user mods DCS CTD or mission corruption when attempting to edit Other Options or Datalink tab of F/A-18C

[r_vandenbroek]

On an existing mission, when opening the other options tab for the Hornet (for Datalink number, name) my DCS CTD. The log has this error:

Error
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Line 363
CoreMods\aircraft\FA-18C\Datalinks\Link16.lua

In another attempt, my miz simply corrupted, unopenable after an attempted Save (which I think froze).

Weirdly, on some attempts, I can actually access it but can find no other donors on the datalink tab.

 

dcs.log.old Caucasus_template3.17.miz

Edited January 9 by r_vandenbroek

[f-18hornet]

Hi @r_vandenbroek, please disable all your mods and try again if you get a crash to desktop.

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[r_vandenbroek]

@f-18hornet

Done, same. Here are some strange things:

When clicking a hornet group for howler 3 and raven 4, the -1 cant find any donor, the rest only 1. When importing 2 stms (2 x 4 hornets), it all goes wrong, with another CTD.

After loading those, my miz saved I think and is again corrupted.

Caucasus_template3.17_error.miz

2025-01-09 09:35:06.688 ALERT   LUACOMMON (Main): Error: GUI Error: [string "CoreMods\aircraft\FA-18C\Datalinks\Link16.lua"]:363: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:
	[C]: ?
	[string "CoreMods\aircraft\FA-18C\Datalinks\Link16.lua"]:363: in function 'init'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_datalinks.lua"]:278: in function 'applyDescriptor'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_datalinks.lua"]:237: in function 'update'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_datalinks.lua"]:103: in function 'setData'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:1996: in function 'fixDatalink'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:2515: in function 'load'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:606: in function 'func'
	[string "./Scripts/UI/ProgressBarDialog.lua"]:154: in function 'updater'
	[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:64: in function <[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:40>
	[C]: in function 'WidgetSetVisible'
	[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:69: in function 'setVisible'
	[string "./dxgui/bind/MsgWindow.lua"]:153: in function 'show'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:839: in function 'saveModifiedMission'
	[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:868: in function 'onChange'
	[string "./dxgui/bind/ToggleButton.lua"]:20: in function 'callback'
	[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:375: in function <[string "./dxgui/bind/Widget.lua"]:370>

 

Edited January 9 by r_vandenbroek

[f-18hornet]

Could you also please try a full repair?

[Bingo911]

I've experienced mission corruption since the last patch where editing and then launching to test erases all trigger zones. I haven't narrowed it down to the F-18C but I wondered if it might somehow be related. I found nothing in the logs either. If it happens again, I'll upload the log. Full repair done. It's random when it does this.

Edited January 28 by Bingo911