Exult Forum

It isn't reading some of the resources properly. Here are a few examples. In BG it tries to load paperdol.vga from BG/static instead of SI (can't tell if there are more because of crashes). In SI, defaultkeys.txt and avatar_data.txt don't load. These are unaltered xml files generated with the current version.

That makes absolutely no sense. The only thing I did with the xml file was to add palette patches. Moreover, it shouldn't even be able to affect the loading of paperdol.vga, which is controlled solely by shape_files.txt.

I will see what is going on, but all problems seem related to using the xml file (they seem to happen only when it is there).

Well, then it is likely that shape_files.txt isn't loading in BG similar to the problems in SI loading flx files with an xml file present. (maybe more files too)

It was a time bomb with the XML resource file that has been waiting to explode for almost seven years (!) now; when Exult got the resource from the XML file, it would return a pointer to a c-string that was deallocated before the end of a function. In Windows, I got simply a segfault; in Linux, I got the problem you describe. This should be fixed in the next snapshot.

Oops! 7 years? Most software expires before then.

I was also stunned to see just how old that bug was and still be undetected; it was there ever since the XML-config support was added to Game::get_resource. Seems that no one ever seriously used the XML config file...

Well, it isn't even show in the site documentation. I found out about it through a bug report. I saw it with the -h command line earlier but never paid attention to it. It seemed to be working fine for BG and SI when I tried it prior to a recent revision (although I never tested it much and Dev games didn't seem to load avatar_data.txt).

If I stop procrastinating, I might actually finish what I'm doing and make the xml more useful. Can support be added for indexes?