Hi!

Im close to cry...i worked now over three years on my fps. Everything went fine last days.

Finally i wanted to join two Levels via Level_load...well engine crashes "process terminated...".

I have ShadeC evo included, maybe theres a trick with Level_load?

Strange thing: loading the same Level works. but if i load from one into another engine crashed directly.

If i wont kill myself this night, ill try debug again tomorrow after work.

Any idea? Any help?
I have NO(!) f* clue why engine crashes

Thanks for all kind of help / Level-loading - tips.

edit:
set Nexus to 200 in the WMB i loaded in main - function. the next WMB loaded via level_load is saved with Nexus 0
my wild guess: it has to do with my shade-c and or lights usage, i can post my light-script if somebody wants to see.

Hi, I don't think it is the same problem. But long time ago I had also engine crashes after level_load. The mistake I made was: I didn't wait with a function until the entity was created. So the entity was missing and the engine was crashing. And same level loading was working. So I remember this problem.

I had the same problem in the past, try to wait for a couple of seconds (f.e. 10? ) right after level_load, just to see how it goes.

what I use to avoid similar issues:
- a level close function to always stop running stuff: player, sky, camera, panels, material/shader loops (especially shade-c related ones),
- protections to avoid running anything double (by proc_status or boolean-like islooprunning variables),
- remove and NULL global pointers to engine objects. entities are auto removed very fast, but if you use some with global entity pointers they are better to be handled carefully manually
- always check whether a global e.g. entity is NULL or not before actually using it
- create and remove panels (and possibly all other engine objects) runtime to avoid linking to removed objects
- totally rewrite the full code in every 6 months

Agreeing to everything said.

I also had this Problem. Mine was, that I had a panel.target_map set to an entity bu not reset when loading a level. It is really dumb to not get an error message, but you have to live with it.
In the worst case it is a memory leak and it will haunt you in your dreams..
And you have to rewrite everything from scratch.

What you could also try:
Remove all skycubes and try reloading again

Attach a debugger and check on which call it crashes.
Walk the stack backwalks and check the last pushed returnaddresses.
Had same problems with it, took me quite a while to find all stuff I had to reset

Thank you all!

I found it man ! Debugged from 15h o clock till now!

Problem was a WMV - rendered via media_loop on a Skin of a TV entity in combination with ShadeC evo - material applyed + Level_load instruction called twice. lol

What a fight !!!

...man i hate those lets debug from the start - bugs !
And know what...iam afraid of pressing the "Compile" - button, i really am.

edit: i LOVE killing bugs, i really do ahhhhhhhhhhh

Good job! (^.^)

Thank you! ^^

For all reading:
Always stop media - handles before(!) level_load instructions.
edit:
if it has a render target - entity...
if it has no entity, the Music Plays 4ever, handle seams to be dead.

Wonder if we can get that added to the manual?