HI

i have this line in my main action code..

action abc
{ player1 = me;
while(1) {normal movement and camera functions}
}

and this one in another action code

action xyz
{ you = player1;
my.x = your.x+24*cos(your.pan)+24*sin(your.pan);
my.y = your.y+24*cos(your.pan)+24*sin(your.pan);
my.tilt = your.tilt+30;
my.pan = your.pan;
}

i run the level, it says "empty pointer in "my.x= your.x + etc etc..", and for the xyz action, my.pan is always zero and my.tilt is always 30.

solution is simple? common error? how about this -- THERE WAS NO SUCH ERROR FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO!! The entire code was working fine! I didn't like the main model so i changed to a better one and gave it the main 'abc' action, now it says empty pointer in your.x and your.y and etc etc.

Inserting the older model again doesn't help!

I wrestled with it for a while and gave up.. i couldn't see what the problem is and y it should suddenly stop working!

any ideas? anyone who had similar problems?

Thanks in advance,
yours sincerely,
one frustrated noob!!

looks to me like xyz starts before abc. at the beginning of xyz put "while(player1==NULL){wait(1);}"

julz

Quite often with the new update to A6 I find more and more, this workflow effect happening, even to the point of losing entire files.

It seems the engine no longer gives every error report at the time a full-on development session is in progress and I wonder if its to do with the page file being so crammed up that it effects final writes from the page file to the programm application.

I find this only happens with Game Studio though so I cant help but think that maybe DX is also part of the problem.

So yeah, I have these issues too and...

From one noobs to another, hang on in there man, its not as bad as it may seem, just have more breaks more often to free up dlls and memory usage.

@ Julz
thanks.. ya i tried that by putting "while (!you) {wait(1);}" but then it doesn't start the action at all.. the attached entity just hangs in mid-air at its initial position in the level.
i also tried putting the xyz after abc but that doesn't help either..
like i said it was working fine a few hours ago.. after i changed the model it doesn't work anymore no matter what i do.


@ Nomad..
well dude at present i only have the player, the attached entity and less than 10 blocks in the level.. i don think that would use up too much memory.. anyway thanks for letting me know this is a common error.. i thought maybe something was wrong with the one i'm using..
only way i can think of now is to return player position values to a global array and use them.. but i didn't want to use too many variables so was trying it this way.

nah it has to be "while(player1==NULL)" not "while(!you)", otherwise "you" will never change.

julz