Cutscenes x skipselect (cannot load players)

[dbaldan]

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Description

When you use a cutscene in levels.txt and are playing with 2 players at the same time, the crash does not happen. But if you are playing with just player 2, as soon as the level ends, OpenBOR returns an error that cannot find the player.

This is the initial setup - the error happens where the red line is (between the first and second levels)

Debugging

Reproduce

1. edit your levels.txt and add a cutscene before the select screen
2. play as the player 2 WITHOUT the player 1.
3. once you beat the stage, the game crashes with the following error

Fatal: unable to spawn player from ' '

Expected behavior

I have to use skipselect to be able to use cutscenes before the select screen. And there is a way to bypass this bug, by including a fake scene and using skipselect:

The fake.txt scene is just a black gif. but it solves the problem;

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Version

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• Platform: windows
• Engine Build: 6391, 6330, 6315...

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