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Processingcontrol
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Currently working on a vanilla map in Doom Builder 2, but a strange bug is impending my progress: whenever an action that's supposed to raise or lower a floor to the highest adjacent floor happens, the floor instantly raises to the ceiling. The problem shows up in both Chocolate Doom and PRBoom+. The weirdest thing about this is that it only occurs in one half of the level; whenever I use one of the actions in the other half everything works as its supposed to.

Anyone know what could be causing this?

02-11-13 04:22 #

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traversd
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Sounds like the floor is lower than -512 map units. Those linedef types fail outside -512, 512 map units in height IIRC.

02-11-13 05:51 #

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Quasar
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traversd said:
Sounds like the floor is lower than -512 map units. Those linedef types fail outside -512, 512 map units in height IIRC.

Seriously? I've never heard of this before.

EDIT: Sure enough. There's a note left in the BOOM source about this. God, all those routines were coded so terribly.

02-11-13 16:31 #

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gggmork
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a guess, maybe read this:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-ed...moving-sectors/

Or maybe you have accidentally joined 2 sectors resulting in more neighboring sectors than you think.

02-11-13 16:38 #

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Gez
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Quasar said:

Seriously? I've never heard of this before.

EDIT: Sure enough. There's a note left in the BOOM source about this. God, all those routines were coded so terribly.

You mean those?

Fixed P_FindHighestFloorSurrounding routine in P_SPEC.C to use MININT
as it initialization for the highest search rather than the arbitrary
-500 units it did.

Fixed P_FindHighestCeilingSurrounding routine in P_SPEC.C to use MININT
as it initialization for the highest search rather than the arbitrary
0 units it did.

02-11-13 17:19 #

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Grazza
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I commented on this type of issue here, where it impacted another wad. Once you're aware of the issue, it's easy enough to find workarounds that avoid the wad becoming port-specific.

02-11-13 17:25 #

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Quasar
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Gez said:

You mean those?

And don't forget P_FindNextHighestFloor which would trash the stack if there were too many adjoining sectors.

02-11-13 18:18 #

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Processingcontrol
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traversd said:
Sounds like the floor is lower than -512 map units. Those linedef types fail outside -512, 512 map units in height IIRC.

I raised the height of everything and the actions started working normally. This this was definitely the culprit. Surprised I never heard of this bug before considering how common it must be in maps with steep height differences.

Thanks for the help guys!

02-12-13 03:23 #

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Mechadon
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I had the pleasure of running into this bug for one of my BtsX contributions :P (and someone else ran into it before I did). Before that, I had no idea of its existence. But it definitely made me scratch my head for a few hours.

Thankfully though, as Gez pointed out, it is pretty easy to work around.

02-12-13 05:01 #