263 Entire Alien commander HUD text disappears
simba
Join Date: 2012-05-06 Member: 151628Members
Join Date: 2012-05-06 Member: 151628Members
Happens randomly while playing as alien commander. Haven't experienced on Marine commander.
Basically all text is gone from the screen. I cannot see my player's health or names, I cannot see upgrades to research. Scoreboard does not show up.
The only fix is to leave the server and rejoin.
Basically all text is gone from the screen. I cannot see my player's health or names, I cannot see upgrades to research. Scoreboard does not show up.
The only fix is to leave the server and rejoin.
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http://www.twitch.tv/s1mb4/b/507225567
this is on Reddit PUG servers so whatever mods they have
Error: lua/shine/lib/gui/objects/label.lua:36: None of the overloads for GUIItem.SetText match the supplied arguments:
GUIItem.SetText(GUIItem, cdata)
Remove Shine temporarily if this keeps happening.
This is @GhoulofGSG9 problem's now.
PS This new user autocompelte when typing @ someone's name is pretty useful.
Allready fixed with Shine build 145 ( 24/02/14 ) ....
Ok so far i can say it's a "network messages" issue which seems to be introduced with 263. Sometimes the network message values are nill.
Why i can't really explain, this seems to be some kind of issue with the spark network handle.
Overall this causes the message table of the shine chat gui to get corrupted. Which causes to crash the Shine chatbox and produces the given error.
Person8880 is currently looking for a way to "fix" this. ( better say to find a workaround ) Until then i would suggest to disable the shine chatbox locally if this issue occurs alot ( sh_chatbox in console ) and see if it is gone. ( would be interessting to see if this only affects the shine gui stuff )
Issue Ticket: https://github.com/Person8880/Shine/issues/335
I'm expecting this to get "fixed" asap ( end of this week ). Please take into note that i ( and person8880 ) are busy in RL and not that much into ns2 atm.
At least we will be faster than UWE fixing the network handle
I may remove the mod from the NSL Match servers for that purpose.
The chatbox is a purely client sided plugin. So it's up to the client to disable it. Use sh_chatbox in the console or look into %Appdata%\Natural Selection 2\shine\Autoload.json .
But this should be fixed asap so no real need to worry. I'm pretty sure it will be gone before Season 4 even starts.
Also it's a NSL Mod bug, so it's also crashing things without shine running.
Edit: Ok it's a NSL Mod / ( Shine / Vanilla ) issue. The NSL Mod somehow manages to send a chat msg without giving a player or console as author of that msg.
Thanks to some ppl blaming shine not reading the complete error stack ....
So it was a shine bug or a NSL mod bug or a vanilla bug? I am still not clear on this. If there is a NSL mod bug, I would like to have some more information on it so I can provide it to Dragon and he can hopefully resolve it.
If the bug is experienced mid-game, it renders a commander useless until he leaves the server and rejoins. This has potential to really mess up competitive matches.
Ok i thought i made this clear allready:
The NSL Mod managed to send a chat network message with some stuff missing (a corrupted network message ) which cause the shine chatbox to get confused and crash with the hole rest of the ns2 gui. Anyway this would also happen with the vanilla chat.
What we at shine did now:
We added a check to the chatbox to catch those invalid network message and avoid those gui crashes. Also information about corrupted network messages will be saved now into the shine error log to provide more info for uwe or xdragon and to prove that this is only caused by the NSL mod.
I allready informed xdragon and will give him more info asap. ( Waiting for some reports to come in
Alright, thanks a ton for your work on this. I will make a note of this thread on ensl.org and to other admins. Hopefully this is the last we see of this bug!