Hours of pain

matarua

Here's something I have learned in the last 24 hours.

Trying to debug something - and the culprit was rules within a rule.

I had a rule that met condition A

Then inside that rule three more rules, lets call them conditions 1, 2 and 3.

So if A fires and 1 fires it should do A1.

So if A fires and 2 fires it should do A2.

So if A fires and 3 fires it should do A3.

Well it would only do A3 even if the conditions were A1.

I just now extracted the nested rules out and put the A1, A2, A3 rule as conditions and it solved it.

I had protection in there and everything and it was just mental - drove me mental.

Logic not following the logic. Scoured it and tested it so much it came down to it firing the last rule in the list.

So I think it skips things so quick inside the nesting rule it can do things out of sync.

Best not to nest rules by the looks.

Any thoughts?

VolontaArts

nice work solving that.. i would have never lol

matarua

When I am stuck - at night - and it's late - the morning session usually solves it - not today! But got it sorted

gyroscope

@matarua Also glad you sorted it. :-) But I wouldn't throw nesting Rules out of the window, that's an integral part of programming when required, in lots of other situations....

matarua

@gyroscope yep - I will just be very aware of it in the future - to be honest I used a bug my tester (partner;) found to make my game perform a certain way - which meant spawning an actor on top of itself and I was using an attribute to control the spawning but that was getting grief with jumping up multiple attribute values based on 2 of 3 rule sets but not the first. The game is also mental - it's a new one I am doing as a bit of a sidetrack from my monster game. So all going well I will have this one out soon While my current game sits at two years development this will be two weeks. Here's hoping!

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Just use a .03 timer this will give you a code cycle scan.

matarua

@FryingBaconStudios tried that - I think there was just too much going on to be honest.