Changing to god/ghost mode causes crash?

[ficolas]

When I change from normal mode to god/ghost mode (inside the control.lua), the game crashes, if I do it in game, with the console, it works fine, also, inside the control.lua of the sandboxmode this is used.
The command im using is game.player.setcontroller{type=defines.controllers.ghost}.

[FreeER]

I believe I saw that you can enter ghost mode by simply setting the player.character to nil (save character first) this may not lead to a crash.

[Math3vv]

how do i getout of ghost mode ? (i used the "game.player.character = nil" command)

[ficolas]

how do i getout of ghost mode ? (i used the "game.player.character = nil" command)

did you save game.player.character in some variable?

If so you do game.player.setcontroller{type=defines.controllers.character, character=whatevernameofthevariable}

If you didnt I think you can put the cursor on the player and type game.player.setcontroller{type=defines.controllers.character, character=game.player.selected}

[Math3vv]

how do i getout of ghost mode ? (i used the "game.player.character = nil" command)

did you save game.player.character in some variable?

If so you do game.player.setcontroller{type=defines.controllers.character, character=whatevernameofthevariable}

If you didnt I think you can put the cursor on the player and type game.player.setcontroller{type=defines.controllers.character, character=game.player.selected}

in both cases he says it cant change (or read) the value because its nil

[ficolas]

The crash seems to be only when done on the buildentity event, I can make it be at the tick event.

Maybe this should send a better crash message, or be fixed?

[ficolas]

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		glob.missile=true
		glob.missilecount=0
		glob.character=game.player.character
		game.player.setcontroller{type=defines.controllers.ghost}
		game.player.teleport(glob.character.position) --here is the error
		cap=tostring(math.ceil(game.player.position.x))..", "..tostring(math.ceil(game.player.position.y)).."     "..tostring(math.ceil(glob.character.position.x)).."±100, "..tostring(math.ceil(glob.character.position.y)).."±100"
		game.player.gui.center.add({type="frame", name="menus", caption=cap,direction="vertical",style="missile_menu"})
		game.player.gui.center.menus.add({type="button", name="missile", caption=" ",style="inv_button"})

Now that sends error at the marked line, it says attempt to index field character

[kovarex]

Right, when you do it as part of the onbuilt event or similar, it probably doesn't expect the character to be removed during processing that event, we can try to solve it somehow ...