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Interesting bug with Shapebase Repair

by Vince Gee · in Torque 3D Professional · 03/16/2012 (6:36 am) · 3 replies

It is possible for a player to get blown up by a mine, fall back into a health kit, die mid tick and then have a health kit heal them leaving them in Dead mode with a standing player.

It might not sound possible, but when you speed the engine up, it happens, so what I end up with is the players old body standing where they died, they get a new body, and if you shoot either body, they both take damage.

The solution was to go to line 1217 in ShapeBase.cpp

if (mDataBlock->isInvincible == false)

and change it to
if ((mDataBlock->isInvincible == false)&&((mDamageState==Enabled)))

this fix prevents the health kit from healing a disabled player.

Vince
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Torque Owner Demolishun
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#1
03/16/2012 (9:10 am)
That is so awesome I don't have words to explain how awesome it is. There has got to be something philosophical about that situation. You need to make a video of it for show and tell. As you know, unless you have a video, it did not happen. ;)

Torque Owner Nathan Martin
TRON 2001 Network
#2
03/16/2012 (9:19 am)
Looks like a decent fix. Although the real problem I would think is why is a dead shapebase object able to cause an onCollision callback with item objects?


Torque Owner Vince Gee
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#3
03/18/2012 (7:20 pm)
Well, when I trace it, it appears they are still alive when the impulse applies, they hit the health pack, then die, then the shapebase repair fires healing them back from the dead. Took me a while to find it.