Bug reporting thread

[fleet]

Player.exe is the program that Novelty uses which allows you to play a visual novel that you have written. since you haven't written a VN using the novletyprogram, the player application couldn't find a game data file (the nvz file).

ver respectfully,
fleet

[ErikB]

That's by design. Player.exe is used by Novelty and it's not meant to be run independently.

[n4d14]

thanks fleet and erikb

[xxjaminko]

When I open my file for my project, it's normal. When I try to go to another page in another chapter, the program crashes. I'm thinking it may just be my computer, since this doesn't seem like an average problem for the program itself. Am I opening it wrong? I open it after I open novelty, through novelty.

By the way, other than this tiny error, this is an amazing program!

[Avaible]

One cause of that could be that you're having some code written down in the Script editor which is invalid and causes Novelty to crash. That was often a problem for me in the past since I couldn't pin-point just what exactly is the cause of the crash. Turns out, I still don't know but from time to time it's enough to declare handles out of a method or event (meaning, out of { }) and Novelty will crash when you try to compile.

But that's more of an error with Angelscript, not so much Novelty.
Mind you, though, this is just a possibility for why Novelty fails when you try to do something in that project, it doesn't have to be the cause. Maybe you should open it on another computer which has Novelty installed and see if it still crashes.

[xxjaminko]

[Avaible]

In that case only Erik might be able to help you.

[xxjaminko]

Ok, thanks for your help, Avaible.

I tried adding a page, since it has the same global layer as the pages that crash Novelty. I can edit the page when I add it since it starts me off there, but when I close it then open it again, I can't go to that newly made page. I played around with that page while I could and I couldn't find anything that might mess it up. I have tried on another computer, same problem (one has Windows XP and one has Vista, but it worked fine of XP before).

I just tried adding one of those pages onto the previous chapter though... and it was fine. I attached a picture of which one's work and which don't. And when I say don't work, I mean if I click on it in the Story Window, it crashes. So I can't move or delete the pages either. I'm not sure if this is a computer problem or a novelty problem, but it doesn't seem right since this has never happened before.

**edit**
I just decided to delete that chapter and remake it (my bad impatience) and now it's working. I don't know what the problem. :/

[xxjaminko]

There's been a supposed bug Avaible and I found in setting the value of sliders.
It's the last couple of posts of this thread. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=977&p=6044#p6044

[CeresBane]

So I created a save state in the game via a screen I made for saving and loading accessible via a button a made to open it on every story page.

When I tried to load the save I just saved with the load button. The game brain farts and closes.
I think it did this because I was already on the page

Shouldn't it simply close the screen and refresh the page?

[Avaible]

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[Momiji]

Though im unsure if this has been made aware of or not i am unsure
i would go through and check but im in a hurry as i should be doing other stuff (not even got time to respond to my messages) but anyways

Desiger doesnt actually work proper through desktop shortcut
as said ur probberly aware of this anyway but i created a shortcut to designer.exe on the desktop a while back, for obvious easy access, now once before when using designer it kept failing to import files into the assets area, now this was to me just a spare of the moments bug i gathered was a one of so i ignored it. of course i had to re import the files i want to play with ect but the second time through instinc i used the origonal .exe file. the second time it did it i had more time free (more recently) and came to relise using the origonal .exe file i never encounter this problem but when using any shortcuts it always happens
This COULD be my bad though as i must say it likely is
simply i have my HD partitioned into 2 drives, C: <- is about 30GB (generally just for OS files and such) and D: <- this is my primary drive with endless amounts of space
theory says it should have anything to do with this BUT it is possible. My computer before when i tick "Create desktop item" when installing software sometimes creates it on the C drive *for some reason im unsure of* which obviously doesnt exisist unless i boot by C only. (well it does but you know wot i mean)
really simple way to try this is to create a shortcut to designer on the desktop, open the shortcut file on the desktop, try creating some new texture resource files from image files you never used (say just get some random good image and import it) and if it is a problem on my side you wont be presented with anything but the normal alert saying the file isnt in the assets folder and asking you if you wish to move it there
if however this is a issue you will get some error dialouge appear.
if this has been posted ignore it, as said i woulda checked but im in a hurry as im off to help some friends do something important.

[skim]

When I tried to cut multiple lines of dialogue in order to paste it elsewhere, the program crashed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bh7TEYUSIQ

[Avaible]

When using Animations:
When Looping is set to reverse, the first Frame of the Animation is, starting from the first going back, omitted henceforth. I noticed when I tried to make an animated portrait of a character for a tutorial I'm planning to do.

[Avaible]

When using hover/click sound for a button the sound will only play a finite number of times when playing the game inside Novelty. That number is not exactly small at around 70 times.
I don't know wether this is a bug, though, or intended (in that case, ignore the post) since this doesn't occur when playing as stand-alone.