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Crash in explosion code

by Jari · in Torque Game Engine · 04/06/2007 (12:43 pm) · 8 replies

Hello. I just ran to this crash once again and I decided to just take screen shot and post here in case some figures what is causing the crash.
So here's the screen shot: click

I don't have anything too remarkable in my missions, I think the crash just has something to do with timing of the explosions and terrain.

I have the latest TGE.
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Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#1
04/06/2007 (1:22 pm)
Interesting! This might already have been adressed though. Can you post a screenshot of the callstack?

How do you spawn your explosion? Via projectile, ShapeBase or something else?

Torque Owner Martin Schultz
#2
04/06/2007 (2:16 pm)
Very interesting! I noticed a crash bug when having debris in the explosion datablock. But due to the low performance of my machine I'm not really able to run and trace a debug build. But would like to hear what you find out.

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#3
04/06/2007 (3:04 pm)
Can you reproduce the crash, Martin? If you supply a NULL debris datablock to Explosion, it will crash. Could that be it?

Torque Owner Martin Schultz
#4
04/07/2007 (12:35 am)
@Stefan: Yes, can reproduce the crash everytime. It's in the Flying Starter Kit. I'm going to test your suggestion, interesting point. Will check that. Thanks!

Tim McClarren
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#5
04/07/2007 (12:25 pm)
Yeah, we fixed this in our 1.3 code base.

The code shouldn't be deleting said object and then referencing it .

if (mCurrMS >= mEndingMS)
{
   deleteObject();
   return;
}

is probably the simplest fix.

Torque Owner Jari
#6
04/08/2007 (8:22 am)
Sorry I cannot post screen shot of the call stack because I dont know how to reproduce this. But looks like Tim has the fix.
Edit: sorry, mixed names

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#7
04/08/2007 (8:58 am)
Looks good, Tim.

Torque Owner asmaloney (Andy)
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#8
05/20/2007 (11:51 am)
Fixed in TGE 1.5.2.