How to crash a map! From bad ideas to short-sightedness
Okay so I decided that this would be both informative and entertaining to post things you have done that have resulted in a game crash, or even a total system abort where the game doesn't even start. Here are some of mine;
-outputting a floor button to push itself inwards, resulting in an infinite output overload.
-accidentally parenting two objects to each other as being both parents, breaking any notion of hierarchy.
-making cubes spawn where a previous has fizzled, thereby making infinite cubes fizzle and overloading the map.
-creating a scene where a cube is both killed and fizzled simultaneously, confusing the system on what to do.
-flooding a water area with physboxes and overloading both the friction interaction and splash particles.
Parenting a func_tracktrain to itself and almost deleting half your map because you can't figure out what's wrong. (True story)
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Once, I forgot to set "Use Random Time" to 'Yes' on a logic timer. The result was a cube being spawned every 0.1 seconds, continuously, until the game crashed. I've caused infinite cube spawns a few times with droppers as well.
I crashed maps/games by:
- Bad programming.
- In Portal 1, killing a soundscape.
- Just playing Portal 2 for me.
The more you give, the less appreciated it will be received.
Using the "dark" skin on the Chell model. I have no idea what it's for, and I was using it for the Shadows of Time until I realized it was the reason the game kept crashing every few minutes.
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there is seriously a crash command!? Who goes and makes such a thing?!
okay, here's one; Using improper textures/sprites for dynamic entities such as an env_laser with a non-sprite material
having a logic_relay send the cancelpending input to itself.
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I managed to crash VBSP once. Don't use two colons in the "instance:obj;input" instance inputs. It took a while to find that particular error.
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