[Chimpso]

DYOM V6.1 Bugs and Glitches

We have a Bug Reports Topic, please request help with bugs there and not here.

DYOM is not perfect, there are many of bugs and I think it's time we had a formal list.


Here is a simple bug FAQ to get you started:

I can't save/load missions!

Make sure you have CLEO 3 installed correctly. DYOM only supports CLEO 3. CLEO 4 will not work.

How do I edit my mission file without going into DYOM and what is Notepad++?

You can Edit the DYOM.dat files that DYOM produces by using Notepad++ (Download), which is a source code editor. You can view the files in normal notepad, but trying to edit them will corrupt the file. You can use Notepad++ to edit the missions text and remove errors from it. DO NOT edit/remove any of the BS stuff. That is your missions coding and it will screw it up if you do!

List of known Bugs and Glitches

Invisible Checkpoints

Invisible Checkpoints are an annoying bug that leaves the red halo of the chekpoint invisible when designing a mission, but still leaves the marker.

Cause

Unknown, usually by having many checkpoints in your mission/in a row.

Solution

Thanks to GTA!!! for finding this solution.

Use the "Cutscene" objective and look at the checkpoint in the cutscene view. It and all others on the map will re-appear (this does not always work). Simply cancel the cutscene creation and continue desiging.


Invisible Interiors

Invisible interiors is when an interior does not spawn. This usually occurs during cutscenes.

Cause

The player is not inside the interior.

Solution

To prevent this, make sure the player is inside the interior. For example, before you make cutscenes in an interior, make a teleport objective inside the interior somewhere. Then design your custsences. The interior should spawn normally and your actors won't fall through an invisible floor.



Ball Actors

Ball actors are a name that I give to actors that have been compressed into a strange ball shape with their weapons sticking out of them. Ball actors can't be killed, and this bug occurs when actors spawn.

Cause

Ball actors are caused by having around 60 (estimated) or more actors (alive or dead) on the map at once. This can also be caused in interiors. If the player is not inside the interior, this can happen to actors.

Solution

Hide dead or unneded actors to prevent this bug. Make sure that the player is in the interior when actors spawn in it.




Coloured Squares

Cloured squares is an annoying bug when all text on the screen, including all subtitle and the "Mission Complete" text turns to couloured squares.

Cause

Coloured squares is caused by stray '~' marks in text. This often happens when players text colour or they accidently hit the '2' key when SHIFT is held down.

Solution

The solution is easy. Go to the objective where it is caused and re-write the text, making sure not to leave any stray '~' marks. Another solutiuon is to open up the file with Notepad++ and search for the stray mark. For example, this will cause this bug: "Kill the enemy~!" To fix it, remove the tidle, so it looks like this: "Kill the enemy!"



Spawn After: 1827478483

This is a bug that occurs with vehicles. Instead of the usual "Spawn after: Objective Number" It will say something like "Spawn after: 27472849374" or some other random number.

Cause

Too many vehicles on the map on the same time.

Solution

Be sure to hide destroyed/uneeded vehicles. Then select the objective you want the bugged car to Spawn after, go up to the car and in the vehicle menu press "Spawn Car" to fix the bug.



Actor Crash after adding Route Points

This is a bug when, after adding route points for an actor and accepting the path, the game crashes.

Cause

Using more then 100 route points (up to '300' route points remaining) during a mission.

Solution

This is very annoying. First of all, I reccomend never having another mission loaded when you press the 'New Mission' button. As all route points from that mission will carry onto the counter in the new mission (Example: I had 378 route points remaining in the base mission, if I select 'New Mission' then I will still have only 378 route points remaining in that mission). As soon as you've used up to 100 route points, there is no fix for this bug, you just can't have any more. To prevent the 'carry over' thing, make sure you restart San Andreas and use the default mission you start with when you start DYOM.



Route Point Activation Crash

This bug crashes the game and occurs when playing the mission, it is more common in missions with lots of route points and can pop out seemingly at random, even if the actor was not bugged before It occurs when the bugged actor attempts to start it's route point path.

Cause

I don't really know, I think it just happens when you start to go over 50 route points in a mission. It's rare, but does happen.

Solution

To find the bugged actor, SAVE YOUR MISSION and start deleting all actors with route points after the objective that crashes, the one that crashes the game when you delete it is the bugged actor, LOAD THE MISSION YOU SAVED and preform this method on the bugged actor:

Edit the actor and re-create the actors route path, weather he is driving/walking/running, just make the path again and it should work.

The Parachute Bug

The Parachute Bug (or Parachute Glitch) is an unsolved bug that continues to menace DYOM mission players.

Cause

The Parachute bug is a DYOM bug. The cause seems to have something to do with spawning, but there is no real known reason for it happening.

