Internal error: Turrets on wrong ship

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:33 am

Hi,

when I did switch from a Caduceus back to a BCC for some testing with the fuel stations, I got the following log entry for all turrets:

[ship.subentity.sanityCheck.failed]: ***** VALIDATION ERROR: <ShipEntity 0x15bad640>{"Caduceus Turret"} thinks it's a subentity of <PlayerEntity 0xaa628c8>{"Boa Class Cruiser"}, but the supposed parent does not agree. This is an internal error, please report it.

It seems that the subentities of the craft I had did try to attach to the new ship I bought.

Version: 1.72.2 PC (Vista 32)

Screet

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:19 pm

Yeah, these nasty sub-entities! Just don't want to behave, these stupid little things!

Happens here, too, randomly. But always unpredictable and not reproducable.

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:27 pm

Just as I planned your turrets have formed an emotional attachment to you. They will now and forever roll around behind you like some sort of strange plasma firing pack of lap dogs!

Hey, I double checked my code and I think this could happen to any ship with turrets not just this one so, until someone tells me other wise I'm not taking any blame.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:37 pm

I wonder if this is a similar hang-on to the one with external views. From a quick look the BCC doesn't have any sub-entities defined, so perhaps that information isn't getting cleared when you swap ship, same way that I recall external views wasn't (or isn't) so if the new ship didn't have them and the old one did the old ones persisted for a while?

Lestradae · Post by **Lestradae** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:45 pm

I observed the same problem with the OSE WiP.

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:38 pm

Thargoid wrote:
I wonder if this is a similar hang-on to the one with external views. From a quick look the BCC doesn't have any sub-entities defined, so perhaps that information isn't getting cleared when you swap ship, same way that I recall external views wasn't (or isn't) so if the new ship didn't have them and the old one did the old ones persisted for a while?

It was one of the neo-BCCs from Simon. IIRC that one had to be cut into two parts as the poly count did slightly exceed the 800 limit.

As ClymAngus said: this appears to be something from the internal code, not the models, but maybe it helps to identify situations in which this happens, probably only if the new ship has at least one subentity?

Screet

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:22 pm

Screet wrote:
As ClymAngus said: this appears to be something from the internal code, not the models, but maybe it helps to identify situations in which this happens, probably only if the new ship has at least one subentity?

Screet

(Man, my work is creating a nest of problems today, I should have stuck with a flying brick, less problems) Utilising bleeding edge tec, it's a double edged sword. You get to make something cool but its a bug nest.