Half-Life Crash problems Created 16 years ago2008-10-20 10:47:52 UTC by Striker

Hi I have a new mapping problem . I'm working at my compo this week ( I think it's the last one) very hard and something is disturbing me .
A stupid weird error occurs in some places, especially where I have trigger_once brushes .
That scarry "Send/Don't Send" Error appears .

At first this only happened in a place where if you aren't attentive , the floor cracks and you fall in a pit . But you don't die , you have a second chance . Well you have a second chance in that chamber that is trying to confuse you ( I'll tell you from now : What's obvious to do just makes you die ) . You arrive there by being teleported when you fall in that pit .
The problem was that I put a trigger_once over the "info_teleport_destination" entity and that caused the error . I deleted the trigger_once and it worked normally .
Now it repeats that again . And in other places sometimes too . I only hope this won't happen on Daubster or Grim's PC .

Does somebody has any idea why is this happening ?

Could be some glitch with teleporting into another trigger. Just place the destination a unit or two over the trigger. That way it won't be triggered the moment the player's teleported in and hopefully will fix this bug.

But in some places this happens without a teleport .

ive been having problems with trigger_once's too. in some places in my map for NO reason and NO error the map just crushes when i go into the trigger_once. and i have no errors and no problems with the triggers.

Maybe the trigger_once is not the problems, but the target(s).

The targets were game_texts .

[EDIT] Btw , off-topic , I observe you usually have girl-avatars .

What's the message for your game_texts?

IT contains "!" and "?" . The rest is normal text .

Try removing those and see what happens. Game_texts like to crash with non-letter/number characters.

The targets were game_texts.

There's your problem.

The game will crash with strange characters such as double quotation marks, slashes, backslashes and the like.
The game will also crash if the text is too long to fit on a single line. You can add a second line by adding /n in the message property.
Also make sure that the text has no more than 255 characters (that includes whitespaces as well).

it's \n for a new line.

Thank you ! It must have been the long text .

The targets were game_texts .

omg its funny that you say that, the same thing happened to me! when i entered a trigger_once in this one place that triggers a game_text i get a complete crash without an error!

edit: ok i read the rest of the posts... ill try to keep that in mind.

we can still use "." and "," cant we?

Ok I have a new problem . How can I make a wall disappear , but when it appears again it must be solid ?

So it's like this : Wall disappears => can walk through it

Wall appears => can't walk through it

I think you get the idea . I know something about func_wall_toggle but I never used it . Can you tell me exactly how's this made ?

The entity guide is there for a reason. Use it.
http://www.twhl.co.za/wiki.php?id=197

SO when I trigger it to disappear it transforms in a non solid polygon ?

When you trigger a func_wall_toggle, it disappears, like as if there never was a wall. When you trigger it again, it reappears and is solid again.

Oh that's awesome . Thank you.

uhmm... i dont suppose anyone knows where the teleport_destination is in comparison to where you are teleported? I mean, does the destination mark the bottom of where the player will be or the center or what?...

So if you want to get the player to be teleported so his feet are on the ground straightaway, where do you put it?

sorry that its a little off-topic...

i am quite sure it marks the spot for where the players feet will be as he gets teleported.
do not put it too close to the ground tho

sorry that its a little off-topic...

The thread name is Half-Life Crash problems , so it's not off-topic

Here's how you place an info_teleport_destination the correct way without the player getting stuck in the floor or spawn a couple of units above the floor and fall down:

Muzzleflash , that way the player will get stuck in the floor . OR not ?

just select the entity tool, select the destination in the 3d view... easy as that.

Muzzleflash, that way the player will get stuck in the floor. OR not?

Nope.
Argh, you and your excessive use of pointless spaces.

Sorry, it's a bad habit I must get out of.

Muzzles method will only work for "usual" player hulls...

thnks for that

@ Seker: how do you mean, "usual"?