Gmap NPCs/Images Disappearing

[Rufus]

When I first log on to Bomy Island, all of the NPCs and images that are in levels on any gmap are gone. This is fixed when I restart the NPC Server or update the gmap in question, but this happens nearly every single day and has done for a while. I have no idea how to fix it. Has anyone experienced this before or know what's causing it?

[Crow]

Problems with the gmap, most likely. When I had it once, I renamed the gmap file and all of the levels, edited the entry in the server options and it worked. I have no idea what exactly is causing it, gmaps can act extremely strange.

[Angel_Light]

sounds like an actual script error in the .gmap file, such as too many levels when the dimensions aren't set right. I had that happen a few times when I custom wrote gmaps files.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Crow

Problems with the gmap, most likely. When I had it once, I renamed the gmap file and all of the levels, edited the entry in the server options and it worked. I have no idea what exactly is causing it, gmaps can act extremely strange.

Originally Posted by Angel_Light

sounds like an actual script error in the .gmap file, such as too many levels when the dimensions aren't set right. I had that happen a few times when I custom wrote gmaps files.

When things disappear, they go on every gmap we have.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Rufus

When I first log on to Bomy Island, all of the NPCs and images that are in levels on any gmap are gone. This is fixed when I restart the NPC Server or update the gmap in question, but this happens nearly every single day and has done for a while. I have no idea how to fix it. Has anyone experienced this before or know what's causing it?

This happened on awhile ago on N-Pulse, and on the their Debug server. Recreating the .gmap file, saving it as a new name, remove the minimap text file, removed bigmap=bigmapname.txt in server ops, and restarting the server fixed it. I was also told by PWA, it's highly recommended to not update the gmap itself because it will create more problems.

[tempandrew]

Originally Posted by Rufus

When I first log on to Bomy Island, all of the NPCs and images that are in levels on any gmap are gone. This is fixed when I restart the NPC Server or update the gmap in question, but this happens nearly every single day and has done for a while. I have no idea how to fix it. Has anyone experienced this before or know what's causing it?

GMaps are tricky business, and have been increasingly so in the last view versions of Graal. Deleting the .GMAP file and creating it again has always been useful for my personal difficulties with GMAPs. If the npcs that are disappearing have any x,y setting scripts, it might be safer to use %64 at the end of the lines that do this.

Ex:

this.x = this.x+random(0,0.5)%64;

[coreys]

Originally Posted by tempandrew

GMaps are tricky business, and have been increasingly so in the last view versions of Graal. Deleting the .GMAP file and creating it again has always been useful for my personal difficulties with GMAPs. If the npcs that are disappearing have any x,y setting scripts, it might be safer to use %64 at the end of the lines that do this.

Ex:

I'm sure it has nothing to do with that, since it's a problem on his client, rather than an NPC glitch.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by coreys

since it's a problem on his client

Don't think so.