Why the heck this doens't works?

[BloodDrunk]

• Floating Texts
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Bosstext = (Center of Boss Point <gen>)
    • Set MissionText = (Center of Mission Point <gen>)
    • Floating Text - Create floating text that reads Boss at Bosstext with Z offset 0.00, using font size 30.00, color (100.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%), and 0.00% transparency
    • Floating Text - Change (Last created floating text): Enable permanence
    • Floating Text - Create floating text that reads Mission at MissionText with Z offset 0.00, using font size 30.00, color (0.00%, 100.00%, 0.00%), and 0.00% transparency
    • Floating Text - Change (Last created floating text): Enable permanence
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Bosstext)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_MissionText)

 

[Garfield1337]

The trigger looks alright.
What could be the cause is breaking the floating text limit; you can only have 100 floating texts at a time.

 

[BloodDrunk]

but, there is only 2 floating text. Is it maybe the map initilization event?
should I use Time: Elapsed gaame time is: 0.00 seconds?

 

[BloodDrunk]

and 1 more thing, does this leaks? i'm not sure

• Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by Player 8 (Pink)) and do (Unit - Remove (Picked unit) from the game)

 

[Garfield1337]

but, there is only 2 floating text. Is it maybe the map initilization event?
should I use Time: Elapsed gaame time is: 0.00 seconds?

No, I did a short test with the same trigger and it worked so the problem is somewhere else.
Try putting a debug message there to see if it runs at all. If not, you have probably exceeded the op limit.

and 1 more thing, does this leaks? i'm not sure

• Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units owned by Player 8 (Pink)) and do (Unit - Remove (Picked unit) from the game)

Yes. You'll need to add the group to a variable and destroy it afterwards.

 

[BloodDrunk]

can I just add the script:

• Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true

How do I run the debbug message? first time hearing it, dont kill me xD

 

[Garfield1337]

can I just add the script:

• Custom script: set bj_wantDestroyGroup = true

Actually yes, it's easier.

 

[BloodDrunk]

How do I run the debbug message? first time hearing it, dont kill me xD

 

[Garfield1337]

Just display a random message in the trigger like this

• Game - Display to (All players) for 30.00 seconds the text: test

If it's displayed in game, it means the trigger was ran.

 

[BloodDrunk]

oh, cool xD

 

[Dr Super Good]

Try a smaller font size. If the text is too large it will not display.

 

[Garfield1337]

Try a smaller font size. If the text is too large it will not display.

I tested with same size and it worked.

 

[BloodDrunk]

i dont know, it worked first few times when i made the trigg, but now it just doesn't appear anymore...

 

[Garfield1337]

i dont know, it worked first few times when i made the trigg, but now it just doesn't appear anymore...

Does the message appear?
Check if you've set variable sizes to some large values, this can make simple things like that not work (or anything at all).

 

[BloodDrunk]

the message appear correctly, do you want me to post a map so you can check?

 

[Garfield1337]

Strange. Post it and I'll try to find what's causing it.

 

[Troll-Brain]

Since there is an hardcoded of 100 simultaneous texttags, make sure you don't create more than 100 texttags after these two ones.
But if i remember correctly, once you've reached this limit, new texttags will appear correctly, but an older one will be erased.

Also the range of the texttag size available is directly related to the wc3 resolution you've choiced, i remember that with a resolution A, the min size X will not be displayed, while it will be with an higher resolution, i don't know what happens with the max, but it should be the same, i mean the max size shouldn't be the same for the resolution A and the resolution B.

EDIT :

Oh and about the custom script for destroying groups :

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/triggers-scripts-269/things-leak-35124/index61.html#post1986307 (follow all the links)

 

[Garfield1337]

This is really weird. I tried to find the problem using elimination, but it started working after some random changes.

First, I deleted all triggers except the floating text one and it didn't work still so it's not trigger related.
But after deleting some objects and regions it worked.

Next time, I tried deleting just some regions and objects, but it didn't seem to work.

I'll do some more testing, but it seems pretty weird.

 

[BloodDrunk]

haha, what do you assume the problem is? xD

 

[Troll-Brain]

When you don't find the culprit, just blame GUI, related or not that doesn't matter.

 

[BloodDrunk]

have you found something?

 

[Garfield1337]

have you found something?

Looks like a Warcraft bug to me. Later, even deleting some imports made it work.
I also got it working by simply making another trigger that created a floating text, but this didn't work always.

I also noticed that .wpm (path map) and .shd (shadow map) files are pretty large in size, about 800KBs each which is unusual.

The only solution I can think of is to optimize the map somehow, map loading time is very long, probably caused by those large files; maybe this is somehow making initialization work improperly.

 

[BloodDrunk]

Looks like a Warcraft bug to me. Later, even deleting some imports made it work.
I also got it working by simply making another trigger that created a floating text, but this didn't work always.

I also noticed that .wpm (path map) and .shd (shadow map) files are pretty large in size, about 800KBs each which is unusual.

The only solution I can think of is to optimize the map somehow.

.wpm and .shd, can those be deleted freely? and where did you found those?

 

[Garfield1337]

.wpm and .shd, can those be deleted freely? and where did you found those?

If you delete them, they'll be automatically calculated again I think with same size.
You can get them using a program that can open mpq files.

I could be wrong about all this since I'm pretty sleepy atm, but it does seem like a bug.

