Posts made by Complex

I had an idea for a mod that makes players anonymous to each other by randomizing their colors and names. I was able to randomly select a color without too much difficulty (although I am unsure if the colors are the same between players), but changing the names of players has been difficult.

I found a setting that hides player's names already built into FAF called options.options_show_player_names. I used a mod to force it to 'off', but this breaks the chat. This seems to affect only PostprocessArmiesTable in /lua/ui/override/ArmiesTable.lua and PostprocessClients in /lua/ui/override/SessionClients.lua. However, when a chat message is sent, the engine has the sender as your original name, which causes GetArmyData in /lua/ui/game/chat.lua to be unable to find the correct army data and the chat message is ignored.

The ideal time to change the names of all the players would be just as the lobby is launched, but I am not sure that mods are loaded at this point. Alternately, if I can find a way to add some extra information to the army tables that can tie each player's original name back to them, that could also work.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get this to work, please let me know.

@amygdala That is very interesting because I had disabled all notifications. Unchecking the box for the "After game review" notification in the notification settings in FAF did resolve this issue though.

Thank you for your help.

When I return to the FAF client after quitting the game, I am given this error message:

The game itself runs without any issues, and this error is just a minor annoyance, but I don't know what causes it.

The relevant part of the log file is this:

2024-01-02T21:30:24.425-08:00 DEBUG 12580 --- [FAF Client] [JJsonPeer] c.f.c.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterCallbacks   : ICE adapter connection state changed to: Disconnected
2024-01-02T21:30:24.815-08:00  INFO 12580 --- [FAF Client] [ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-9] com.faforever.client.game.GameRunner     : Forged Alliance terminated with exit code 0
2024-01-02T21:30:24.822-08:00  INFO 12580 --- [FAF Client] [ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-9] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl   : Ignoring call to ICE adapter as we are not connected: quit([])
2024-01-02T21:30:24.823-08:00 ERROR 12580 --- [FAF Client] [JavaFX Application Thread] com.faforever.client.game.GameRunner     : Game could not be hosted

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "com.faforever.client.domain.GameBean.getTitle()" because "game" is null
	at com.faforever.client.game.GameRunner.askForGameRate(GameRunner.java:425)
	at com.faforever.client.game.GameRunner.handleTermination(GameRunner.java:417)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniAccept.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:718)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postComplete(CompletableFuture.java:510)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.postFire(CompletableFuture.java:614)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniHandle.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:914)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$Completion.exec(CompletableFuture.java:483)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:387)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.topLevelExec(ForkJoinPool.java:1312)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.scan(ForkJoinPool.java:1843)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1808)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:188)

2024-01-02T21:30:25.227-08:00  INFO 12580 --- [FAF Client] [ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-9] c.f.client.fa.relay.ice.IceAdapterImpl   : ICE adapter terminated normally

I can post my entire log file if it is needed. This happens if I quit from the lobby, quit from the game, or the game completes normally. The error message is the same every time.

From my limited understanding of the FAF client's code, this looks like a race condition between threads to me. But I could easily be mistaken.