v0.90b Bug Reports - READ FIRST POST

BoVinE · Post by **BoVinE** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:12 am

just the black screen.

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:15 am

Huh. I had a similar bug back in one of the arlier versions o SM3 where the screen would be black but any screenshots I took showed the interface. I fixed that one through a reinstall and a reboot. Sounds like yours is different, though.

(Try a reinstall and a reboot anyway, just in case.)

BoVinE · Post by **BoVinE** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:22 am

Just to save people the hassle of trying to help, I did that before I posted. :P

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:24 am

Oh. Nevermind, then.

Pyront · Post by **Pyront** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:38 pm

ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: Game Start
for object GUI_MainTitle:

Error defining an external function.

I've reinstalled 3 times in 2 different locations. I'm using vista.

Elias_The_Crimson · Post by **Elias_The_Crimson** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:20 am

A problem occurs in The Grinder when using ships with ship spawner modules.
Somehow, when a certain number of ships spawned through the modules are destroyed, the game thinks you lost and ends the game (even if other ships and spacestations are still intact).

This makes it impossible to use ships with spawner modules properly in the grinder; The place where such modules may be the most attractive.

SHAD0Wdump · Post by **SHAD0Wdump** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:49 am

Elias_The_Crimson wrote:A problem occurs in The Grinder when using ships with ship spawner modules.
Somehow, when a certain number of ships spawned through the modules are destroyed, the game thinks you lost and ends the game (even if other ships and spacestations are still intact).

This makes it impossible to use ships with spawner modules properly in the grinder; The place where such modules may be the most attractive.

I mentioned this early on,I'd even get it with fire support platforms.

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:47 am

My guess is that the game knows when you have lost by having a variable set to the number of ships you have on the field and when that variable reaches zero (all ships destroyed), it tells you you have lost. But, the game doesn't increase that variable when spawner modules spawn platforms/ships, but when those ships are destroyed, the variable decreases as normal.

No guarantees, just my theory. I don't know how the game really works, so it's just a wild guess.

EDIT: Last sentence deleted because I didn't read carefully enough and I'm an idiot for it.

SHAD0Wdump · Post by **SHAD0Wdump** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:16 am

I still say a easy and non-aggravating fix would be to simply remove the 'lose trigger' when sandbox mode is on.

Post by **Arcalane** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:47 am

More accurately simply make the lose trigger dependant on the station itself rather than your ships.

SHAD0Wdump · Post by **SHAD0Wdump** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:41 am

Which,ironically,is what I thought was the trigger all along,I'd build invulnerability shield ships to cover my station to stop myself from losing.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:58 pm

The TacNuke cannon doesn't seem to respond to range changes. I set a tacnuke's range to 250, but it's bolts still travel 1000 pixels far, visible by the fact that they explode far outside the culminated range of their actual range and their fuse variance. No idea what's causing it, the range function simply doesn't seem to do shit.

xonaag · Post by **xonaag** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:20 am

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but if you put a weapon turning value to 0 it won't turn with the ship, it just will keep it's angle until it reaches it's arc range border.

Post by **Arcalane** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:57 pm

If you're trying to make fixed weapons, give them a 1 degree arc.

SHAD0Wdump · Post by **SHAD0Wdump** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:23 pm

Arcalane wrote:If you're trying to make fixed weapons, give them a 1 degree arc.

Or a zero degree arc,if your a perfectionist...