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[RESOLVED] Kerrigan Death crashes game

Aug 19 2011, 2:16 am
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Pr0nogo

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Aug 19 2011, 2:16 am

Pr0nogo Post #1

Me again.

My Infested Kerrigan iscript

Whenever Kerrigan dies (her .grp has been replaced with an unedited copy of the Lurker's .grp) it crashes the game. Update: Changing it to the Devourer death (# 483) has no effect. Not sure what this is now; an iscript issue or a .dat issue. Any clue?

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 20 2011, 5:10 am by Pr0nogo.

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Aug 19 2011, 2:27 am

xAngelSpiritx Post #2

eternal lurker

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AirAttkRpt SarahKerriganGndAttkInit

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Aug 19 2011, 2:46 am

Pr0nogo Post #3

lol

~~Then why did it work once? so confuse~~ nvm I looked at it again
P.S. thanks for all your help and I'll play SC1 mods with you if you want :hurr:

NEW QUESTION see OP

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Aug 19 2011, 11:22 am

xAngelSpiritx Post #4

eternal lurker

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playfram 0x1a9 # Frame set 25
wait 2
playfram 0x1ba # Frame set 26
wait 2
playfram 0x1cb # Frame set 27
wait 2
playfram 0x1dc # Frame set 28
wait 2
playfram 0x1ed # Frame set 29
wait 2

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an unedited copy of the Lurker's .grp

The default Lurker GRP only has 12 frame sets.

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Aug 19 2011, 2:40 pm

Pr0nogo Post #5

I didn't edit the script, though, and the Burrow animations use frame sets higher than 12 (and don't crash).

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Aug 19 2011, 8:08 pm

xAngelSpiritx Post #6

eternal lurker

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I didn't edit the script, though

What do you mean, you didn't edit the script? I assume the iscript in the OP is the one that crashes?

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, and the Burrow animations use frame sets higher than 12 (and don't crash).

I'm not sure then. The default lurker GRP has only 12 frame sets, and that would certainly crash if you attempted to use higher ones.
...But now that I really think about it, I believe the lurker's GRP is split into two parts, unit/zerg/lurknorm.grp and unit/zerg/lurkburr.grp. That's probably how the burrow animation uses framesets higher than 12 without crashing; the other framesets are from the burrowed lurker GRP.

This might be the source of your problem. You made Infested Kerrigan use lurknorm.grp, right? Did you also check to see if she was using lurkburr.grp, and (maybe) lurkegg.grp? Unfortunately, I can't say for sure whether this is really the source of the crash, since I've never worked with the lurker before due to the likelihood of there being some hardcoded shit with it.

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Aug 19 2011, 8:28 pm ubermctastic Post #7

I'm confused.... If this unit is supposed to be exactly the same as the lurker... Why don't you just give it the same graphics in dat.edit? Is it supposed to have a spell or something?

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Aug 19 2011, 8:38 pm

Voyager7456 Post #8

Responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast

I agree with K_A - I'm confused as to why you're replacing Kerrigan's GRP when you could just change the DAT entry.

In any case, I'm curious as to which GRP file you used to replace Kerrigan's. unit\zerg\zlurker.grp is the one you're looking for, as it has all of the frames. I'm not actually sure lurkernorm and lurkerburr are used for anything.

Aug 19 2011, 9:02 pm

Pr0nogo Post #9

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xAngelSpiritx

What do you mean, you didn't edit the script? I assume the iscript in the OP is the one that crashes?

It is, but all I edited there were the headers to point to the proper entries in Kerrigan's iscript.

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I'm confused.... If this unit is supposed to be exactly the same as the lurker... Why don't you just give it the same graphics in dat.edit? Is it supposed to have a spell or something?

I need to make the Kerrigan unit move faster (by default, the Lurker clone moves at about half-speed than the regular Lurker, despite being linked to the same iscript, so I made a new iscript) and I can't edit the move speed on the Lurker iscript without boosting it for both units.

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In any case, I'm curious as to which GRP file you used to replace Kerrigan's. unit\zerg\zlurker.grp is the one you're looking for, as it has all of the frames. I'm not actually sure lurkernorm and lurkerburr are used for anything.

unit\zerg\zlurker.grp was exported, copied, and renamed 'uikerr.grp', then imported into my .mpq under unit\zerg\

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Aug 19 2011, 9:20 pm

xAngelSpiritx Post #10

eternal lurker

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unit\zerg\zlurker.grp is the one you're looking for, as it has all of the frames.

Whoops.

Forget I said anything.

My best guess with the crash is that there's either something else in your mod somewhere that's causing a crash, or there's something hardcoded. I doubt it's the latter though.

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Aug 19 2011, 9:34 pm

Voyager7456 Post #11

Responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast

I just replaced the Infested Kerrigan GRP with zlurker, copy and pasted your iscript in and everything worked fine. It must be some other change you've made - what else did you do?

Aug 19 2011, 9:44 pm

Raitaki Post #12

Quote from Pr0nogo

I need to make the Kerrigan unit move faster (by default, the Lurker clone moves at about half-speed than the regular Lurker, despite being linked to the same iscript, so I made a new iscript)

The reason Pron prolly edited his iscript was cuz of that ^
~~Only flying and hovering units' speed is editable via iscript. For ground non-hovering units' speed, edit it in the unit's flingy.dat.~~

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Aug 19 2011, 9:45 pm

Voyager7456 Post #13

Responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast

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Raitaki

Quote from Pr0nogo

I need to make the Kerrigan unit move faster (by default, the Lurker clone moves at about half-speed than the regular Lurker, despite being linked to the same iscript, so I made a new iscript)

Only flying and hovering units' speed is editable via iscript. For ground non-hovering units' speed, edit it in the unit's flingy.dat.

No. Flying units have their speed controlled by flingy.dat. Everything else is controlled via iscript.

Aug 19 2011, 10:14 pm

Pr0nogo Post #14

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Voyager7456

I just replaced the Infested Kerrigan GRP with zlurker, copy and pasted your iscript in and everything worked fine. It must be some other change you've made - what else did you do?

Can you send me this script? PM or whatever is fine. The most I can think of is a misplaced .dat edit or something...

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Only flying and hovering units' speed is editable via iscript. For ground non-hovering units' speed, edit it in the unit's flingy.dat.

lol

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Aug 19 2011, 10:31 pm

Voyager7456 Post #15

Responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast

It literally is the iscript in your post, nothing more. If you want, you can PM me your mod and I'll take a look at it.

Aug 20 2011, 4:20 am

Voyager7456 Post #16

Responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast

I took a look at your mod and I killed many an Infested Kerrigan and it did not crash. What are the circumstances under which you were testing?

Aug 20 2011, 5:09 am

Pr0nogo Post #17

Fuck it, after tinkering around with the old files it just causes Kerrigan to crash after the unit moves. I'm gonna use the new files that fix the issue without improving Kerrigan's speed. Thanks for the help.

Resolved.

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