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

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.

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).

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.

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 :)

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

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

TheMormegil wrote: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.

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.

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!).

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?

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 :)