Freeze on saving

[Accensus]

Any tests I can do? Can replay the hangar map with ZDoom instead of GZDoom and log the activity, but I'm not sure if it'll work.

[Graf Zahl]

You can do one thing, which will work in both ZDoom and GZDoom:

enter 'stat gc' in the console, and once the freeze occurs, tell us what it says in the bottom left corner.

[Accensus]

http://imgur.com/a/zwRWv

Info in the image descriptions. Will provide even more info if needed.

[randi]

GZDoom, in order to reduce save file size, destroys all attached lights before saving out the data and restores them right afterward.

Sounds like I need to add an OF_Transient flag you can use to mark objects that should not be written out to save games, then.

[wildweasel]

Sounds like I need to add an OF_Transient flag you can use to mark objects that should not be written out to save games, then.

Will this flag be exposed to Decorate? I suspect it'll be in modders' best interests to attach the flag to things like gore, bullet puffs, and debris.

(And shopkeepers, for those wanting to mimic the old Daggerfall save glitch. =P)

[DoomKrakken]

Does this mean that objects not written out to save games will be removed entirely if the save is reloaded?

[Graf Zahl]

Yes, precisely. In the case of dynamic lights that would be fine because they will be recreated afterward anyway.

[DoomKrakken]

Oh... they'll be recreated?

[Major Cooke]

Will this flag be exposed to Decorate? I suspect it'll be in modders' best interests to attach the flag to things like gore, bullet puffs, and debris.

This would be nice indeed. While I suspect this will break some save games if misused... Guess it's the modder's fault in that case.

[Gez]

That'd allow to make a reload detector... Even let you detect how many times the game has been saved. Pseudocode:

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if (count(transient_item) == 0)
{
    spawn(transient_item);
    reloaded = true;
    savecount++;
}

[Major Cooke]

...PRICELESS! I've always desired some way of detecting reloads!