Hi, I've made a campaign mission. It is almost playable and debugged. At least there are no errors in the LUA console, an everything works and triggers fine. But there are strange bugs which I can't figure out how to handle. And I don't even understand their nature. I guess that quite big LUA script somehow cripples internal state of the engine and it leads to weird ingame behaviour.

Examples of weirdness are:
- Dummies spawned in tower are trying to get to the dummy controllers insted of brainhunting as set in the script.
- Dummies spawned form dropships are trying to kill their own dropships.
- Heavy brain robot suddenly explodes causing defeat, like if bullets fired inside the tower could hit the brain in the coalition mini bunker.

Any ideas why this can happen? Maybe too much LUA or bad scene (derived from "flatzone large")?. Any help would be appreiated.

Lua.

Good lord, this is like a disease out of control.

I would say large scene.

And no, lua does not corrupt the internal engine.

Hit Ctrl + P and tell us how many MOIDs it displays when ♥♥♥♥ starts getting weird.

Negative points if it's over 255.

Yeah, I've got 240 of them from the begining, and about 265 when glitches come out. Any ways to decrease them on start? Maybe rebuid scene using less materials? Ofcourse I'll add limit checking code on all LUA spawns.

Is what TLB uses for his vanilla areas.

I think you're missing some of that snippet..

I left the part out so he could add it to his existing if statements.

for actor in MovableMan.Actors do
if MovableMan:GetMOIDCount() >= 250 then
actor:GibThis();
end
end

This is the only efficient way to solve your problem and will work without any problems 100% of the time. I suggest all mod makers put this into mods. And scenes.

And if the gibs are greater than the attachables?

EDIT:
Oh, I would recomend killing the last actor instead, by writing it to a table, and deleting the last entries.

Gibs don't count in the MOID limit.

I've cut about 1K of pixels from the map, and removed all unnecessary blocks, dummies and weapons. Now I have about 160 MOIDs from start. Hope it will be enough to avoid glitches without killing poor helpless dummies. Thanks a lot.

160 should be good. Just for future reference, all of the following count as 1 MOID:

Actors
ADoors
AHumans
ACrabs
ACRockets
ACDropships
Arms
Legs
Heads
Attachables
HDFirearms
HeldDevices

For instance, a Coalition Heavy Soldier equipped with a Heavy Sniper Rifle would have:

2 legs
2 arms
1 head
1 helmet
1 torso/actor
1 chest plate
1 weapon
__________
9 MOIDs.

A dummy turret has 11, so avoid those. Long doors have 2 (door and motor) and tunnel doors have 2 doors, so they have 4 MOIDs. All of this adds up. Be sure to add actors very carefully.

Great reference. Now I doubt where I can put all this info in Wiki. To the Modding\Scenes or to the LUA sections?

It's a general knowledge piece of information that applies to ALL modding, so it shouldn't go into a lua section.