Gui fails after game reloads

Neverwinter Nights 2
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I’ve been chasing a problem for a while with charlie’s item modifier.
When I tried it in a test area it always worked fine, but then when playing through my .mod the gui always failed to appear.
It’s been driving me crazy, but I just realized (and confirmed with some testing) that when you start a new game it works fine, but if I save, exit, and reload it fails every time.

Any one have an idea what might cause that, or where to start looking for the problem?

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The launch script is triggered by a button in ‘playerpopup_menu.xml’ – i wouldn’t expect a problem there. But it should fire ‘gui_vn_mda_launch’

mine looks like this->

#include "vn_mda_gui"

//
void main()
{
    object oPlayerPc = OBJECT_SELF;
    SendMessageToPC(GetFirstPC(FALSE), "\ngui_vn_mda_launch - " + GetName(oPlayerPc));

    DisplayGuiScreen(oPlayerPc, "SCREEN_VN_ITEM_APPEARANCE_CHANGER", TRUE, "vn_item_appearance_changer.xml");

    object oControlled = GetControlledCharacter(oPlayerPc);
    SendMessageToPC(GetFirstPC(FALSE), ". oControlled= " + GetName(oControlled));

    mda_SetupAppearanceChanger(oControlled);
}

Try inserting some debug messages (into yours) and recompiling … first, see if the script even fires, then tinker

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thanks kevL, that script is for the appearance changer (which is working fine), my problem is with the item modifier.
I checked a different test .mod that has it installed and it worked fine on reload, so it’s something in my mod. I haven’t changed any of the scripts.
Why does it happen only on module reload and not in a fresh game? I checked module properties, could it be OnModuleLoad script? OnClientEnter? OnModuleStart? OnPcLoaded?
It all goes smoothly until “launching GUI”. then nothing happens

hmm… I set all module properties scripts to default and got rid of the rest but the problem persists. there goes that theory…

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unfortunately i don’t have the ItemModifier installed… but glancing at ‘gui_vn_mdp_moditem’ …

at the bottom it chats “Starting Item Modification GUI” ok

I’d start debugging by commenting out the entire body of that launch script, and simply issuing one command there: display a stock gui screen

  • if a minimal launch-script that simply shows a regular gui works okay, then i’d guess the problem is in the ItemModifier’s code (ie, initialization in that script), or rather in how it relates to your module
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You are right, I commented out the whole script and added a call for the player roster. It worked every time.
now I know where to look for the problem.
Thanks!

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:smoking: :coffee:

 
:+1:

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(SOLVED)
I wasn’t making any headway working on that script so I took another approach. I put the item modification files in my override folder and everything worked as it should. I then removed them one at a time while checking for functionality. I narrowed it down to vn_item_properties.xml.
I copied it from my .mod folder and placed it in my campaign folder and now everything works fine?
Oh well, I won’t argue with results.

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perhaps the entire ItemModifier should go in Campaign (ie. keep things together) … or a subfolder of Campaign/ could work too (not sure)