Level boundaries

JCraw

<div class="IPBDescription">validation of invalid origin</div>
I am seeing the following error when spawning Marines from the Ready Room:
Warning: A Marine went out of bounds, destroying...

Looking at the call stack, I go from Player:SetOrigin(origin) in Player.lua (2087) directly to InvalidOriginMixin:OnInvalidOrigin() in InvalidOriginMixer.lua. It appears this validation occurs in the engine. Is there a way to get more info on this validation?

A side question that would also fix this problem for me is, what are the boundaries of a level and can they be changed?

Kouji_San

This means an entity, in this case a player is out of bounds. Literally going over 32.000 grid units from the origin (coordinate x:0, y:0, z:0), Spark destroys the related entities. If you're building a map, it should be close enough to the the origin. But also try to avoid having the origin itself in your map as there is currently a bug, which causes some things (sounds/FX/weapons) get teleported or played at origin.

You can see and hear this on certain maps :P

Docking, north west in the sky above Landing Pad
Mineshaft, 4 meters above the powernode in Central Drilling
Summit, outside the south wall of Flight (listen for it, phantom Skulk bites often occur there :P)
Tram, the hallway north of Repair to the right of the entrance into Ore

JCraw

Ok the problem was because I was using coordinates I took from the map editor, which did not correlate with the in-game coordinates.

A position in the map editor with coordinates such as 3000, 2000, 3000 ended up being located at 100, 40, 100 in-game.

What I'm doing is spawning a marine to a location instead of spawning near the command center. I wasn't sure how to set a location in the map to spawn to, so I just used coordinates.

Is there a way to translate map editor coordinates to in-game coordinates? Is there a way to set a location on the map that I can then get the coordinates of and spawn to?

Mendasp

Change the editor units to meters in the editor settings.

And you'll get the coordinates your player is in if you type "locate" in console.

fsfod

the hardcoded limit in ingame units is x/z -2000 to 2000 and y is -250 to 250