Unable to create a variant of Spineling_morbusine

[Regalis11]

Discussed in #15233

^{Originally posted by A2ur3 November 23, 2024}

Disclaimers

• I have searched the issue tracker to check if the issue has already been reported.
• My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

It seems the game tries to find ragdoll and animation files in wrong directory

Reproduction steps

Bug prevalence

Just once

Single player or multiplayer?

Single player

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No response

Version

v1.6.19.1 (Unto the Breach Update Hotfix 2)

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Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Windows

Relevant error messages and crash reports

‖color:#9370DB‖[Spineling_morbusine_m]‖color:end‖ [RagdollParams] Invalid directory: Content/Characters/Spineling_morbusine/Ragdolls/. Using the default ragdoll.
Couldn't load xml document "Content/Characters/Spineling_morbusine/Ragdolls/Spineling_morbusineDefaultRagdoll.xml"! {Could not find a part of the path 'D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Barotrauma\Content\Characters\Spineling_morbusine\Ragdolls\Spineling_morbusineDefaultRagdoll.xml'.}
   at Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle.CreateFile(String fullPath, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, FileOptions options)
   at Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle.Open(String fullPath, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, FileOptions options, Int64 preallocationSize)
   at System.IO.Strategies.OSFileStreamStrategy..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, FileOptions options, Int64 preallocationSize)
   at Barotrauma.IO.File.Open(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Nullable`1 share, Boolean catchUnauthorizedAccessExceptions) in <DEV>\Barotrauma\BarotraumaShared\SharedSource\Utils\SafeIO.cs:line 540
   at Barotrauma.XMLExtensions.TryLoadXml(String filePath, Exception& exception) in <DEV>\Barotrauma\BarotraumaShared\SharedSource\Serialization\XMLExtensions.cs:line 112
‖color:#9370DB‖[Spineling_morbusine_m]‖color:end‖ [EditableParams] The document is null! Failed to load the parameters.
‖color:#9370DB‖[Spineling_morbusine_m]‖color:end‖ [RagdollParams] Failed to load ragdoll Spineling_morbusine Default Ragdoll from Content/Characters/Spineling_morbusine/Ragdolls/Spineling_morbusineDefaultRagdoll.xml for the character Spineling_morbusine_m.

[itchyOwl]

Reproduced the issue in FakeFishGames/Barotrauma-development#6047, where loading Spineling_morbusine_m throws this error.

Merged that branch locally to FakeFishGames/Barotrauma-development/#6050, and confirmed that it works after the fix.