[sigtau]

FreeSpace Open crashes when I try to run a particular mission.

http://pastebin.ca/1494992

May I direct your attention to line 310 of that paste:

310. ASSERTION: "Player_start_shipnum != -1" at MissionParse.cpp:5989

Well, I opened up the mission in Notepad, there's only one player ship.

I'm pretty ****ing confused here.

Mission file: http://pastebin.ca/1495030

[0rph3u5]

1. You did not change the player ship, did you?
2. So you can see both these entires in nodepad?

Code: (just before loadout pool) [Select]

#Players ;! 1 total

Code: (Alpha 1's object entry) [Select]

$Name: Alpha 1 ;! Object #0
$Class: GTF Ulysses
$Team: Friendly
$Location: 0.000000, -100.000000, 0.000000
$Orientation:
1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000,
0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000,
0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
$AI Behavior: None
$Cargo 1:  XSTR("Nothing", -1)
+Initial Velocity: 33
+Initial Hull: 100
+Subsystem: Pilot
$Arrival Location: Hyperspace
$Arrival Cue: ( false )
$Departure Location: Hyperspace
$Departure Cue: ( false )
$Determination: 10
+Flags: ( "cargo-known" "player-start" )
+Flags2: ( )
+Respawn priority: 0
+Group: 0
+Use Table Score:
+Score: 8

[sigtau]

I did not change the player ship.

Yes, both of those entries are in my mission file.

[Droid803]

You know, it's kind of hard to debug a mission if you don't post the mission file itself...

[sigtau]

http://pastebin.ca/1495030

There's the mission.  I also posted a link in the main post.

[0rph3u5]

Where did you get the Ezechiel from? - There are some bugged versions around...

[sigtau]

FSMods, and I've already verified through debug builds that it is NOT in fact bugged up.

[karajorma]

Something is badly wrong with Alpha wing. They aren't being set up correctly for some reason I can't immediately see. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to figure out why.

EDIT : And about 10 seconds after posting that I figured out why.

Code: [Select]

$Special Ship: 0 ;! Alpha 1

$Arrival Location: Hyperspace
+Arrival delay: 2
If you set the arrival delay for alpha wing to 2 they won't be present at the start of the mission. No wonder FS2 is complaining the player ship is missing! Change that back to 0.

[Colonol Dekker]

For the love of Vectorns emerald toenails please upload the .FS2 file in your next reply (under additional settings).........

It'll enable quicker responses from people like me...

[karajorma]

The mission is in the pastebin. It's pretty easy to cut and paste it out.

But I'm pretty certain I've nailed the cause of the problem anyway.

[Colonol Dekker]

When I pasted it, it came with all the line numbers / headers. . Too much hassle 

[karajorma]

Don't paste from the view box, paste from the edit box.