Is is possible for a game to do things you never programmed in?

Is it possible for the my vectors of an entity to change, and change back?

Is it possible for handles and pointers to interfere, and cause the my vector of another entity to change?

I have a game that is glitching up. Zombies are spawning in the place of blown off arms and heads when they should be spawning at special entities with the action. That action is the only thing that creates zombies. The only vector it stores is the my.x, y, and z. The zombie however, stores the handles of it's arms and head, which are turned into pointers every frame, to position it's limbs and animate them as needed.

Is is something I did, or is my game simply "evloving" as the guy in I, Robot put it?

Hmm, wierd.

I would examine your code for any "temp" variables. I've a hunch you have used temp to define something, like where an arm flies off to, and then used the same temp variable somewhere in your spawn code. Temp's great for quick and dirty coding, but ya probably want to get rid of it, or re-initialize its value to zero before re-using it in combined code.

Mark

If you start seeing ghosts in your computer you need to do the following:
1) Save your work.
2) Go outside into the sunlight.
3) Relax, breath deep, stretch your legs.
4) Go back in and fix a cup of coffee.
5) Look over your code and check for any un-initialized values or global values that may be used after a wait.

I followed every direction but 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Just to be clear, everything works fine, except the glitch is there.

I've changed stuff since the demo, but it still does it in the newer version I'm working on. Here's the spawn code from the demo.


Code:

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 action spawn_zombie(){
	my.invisible = on;
	my.passable = on;
	while(1){
		if (player == null){
			wait(1);
		}
		else{
			if(zombie_numb < maxzombies && esc_menu_up == false){
				ifndef disable_enemy;
					ent_create(zombie_mdl, my.x, zombie_act);
				endif;
				zombie_numb += 1;
				sleep(zombie_spawn_delay_esy);
			}
		}
		wait(1);
	}	
		
} 

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And here's the zombie code, with the arm's and head's code as well.
Code:

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  action zombie_left{
	my.enable_entity = on;
	my.push = 2;
	my.what_i_am = profzombie;
	my.health = max_health;
	while(my.health > 75){
		
		wait(1);
	}
	my.health = 0;
	my.animation = 0;
	my.passable = on;
	while(my.animation < 100){
		if(esc_menu_up == false){
			ent_animate(me, "dieA", my.animation,null);
			my.animation += 1;
		}
		wait(1);
	}
	my.transparent = on;
	my.alpha = 100;
	while(my.alpha > 0){
		my.alpha -= 1;
		wait(1);
	}
	ent_remove(me);
}
action zombie_right{
	my.enable_entity = on;
	my.push = 2;
	my.what_i_am = profzombie;
	my.health = max_health;
	while(my.health > 75){
		
		wait(1);
	}
	my.health = 0;
	my.animation = 0;
	my.passable = on;
	while(my.animation < 100){
		if(esc_menu_up == false){
			ent_animate(me, "dieA", my.animation,null);
			my.animation += 1;
		}
		wait(1);
	}
	my.transparent = on;
	my.alpha = 100;
	while(my.alpha > 0){
		my.alpha -= 1;
		wait(1);
	}
	ent_remove(me);
}
action zombie_head{
	my.enable_entity = on;
	my.push = 2;
	my.what_i_am = profzombie;
	my.health = max_health;
	//my.pan += 180;
	while(my.health > 75){
		wait(1);
	}
	my.health = 20;
	my.animation = 0;
	my.passable = on;
	while(my.animation < 100){
		if(esc_menu_up == false){
			ent_animate(me, "dieA", my.animation, null);
			my.animation += 1;
		}
		wait(1);
	}
	my.transparent = on;
	my.alpha = 100;
	while(my.alpha > 0){
		my.alpha -= 1;
		wait(1);
	}
	ent_remove(me);
}
function random_ehh();
action zombie_act
{
	var oldvec[3];
	var foundpath = 0;
	var animationpercent;
	my.push = 3;
	my.health = max_health;
	my.what_i_am = profzombie;
	my.enable_impact = on;
	my.enable_entity = on;
	ptrtempent = ent_create(zombieleft, my.x, zombie_left);
	my.partlarm = handle(ptrtempent);
	ptrtempent = ent_create(zombieright, my.x, zombie_right);
	my.partrarm = handle(ptrtempent);
	ptrtempent = ent_create(zombiehead, my.x, zombie_head);
	my.parthead = handle(ptrtempent);
	random_ehh();
	while(my.health > 0){
		ptrtempent = ptr_for_handle(my.parthead);
		if(ptrtempent != null){
			if(ptrtempent.health > 75){
				ptrtempent.pan = my.pan;
				ptrtempent.tilt = my.tilt;
				vec_for_vertex(ptrtempent.x, me, 40);
			}
		}
		ptrtempent = ptr_for_handle(my.partlarm);
		if(ptrtempent != null){
			if(ptrtempent.health > 75){
				ptrtempent.pan = my.pan;
				ptrtempent.tilt = my.tilt;
				vec_for_vertex(ptrtempent.x, me, 69);
			}
		}
		ptrtempent = ptr_for_handle(my.partrarm);
		if(ptrtempent != null){
			if(ptrtempent.health > 75){
				ptrtempent.pan = my.pan;
				ptrtempent.tilt = my.tilt;
				vec_for_vertex(ptrtempent.x, me, 35);
			}
		}
		if(esc_menu_up == false){
			oldvec.x = my.x;
	  		vec_set(temp,player.x); 
	 		vec_sub(temp,my.x);
	 		vec_to_angle(my.pan,temp); 
	 		c_move(me, vector(2,0,0), vector(0,0,-1), glide | IGNORE_PUSH | IGNORE_ME);
	 		if(oldvec.x != my.x){
	 			ent_animate(me, "walkA", animationpercent, anm_cycle);
	 			animationpercent += 2;
			}
			else{
				ent_animate(me, "standB", animationpercent, anm_cycle);
				animationpercent += 1;
			}
 		}
		wait(1);
	}
	ptrtempent = ptr_for_handle(my.parthead);
	if(ptrtempent != null){
		ptrtempent.health = 50;
	}
	ptrtempent = ptr_for_handle(my.partlarm);
	if(ptrtempent != null){
		ptrtempent.health = 50;
	}
	ptrtempent = ptr_for_handle(my.partrarm);
	if(ptrtempent != null){
		ptrtempent.health = 50;
	}
	zombie_numb -= 1;
	my.passable = on;
	my.event = null;
	animationpercent = 0;
	kills += 1;
	while(animationpercent < 100){
		if(esc_menu_up == false){
			ent_animate(me, "dieA", animationpercent, null);
			animationpercent += 1;
		}
		wait(1);
	}
	my.transparent = on;
	my.alpha = 100;
	while(my.alpha > 0){
		my.alpha -= 1;
		wait(1);
	}
	ent_remove(me);
}

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I've commented out the events for the zombies, but my.what_i_am is simply a variable. skill 33 i believe.

I also have these templates with the code,

include <is_IPathfinding.wdl>;
include <gid01.wdl>;
include <startup01.wdl>;
include <fxGore01.wdl>;

but the code is not using any of them directly. If i take out intense pathfinding(Is_IPathfinding), for some reason every bitmap becomes bigger, and the player sinks...