Ladder level transition problem

[Equil]

Me and my friend who are both building a custom story have run into a problem with a ladder level transition. I've scripted an area within the ladder area path that changes the map to the next one, which works fine, however it crashes during the load screen. I then experimented by placing the area on just a normal flat Plane, and it works fine.

So is there some kind of bug with ladders and level changing? This is what I thought and looked through the sewer map and script where you climb up that ladder which leads to the torture nave level, I didn't see anything fancy or different to what we've done.

We're quite stumped on this one, any help appreciated.

EDIT: I fixed it, I ran Amnesia as Administrator(I'm using Windows 7) by right clicking the .exe file, and no more crashing. Very odd. Not something I would have suspected. Anyone using Windows 7 should run Amnesia as administrator to avoid crashing I guess. :S

RE EDIT: Oops.. shouldn't have put the solved tag up that early. I managed to get it to work once, now it's crashing again. Very strange problem.

[Frontcannon]

The game actually crashes, with an error message?

If it loads the level, that means there is nothing wrong with the script. I have a similar transition to (magic room 1 to 2) where the player falls from a ladder, which works fine.

[Equil]

Yes, it crashes ONLY if you're on the ladder while the level changes, it works completely flawlessly however if you collide with the area anywhere while not on the ladder.

[Frontcannon]

Seems to be a glitch in the engine, better tell Frictional!

[nofsky]

The sewers has a level change while you're on a ladder... maybe have a look at that?

[Equil]

The sewers has a level change while you're on a ladder... maybe have a look at that?

I did look at the sewer map.. I can't find anything different to ours.

dev script:

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void CollideExitMap(string &in asParent, string &in asChild, int alState)
{
    ChangeMap("21_torture_nave.map", "PlayerStartArea_1", "20_exit", "");
}

Our script:

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void ChangeLevel(string &in asParent, string &in asChild, int alState)
{

ChangeMap("02_sewer.map", "PlayerStartArea_1", "", "");

}

There doesn't seem to be any functions within the script relating to the ladder area either.. it's very odd.

[Vradcly]

Maybe you could go around the problem by making the player hit the bottom/top of the ladder in complete darkness and just as the player goes off the ladder you could make it go to the next level .

The one playing the game will never know that he/she actually went off the ladder...

[Vradcly]

Lol, I had this problem today when I was working on my story, game crashed everytime when I was trying to load a map from a ladder (used an area collide), so I searched the forum and found this. My suggestion worked, only problem is if the player has lantern on when he/she reaches to the top of the ladder, but I built a small corridor above so it looks good anyway .