CEG Problems

[Erik]

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Killed()
{
 emit-sfx 1025 from main;
 emit-sfx 1026 from main; 
 // explode turret type FALL;  //fall off and bounce around!
}

gives an error while

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FireWeapon1()
{
    emit-sfx 1024 from muzzle1;
}

works fine

Unit def: (LUA)

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  sfxtypes            = {
    explosiongenerators = {
	  [[custom:Muzzleflash1]],
	  [[custom:Shell_impact]],
	  [[Custom:Blue_Death]],
    },
  },

what am i doing wrong?
On the death explosion it says "couldn't find CEG outside of script execution" or so.

[Tobi]

What about:

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FireWeapon1()
{
    emit-sfx 1025 from main;
}

and

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FireWeapon1()
{
    emit-sfx 1026 from main;
}

Do those work?

Also, copy and paste the error message exactly. That allows us to search for it in the engine source code.

[Erik]

lol funny
now that i changed the game crashes on spawing (its the start unit)
when i change it back it STILL crashes
so doing effectively nothing caused a different behavior WTF?
What is wrong with that stuff?

It seems to have to do with this:
Any errors in there?

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[Blue_Death] {
useDefaultExplosions = 0;
 [SMOKE1] {
    class=CSimpleParticleSystem;
		[properties]
		{
		alwaysVisible=1;
		Texture=blueexplosion;
		sizeGrowth=1.2;
		sizeMod=1.0;
       		 pos 		= r-3 r3, 1.5, r-3 r3;
       		 emitVector	= 0, 0, 0;
		gravity		= 0, 0, 0;
		colorMap	= 0.3 0.27 0.25 0.1  0 0 0 0.0; //1.0 0.5 0.0 0.01	0.5 0.4 0.3 1.0
		airdrag		= 0.9;
		particleLife=45;
		particleLifeSpread=13;
		numParticles=3;
		particleSpeed=0.5;
		particleSpeedSpread=0.2;
		particleSize=1.9;
		particleSizeSpread=0.6;
		emitRot=90;
		emitRotSpread=0;
		directional=1;
		useAirLos=0;
		}
        water=1;
	ground=1;
	air=1;
	count=1;
 } //smoke
[Groundflash]
{
flashsize=70;   // The radius of the groundflash. 
flashalpha=0.7; // [0, 1]: How transparent the groundflash is. Generally, the higher, the brighter. 
circlegrowth=3.5; //A groundflash can have an additional circle that expands outwards. This controls how fast the circle grows. 
circlealpha=0.4;// How transparent the circle is. 
ttl        =10; // How long the groundflash lasts. 
color= 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.01 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.01 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.01; 
}

} //DEF-system

[KDR_11k]

Are you sure you're allowed to capitalize "custom:" ?

[Forboding Angel]

If it's crashing on unit spawn it's a problem in the unitdef. Ceg errors tend to fail pretty gracefully, but unitdef errors still cause outright crashes.

[FLOZi]

If it's crashing on unit spawn it's a problem in the unitdef. Ceg errors tend to fail pretty gracefully, but unitdef errors still cause outright crashes.

bad unitdefs are usually stripped out when the game is loading

[Argh]

Not ones that are the result of bad sound or CEG references.

Your CEG names, if using Lua for UnitDefs and TDF for CEGs should not include any capital letters, i.e.:

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     [[custom:muzzleflash1]],
     [[custom:shell_impact]],
     [[custom:blue_death]],

That's because all TDF-generated CEGs have lower-case names.

[Erik]

So i made all of it lowercase, nothing changes.
I even have uppercase ones that work so why not this one?

Edit: Seriously whats wrong with that shit?
I messed around a bit and overwrote a non working CEG with a working one result: both now crash the game.
WTF?

[Argh]

It sounds like you must have a problem with your resources or sounds.

If it's crashing the game, it's probably a bad sound reference, not the CEG. A bad CEG reference causes error spam, not a crash.

[Erik]

It was a type on the unit def that crashed it :\

But as i am here i've got another question:
I got a muzzleflash animation, how do i make it go straight vertical no matter how the point is orientated, i messed around a bit with
'dir x,y,z; ' to overwrite the standart values.
but i couldn't figure it out, straight left,right,front, back all work but not straight upwards/downwards.

[Forboding Angel]

It was a type on the unit def that crashed it :\

But as i am here i've got another question:
I got a muzzleflash animation, how do i make it go straight vertical no matter how the point is orientated, i messed around a bit with
'dir x,y,z; ' to overwrite the standart values.
but i couldn't figure it out, straight left,right,front, back all work but not straight upwards/downwards.

Just rotate the piece it's emitted from... that would be the easiest way. If you don't have something you can already rotate, open up upspring and "Add Empty", position it, then in cob in the create function, just rotate it upwards, easy peazy