3D Editor Crash
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Off With Their Heads
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written Friday, July 22 2005 12:18
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My 3D Editor won't open anymore. When I double-click on it, it begins to open, starts showing the editor, and then closes. It pops up an error messages that says, "The application 3D Blades of Avernum Editor has unexpectedly quit." It gives me the option to submit a bug report to Apple, and then it gives this description: I'm running Mac OS 10.3.9. I'm using the latest version of the 3D Editor, and reinstalling doesn't help. Nor does restarting or closing all other applications. I can't recall installing any system software recently, but I may have had some sort of auto-update or something. Any ideas? EDIT: And oddly enough, no version of the 3D Editor will open. They all do the same thing. EDIT 2: What the heck? BoA won't open either. Gah, time to try re-downloading that. EDIT 3: I did download a demo of BoA and install it to check if VoDT had been fixed, which seem related. It was installed in a completely different folder, and I'm not opening that copy, though. [ Friday, July 22, 2005 12:25: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, July 22 2005 15:49
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quote:Sounds like a corrupted resource file, although I could definitely be wrong. Check if the demo of BoA works. Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Friday, July 22 2005 16:15
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It does not work either. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, July 22 2005 16:38
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Any other programs fail? Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Friday, July 22 2005 16:41
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Nope, not that I've noticed. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, July 22 2005 16:50
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Do you have the original editor? If so check if that works. (It shouldn't.) Other than this, I'm pretty much at a loss. If both BoA and the editor don't work the problem is either with the files they share or any calls to Carbon they share. If no other programs (except those relevent to BoA) fail, then the problem should be with the files they share. Can you build the source to the Editor? Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, July 22 2005 22:31
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Kelandon, here is a real dumb question for you... Was the 3d editor working the last time that you used it? If so, try to think what you were doing when you closed the editor. Was the file(s) saved correctly? Please ignore -- thinking out loud..... :P Did told you it was a dumb question....... James -------------------- Sometimes I just don't know anything about everything -- or do I ? Posts: 99 | Registered: Wednesday, August 13 2003 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Friday, July 22 2005 22:50
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The original editor does not work either. I have Xcode, but I have very little idea how to use it. With detailed instructions, I could build the source, but I wouldn't know how to do it myself. The last thing I did with the editor was check the demo's version of VoDT. I chose not to save anything. It was working fine at that point. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, July 22 2005 23:42
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Try to install in a different folder. Maybe a damaged cluster in your HD? Defrag your HD. -------------------- Visit the Blades of Avernum Center and the Beta Testing Center -------------- "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ." Colossians 2:6-9 Posts: 483 | Registered: Tuesday, June 29 2004 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 00:12
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What files do BoA and the editors share, exactly? Given that two separate copies of BoA, in separate directories, both failed to work, it can't be anything in the BoA directory itself. A corrupted preference file seems the next obvious suggestion. Try looking in your preferences folder (Users/apple/Library/Preferences) and moving everything with "Blades of Avernum" in its name into the trash. If everything works again after that, the preferences were causing the problem; delete them. (Note: this will unregister BoA.) [ Saturday, July 23, 2005 00:14: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 11:04
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quote:The editor does not use this file, but it does need the graphics from BoA. According to the crash data, the editor stopped upon entering the function load_sound(), which is incredibly odd, and suggests that OS X, did something wrong. Did BoA or the original editor give data when it crashed? quote:I've never used XCode, but from the tutorials on apple.com it seems pretty easy to use. Here's the Quick Tour Guide: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/XcodeQuickTour/ index.html First you should get a copy of the Mac editor's source. I can email it to you if you can't access it from the CVS server. I'm not sure, but I think the XCode project file is in the editor, so if it is, open it. If not, you'll have to create it. After that you should just have to compile/build it. All of this should be in the first section of the quick tour guide. After you successfully build it once, we can figure out exactly where the editor stopped working. Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 12:17
