Heretic: War of the Sidhe (v0.5 now out! 2/23/15)

[Gore33]

1 error with DECORATE:

Attempt to get invalid state DCCont from actor MaceGrinderPuff.
Script error, "warofsidhe-v03.pk3:actors/enemies.txt" line 362:
'user_smokepersist' is already defined in 'AshGargoyleChip' or one of its ancestors.

Can't open it for some reason.

EDIT: Seems like more people have the same problem too: http://www.moddb.com/games/heretic/addo ... -sidhe-03/

[Outtagum]

Hey. Necrobump ahoy!

I've tried this mod with ZDoom 2.8.1, GZD 2.2, 3.1 and 3.2. It crashes the game during initial load for me. I've saved a crash report if anyone's interested.

[_mental_]

Actually there is more than one problem with this mod. Even if undefined reference to RedChicken class will be fixed it will still crash GZDoom because of a cycle in WBOWA0 texture definition.
Both crashes requires changes in the engine but while the first one is trivial to fix the second issue is more complex to detect and handle gracefully.

[worldendDominator]

The mod starts up and runs without immediate problems in GZDoom 3.2.1, and I've fixed the siegebow crash, but for some reason when I close the game it crashes.

[_mental_]

It's impossible to say something meaningful without warofsidhe-v05-custom.pk3 file.

[worldendDominator]

Indeed, I kinda forgot about that. Here's a new report, since I've changed the pk3 since then.
The only thing I did in the game was quitting. After I pressed "yes", it crashed.

Edit: For some reason, after I commented out the class that references nonexistant RedChicken (it is unused anyway, as far as I can tell), it stopped crashing. That was entirely unexpected.

Edit2: However, it still crashed (without a report) while I was playing. Trying to reproduce it now...

Edit3: Reproduced, cause found, fixing.

Edit4: Looks like everything's fixed.

[_mental_]

So, what was the problem? All those obscure references between textures and patches or was it something new?

[worldendDominator]

Yes, self-referencing texture definitions, like "take vanilla sprite XXXX, add a patch or several, and call it XXXX (same name)". Intended as a quick edit that allows you to keep using that sprite name, but the engine enters an infinite loop as soon as it tries to draw that sprite.