FIXED: Resting outside in Athkatla: crashes

[jcompton]

Resting outside in an Athkatla city zone crashes the game with Assertion failed in ObjCreature.cpp line 12738. I don't see anything in the area scripts themselves that would handle this, sorry.


                   

[weimer]

Presumably it's the spawning amnish soldier who says "get a room!".

However, I can't reproduce it (I slept quite a bit in the city gate trying to repro that Hareishan error).

Can you give a specific ARE number where this crash happens in the latest version? If not, I'll assume fixed.                    

[Riklaunim]

I’m resting outside somewhere in Athkatla and the game crashes. It could be the soldiers (but they don’t appear always in BG2 or something funny – there is always night outside)                    

[weimer]

Let's try this again after we've gotten Frennedan to work for you.                    

[Riklaunim]

I can now rest in Athkatla, but there is no day (always night) when I am in the city                    

[weimer]

I don't understand. How do you determine that it is day? When you put your cursor over the spinning globe in the lower right corner, what time does it say?

                   

[jcompton]

I concur, actually. It's been a few versions so I'll give it another look, but I kept seeing the night maps.

As in, the darkened city. Not the bright daytime version. Loading the nighttime TISes and keeping them that way, regardless of the hour.

                   

[Riklaunim]

drow – in Athkatla he never gets sun blindness, it always dark and vampires appears....                    

[weimer]

OK, fixed. There aren't specifically "nigttime TIS files" for Athkatla. It turns out that all of the BG2 city AREs have the "extended night" flag set. BG2 appears to disregard it if "city" and "day/night" are also set but IWD2 does not. You will have to start a new game (new area, anyway) to see this.                    

[jcompton]

OK, fixed. There aren't specifically "nigttime TIS files" for Athkatla.

                   ...yes there are.

AR0400.TIS
AR0400N.TIS
                   

[weimer]

I meant "all of the places where I'm seeing this problem" but wasn't very clear. For example, Nalia's Keep doesn't have an AR1300N.TIS. The game has some automatic dimming for outdoor areas at night. Some areas also get night minimaps ... but not all of them.