Custom Character Crash Issues

[selkcir36]

Hi ya'll I used Sevv's custom character tutorial to create a few characters for UT3. My first character works fine but my second character crashes the game whenever a map starts. I can see it just fine in the character selection screen and the mesh loads up fine in UnrealEd, but trying to actually play as the character causes the game to crash.

I feel that the problem might be related to a slightly high polygon count or the fact that the character only exists as one head mesh, since I didn't bother to chop him up.

The thing is, the first character I made also had a high polygon count and was only a head mesh, but it loads up just fine.

What kind of issues would allow a custom character to be perfectly viewable by the character selection screen but crash the game whenever you try to play with it in the game? Thanks!

[geodav]

nearly every character problem doesn't show in the selection screen, in future use a tutorial that the author supports.
to fault find have a look at your launch.log

[selkcir36]

Well, here's my log after the level loads. I'm not 100% sure how to decipher it. The name of the character is 'customCharacter'. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Log: ########### Finished loading level: 3.887165 seconds
ScriptLog: Retrieving Profile Settings for UI PlayerIndex 0
ScriptLog: UTPlayerController::LoadCharacterFromProfile() - Loaded character data from profile.
Log: AUTPlayerController::GetPlayerCustomCharData() - Loaded custom character data from profile (ControllerId: 0).
Log: Changing subtitle setting, new value: 1
ScriptLog: UTPlayerController - Setting netspeed to 10000
Warning: Failed to load 'Class UTGame.UTWeap_ RocketLauncher': Failed to find object 'Class UTGame.UTWeap_ RocketLauncher'
ScriptLog: CustomChar - Load Assets: CHT
Log: Begin Async loading packages for Family 'CHT':
Log: - CH_customCharacter
Log: Flushing async loaders.
Log: Family Asset Package Loaded: CH_customCharacter
Error: Character creation package 'CH_customCharacter' doesn't have ServerSideOnly flag set. Set this using the 'SetPackageFlags' commandlet.
Log: CONSTRUCTIONING: LoadFamilyAsset (CHT) Took: -0.33 secs
ScriptLog: CUSTOMCHAR Start: UTPlayerReplicationInfo_2 selkcir36 V01
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:4 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:7 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:8 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:6 PartID:false
Log: No Textures Found For: BODY Texture: 0
Log: No Textures Found For: BODY Texture: 1
Log: No Textures Found For: BODY Texture: 2
Log: No Textures Found For: BODY Texture: 3
Log: No Textures Found For: BODY Texture: 4
Log: StartCustomCharMerge: 0.098322 ms initializing, 0.195079 ms texture streaming
Warning: UTexture2DComposite: no regions to process
Warning: UTexture2DComposite: no regions to process
Warning: UTexture2DComposite: no regions to process
Warning: UTexture2DComposite: no regions to process
Warning: UTexture2DComposite: no regions to process
Log: Source mesh can only have 1 or 2 sections. (CH_customCharacter.Mesh.customCharacter)
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:4 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:6 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:7 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:8 PartID:false
Log: CUSTOMCHAR: Merge Mesh: 13.83ms Composite Tex: 0.02ms
Critical: appError called:
Critical: Assertion failed: NewMesh->Materials.Num() == 2 [File:.\Src\UTCustomChar.cpp] [Line: 1758]

Stack:
Critical: Windows GetLastError: The operation completed successfully. (0)
Log: === Critical error: ===
Assertion failed: NewMesh->Materials.Num() == 2 [File:.\Src\UTCustomChar.cpp] [Line: 1758]

Stack:

RaiseException() Address = 0x76f542eb (filename not found) [in C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll]
CxxThrowException() Address = 0x75dd8e89 (filename not found) [in C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a 1e18e3b_8.0.50727.1434_none_d08b6002442c891f\MSVCR 80.dll]
Address = 0xba0102 (filename not found) [in C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe]
Address = 0xe875e34c (filename not found)
Address = 0xe875e34c (filename not found)

Exit: Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Exit: Executing UWindowsClient::ShutdownAfterError
Exit: Executing UWindowsClient::ShutdownAfterError
Exit: UALAudioDevice::ShutdownAfterError
Log: Shutting down FaceFX...
Log: FaceFX shutdown.
Exit: Exiting.
Exit: Name subsystem shutting down
Uninitialized: Log file closed, 01/31/09 19:23:29

[geodav]

ok due to the coding of UT3 you can only have 2 materials assigned per character, this means 1 for the head parts and 1 for the body parts

Critical: appError called:
Critical: Assertion failed: NewMesh->Materials.Num() == 2 [File:.\Src\UTCustomChar.cpp] [Line: 1758]

Stack:
Critical: Windows GetLastError: The operation completed successfully. (0)
Log: === Critical error: ===
Assertion failed: NewMesh->Materials.Num() == 2 [File:.\Src\UTCustomChar.cpp] [Line: 1758]

this tells me there's a problem with the material setup

Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:4 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:7 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:8 PartID:false
Log: Cannot find PartID 'false' - Falling back to BasedOnChar.
Log: FindPartSkelMesh: Failed to find Family:CHT Part:6 PartID:false

tells me it can't find some parts, check your character ini file

[selkcir36]

Ahh, problem solved, thanks geodav!

[geodav]

and it was ? , please tell so that others can learn

[selkcir36]

Since I only specified the head mesh, it was crashing when it tried to load in arm, boot, legs, and torso meshes. So I went back and made a single polygon for each of the meshes I didn't have.

I also was using three materials, since I didn't know about the max 2 material thing.