Map Crashing

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I have had 4 of my maps do this and it is quite annoying. There is nothing like the amount of pissed off you feel after putting in a lot of time making a map, testing it, and then having it crash when you play it on Battlenet. The maps only crash when I play on Battlenet. I send the map to my friends and when we play for some reason it crashes and we all get booted out of Battlenet when it does. Here is the error message I got last night for the new map I made.

The title of the window was "war3".

1st Line "This application has encountered a critical error"

2nd Line "Fatal Error!"

3rd Line "Program:c:\programfiles\warcraftiii\war3.exe

4th Line "Exception: oxc0000005(access_violation) at 001b:6f40000D"

5th Line "The instruction at '0x640000D' referenced mamory at 'ox053ffff8:

6th Line "The memory could not be 'read'"

7th Line "Press ok to terminate the application

Then I have a box to click "ok" and it terminates

Any thoughts? It happens on melee maps as well as custom trigger maps and I have no idea why? Any help would be appreciated solely based on the amount of hours spent on making the 4 maps that do this. Thanks Chris
 
common causes of map crashes with that error:

- you have specified the pathing for a building as "none" (known bug in the game)
- you have told a peon to build a building that has no pathing
- one or more of your spells/abilities is referencing invalid data or has no associated spell data (you might also see the sammy icon for the spell too)


- solutions: no quick solutions other than a slow debug

- delete your triggers one by one and retest the map every time. start with triggers you made most recently and work your way back.
- delete custom units and/or reset base unit data back to default settings.


when you say it crashes for melee maps, do you mean melee maps you made or blizzard maps?
 
oh yeah, and i usually say this to everyone who gets this error:

You can't call yourself a map-maker until you make a map that unintentionally crashes the game. Therefore, on behalf of the community I officially welcome you into our ranks as a fellow map-maker! Enjoy your newly-appointed status!

:)
 
I'd like to accept this honor and thank the academy and all my loyal fans out there who voted for me, without them this award would not be possible. Ha.

(Probably my only acceptance speech so I had to make the most of it)

When I said melee maps I mean maps I didn't write any triggers into aside from the normal map initialization trigger.

What exactly is building pathing? I do not understand the term.

Thanks Chris
 
have a look at any building in the unit editor, and look at the "pathing" fields, specifically "pathing - pathing map".

In simple terms, the pathing for a building is basically the buildings foundations, its kinda like the concrete that you build a building upon in real life.

You can change the size of the pathing in that field I mentioned above. The bigger the pathing, the larger an area your building will require when being built.

If the pathing map field for a building has no value, then trying to build the structure will crash the game.
 
So, if I get your drift, if I put a building too close to a cliff or something and ytou could not get behind it for example then the pathing would be incorrect?
 
err, no......

pathing map just affects the amount of space needed to place a building. Once you place the building successfully, thats it, the pathing map issue is over and it won't affect anything else.

Note there are other "pathing" fields in the unit editor, but the only one I am talking about is "pathing map". The other pathing fields do slightly different things.
 
just make sure all your buildings have a pathing map (i.e. check that the pathing map is not none.
 
I made another map and it crashed also, I did notice that a group of creeps I placed in the editor did not show up on the game version, why would that be? Also, when I removed that group of creeps from the editor the game worked perfectly. Weird huh.
 
hmm this is weird indeed, what are the names of these creeps? Usually I would get you to send your map to me to sort this one out, but I'm a bit snowed under with work atm.
 
They were Water Elementals from the Sunken Ruins and I had them standing in shallow water.
 
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