[Fixed for V0.42] Stepping on lava crashes game

[TheMormegil]

When I walk on the lava in Dark Portal the game crashes with no diagnostic info.

[Sophia]

That's how bad it kills you!

Seriously, though, to provide a bit more information, the lava is nothing but a damage tile set to an obscene value.

[George Gilbert]

Fixed for V0.42

Sophia - it's more than just a damage tile! What was happening was that the damage tile kills the party, the party drops their items on the tile which then activate a trigger that's also on the lava - that trigger tries to create an item in the hand of a party member...but there are no party members (which then causes the crash).

[Sophia]

Oops, I forgot about that. That's there so you can't throw an item onto the lava. (Which would make you unable to get it, which could make the game unsolvable)

I am starting to not believe that you can't decompile dungeons.

[beowuuf]

He never said it couldn't be done, in fact he keeps asking for saved games etc...he just saifd we can't do it :)

[George Gilbert]

I can't decompile dungeons - what I can do though is stop execution of a dungeon in a debugger and have a look at all the variables.

In this particular case, it was even easier than that - just catch the crash the in the debugger and have a look at the stack which looked something like

GetPartyMember()
CreateItemInHand()
ActivateTrigger()
DropMemberItems()
KillMember()
DamageMember()
ActivateTrigger()
CheckPartyTile()
MoveParty()
KeyPress()
WinMain()

Bit of a give away really

[TheMormegil]

I have decompiled an rtc.
(And no, I don't want a medal)

[Sophia]

I have decompiled an rtc.
(And no, I don't want a medal)

Recently?

0.34's editor could load in .RTC files, though it didn't do it perfectly. Past that, though, I don't think so.

[TheMormegil]

No, not recently.
As you guessed, I loaded the .rtc into the editor then saved as a .txt
After weeding out some errors I had a compilable text file.

[George Gilbert]

Ahh, right - that's OK then (and presumably even though it compiled, it will not have been the same as the original RTC file because a load of information would have been missing - like the graphics and sounds for starters!).

[TheMormegil]

Apart from the graphics and sounds it was the same IIRC. As it goes, I did have the graphics and sounds because the author released them with the RTC file. I don't think I played the recompiled version far (just to see if it worked).
Is the rtc file format much different now?

[beowuuf]

Well 0.35 had all the new attack methods onwards and the new relays and actions and was pretty much when George went insane....so...yes :)