I was playing about in the editor, making a money box with 8 Blue Gems in it and then I made a clone of the Mezmar necklace.
When I added this clone into the dungeon as an item, it came up as another blue gem instead.
Odd, I thought. I deleted the item and tried again, it came up as the necklace I just customised.
Anyway, on compiling the game it game up with a critical error and when I re-loaded it in the Editor, a message came up saying the item identifier for my new necklace wasn't unique.
I'm guessing it's a bug and not something I'm doing wrong...?
[Unrelated edit: Now that I think about it, just how many items can a money box hold before it "overloads" or something? The editor only gives space for including 8 valuables.]
[Fixed for V0.41] Confusion with item identifiers?
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Re: Confusion with item identifiers?
Yep, bug - I'll try and reproduce it...ZoKathRa wrote:I was playing about in the editor, making a money box with 8 Blue Gems in it and then I made a clone of the Mezmar necklace.
When I added this clone into the dungeon as an item, it came up as another blue gem instead.
Odd, I thought. I deleted the item and tried again, it came up as the necklace I just customised.
Anyway, on compiling the game it game up with a critical error and when I re-loaded it in the Editor, a message came up saying the item identifier for my new necklace wasn't unique.
I'm guessing it's a bug and not something I'm doing wrong...?
It's customisable to *any* value; not sure what the default limit is off hand, but it's lots - 128/256?ZoKathRa wrote:[Unrelated edit: Now that I think about it, just how many items can a money box hold before it "overloads" or something? The editor only gives space for including 8 valuables.]
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Hmmm - I'm afraid that I can't reproduce this following the steps you describe. I suspect that there's something subtle that's missing, although I've no idea what that may be.
Can you try to repeat what you did and see if you hit the problem again? If you can, can you describe exactly what those steps were?
Can you try to repeat what you did and see if you hit the problem again? If you can, can you describe exactly what those steps were?
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Re: Confusion with item identifiers?
This is some sort of memory corruption. I've seen it happen with various other items-- sometimes trying to add a weapon, or the like, causes it to come up as a puddle that is elsewhere in the dungeon, instead. Since there are now two pointers pointing to the same item, the editor will probably now have a non-unique item id.ZoKathRa wrote:I was playing about in the editor, making a money box with 8 Blue Gems in it and then I made a clone of the Mezmar necklace.
When I added this clone into the dungeon as an item, it came up as another blue gem instead.
Odd, I thought. I deleted the item and tried again, it came up as the necklace I just customised.
It's a rather rare bug, so I have not been able to lock down what's doing it either, unfortunately.
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