[SA] Adding water crashes game (solved!)

[Jaapio]

Hi Folks,

 

Edit: Solved, the positions have to be even numbers and the lengths have to be divisible by 4.

 

I ran into a weird issue with my map, I had only one body of water and things seemed to work fine. But after adding a few more the game just started to crash and I have no idea what is wrong with my water file.

 

Below is my water file, the line that starts with -132.000000 -112.000000 is the initial body of water that seemed to work just fine. But after adding the rest of the lines the game started to crash as I was looking at the water from certain angles.

processed
-132.000000 -112.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -112.000000 -112.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -132.000000 -117.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -112.000000 -117.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
105.000000 -230.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    145.000000 -230.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    105.000000 -315.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    145.000000 -315.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
-192.000000 -112.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -132.000000 -112.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -192.000000 -138.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -132.000000 -138.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
-152.000000 -64.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -40.000000 -64.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -152.000000 -112.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    -40.000000 -112.000000 -2.750000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
65.000000 -214.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    105.000000 -214.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    65.000000 -263.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    105.000000 -263.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000

 

Help would be much appreciated.

Edited March 21 by Jaapio
Solved it with the help of Zaz

[ZAZ]

 

Each side length of a water square must be divisible by 4

 

Example

62.0 572.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	170.0 572.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	62.0 740.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	170.0 740.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0  1

the 4 corner coords:
62.0 572.0, - 170.0 572.0, - 62.0 740.0, - 170.0 740.0

x-lenght of the square = 170.0 - 62.0 = 108.0
y-lenght of the square = 740.0 - 572.0 = 168.0


108.0 /4 = 27

168.0 /4 = 42

 

 

btw. i'm not a full time gtaforums member, i just have a look every day to this forum

[Jaapio]

On 3/7/2022 at 6:05 PM, ZAZ said:

 

Each side length of a water square must be divisible by 4

 

 

Hi Zaz,

 

Thanks for you response, its been a while but I got around to testing with the water lenght set to be divisible by 4, things looked good but gta still crashes when I approach the water from certain angles. My water shape should be 20 by 20 so I am not sure what is going on. Am I missing anything else?

 

processed
75.000000 -224.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    95.000000 -224.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    75.000000 -244.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000    95.000000 -244.000000 -2.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000

 

[ZAZ]

 

last parameter is missing

 

please read [SA|DOC] water.dat

 

steve-m wrote:

 

X, Y, Z:     coordinate
F1:     water current speed along X axis
F2:     water current speed along Y axis
F3:     unknown, influences waves, maximum is 1.0
F4:     wave height

The parameter at the end of each line defines the water type, and can have a value from 0 to 3:

 

.... and the parameter being an integer value

 

so a water cube definiton should be done in this way

X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4  X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4  X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4  X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4, last parameter(integer value)

 

my example from above

62.0 572.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	170.0 572.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	62.0 740.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	170.0 740.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0  1

 

when i make xxx as visible separation

62.0 572.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	xxx 170.0 572.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0	xxx 62.0 740.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0 xxx 170.0 740.0 5.0 0.0 -0.4 1.0 1.0 xxx 1

X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4 xxx X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4 xxx X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4 xxx X, Y, Z, F1, F2, F3, F4, xxx last parameter(integer value)

 

 

btw. you can spare these many zeros

 

then this should be your water cube definition

75.0 -224.0 -2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0    95.0 -224.0 -2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0    75.0 -244.0 -2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0    95.0 -244.0 -2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1

 

but consider steve-m's usage:

Quote

The corner points should be defined in the order NE-NW-SE-SW, or also SW-SE-NW-NE:

 

Edited March 21 by ZAZ

[Jaapio]

16 hours ago, ZAZ said:

please read [SA|DOC] water.dat

Doh, I found it, the numbers have to be even, 75 and 95 are not even. Changing them to even numbers fixed the issue. Thanks the first time I totally read over the even part.

 

I also experimented with the last parameter, not putting it in seems to make the game fallback to either 1 or 3 but putting it in seems like the right thing to do, I somehow forgot to write that back into the text file after reading it. 

 

16 hours ago, ZAZ said:

btw. you can spare these many zeros

Yeah, it was just a quick sprintf call. I always forget how to do proper formatting with sprintf.

Edited March 22 by Jaapio