0005256: Lose ability to frob if trying to read a readable with invalid xdata

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005256	The Dark Mod	Script/Def	public	14.05.2020 10:09	31.07.2020 15:59

Reporter	Dragofer	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	TDM 2.07

Summary	0005256: Lose ability to frob if trying to read a readable with invalid xdata
Description	If a readable doesn't have valid xdata, frobbing the readable makes the player lose his ability to frob anything, so the map becomes unplayable. This hits a lot of beta testers, and sometimes this bug makes it into released FMs. It’d be much better if simply nothing happened when trying to frob such a readable, with a console warning.
Steps To Reproduce	1) In a map in DR, right-click to “Create entity”. 2) Open the Readables folder and select & create one of the readables in there. 3) By default this readable has no valid xdata_contents. Start TDM and load the map. 4) Frob the readable. You lose the ability to frob and have to restart or revert to an earlier save.
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Dragofer 31.07.2020 15:54 developer ~0012703	I think an acceptable workaround would be to define default xdata in the readables' entity classes, this should cut down on the majority of cases of this gamebreaking bug. Assuming that doesn't interfere too much with the ability to create new xdata definitions if there's already one loaded. A little bit better of course would be a coding-based fix that stops permanently removing the player's ability to frob if he tries to read a readable with invalid xdata.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
14.05.2020 10:09	Dragofer	New Issue
31.07.2020 15:54	Dragofer	Note Added: 0012703
31.07.2020 15:56	Dragofer	Summary	Frobbing readable with invalid xdata_contents breaks the game => Lose ability to frob if trying to read a readable with invalid xdata
31.07.2020 15:56	Dragofer	Description Updated
31.07.2020 15:56	Dragofer	Description Updated
31.07.2020 15:59	Dragofer	Description Updated