[TEC] Mystery of mission related CTDs solved!

[tater]

A note to people creating missions with random groups:

Columns in random groups must be equal or less than the lowest possible number of ships in the group.

The formation allows a number of columns, and a spacing to be set. The number of columns can never be less than the number of ships or it CTDs every time.

I have this in my layers because I attempted to create a wide variety of random formations with a single group. I mad them with many many ships listed in some cases, with each ship of a low order of probability. So you might well see a TF with 20+ ships, but 5 might be more likely, and as few as 2 might be possible (if extremely unlikely).

I let the automated campaign editor pick random spacing and columns to mix things up.

If a convoy generates 2 ships, and is set to 3 columns, BOOM!

Version 0.68 will be out shortly with all of this fixed.

Thanks to Jace11 (yet again). He actually pointed out this as a possible problem a few days ago, somehow I missed it.

[tater]

It was something I'd not do intentionally, but I didn't think of it when I ran the zig-zag code and let it randomize a few other things too, lol.

[Bando]

Great find Tater

[azn_132]

Thxs for the info, useful for my changin the RND layas.

[Mush Martin]

Well done Tater, Tough to find no doubt.
M

[tater]

I actually had a dream about it, check an old version with the convoy that CTDs bando all the time, and there it was in my face.

tater

[Jace11]

Came to you in a dream...?

On page 8 of your campaign layers thread...

"Also, judging by the number of ships that are likely to spawn, you columns number of 4 is way too big. If three ships spawn, they spawn and sail line abreast. But do you need 4 ships to form and make the convoy stable for the formation you gave it..

I would test these two things..

Reduce column formation to 1 and make at least 1 other merchant in the convoy spawn 100% of the time."

[tater]

Hehe. Credit to jace11. I DID dream about it though, I must have forgotten it in the mass of posts, and remembered it in a dream.

<S> Jace11!

:rock:

tater

[Mush Martin]

Ah to sleep per chance to dream those little slices of death
how I loathe them as they take away my Gametime.
:|\\

[Bando]

To dream, the impossible dream...........

Glad you did :up:

reg
Bando

[Stealth Hunter]

I misread the title and thought it said "STD's".

:rotfl:

[tater]

The pharmacist's mate has a clinic at 4pm, you should see him.

;)

tater