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Vicious Bug

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Game Keeps crashing after I edited raws
« on: February 07, 2013, 11:35:37 am »
hello.
I edited the RAWs of the Giant cave spider and those of all the Giant Bugs so females can lays eggs.
I added the
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but the game keeps crashing after like 5 min of playing, I also turned the temperature off having some FPS problems on bigger fortresses..
here is the message when I try to debug
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I never had crashes before... any ideas?
« Last Edit: February 08, 2013, 04:50:07 pm by Vicious Bug »
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2013, 12:04:12 pm »
I don't know either, but the modding subforum will. You can move the thread there if you want.

PS: Baby spiders are called spiderlings.
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2013, 01:23:31 pm »
Try making the 'giant' part of the name in lower cases. I've never seen the first letters capitalized, that may be the need for it. Also eliminate any unneeded spaces.

Really, though, editing creature raws badly shouldn't bug out the game unless the creature in question is on the map and it's a horrible, horrible screwup. So the problem may not be the creature.
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2013, 04:36:58 pm »
How exactly did you add this to the creatures? Is your error log.txt showing anything? And as PhoenixEggz stated the problem might not be the raws, but something in the game itself.

And to move your thread just scroll down the the bottom of the page and it should be on the bottom right IIRC.
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2013, 05:09:11 pm »
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there is a similar error for the giant mosquitoes...
and numerous path fail but I think thats not the real problem
and I added the tags at the very end of the raws..
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like I said the game was not crashing before. played weeks without problems, only since I made those modifications, it crash. maybe the crash happen everytime a mosquito or a B.R. spider spawn on the map??
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2013, 05:22:55 pm »
It may be because you're trying to assign it CHILD:2.

Every other egg layer that I know of has CHILD:1, as each egg in the clutch yields 1 creature.

Also, you don't want to use Giant (creature name) or something similar. Make the child name "giant cave spiderling:giant cave spiderlings" or something. The parenthesis in the name might also cause problems - I wouldn't know about that though, just that it will literally call them "Giant (bug name) " in-game. Also, DF will automatically use a capital G when beginning a message with 'Giant cave spiderling'.

EDIT: And as always, if you're certain that your code is (vicious) bug-free and are having problems, try genning a new world!
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2013, 05:26:28 pm »
the child tag is not about how many years it take to fully grow?
and in the RAW the ( ) are not there, I replace it with the creature name ^^
P.S Caves crocodiles have a CHILD:3 tag no? cuz it take 3 years for the childs to grow
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2013, 05:31:28 pm »
AFAIK, the CHILD tag is binary. It can only be 1 or 0 and it indicates whether eggs hatch.

But don't quote me on that.
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2013, 05:33:45 pm »
Try using SELECT_CASTE rather than CASTE. The way you have things right now, the creature would probably end up with two male and two female castes of the same name, which would then confuse the game. As such, you also don't need to add the FEMALE tag, and you don't need to re-add the male caste. So it should look like this...

   [SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE]
      [LAYS_EGGS]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL:SOLID]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE:LIQUID]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK:LIQUID]
         [EGG_SIZE:80]
         [CLUTCH_SIZE:3:10]

Quote from: CLA on February 07, 2013, 05:31:28 pm
AFAIK, the CHILD tag is binary. It can only be 1 or 0 and it indicates whether eggs hatch.

But don't quote me on that.
Nope. it's when they grow up, in years.
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2013, 05:39:25 pm »
Quote from: Knight Otu on February 07, 2013, 05:33:45 pm
Try using SELECT_CASTE rather than CASTE. The way you have things right now, the creature would probably end up with two male and two female castes of the same name, which would then confuse the game. As such, you also don't need to add the FEMALE tag, and you don't need to re-add the male caste. So it should look like this...

   [SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE]
      [LAYS_EGGS]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGGSHELL:SOLID]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_WHITE:LIQUID]
         [EGG_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:EGG_YOLK:LIQUID]
         [EGG_SIZE:80]
         [CLUTCH_SIZE:3:10]

KK i'll try that thx ^^

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Quote from: CLA on February 07, 2013, 05:31:28 pm
AFAIK, the CHILD tag is binary. It can only be 1 or 0 and it indicates whether eggs hatch.

But don't quote me on that.
Nope. it's when they grow up, in years.

yeah i knew it... check Cave crocs. RAWs 
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2013, 06:01:08 pm »
Quote from: CLA on February 07, 2013, 05:31:28 pm
AFAIK, the CHILD tag is binary. It can only be 1 or 0 and it indicates whether eggs hatch.

But don't quote me on that.

oh god why must i be gone six hours a day :P
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2013, 06:32:54 pm »
Aha! Teach me to take a sample from a single file. =P

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oh god why must i be gone six hours a day :P

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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2013, 06:37:54 pm »
It mostly happened because I've spent a loooooooong time on the wiki
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after i edited raws
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2013, 04:49:47 pm »
Yeah well... Im not sure if  SELECT_CASTE works corectly.. ::)

My error log is full of those, one for each bugs:
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And the RAW:
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I just want them to lays Eggs witout crashing my game  >:(
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Re: Game Keeps crashing after I edited raws
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2013, 05:04:05 pm »
The mistake you made before IIRC was to use CASTE:FEMALE twice.  The mistake you're making now it using it zero times.  SELECT_CASTE:FEMALE is failing because you're trying to use it to reference something that doesn't exist.

edit:  Well, now that I think twice about it, I'm less sure about how giant critters work, so, maybe never mind ^^  I still think that that reference something that doesn't exist is probably the symptom, but I can't keep track of all the copytags and gotos :/
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