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printz
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Whenever I add new monsters to that block, Eternity halts at startup with this message: "E_ProcessBossTypes: x boss types, y boss probs", even when x equals y, which should be true. What gives? Note that I haven't forgot of BOSS_SPAWNER_PROBS. Also, sorry if this has already been issued and fixed in the Phoenix.

04-06-07 21:13 #

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Quasar
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Please post the relevant EDF code here.

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printz
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Not fixed in EE 3.33.50 RC1

Here's a modified MISC.EDF excerpt. Whatever's bold is added by me:

code:
boss_spawner_types =
{
  DoomImp, Demon, Spectre, PainElemental, Cacodemon, Archvile,
  Revenant, Arachnotron, Mancubus, HellKnight, BaronOfHell,cyberdemon
}

boss_spawner_probs =
{
 23,23,23, 23,23,23, 23,23,23, 23,24,2
}

It stops at startup with:

code:
E_ProcessBossTypes: 12 boss types, 12 boss probs

It doesn't like me adding or taking monsters to the list.

Last edited by printz on 04-08-07 at 12:27

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Quasar
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That is truly bizarre. I'll have a look at the code.

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Have you tried "Cyberdemon" (note the capital letter)?

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printz
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TheDarkArchon said:
Have you tried "Cyberdemon" (note the capital letter)?

Yes. Same result. Even if it would have worked that way (and with a space before), I'd still have pointed it out.

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Mnemonics are case insensitive anyway. Cyberdemon and CyBeRDeMoN are the same to EDF. There's something clearly wrong with the logic in the boss types processing code. It should only be causing an error if numbosstypes != numbossprobs. Here they're equal, which is correct, and it's exiting anyway. A clear bug, probably something very simple.

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Quasar said:
It should only be causing an error if numbosstypes != numbossprobs. Here they're equal, which is correct, and it's exiting anyway. A clear bug, probably something very simple.

Does it show something like (numbosstypes != 11 || numbossprobs != numbosstypes) ?

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code:
   // haleyjd 11/19/03: allow defaults for boss spawn probs
   if(!numProbs)
      useProbs = false;

   if((useProbs && numTypes != numProbs) || numTypes != 11)
   {
      E_EDFLoggedErr(2, 
         "E_ProcessBossTypes: %d boss types, %d boss probs\n",
         numTypes, useProbs ? numProbs : 11);
   }

Woops. I see the error. The OR falls into the second condition, and it should not do that. Pure simple logic error :P

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