Ghost objects

[gc8 977]

Hi

There seems to be a bug in arma that when you deleteVehicle a unit the man is still left on the map but only that it becomes invisible.  Now there's warning about this in here: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/deleteVehicle

But I'm using deleteVehicleCrew where ever needed and I still get these ghost objects on my map.

Anyone else had this problem?

 

thx

[gc8 977]

@Dedmen , others, What do the devs think about this, shouldn't it be fixed in the engine? 

[killzone_kid 1330]

Try after 2.02 if still happening make a ticket with repro here: https://feedback.bistudio.com/project/view/1/

 

[gc8 977]

@killzone_kid ok thx. when is 2.02 out? I fear that making repro is difficult because I have so big project it's hard to say what exactly causes the ghosts. But I will try if necessary 

[killzone_kid 1330]

You have to understand, if we cannot reproduce a bug we cannot fix it, sorry but this is how it is.

[gc8 977]

25 minutes ago, killzone_kid said:

You have to understand, if we cannot reproduce a bug we cannot fix it, sorry but this is how it is.

 

Yes I understand that. I was just hoping someone could repro it if i can't

[gc8 977]

Devs. I was finally able to find the source of the problem. The problem appears to be radioChannelAdd, when that command is run on man and the man is deleted afterwards, it leaves a "ghost" object hanging around.

 

Here's a full script to replicate the problem:

 

(If you put testDude in console it's name will change upon deletion from: "B Alpha 1-3:1"  to:  "23c4ea2d600# 14: b_soldier_03.p3d" (Which means the object isn't deleted)

 

addManToRadioChannel =
{
 params ["_man"];
 if(isnull _man) exitWith {};

 if(!(_man getVariable ["channelReg",false])) then
 {
   systemchat format ["Adding to radio %1 %2", _man, supportChannel];
  _man setVariable ["channelReg",true];
  supportChannel radioChannelAdd [_man]; // The bug causing line
 };
};

supportChannel = radioChannelCreate [[180/ 255,216/ 255,238/ 255,1], "SUPPORT", "%UNIT_GRP_NAME", [], false];

sleep 0.1;

_group = createGroup [west,false];

testDude = _group createUnit ["B_crew_F", getpos player, [], 0, "NONE"];

testDude call addManToRadioChannel;

sleep 2.0;

deletevehicle testDude; // The ghosting start line

 

Sure took long time to figure this one out, hopefully it will be fixed soon 🙂

 

 

Edit: Will make a ticket later if you guys dont...

 

Edit 2: Using radioChannelRemove on the man prior to deleting seems to fix this bug

 

[pierremgi 4857]

If I follow your test (with your code for radio channel) on edited crew + vehicles, there is no ghost. So, something about the way units are created (createUnit)? Need more tests.

[gc8 977]

16 minutes ago, pierremgi said:

If I follow your test (with your code for radio channel) on edited crew + vehicles, there is no ghost. So, something about the way units are created (createUnit)? Need more tests.

 

I only tested with createUnit and empty mission (VR)

[gc8 977]

This seems to be still broken in 2.02

[killzone_kid 1330]

On 2/20/2021 at 1:51 PM, gc8 said:

Will make a ticket later if you guys dont...

Thank you for the repro, no need for the FT ticket, I gotcha! 

[killzone_kid 1330]

Should be fixed since rev.147434