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Hellooooo!  Looks like the issue was with the hardware skinning bone count!  I remember dealing with that too.  Glad we could figure it out together.  Reach out to us like that when you get really stuck.  Brian Ward on our community relations team saw the issue sent to us and reached out to me for help.  Messages usually do reach us.I always wanted to be able to talk to people directly before I worked in games, and it's awesome to follow through on that, on the other side.

Dang.  Nothing shows up in the Ogre Log that suggests where the problem occurred.We've been thinking about it on our end and the first thing I would try is stripping out Ordrak's skills, one by one.  In theory he may have a skill that specifically tries to target the player or summon things it can't find, and that's what's causing the issue.It's also highly likely that characters like Ordrak exceed the bone count for hardware skinning, so if you have any flags in there for that it would cause it to crash.

Hey hey folks!I'm Matt Lefferts, lead animator over at Runic.  Obviously it's been a while since I've worked first hand on TL1 or TL2, but the animation count, or the complexity like having fingers animated, shouldn't be an issue.When your game runs, it should generate an "Ogre Log" file in the same general location as your save folder, or where screen shots are stored.  (see the attached image).Run the game and get it to crash in the same way, then check the Ogre log file, all the way at the very bottom.  Post up that information so we can see what it says.  This is one way that I debugged a lot of stuff when working on the game.