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Okay, so this is what I did: I downloaded the source from Sourceforge. I looked through and found a .xcode file, and I figured that'd be the place to start building it. I opened it in Xcode, which popped up a promising-looking window. I went to the Build menu and chose "Build." It gave me this: quote:When I try to open the resulting application, I get this message: "You cannot open the application '3D Blades of Avernum Editor' because it may be damaged or incomplete." EDIT: After a conversation with Khoth, I did a find-replace of "UCHAR" for "unsigned char," at which point the build worked. Now what? EDIT 2: It appears that my computer has some sort of serious internal error. Thanks guys, but I don't think we can solve it here. [ Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:49: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 12:56
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That'll teach ya to go messin about with strange new coding techniques. I also think that none of us are supposed to see how badly the BoE/BoA conversion of VoDT actually went. *this message sponsored by the magical waste disposal company - stored in computers too* -------------------- WWtNSD? Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 13:11
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quote:If you ever do find out what the problem is, could you post it? It seems odd that an internal error would only affect BoA/Editor. Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 13:25
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It screws up anything that uses sound resource files, but few things actually do. Khoth suggested I check Escape Velocity, and EV runs, but the sound is completely messed up. So whatever it is, it's messing with sound resources. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, July 23 2005 13:53
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Well there's some good news in that. Since you can build the editor's source code, you should be able to get rid of sound in the editor (I can tell you what to do if you want to) and get that to work. Also, you can manually go into BoA's preference file and turn the sound off (with a Hex Editor) to get BoA working. This might help, in case fixing the bug takes longer than expected. Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Sunday, July 24 2005 13:54
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Okay, Apple has now claimed that sound resources are "third-party software," so they cannot provide any technical support. Additionally, because the operating system CDs that I have are scratched, I apparently have to buy the CDs over again in order to re-install my system software. Other than blowing eighty bucks for a fix that may or may not actually change anything, anyone have any ideas? Like, for instance, who might actually offer technical support on this? The problem is that sound resource files no longer play properly on my computer. SW games crash, and EV's sound is completely jacked up. I listen to sound resources in ResEdit, and they sound staticky and bad. EDIT: Actually, it's all sound in Classic mode. I finally managed (on the third try) to get someone at Apple tech support who knows what he's talking about. This ought to be interesting. [ Sunday, July 24, 2005 14:31: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Sunday, July 24 2005 14:32
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quote:The sound resources aren't corrupt, the part of OS X that loads/plays them is. Fixing this is Apple's responsibility. Perhaps you should explain this to them. If they still refuse to help, I googled OS X Support, and got this site: http://www.macosx.com/ Seems promising. Posts: 264 | Registered: Wednesday, June 16 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Sunday, July 24 2005 16:59
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Okay, WOW. My computer is messed up. After determining that it was all sound in Classic mode, not just snd resources, they decided that they could help me, and I just spent the past four hours talking to five different tech support people who made me do everything from re-installing Classic to running a Disk Repair to screwing with every possible aspect of Quicktime, and it still doesn't work. They're sending me to the higher-ups in the Apple tech support world, the people who don't normally even speak to customers. My SW game-playing may be somewhat reduced for some time until they can figure this out. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Tuesday, July 26 2005 20:55
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God only knows why, but this fixed my problem. Everything works fine now. :confused: -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, July 27 2005 01:44
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quote:Yeah, I thought the same thing when I first tried it. It was in a couple of obscure posts on the Classic tech support forums at Apple. The method might seem silly, but it also seems to work. Perhaps the tech support guys at Apple should read the forums more often. :P Isn't life wonderfully ironic? [ Wednesday, July 27, 2005 01:45: Message edited by: Slp006 ] -------------------- Wu wei... it's the only way Posts: 154 | Registered: Monday, June 20 2005 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Wednesday, July 27 2005 04:08
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It could make sense - maybe GarageBand initializes sounds and cleared out the badness? -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy Encyclopedia Ermariana - Trapped in the Closet ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Wednesday, July 27 2005 17:39
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I just wish I had GarageBand. :( -------------------- My ego is bigger than yours. Posts: 480 | Registered: Thursday, October 11 2001 07:00 |