Solution

Unknown. Although there are many workarounds. Using a jetpack instead will work. If you have no time to spawn a jetpack then try jumping off the location where you fall instead of just falling. Remember, cheat input works during black screens (the screen between loading) so if you type in "rocketma'''" during the black screen and once you are back into the game hit the r key (thus completing the cheat) you will have a jetpack and can float to safety. To mission designers: to make life easier for everyone, try to put the location the player will fall (if his parachute fails) over water, so the player does not die. Then maybe put a platform or something in the water so the player can jump on it and use the jetpack cheat.

The parachute has been fixed as of DYOM v6.1

Hidden Text
Thanks to Kratos2000 for this one

Hidden Text is a bug that makes text invisible during cutscenes.

Cause

This is caused by having a space (as in from the spacebar) at the end of the text.

Solution

Edit the cutscene and re-write the text. Or edit the mission file in Notepad++ and remove the space.

This post has been edited by Chimpso on Wednesday, Nov 2 2011, 08:34

[JOJOXX]

That's very helpful.I have some bugs what I find,I will send you when I have time.

[timdyom]

Useful information. Thanks.

[Chimpso]

Thanks .

@JOJOXX Yes! Please send me as much bug info as possible. Thanks .

This post has been edited by Chimpso on Tuesday, Sep 14 2010, 11:43

[GTA!!!]

QUOTE (Chimpso @ Sep 14 2010, 14:37)

Ball Actors user posted image Ball actors are a name that I give to actors that have been compressed into a strange ball shape with their weapons sticking out of them. Ball actors can't be killed, and this bug occurs when actors spawn. Cause Ball actors are caused by having around 60 (estimated) or more actors (alive or dead) on the map at once. Solution Hide dead or unneded actors to prevent this bug.

Correct the solution. This bug happens because the map of the area in which the actor is present is not loaded.
To solve it, place a teleport objective nearby before creating the actor.

[Chimpso]

^That may be one reason, but even when an actor is right next to me or not far away this does happen. I just created a mission with 100 actors and objectives and this was my primary problem. Hiding actors was the solution that worked for me. Anyways, I will add it a little later. I'm not on my computer right now.

[Doublepulse]

Very good useful info Chimpso.

I usually get the invisible interior when there are too many movements like the walk and run animation.

[Chimpso]

Thanks! But I think it's only caused by not having the player in the interior.

[Chimpso]

Thought I might raise this from the dead again. Anyone have anymore bugs/improvments to add to this list?

[weeurey]

dunno what this is but when i try to type a mission name for example it crashes any ideas?

[1xDarkWarriorx1]

QUOTE (weeurey @ Oct 31 2010, 14:52)

dunno what this is but when i try to type a mission name for example it crashes any ideas?

Do you have cleo 3 installed?
Do you have any other mods?
Are you creating the mission in a total conversion?

[weeurey]

1 yeah i have CLEO3
2 yes i have mods alredy (teleport to marker ect)
3 no

[GTA!!!]

QUOTE (weeurey @ Oct 31 2010, 20:43)

1 yeah i have CLEO3 2 yes i have mods alredy (teleport to marker ect) 3 no

Try deleting a file called gxthook.cleo in your CLEO Folder.

[weeurey]

still crashes! grrr

[1xDarkWarriorx1]

Hmmmm you can try
1.Clean reinstall for GTA:SA
2.Copying and pasting GTA SA USERFILES to a safe place then deleting the original one
3.Reinstalling DYOM
Or fourth
4.Reinstalling CLEO3
Oh and can you tell which CLEO3 mods you have,list all of them

[weeurey]

i have alredy just reinstalled GTA SA to try no joy
i have just deleted ALL of my mods
i have tryed reinstalling dyom and cleo3 and even tryed cleo4

[1xDarkWarriorx1]

QUOTE (weeurey @ Oct 31 2010, 15:46)

i have alredy just reinstalled GTA SA to try no joy i have just deleted ALL of my mods i have tryed reinstalling dyom and cleo3 and even tryed cleo4

CLEO4 isnt compatible with DYOM
Sorry i dont know what is wrong.,Try asking LeonCj in The "Ask and answer" topic,its in this page,i think

[weeurey]

[FONT=Impact][SIZE=14]Thank you [FONT=Arial][SIZE=1]

Thanks i installed cleo 4 insted of cleo 3!!!! so thank you to evryone that helped me
by by im off to mod

[leoncj]

QUOTE

Try asking LeonCj in The "Ask and answer" topic

DUDE! Everybody CAN answer questions there, not only me -___-, like Doublepulse said.

[Chimpso]

That is correct. BTW, this whole convo should have been in the Bug Reports topic. But who cares. Glad it worked out.