zex20913
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I filled a room with crumbly wall until there were only seven rows remaining at the top of the screen. I filled snakes that were three spaces long, starting from the lower left of the rectangle left open, clockwise, heads down. At about the seventh one, I put a two length which overlapped the previous snake. Said snake no longer had a tail. I tried to delete it, a box popped up, I clicked yes, and it crashed.

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I'm having trouble reproducing this bug. From your post, I gather that you accidentally made two snakes overlap each other, causing the first placed snake to lose its tail. But I can't get the snakes to overlap each other - the editor won't let me. Perhaps you could explain in greater detail where the snakes were placed, as I'm not sure just from reading your post.

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zex20913
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Okay...possibly a more detail through less detail thing...Put one snake down wherever. Put another snake so that it would be a continuation of the first snake, same direction (horizontal definitely does this) and delete the snake you just placed fully. The tail of the first snake should disappear. Then, if you try to delete it, the game crashes, leaves, exits, whatever.

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Hmm.. now I understand. And I got it to work. However, there is no problem if you just place the second snake and then delete it. This only happens if you delete the second snake by clicking on its head during placement. Anyway, I'll enter this bug in the database. Thanks for the explanation.

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Schik
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Here's how I reproduce this one:

Start an empty room.
Put a snake in the upper left corner, going down 3 squares.
Put a snake head immediately to the right of the tail of the other snake. Click on the tail of the other snake, then on the head of the new snake you're putting down.
The tail of the other one will disappear.

For any coders (myself included) wanting to look into this:

in CDbRoom::RemoveLongMonsterPieces()
the line:
if (!bIsSerpent(GetTSquare(wX+dx, wY+dy))) return true;

It should fail here and return, but it's finding the OTHER serpent.



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agaricus5
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It is happening with other things as well.

When I accidentally placed a gate on one of the two circled gates in the picture below, DROD crashed.
[siteimage]Level Editor Bug 1.GIF[/siteimage]
I repeated this with each square of both gates, and the same happened.
I then removed the orbs they were opened by (shown by blue arrows on the picture), and this time DROD didn't crash.
Once I put the orbs back, doing anything to the gates made DROD crash again, even trying to delete them.
I tried to replicate the setup in another room, and it crashed again, but moving the position of the gates seemed to make the problem go away.
What do you think happened?

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mrimer
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In short, it was a bug. In build 21 there shouldn't be any more crashing for doors or orbs or snakes or anything else in the editor room. If there is, let's get it taken care of quick!

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