - Kill Long Natural Bridge (Vertical) 0482 <gen>
    • Set tmp_point = (Random point in Forest <gen>)
    • Custom script: set udg_currentartifact = CreateUnitAtLoc(ConvertedPlayer(8), 'u005', udg_tmp_point, bj_UNIT_FACING)
    • Hero - Create Dark Heart of the Woods and give it to (Last created unit)
    • Trigger - Add to Kill Artifact <gen> the event (Unit - A unit comes within 400.00 of (Last created unit))
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_tmp_point )

Thanks alot for the help, I can start working again.

 

[YoshiRyu]

And also Yoshi just press Ctrl+D in the Obj Editor to see the raws for everthing.

'u005' means that's the fifth undead custom unit-type of your map
i can't get it without your map
Anyway, thanks for the tip

 

[ihatecapslock]

Ok fine, thats resolved but I found another one which occurs when a unit picks up the artifacts. Its supposed to move the item into a storage unit but it crashes when the storage gets an item. Is there any way to fix this?

 

[wd40bomber7]

Is the item a 'use on pickup' item? Are you waiting .3 seconds [after the unit picks up the item] before moving the item? (Without the wait sometimes it won't work properly) Does the dummy unit have the proper inventory capacity/settings?