Had a week off from work and started that game on the 17th of December with the SVN of that day with the first age.
Ok. I COULD fix this in the code by disabling the call to graphically enact the recon mission for air units. If they ALL have this problem then I would. But being an issue with just one unit, that is currently in a module that can be turned off, I'd prefer to opt to ask Toffer or Sparth for some assistance in looking at the recon mission settings and its animation on that unit to see if they can figure out what's wrong with it and if they can fix it in ANY way, even to disable its ability to graphically display... I know very little about the animation side of units and it all takes place code-wise in the .EXE so I don't have any tools to evaluate it from behind the curtain. Similar problems have been debugged by other modders so I beseech them now for assistance!
That being the case, the map/scenario maker will have to figure out what's wrong with it. These CAN become incompatible with changes that take place in the main mod and require the map maker update with fixes. I've no idea what would've caused a scenario to behave like that though.
This is a new report. I've not heard of anyone having this problem. Sounds frustrating but I'm not sure there's anything I can do with it. Do you get a minidump when this happens? Minidump files would show up in the BeyondtheSword folder.
That's the date at which Prehistoric begins so that's correct I believe. We'll probably eventually have it start earlier than that but for now that's our start date.
You can use 7zip to condense most file types for uploading here.
Possibly some options may allow animations to be turned off and if you get the right one it may avoid the crash. ALL recon missions, eh? That's frustrating. I'll have to disable recon animations in the code then. What about other air unit missions? I had most of them all disabled for most of the v37 development cycle and had them turned back on for the last month of it only to NOW have someone mention the problem still exists so I'm wondering if bombing and more still causes crashes in the graphics.
I'll try to look into that before I mess with the DLL and can't look into it again. Unfortunately I kinda doubt I will find anything useful here because the timing you say this is taking place suggests it's going to be a crash in the EXE where I can't see what's happening.
There should be no problem in making it a prehistoric tech, pretty sure I did it in my modmod. Anyhow, I don't think the tech will be nescesarry as we have a playable neanderthal civ that should get access to all that the NPC does, we could just redesign the tech out of the game entirely.
the game seems to crash on all air missions i added a save that has 2 cities next to each other with the player owned one filled with 15 different types of airplanes.
Awesome. I'll leave it to you then for now.
Thanks. Unfortunately, as suspected, the crash is in the exe, so deep into the exe that it doesn't even show where it last touched any processing in the dll. I suspect you may be able to solve this by taking a close look at your ini file settings. I don't know what to guide you to look at there though unfortunately.
I'm glad this was brought up again. I wanted to comment on this since I looked into it in the code yesterday. The code SHOULD be compiling this for ALL units with the Buildings tags. But it does it under the civil information hotkey info page so you may not be seeing that it is there. Check that first and if you see any that are not working, let me know so I can check it out as a test case. I didn't see any good reason any shouldn't work but you know how sometimes running a test on the code as it processes can reveal new things otherwise overlooked just in reading through.
If you can capture what is being said in the recording I'd be happy to add the text for the text key. If nothing's being said in the recording then I guess we need a new quote!
