Zombie Object! when using .removeParent()

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I have a code which uses .removeObject() and when ever I ‘ESC’ out of game engine blender freezes. When i comment out that line then it doesnt freeze.
I’m using blender 2.59

Any help?

Thanks, Bearmey

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What’s the Script?

Uhm, wait, you DO mean removeParent(), right? Because in the Text you wrote removeObject(), which I think does not even exist.

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yes removeParent(); srry totally didn’t see that.

Thanks, Bearmey

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I can’t help you with that, but i have similar Problems with setParent(). Also in 2.59… I think there could be a bug.
But i cant recreate the error, because my KX_GameObjects are been overgiven to custom classes, so i’m not shure, the the error comes from there, that BGE dont like my classes… anyway: How to make shure, it is a valid Object? If i print out dir(Object), everything is there, all functions and also setParent(), thats why i think, it really could be a Problem of 2.59… Any Ideas ?

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We could test it using blender 2.58 and 2.57, then recreate the problem by making a scene where an object gets parented to a moving object then unparented. Lastly if u “ESC” from GE then u should have an error in the console(or terminal on mac) and blender will freeze.

btw do u have a mac w/ lion(many resent problems have to do with a change in lion

Thanks, Bearmey

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no, i’m forced to work with Windows XP at the moment, because my PC is broken. I switched to Ubuntu a while ago.
In my case, blender even crashs…Yes we could try on older Versions, i’ll do that, when some time is left…

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the older version doesn’t help

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Yeah, try posting the script. The Zombie Object! message happens when you have a Debug Property displaying from an object that gets removed.

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Ya, I knew that but i don’t have anything like that and it’s still happening(I’ve also disabled the ‘show debug properties’) nothing helps.

Thanks, Bearmey

as for the code: I don’t want to post it if at all possible; it happens when setting and removing parents in python alone.

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K, even more odd(the game just ran twice without problems but at the third time it crashed; I made no change)