Umm, This could be very stupid but aren't objects that are -1 supose to
be NOTHING... I belive thats what NOTHING is defined as. This could
possible be your problem. In which case is probably a corpse of a
creature. And if corpses do not apply just add a check as noted by the
previous poster (see below)
Jourge
Will Andrews wrote:
>
> At 08:36 PM 2/5/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi everybody!
> >
> >for (j = object_list; j; j = next_thing) {
> > next_thing = j->next; /* this is close
>
> I have a suggestion, if the item_number becomes negative, tell the for loop
> to skip to the next one like so:
>
> for (j = object_list; j; j = next_thing) {
> next_thing = j->next;
> // or whatever item_number is known as:
> // also, you may not want an item_number of 0.
> if (next_thing.item_number <= 0) {
> continue;
> }
> other checks here?
> whatever..
> .
> .
> }
>
> >object suddenly has gotten a negative item_number. Anybody knows how
> >this is possible and why it can happen?
>
> Another possibility is that your object listing is corrupted.. or that you
> have your *.obj files loading in the wrong order (they *must* be loaded
> according to number, as do other databases!).
>
> Toodles.
>
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