Pesky error, can't find cause.

c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\GS\Entity\Interfaces\IAbility.cpp(1663): assert! [false]

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Has any body come across this dev. exe error before.

c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\GS\Entity\Interfaces\IAbility.cpp(1663): assert! [false]

It persistently pops up in game when running the Dev. exe

Using normal diplomacy everything seems fine for quite awhile but then crash's unexpectedly.

Is it referring to an ability? if so what does the (1663) indicate. I'm pretty sure there aren't that many abilities.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

How many new abilities did you add? If not that many remove and slowly put back. I have had that but quickly removed from sins plus or celestial boobies abilities are all removed so far in mine.

Crashing later tells me that its a later game ability that when you or the AI gets it, it goes boom.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

There are 7 new abilities. I have tried removing those abilities 1 at a time at from the ship that seems to be causing the problem, perhaps it is 1 of the others that the AI may be using. The error does appears before any ships have been made straight after loading regularly also, which is baffling. The odd thing is this only started happening after changing all the targa files to dds. Perhaps it is an ability brush reference or something.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Unless its a new brush it will just look to the default files and I have had specific "Missing Brush" errors.

Make sure the brushes texture links all have the .dds extention.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

The crashing happens every time a particular ship enters the gravity well of a star, not always straight away but at some time its there.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I get that error too on VANILLA Sins running dev exe. Get it all of the time with TSOP. TSOP added or changed nothing stat wise. So it must be a vanilla bug.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I think I may have found the cause. Unless its just a big coincidence. Could you please try restoring the "Unit_Infocard" back to Targa to confirm this.

Edit ; Nah don't worry, Dopey me saved them as DXT NM instead of RGBA. :puke: OOPS!

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Well it must have been a coincidence. After running the game for some time no crash, no error. Now both have returned.

In the debug file I get this

c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicArray.h(128): assert! [i < size]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicArray.h(128): assert! [i < size]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicArray.h(128): assert! [i < size]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicArray.h(128): assert! [i < size]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicArray.h(128): assert! [i < size]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicVector.h(183): assert! [i < m_CurrentSize]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicVector.h(183): assert! [i < m_CurrentSize]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicVector.h(183): assert! [i < m_CurrentSize]
c:\projects\Perforce\SinsDiplomacy\main\CodeSource\Engine\DataStructures\DynamicVector.h(183): assert! [i < m_CurrentSize]

Has anyone ever tried to use texture files of varying sizes for 1 mesh? my normal maps are twice the size of the cl, da, I wonder if this may be the cause???

Edit:Nope that's not it :S