An unknown problem.

[thegamemaker]

I am a newbie in Reality Factory and have been using the tutorials at http://www.stormthecastle.com. I am currently at the cutting the doorway part. After completing the tutorial, i tried to compile it but a pop-up came saying "Error compiling level". I followed the tutorial again and again but there has been no change. What do you think is the problem? I have also uploaded my game which is in a .ZIP file.

[jamieo01]

If you post the log which is in the RF main folder then we can see whats wrong. It's probably because there's a leak

[Allanon]

I compiled your level and the compiler output did say there was a leak. To find the leak go to File->Open within the editor and then select "Leak File (*.PNT)" in the "Files of type" selection box. Then open the test.pnt file. There should be a red line going through the level, the end of the red line that goes out of the level is where the leak is. In your level the leak is caused by a cut brush being too large and cutting a hole through the outer wall.

[paradoxnj]

Moved to Level Design forum. Please post in the correct forum.

[Humpty]

G'day,

This is my contribution for the assistance I have recieved.

I had lots of errors in running your level, most were to do with file paths. For your computer and setup this may not be an issue.

You do however have NO playersetup or playerstart.

I am not sure if that causes an error, I am guesing it does.

With your game loaded into editor I went to templates to add the playerstart and playersetup entities and they were not there.

If you don't see them there, perhaps reinstall RealityFactory.

(also it appeared that your cut and some of your solid items were not lined up correctly within the boxes.

[thegamemaker]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. Allanon, i have tried doing what you said but no matter what corrections i did, the problem stayed. I would be very grateful if you corrected it for me and then upload it. Thank You.

[Allanon]

This is a picture of your level from the side:



You can see where the leak is marked. To fix the problem you will need to move the right end brush so it is even with the other brush then resize the cut brush so it is not creating a leak:



Here is the corrected level file.

[thegamemaker]

Allanon, thank you for your help but have you tries compiling the game. I have compiled it but i got an error message. Can you please tell what the problem is?

[Allanon]

The file I provided compiles on my computer:

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** BSP Compile Version: 15 
** Build Date/Time: Jan 31 2005,06:32:56
 --- Load Brush File ---
Num Solid Brushes      :    20
Num Cut Brushes        :     0
Num Hollow Cut Brushes :     0
Num Detail Brushes     :     0
Num Total Brushes      :    29
 --- Remove Hidden Leafs --- 
 --- Remove Hidden Leafs --- 
 --- Weld Model Verts --- 
 --- Fix Model TJunctions --- 
 --- CreateLeafClusters --- 
 --- Save Portal File --- 
 --- Create Area Leafs --- 
 --- Save GBSP File --- 
Num Models           :     1,     80
Num Nodes            :    90,   3960
Num Solid Leafs      :    26,   1560
Num Total Leafs      :    91,   5460
Num Clusters         :    65,    260
Num Areas            :     1,      8
Num Area Portals     :     0,      0
Num Leafs Sides      :   202,   1616
Num Planes           :   119,   2380
Num Faces            :   239,   8604
Num Leaf Faces       :   406,   1624
Num Vert Index       :  1081,   4324
Num Verts            :   269,   3228
Num FaceInfo         :    19,   1216
Num Textures         :     6,    312
Motion Data Size     :            40
Tex Data Size        :        248838
 --- Vis GBSP File --- 
Loading Portal File : C:\RealityFactory\media\levels\1game.GPF
NumPortals           :   304
Starting to Vis all Leafs
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 0
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 1
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 2
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 3
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 4
*WARNING* CollectLeafVisBits:  Leaf:4 can see himself!
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 5
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 6
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 7
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 8
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 9
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 49
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 50
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 51
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 52
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 54
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 56
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 63
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 64
Total visible areas           :  2055
Average visible from each area:    31
FileName C:\RealityFactory\media\levels\1game.bsp
 --- Radiosity GBSP File --- 
Num Faces            :   239
Num Normal Lights   :     2
Num RGB only Lights   :     0
Num RGB Always Visible Lights   :     0
Num Suns with fallofftype 0 :     0
Skipping RWM Gouraud coloring 1081 RGB faces (Full Vis only)
.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20
Light Data Size      :  35456
Num Light Maps       :   239
------------------------------
Compile successfully completed

What errors are you getting? I'm not a mind reader so you need to provide more information such as message boxes, compiler log, log files, and what settings you are using.

[thegamemaker]

No i mean the compilation has been successful but the game won't run. When i pressed "Preview in Reality Factory" all went well until a pop-up came saying: "RealityFactory.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. You need to restart the program. An error log has been created". Do you know what is wrong?

