engie crashing the map

Your control points may not be set up properly.

I had this problem, too, because two of my control points had the same index

Other than that check for leaks.

I've never done a cp map, so I don't know if you can try this...but if you can, vis groups the team control point entities and recompile and run it. If you can build and destroy without it crashing the servers then, you'll at least know it's something to do with those.

Also, I'd try to sit there with the console open and have someone else destroy the thing...just to see if i could catch an error message when it crashed.

the only time I've had probs with displacements is when I try and make them a func_detail

ikem i had the exact same problem.
i'm guessing you're problem is cos when the building dies it emits pieces of itself - which are moving collision-enabled objects.

all i can suggest is deleting the displacements in question and making them again (doesn't have to be all displacements, just the ones on the map that cause the crash to occur).

no idea why it happens. my theory is that for some reason one of the points on the displacement is getting set to an invalid value (e.g. infinity) for collision, but not for visibility.

you'd probably get the same effect if you tried to shoot over/at/above the displacement with a demoman's grenades (sticky or normal)

Let us know if that fixes it...

What power are the displacements? I think (don't quote me) that the higher the power of the displacement, the more your resources are used to handle physics collision. This would explain why your game crashes when the sentry gun explodes--it can't handle it.

I would suggest a few tests:

play demoman and shoot some pipe bombs and stickies on the displacement surfaces. If the game crashes in the same way, reduce the power on your displacements. You shouldn't have to have anything above power 4, even though it does look better.

If you simply can't reduce the power, make sure there is nodraw behind the displacement and then select your displacement and check the 'no physics collision' on the face edit options on the displacements tab. This probably is not the best solution, since now the displacement is non-solid to a player, but it should work.

Otherwise, you're having a problem completely unrelated to what I think is happening in your map. Good luck!

EDIT: Can you say exactly what kind of crash you're having? What does hl2.exe tell you when it crashes, or does it at all? That might help determine the problem.

ikem said:

ok this is what i did...

re-did all the displacements...
added nodraws under all the displacements...
changed them to a lower power
and took out more detailed displacements...

and so far it does not crash. lol

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Good! Right?