The problem with that project was that we could not reproduce a crash here, with or without wait, not even in the debugging environment. But I can say that it has probably nothing to do with the no-texture skin. If you get any other, maybe even tinier project with a mysterious crash, we're always interested in looking into it.

Could it be (a wild guess) that since you are using ent_for_name (where you aren't allowed to change any parameter of that entity if it's static) it's crashing because you're changing it's emask?
Commenting that line out prevents crashing, but as you said, maybe it's not because of that, but another problem.

EDIT: Nevermind, as you said any change will "fix" it.

The crash just wanders somewhere else. Now the newly created bone based player character model throws a "bad file format" when entering some levels.
I have no idea anymore what to do about this, and I really have a bad feeling about releasing my game.

Well I've just realised that my new player model has 2 additional no texture skins (with UV mapping) again which the old one didn't. I'm pretty sure the error only appeared on/ with models which have skins with no textures.

Can you please double and triple check that part in the engine again?
(Btw. the error happens between "LevelReady" and "def_startup started" but I assume you are aware of that.)

EDIT: The mini example from some time ago still crashes on my machine. Is there something I can do with it (except strapping it down a little more) that helps you in finding the cause of the error (including stuff you may send me which I test)?


EDIT2: Made the old example even smaller: http://superku.de/mdl_crashNew.zip
The error does not appear regularly, sometimes on the first try, sometimes it doesn't appear 7-8 starts in a row (with this linked example). - Crashes without the view entity too:

Code:

///////////////////////////////
#include <acknex.h>
#include <default.c>
///////////////////////////////

void main()
{
	fps_max = 60;
	video_mode = 9;
	level_load("test.wmb");
	wait(4);
	ent_create("tile3.mdl",vector(128,0,32),NULL);
	vec_set(sky_color,COLOR_BLACK);
}

And even smaller: http://superku.de/mdl_crashNew2.zip
Now it's only a few lines of code, a NULL level and one entity ("tile3.mdl"). If you remove the empty skin(s) (or load "tile3b.mdl") the crash is gone. Otherwise, after 5-6 starts at the latest the error should appear.

I tried it 20 times in a row, but sadly it won't crash on my machine.

Tried about 20 times with both models ('tile3.mdl' and 'tile3b.mdl'), but it did not crash for me.

Greets

Oh no.
Thanks anyway for testing. I'd post my system config but it used to crash on my laptop too which has completely different components (and Windows version - EDIT: Wait, that's not true. My old laptop had Windows 7, too.).

EDIT: @alibaba: I've now downloaded it again and seen that per default it tries to create "tile3b.mdl", the one that doesn't crash. That's a bad mistake on my part, have you tested that file or "tile3.mdl"? (This has now been fixed and uploaded under the same download link.)

I got the crash now, but only if I press 'Run current script' button in the SED! I used to launch it with F5 before (which is test run as far as I know), and it did not crash at all. Also I found out that it actually crashes only if I press 'Run current script' button in SED, if I press F6 (which is 'Run current' too, according to the hotkeys) it won't crash... I tried to run the script about 20 time with both F5 (Test run) and F6 (Run current) hotkeys and it did not crash at all. This is really weird.

Here is the crash screen:


Best regards!

Oh, that is really strange indeed!
I've clicked both "Run current script" as well as "Test Run" and it crashed on both.
Good that it crashes on someone else's machine now, too.

I just tried to click on 'Test Run' button and it crashed, but it took more tries (about 8-9).
Really weird part is that it doesn't crash with hotkeys (F5 and F6).