Everyone blows up in spawn

[Catalavos]

This has happened to me a couple of times so far. It only happens after I add a bunch of static meshes and then run the PIE. Everyone blows up except me and the FPS drops from 45-50 fps to 5 fps. I've tried to fix it by re-building everything and/or closing the editor and re-starting it. Generally this fixes the problem but I always come back to a lower frame rate. I thought it might be memory related and have shrunken the LightmassImportanceVolume but I still get lower frame rates than I get on a full 64-person server. I've followed Yoshiro's recommendations on performance settings for the terrain but haven't messed with LOD's for my static meshes.

Just to give more detail, I only have about 300 objects (static meshes, destructables and 1 dominant directional light) in the map right now and terrain measures 64 x 64 x 256

[Drecks]

Most likely you spawn area doesn't have any paths.
Guess you added that spawn area but forget to add another pylon.

Learned that the hard way.

[OldRavenNL]

I had this when I spawned as a tank commander.
My tank blew up when I spawned.

But I had no spawn protection and spawned right next to an enemy spawn

[Catalavos]

Originally Posted by Drecks

Most likely you spawn area doesn't have any paths.
Guess you added that spawn area but forget to add another pylon.

Learned that the hard way.

Hmmm...odd. I have pylons all over but maybe one of them got moved a bit and is now a "bad pylon". I'll check it out after I download the new Beta update.

[Xendance]

Originally Posted by Catalavos

Hmmm...odd. I have pylons all over but maybe one of them got moved a bit and is now a "bad pylon". I'll check it out after I download the new Beta update.

But have you checked the actual paths? Press P to view them.

[Catalavos]

Here's a couple of shots of the pylons as they relate to my spawns. What do you think? The first shot (in the field) is the German spawn and the one in the middle of the houses is the Soviet spawn. I've had the blowing-up problems in both spots.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4174/pylons1.png

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5633/pylons3.png

[11_HARLEY_11]

Cat check your spawn volume is not floating above the playerstart thingys.
Occasionally mine have moved and are not encompassing the playerstarts - the bots all die at spawn and frame rate turns to hell.

[[TW]Swag]

You can use Stat Engine, Stat Memory, Stat Units to get an idea what is chewing up the cycles. Just look for things with unusual amounts of time. 10ms is high in things outside of script, game and render counters. There are probably other +10ms cycles but you can sorta baseline off of a similar sized stock map.

As to the destructible BOTs, make sure you have at least one cover node in the objective volume. Normally when there is a cult like suicide, as you describe, it's because the AI entities cannot path to the objective or cannot find any cover in the objective space.

[Catalavos]

Originally Posted by 11_HARLEY_11

Cat check your spawn volume is not floating above the playerstart thingys.
Occasionally mine have moved and are not encompassing the playerstarts - the bots all die at spawn and frame rate turns to hell.

It turned out that when I was placing static meshes I moved the terrain just enough to mess up a couple of the pylons, including pylons over both the Allied and Axis spawns. I re-adjusted the terrain and moved the pylons a bit then re-built the whole mess. Everything works fine now and my frame rate is back up in the 40's. I'm going to folow TWSwag's suggestions as well to track down some performance issues as well.

[-=}WoLvErInE{=-]

2 things you should always have "locked" when mapping. Terrain and skybox. That way you don't accidentally move either one when working in editor.

properties -----> Advance -----> Lock Location (check it)

[Catalavos]

Originally Posted by -=}WoLvErInE{=-

2 things you should always have "locked" when mapping. Terrain and skybox. That way you don't accidentally move either one when working in editor.

properties -----> Advance -----> Lock Location (check it)

I knew there had to be a way to do that. Thanks, Wolverine.

[Spaehling]

hello guys,

i still got the same problem. everbody blows up. i set a cover's and rebuild all.

maybe someone could see something on the screenshot.

Screenshot

edit: Hansstar helped me, and set new covers, new spawnactors and new brushes. and than it worked.
needs the cover node to be a brush or min. size?

[Drecks]

Originally Posted by Spaehling

needs the cover node to be a brush or min. size?

What do you mean here ?