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by Breakthrough · in Torque Game Engine · 05/04/2007 (10:19 pm) · 2 replies

S.O.S. I changed sky settings in inspector, and when i closed down, and reopened, i received this error message:

you do not have the correct version of the torque game engine or the related art needed to connect to this server... please contact operator to obtain the latest version of the this game. (invalid packet).

what the heck does this mean, and why can't i open my mission any longer. i have a valid copy of 1.5, which has been working fine.
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Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#1
05/04/2007 (10:28 pm)
That message usually means you're missing some assets (like textures, models etc).

Perhaps when you altered your sky settings you inadvertently changed the path to the DML file.

Torque Owner Tim Heldna
#2
05/04/2007 (11:14 pm)
By the way, it's not a bug.

The error message stems from a safe guard that ensures all clients who connect to a server are running the right version and have all the required files. If you're seeing this error message it's because you wrote a script or edited a mission file to lead to an object that doesn't exist. Perhaps it's a simple typo or an incorrect pathname, either way it's user error.

If you search through your scripts you can learn more about this feature:
// The connection error message is transmitted to the client immediatly
// on connection, if any further error occures during the connection
// process, such as network traffic mismatch, or missing files, this error
// message is display. This message should be replaced with information
// usefull to the client, such as the url or ftp address of where the
// latest version of the game can be obtained.