[thegamemaker]

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** BSP Compile Version: 15 
** Build Date/Time: Jan 31 2005,06:32:56
 --- Load Brush File ---
Num Solid Brushes      :    22
Num Cut Brushes        :     0
Num Hollow Cut Brushes :     0
Num Detail Brushes     :     0
Num Total Brushes      :    31
 --- Remove Hidden Leafs --- 
 --- Remove Hidden Leafs --- 
 --- Weld Model Verts --- 
 --- Fix Model TJunctions --- 
 --- CreateLeafClusters --- 
 --- Save Portal File --- 
 --- Create Area Leafs --- 
 --- Save GBSP File --- 
Num Models           :     1,     80
Num Nodes            :    91,   4004
Num Solid Leafs      :    27,   1620
Num Total Leafs      :    92,   5520
Num Clusters         :    65,    260
Num Areas            :     1,      8
Num Area Portals     :     0,      0
Num Leafs Sides      :   206,   1648
Num Planes           :   119,   2380
Num Faces            :   242,   8712
Num Leaf Faces       :   396,   1584
Num Vert Index       :  1105,   4420
Num Verts            :   278,   3336
Num FaceInfo         :    20,   1280
Num Textures         :     6,    312
Motion Data Size     :            40
Tex Data Size        :        248838
 --- Vis GBSP File --- 
Loading Portal File : E:\Games\Reality Factory\RealityFactory\Nade Game.GPF
NumPortals           :   304
Starting to Vis all Leafs
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 0
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 1
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 2
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 3
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 4
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 5
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 6
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 7
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 8
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 9
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 10
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 11
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 31
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 33
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 35
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 36
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 37
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 38
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 39
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 40
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 41
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 42
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 43
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 44
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 45
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 46
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 47
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 48
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 49
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 50
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 51
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 52
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 53
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 54
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 55
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 56
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 57
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 58
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Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 60
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 61
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 62
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 63
Collect Leaf Vis Bits for leaf 64
Total visible areas           :  2054
Average visible from each area:    31
FileName E:\Games\Reality Factory\RealityFactory\Nade Game.bsp
 --- Radiosity GBSP File --- 
Num Faces            :   242
Num Normal Lights   :     2
Num RGB only Lights   :     0
Num RGB Always Visible Lights   :     0
Num Suns with fallofftype 0 :     0
Skipping RWM Gouraud coloring 1105 RGB faces (Full Vis only)
.0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20
Light Data Size      :  36224
Num Light Maps       :   242
------------------------------

[Jay]

Please show us your Realityfactory.log file. We might find out more with it - usually when there is a crash the Realityfactory.log file will point you into the right direction.

[thegamemaker]

This is my .log file:

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Searching for windowed driver

Initializing Game Shell...
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--- Reality Factory 0.76                    ---
--- Build Date: May 25 2008, Time: 19:43:48 ---
--- For more Information, visit:            ---
---    www.realityfactory.info              ---
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Parsed RealityFactory.ini file

Genesis3D Initialized

[INFO] VFS detected (not encrypted)...

Initializing Camera Manager...
Initializing User Input Subsystem...
[WARNING] File open attempt failed on type '9', file '.\keyboard.ini'
Initializing Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing CD Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Midi Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing RF Menu Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Network...
Loading Menu.ini...
Parsing Menu.ini...
Loading Character.ini...
Initializing Menu
Initializing Collision Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Network Manager Subsystem...
Initializing AVIFile Video Subsystem...
Launching Reality Factory Game Shell...
Launching Preview from Editor, bypassing Genesis3D Logo for DEBUG purposes ONLY...
Previewing Level as SinglePlayer Client...
Entering CRFMenu::ProcessMenu
Entering Windows Message Loop, Rendering Game Menu
Entering CRFMenu::ProcessMenu
Entering Windows Message Loop, Rendering Game Menu
Initializing Level: Nade Game.bsp
Configuring Camera Defaults...

[WARNING] OpenRFFile: file open attempt failed on type '4', file 'media\levels\Nade Game.bsp'

[ERROR] File .\CGenesisEngine.cpp - Line 1233: Failed to load level 'Nade Game.bsp'
[ERROR] File .\CCommonData.cpp - Line 1043: Level [Nade Game.bsp] failed to load!
[ERROR] Failed to initialize first level
Shutting Down AVIFile Video Subsystem...
Shutting Down Network Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down Collision Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down RF Menu Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down CD Audio Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down Midi Audio Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down Audio Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down User Input Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down Camera Manager Subsystem...
Shutting Down Graphics Subsystem...
Successful Shutdown

[Allanon]

Might try removing the space from the maps name. Instead of "Nade Game.bsp" try "NadeGame.bsp".