my map has stopped working again for the thousandth time. but instead of screwing around for half and hour until its fixed(as i usually do). i cant figure it out this time and i've been trying all day and still no progress. its almost done and i don't want to start over because i've spent months getting this far. here is the debug. i spent ten minutes stareing at it and i can't get any thing out of it. this is a fresh debug, i removed the old one before getting this.

10.17.10 01:00:49 guerilla pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.17.10 01:00:49 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.17.10 01:00:49 reference address: 4011a4
10.17.10 01:00:49 Couldn't read map file './guerillabeta.map'


10.17.10 01:00:57 guerilla pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.17.10 01:00:57 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.17.10 01:00:57 reference address: 4011a4
10.17.10 01:00:57 Couldn't read map file './guerillabeta.map'

Yeah, um, that error happens to everyone, it doesn't actually mean anything. Is it not opening or what?

Put in the whole debug not just the top. If it is in Gurilla then likely you will have something wrong with a tag in the level.

this is the entire debug. like i said i removed the old one. then started halo to get the new one. but i will check the tags again. but everything i put in the map has worked before in this map or another map. however the old debug said something about needing the old tags and sky that were originally in the map before it said "game failed to load" but this has never affected the map before.
Edited by guardian25 on Oct 17, 2010 at 09:21 AM

i take it you mean there was no problem before this?.......(however the old debug said something about needing the old tags and sky that were originally in the map before it said "game failed to load" but this has never affected the map before)
you might find your missing the tags that the old debug told you about.did you reinstall your game?

no i haven't reinstalled since my major f*** up 2 months. and by old debug, i meant the one i took out before i made a fresh one. i have all the old tags somewhere in this mess of a computer,and they all still work. but theres no hope of re adding them because the map is full of new tags that i replaced them with ages ago. the last thing i did before the map stopped working was add new weapons to my tags folder, all of the new tags work on my other levels, and this level stopped working before i added the weapons. i made changes to the map trying to fix it and got some new debug lists.

this is my most recent debug

10.17.10 09:26:14 DirectInput: 'Acquire (gamepad)' returned (DIERR_UNPLUGGED#-2147220983)


10.17.10 09:29:40 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.17.10 09:29:40 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.17.10 09:29:40 reference address: 42ca20
10.17.10 09:29:40 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
10.17.10 09:29:46 WARNING: 9 clusters in structure_bsp levels\coq\rpg_alpha5 have no background sound or sound environment.


10.17.10 09:33:44 guerilla pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.17.10 09:33:44 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.17.10 09:33:44 reference address: 4011a4
10.17.10 09:33:44 Couldn't read map file './guerillabeta.map'


this has never caused a problem before and it was there when i started.

10.17.10 09:29:46 WARNING: 9 clusters in structure_bsp levels\coq\rpg_alpha5 have no background sound or sound environment.

checking tags now, will update when i am done.

update: its not the tags. i made a backup an deleted all tags(vehicles, weapons, ai, everything but spawn points.) and compressed a blank map with the same global i used on another map that worked. and the map still crashed.

here is the new debug. i think the last line is the problem.

10.17.10 09:47:40 a hobo pc 01.01.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
10.17.10 09:47:40 reference function: _write_to_error_file
10.17.10 09:47:40 reference address: 401b13
10.17.10 09:47:40 Couldn't read map file './a_hobobeta.map'
10.17.10 09:47:41 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
10.17.10 09:47:42 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
10.17.10 09:47:43 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
10.17.10 09:49:00 WARNING: 9 clusters in structure_bsp levels\coq\rpg_alpha5 have no background sound or sound environment.
10.17.10 09:49:00 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
Edited by guardian25 on Oct 17, 2010 at 08:26 PM

That has happened to me and I just posted a topic about it. What has happened is the bsp has got some clusters that don't have sounds which makes halo ce create an exception. Look at your level and go to the bottom of it in gurilla. Open the bsp which is down the bottom and go to cluster properties or something like that. Thier should be over 20 clusters and go through them and look at the info underneath. Some will not have sounds so that is why it is not working. The only problem is that I can't change the cluster to play he correct sound. So if anyone knows how to change it plz reply. This will help me and guardian25 to fix the levels.

it has said this before but never caused a problem. i will look into this.

edit: well its been a good run but i think this maps about had it. i might just restart. it was a mess anyways, this could be a good thing, i now know were i want things to go and i don't have to worry about my old screwups(this be my first work, it also includes learning screwups ). now that i know all i need to know about sapien this might take a week or 2 to remake.

p.s. when i am done with this map i will release more maps. i might be gone for a week before i start working again.

Edited by guardian25 on Oct 18, 2010 at 12:13 AM

10.17.10 09:49:00 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly

thats your problum!

Herp de durrrrp.

Anyways, the local weapon error is NOT caused by lack of background sound. It's caused by some of the core tags being corrupted. Something somewhere is wrong. Reinstall HEK.

i considered this because my new tags overwrote a mess load of files.

it just dawned on that one of the new weapons doesn't work, it probably had a bad file and overwrote an important file like you said. i will look into this.

but that being said why isn't it affecting any of my other maps.

edit: i reinstalled hek. it didn't work. same problem. same debug. backups giving the issue as well. i would consider rextracting the orignal and overwrite files, but last time i did that with anouther map it ruined all my files and i had to start from scratch. most of my old files still don't work.


edit: I DID IT! the level is working again, but with limited success. globals is being retarded. i used a global from a older version, but it wont let me modify it in any way which is bad because i need to change the vehicals. if you know how to fix please let me know.

p.s. it is rejecting new globals as well.
Edited by guardian25 on Dec 14, 2010 at 01:03 AM