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Bugs item #1754256, was opened at 2007-07-15 19:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdempsey You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=384719&aid=1754256&group_id=25576 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Other Group: To be fixed For 5.14 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Martijn Verburg (karianna) Assigned to: Aaron Divinsky (boomer70) Summary: NPC Generator not always generating Initial Comment: >From boards: ------------------------------------------ Well, my saga continues with the NPC Generator. I have one laptop (previously described) where it just seems to be random (literally :( as to whether it will work or not. I have tried all manner of JREs, 1.5.0_10 up 1.6.0_2 (including all version in between). My conclusion is that its an environmental issue on the machine. I tried it on two other machines (another laptop and and desktop box, both Windows XP SP2) and it works...to a point...I get the alignment, race and class as expected (YAY!!) but stats are another issue. The best I can pin down so far is if its a core class type (fighter, cleric, etc.) then I get stats always, but if its something else (animal, elemental, undead, etc.) then I seem to never get stats. That goes for all machines I have tried it on so far. So I guess I will not be using my original laptop for PCGen, at least until I can figure out what is going on with the JRE (or whatever the problem might be). ------------------------------------------ When I briefly looked into it for the user, one of the stack traces suggeted that the last class level added to the NPC could not be determined when refresing the summary screen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: James Dempsey (jdempsey) Date: 2008-03-21 08:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=558288 Originator: NO Suggested approach is to generate a few NPCs while keeping an eye on the console. Any time the generation fails, check the console for a stack trace and fix that issue. If the generation is hanging, try running it in the debugger from your IDE - when it hangs break and see what code is being executed. Often times these will be loops where the exit criteria are not sufficient such as selecting an item when there are no possibilities. The bug is ready to close when you can run NPC generation fairly reliably (say 10-20 runs with no crashes). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martijn Verburg (karianna) Date: 2008-02-12 01:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=252169 Originator: YES Aaron, any luck with this? - K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martijn Verburg (karianna) Date: 2007-07-22 21:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=252169 Originator: YES Aaron, could you take a look at that? It _may_ have something to do with the 5.10 config being used, but would be good to check. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marcin Trybus (Llewelyn_MT) (llewelyn_mt) Date: 2007-07-22 04:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1682535 Originator: NO I don't know if this is your case, but I noted that NCP generator always fails for me if I choose the attribute generation method _other_ than the first two. What I get is basicly a character with six 10s as attributes -> useless. I run PCGen 5.12 (using config from 5.10 in ~/.pcgen/) on Debian Etch using SUN JRE 1.6.0_01. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martijn Verburg (karianna) Date: 2007-07-17 23:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=252169 Originator: YES Unfortunately we still can't reproduce this (after literally hundreds of runs). I can only recommend trying a fresh install of pcgen (making sure the location of all of the config files are somewhere brand new as well) - K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=384719&aid=1754256&group_id=25576 |