Troubles with bombers.

[Heatseeker]

I have been attempting to implement a few heavy bombers into AB, and have ran into the wall of the game spontaneously ceasing without a error message once they enter the battlefield.

I suspected this was caused by the size of the sprites (quite large), but reducing the size to levels comparable to default aircraft has not fixed the issue.

[Veitikka]

You say that there has not been an error message, so there probably is nothing in the error.log file in the game folder?

[Heatseeker]

There is no error message corresponding to the crashes in error. I might try further decreasing the sprite size and see if that helps.

[Heatseeker]

Further decreasing the sprite size has worked, and the original size of the aircraft in game relative to everything else is preserved via spritescale. To be fair, I haven't exactly rigorously tested this.

The only issue now is that the sprite overlaps the UI in various places when the unit is selected.

[Veitikka]

How large sprites have you been using?

[Heatseeker]

Previously something like 500 x 1500, but now I am using sprites comparable in size to those in the default database.

[Veitikka]

That's pretty huge. One important thing to know about the textures is that they're loaded in the power of two sizes (128*128, 256*256, 512*512 etc.). For example if you have a 500*1500 image it's loaded as 2048*2048. It uses quite a bit of video memory, especially in our game when you can have hundreds of such units on the map.