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[Hoppy]

Can you try something for me? See if the areas only crash at night.

I think I was close to seeing what happens and never confirmed it. I had the crashes in Hlondeth areas only at dark. My assumptions were strengthened by standing outside one of the three areas right when the little cutscene plays and then it turns dark. Instant crash. Same with if you are traveling between areas at night. It won't load.

WORKAROUND: Try moving in Hlondeth during the daylight and rest in one of the Inns in central or east Hlondeth. It may relieve a few headaches.

Sorry I couldn't give you more.

[DeusEx]

*Cough**Wipes the dust of the thread* *cough*

Can you try something for me? See if the areas only crash at night.

I think I was close to seeing what happens and never confirmed it. I had the crashes in Hlondeth areas only at dark. My assumptions were strengthened by standing outside one of the three areas right when the little cutscene plays and then it turns dark. Instant crash. Same with if you are traveling between areas at night. It won't load.

WORKAROUND: Try moving in Hlondeth during the daylight and rest in one of the Inns in central or east Hlondeth. It may relieve a few headaches.

Sorry I couldn't give you more.

Still need confirmation, had the exactly same crash today, I was in Eastern Hlondeth at night wanted to go from west to east and CTD . Happens only at night. It is ok at daylight

ASSERTION FAILED!
File: ChDataTypes.cpp
Line: 1591

Exp: !(x >= pBitmapInfoHeader->biWidth || x < 0 || y > pBitmapInfoHeader->biHeight || y < 0)

Msg: no msg.
Run Debugger?

[JustGans]

WORKAROUND: Try moving in Hlondeth during the daylight and rest in one of the Inns in central or east Hlondeth. It may relieve a few headaches.

Did anybody found the solution how to fix this bug? I've looked for area script but found nothing(

Edited by JustGans, 30 August 2009 - 04:11 AM.

[Hoppy]

I think it is a lightmap problem but I will look into it more when I have some time.



Correction: make that a Nightmap problem. I have no idea yet what that entails.


EDIT: This area crash has the same error code as the Snowflake Mtns crash that I fixed for version 1.12+. I have tried adjusting maps but couldn't get anything positive. I'll keep looking.

Edited by Hoppy, 23 September 2010 - 01:19 PM.

[Miloch]

I think it is a lightmap problem but I will look into it more when I have some time.

Correction: make that a Nightmap problem. I have no idea yet what that entails.

Reproduced and fixed. As you suspected, it was a problem with the nightmap (ar3611ln.bmp). Not sure what the exact problem was, but editing it in DLTCEP (changing a cell value then changing it back) fixes the problem. That also automatically reduces the colour depth to 256 indexed, so that may have been the problem. I went ahead and did that for all the maps that didn't have indexed palettes to avoid any similar problems ("only" 14 of these out of 300+ in the mod). There is no difference in the actual maps - very few use more than a handful of colours (and none more than 256).

You can put these in your CtB\bitmaps folder *before* installing the mod, or just put them in your override folder after installing it.
 CtBlmaps.zip   20.1K   372 downloads

[Hoppy]

I think it is a lightmap problem but I will look into it more when I have some time.

Correction: make that a Nightmap problem. I have no idea yet what that entails.

Reproduced and fixed. As you suspected, it was a problem with the nightmap (ar3611ln.bmp). Not sure what the exact problem was, but editing it in DLTCEP (changing a cell value then changing it back) fixes the problem. That also automatically reduces the colour depth to 256 indexed, so that may have been the problem. I went ahead and did that for all the maps that didn't have indexed palettes to avoid any similar problems ("only" 14 of these out of 300+ in the mod). There is no difference in the actual maps - very few use more than a handful of colours (and none more than 256).

You can put these in your CtB\bitmaps folder *before* installing the mod, or just put them in your override folder after installing it.
 CtBlmaps.zip   20.1K   372 downloads

Thank you very much!