Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-21T07:07:12+02:00

Hello PhilipJFry,

yes maybe the blueprint.lua is already outdated.
Using the PreModBlueprints function is better anyways.

If you add the LOG like described in case2, you will get a logline with every blueprint that is present. 400 ingame units + brewlan. This will easy spam 800 loglines
You need this only one time. Just to see if the code is executed.

Greetings Uveso.

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 21 Sep 2017, 07:07

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-20T08:25:09+02:00

hello Uveso!
i had a user on discord who ran into the same bug (which also causes the restrictions window to not load) so i did some testing
the fix you made for the upcoming FAF patch solves the issue
however putting your edited blueprint.lua file in did not
i also added the line for additional logging and got

Code:: info: UVESO DEBUG PreModBlueprints from BrewLAN

this line like 800 times in the log

Statistics: Posted by PhilipJFry — 20 Sep 2017, 08:25

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-10T20:51:10+02:00

@Saxxon:

This is the first error in log:

Code:: warning: Error in file /lua/RuleInit.lua : ...faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\system\blueprints.lua(496): bad argument #1 to `upper' (string expected, got nil)

This should not be there after patching the BrewLAN blueprint file.

Please open the blueprint.lua file from this location:

Code:: C:\Users\Hismoom\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\Mods\BrewLAN\hook\lua\system\Blueprints.lua

now search for:

Code:: bp.FactionCategory

You should find this in line no.75

How does the line look like?

Code:: case1: bp.FactionCategory = string.upper(bp.General.FactionName) case2: bp.FactionCategory = string.upper(bp.General.FactionName or "Unknown")

If i looks like case1 then you did not overwrite the right file with the blueprints.lua zip i provided in this topic.
Then please add this function to the top of the blueprints.lua file:

Code:: local OLDPreModBlueprints = PreModBlueprints function PreModBlueprints(all_bps) LOG('UVESO DEBUG PreModBlueprints') for _, bp in all_bps.Unit do if not bp.General then bp.General = {} end bp.General.FactionName = bp.General.FactionName or "Unknown" end OLDPreModBlueprints(all_bps) end

The error should be fixed now.

And if the line looks like case2 i guess its not loaded from the game.
We can simply check this by adding a print line for the debuglog.
Add a LOG line directly under the searched bp.FactionCategory line. should look like this:

Code:: bp.FactionCategory = string.upper(bp.General.FactionName or "Unknown") LOG('UVESO DEBUG PreModBlueprints from BrewLAN')

Start a game and check if the line 'UVESO DEBUG PreModBlueprints from BrewLAN' was printed to the game.log.
If you don't find the line inside the game.log, then you have a 2nd copy of the mod where the game gets the wrong files. (Maybe!)

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 10 Sep 2017, 20:51

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-10T11:04:29+02:00

Here you go. Work had me jammed last few days.
https://pastebin.com/fxg8GCkQ

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 10 Sep 2017, 11:04

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-04T12:27:17+02:00

@Saxxon can you please post a game.log from a game where you have the empty map issue?
unless i've missed something the only log from you is the one with the direct 3D error

Statistics: Posted by PhilipJFry — 04 Sep 2017, 12:27

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-04T12:10:26+02:00

Yeah, its any map. One mex will show on map, ACU doesn't load, game is frozen when this happens.

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 04 Sep 2017, 12:10

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-03T06:56:41+02:00

Saxxon wrote:
Map with 1 mex showing all else missing

What map are you using ?

Did you tried a different map ?

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 03 Sep 2017, 06:56

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-09-03T06:14:15+02:00

Got the 3D error sorted (by game update or changing graphics settings).

BrewLAN still not working with FAF

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 03 Sep 2017, 06:14

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-31T11:56:17+02:00

I tried updating both, still get same issue. Map with 1 mex showing all else missing.

Worse, starting the game via the FAF lobby I get an "Unable to create Direct 3D" error.

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 31 Aug 2017, 11:56

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-30T03:25:22+02:00

Hello Sirzento,

My fix is for BrewLan version 0.755

But there are already fixes up for both, the FAF game and Brewlan itself.

FAF develop version already has this fix since 14 days:
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/commit/ ... 2db69d3621

The-Balthazar updated BrewLan 15 hours ago with a fix:
https://github.com/The-Balthazar/BrewLA ... 29a0528966

That's all i know at the moment.

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 30 Aug 2017, 03:25

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-29T22:32:35+02:00

Hey,

I have the same problem here and tried to use your fix but still doesnt work.
I have Brewlan 0.79 installed.
This mod without FAF but on steam works fine but with FAF it loads only like here describet.
Without the fix I got pretty much the same error like the op but with the fix I got this:

Code:: warning: Error in file /lua/RuleInit.lua : ...faforever\gamedata\lua.nx4\lua\system\blueprints.lua(1413): bad argument #1 to `lower' (string expected, got no value) stack traceback: [C]: in function `lower' ...faforever\gamedata\lua.nx4\lua\system\blueprints.lua(1413): in function `BrewLANRelativisticLinksUpdate' ...faforever\gamedata\lua.nx4\lua\system\blueprints.lua(872): in function `ModBlueprints' ...faforever\gamedata\lua.nx4\lua\system\blueprints.lua(679): in function `LoadBlueprints' ...rged alliance\gamedata\mohodata.scd\lua\ruleinit.lua(16): in main chunk

Was this fix from the 0.79 version?

Statistics: Posted by Sirzento — 29 Aug 2017, 22:32

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-23T19:15:37+02:00

warning: GAL Exception: file : c:\work\rts\main\code\src\libs\gpggal\DeviceD3D9.cpp(189)
error: unable to create device

Do you have DirectX 9.0c installed ???
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/downloa ... x?id=34429

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 23 Aug 2017, 19:15

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-23T07:40:41+02:00

I'm pretty sure with the recent update to FAF this issue has been fixed, that's only coming from my friend being able to play brewlan without the file. If you can, join the discord and post in the technical help section with your game logs and people should be able to help.

Best of luck, Lux.

Statistics: Posted by Luxcerv — 23 Aug 2017, 07:40

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-23T07:36:25+02:00

Well, I will once things work again. I can't start games on FAF now, it says "Can't Start Direct 3D, update drivers".

Problem is, I did update the drivers, and that didn't solve that, so at present cannot even get the game to run in FAF... Whats infuriating is this is a new machine, I should be enjoying playing games, not chronically having problems even starting them.

It appears the game.log updated, so posting what is in it as spoiler.

Spoiler: show

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 23 Aug 2017, 07:36

Re: Brewlan "Empty map" issue

2017-08-22T07:48:39+02:00

Hello Saxxon,

post your game.log and i will take a look.

Statistics: Posted by Uveso — 22 Aug 2017, 07:48