 

[BloodDrunk]

but why are they so big?

 

[Garfield1337]

but why are they so big?

Maybe it isn't the problem, they aren't that big, I'm not sure how big they should be though.

I'll look more into this tomorrow.

 

[BloodDrunk]

ok. ! more question before u go to sleep:

why is this cinematic trigger not working:

• Starting Cinematic
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode On for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn on letterbox mode (hide interface) for (All players): fade out over 2.00 seconds
    • Cinematic - Disable user control for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn subtitle display override On
    • Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Death Bringer 0123 <gen> named Doc: Play No sound and display |cffffcc00Welcome t.... Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Wait
    • Wait 6.00 seconds
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn off letterbox mode (show interface) for (All players): fade in over 2.00 seconds
    • Cinematic - Enable user control for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn subtitle display override Off
    • Trigger - Run Game Mode Dialog <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    • Trigger - Run Start Special Event Timer <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    • Trigger - Run Next Wave Start Timer <gen> (ignoring conditions)

I men why this is not showing:

Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Death Bringer 0123 <gen> named Doc: Play No sound and display |cffffcc00Welcome t.... Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Wait

 

[Troll-Brain]

one question = one topic

 

[Garfield1337]

ok. ! more question before u go to sleep:

why is this cinematic trigger not working:

• Starting Cinematic
  • Events
    • Map initialization
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode On for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn on letterbox mode (hide interface) for (All players): fade out over 2.00 seconds
    • Cinematic - Disable user control for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn subtitle display override On
    • Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Death Bringer 0123 <gen> named Doc: Play No sound and display |cffffcc00Welcome t.... Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Wait
    • Wait 6.00 seconds
    • Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn off letterbox mode (show interface) for (All players): fade in over 2.00 seconds
    • Cinematic - Enable user control for (All players)
    • Cinematic - Turn subtitle display override Off
    • Trigger - Run Game Mode Dialog <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    • Trigger - Run Start Special Event Timer <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    • Trigger - Run Next Wave Start Timer <gen> (ignoring conditions)

I men why this is not showing:

Cinematic - Send transmission to (All players) from Death Bringer 0123 <gen> named Doc: Play No sound and display |cffffcc00Welcome t.... Modify duration: Add 0.00 seconds and Wait

It displays for me oO

 

[BloodDrunk]

oh my god, what's wrong with my map, I tried to delete as many import as i can, deleted over 2 mb of files..... have you found the problem?

 

[Garfield1337]

oh my god, what's wrong with my map, I tried to delete as many import as i can, deleted over 2 mb of files..... have you found the problem?

I'm sorry for not being more helpful, but since the problem is not in triggers, it's hard to tell.

I tried again deleting all the triggers and variables except things related to floating texts to make sure, but it still didn't work.

Try reducing the amount of objects in object editor maybe.
If nothing helps, make a new map and copy everything to it except terrain.
You can speed up this process using mpq master by exporting files and importing them to new map.

Before making any changes, make a backup of old map in case this doesn't help.

 

[BloodDrunk]

ok, anyway, thanks for trying, i'll make up something i think... anyways, here's rep, u deserve it

 

[Dr Super Good]

Make sure you are not using GUI arrays in a stupid way.

Declaring a few 8000 sized arrays will cause the initialization thread to crash so no triggers are initialized. Worse still is if you do not hit that limit when initializaing variables but are close to it as some triggers will work but others will not.

Most array types do not need to use the size field. JASS arrays are dynamic arrays up to size 2^13.

 

[Garfield1337]

Make sure you are not using GUI arrays in a stupid way.

Declaring a few 8000 sized arrays will cause the initialization thread to crash so no triggers are initialized. Worse still is if you do not hit that limit when initializaing variables but are close to it as some triggers will work but others will not.

Most array types do not need to use the size field. JASS arrays are dynamic arrays up to size 2^13.

tuturu

I tried again deleting all the triggers and variables except things related to floating texts to make sure, but it still didn't work.

 

[Dr Super Good]

You did make the floating text visible?

native SetTextTagVisibility takes texttag t,boolean flag returns nothing

 

[Garfield1337]

It's initially visible. I also tested with that line, but it didn't help.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I also tested with that line

Please do not tell me you inserted a native decleration into your script instead of calling it with appopiate arguments...

How can you know they are initially visible if they are not appearing?

 

[Garfield1337]

Please do not tell me you inserted a native decleration into your script instead of calling it with appopiate arguments...

How can you know they are initially visible if they are not appearing?

I meant the GUI line given proper arguments, obviously.

I made an exactly same trigger in a new map to make sure the problem's not with it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I made an exactly same trigger in a new map to make sure the problem's not with it.

And the problem is not this?

Make sure you are not using GUI arrays in a stupid way.

Declaring a few 8000 sized arrays will cause the initialization thread to crash so no triggers are initialized. Worse still is if you do not hit that limit when initializaing variables but are close to it as some triggers will work but others will not.

Most array types do not need to use the size field. JASS arrays are dynamic arrays up to size 2^13.

How many triggers you have in the map? Each trigger runs code on map initialization so there is in theory a limit.

We might require seeing the map.

 

[Garfield1337]

I just opened a fresh new map, with no changes except the copied trigger for the malfunctioning map o.o

 

[BloodDrunk]

i copied everything into new map, and it's still not making...