Unknown variable realnumflames

[Orpheon]

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 2
for object Flamethrower:

Error in code at line 149:
                       for(i = 0; i < realnumflames; i += 1)
                                      ^
at position 37: Unknown variable realnumflames

Version: 2.7.2

No real context data was available, sorry. The code itself gets executed when a pyro extinguishes a teammate, and the variable is supposed to be in the Character namespace. It's not mentioned in the Create event though.

It does not consistently crash though, or at least I have not found out how to cause it to crash.

[Thomas Crouse (tac20131)]

To reproduce:
Start a server and leave host in spectate.
Start 3 other clients and connect to host.
Set client 1 to Infiltrator, set invisible, and move just outside spawn.
Set client 2 to same team Firebug, and move next to Infiltrator.
Set client 3 to other team Firebug, and move next to invisible enemy Infiltrator.
Ignite enemy Infiltrator using client 3 Firebug.
Extinguish Infiltrator using client 2 Firebug before burning is finished.
Host instance will produce the specified error.

[Thomas Crouse (tac20131)]

Guess technically I should have switched the steps for selecting a client 2 and 3 teams...

Why not initialize realnumflames on character create instead of the first draw step?

[Orpheon (alex-liebendorf)]

Ah, that's what's causing it.
Realnumflames probably wasn't intended to be a persistent variable anyways, the extinguishing code should create its own temp variable.

Also this allows any 3 clients to crash servers, not sure how urgent fixing it would be.