Dungeon Maker

Dungeon Maker

Players Having Problems
One of them, even after the whole crew verified their files to be sure, can't get into the game. This hadn't happened before.
Another has things being constantly erased. First, his inventory was erased and now his actions are gone. This same player also doesn't show up on the map to others, no image but as just an empty square. He can see himself, but he's underlapping with the roads and trees and other elements. To him, everyone else is invisible.
The last player seems to have things working perfectly.

Edit: A new one while trying to prepare the maps for using Roll20 until this is figured out, I tried turning the Grid off so I could export without lines and the button to toggle them off doesn't do anything. It just stays at "Toggle Grid Off".
Last edited by LurkerShep; Apr 30 @ 5:28pm
< >
Showing 1-8 of 8 comments
Tavarin  [developer] May 1 @ 8:20pm 
Heyo,

Was the first player able to connect in the past? And if so did they change their computer or set up? I've never had a player fail to load in at all, but it could be firewall issues.

For the second player they are not fully loading in, so some field in their character sheet is causing an error before they fully load in, so not everything is loading. I will look at the character loading code, but it would be helpful if you could have them look at their whole character sheet to see which parts are loading correctly, and which aren't, so I can figure out where the error is happening from.

As for the grid, I must have changed something in an update that messed that up. I will fix it, and put out an update soon.
Originally posted by Tavarin:
Was the first player able to connect in the past? And if so did they change their computer or set up? I've never had a player fail to load in at all, but it could be firewall issues.
Yes, he was. He hasn't changed anything as far as I know. I'll let him know to try a Firewall exemption.

Edit 2: When he opened the game, he was asked to make an exemption in his Firewall and could get in.

Originally posted by Tavarin:
For the second player they are not fully loading in, so some field in their character sheet is causing an error before they fully load in, so not everything is loading. I will look at the character loading code, but it would be helpful if you could have them look at their whole character sheet to see which parts are loading correctly, and which aren't, so I can figure out where the error is happening from.
I'll have him look and let me know. It's odd since he was able to get in before, do you think something could be getting lost in transition as he loads in causing the deleting stuff? Or would the deleting and the appearing under map assets be separate issues?

Edit: He told me that first his Notes pages with his inventory types disappeared (that happened a couple months ago). Then his Actions being erased and the underlapping with the map assets/being invisible to us happened last time we tried to play (when I made this report). Don't know if this info is what you're looking for.

Edit 2: He could only open his character sheet in the main menu, and his Hit Dice disappeared when he was in my game (and was still invisible) but they are there on his sheet in the main menu. I had him try to re-add an Action and come back, and all his Actions re-appeared for him. When he came back to the game, his picture was back and he said his stuff appeared in the foreground once more. His Notes info was still gone (but that was months ago anyway), but it was a step up.

Originally posted by Tavarin:
As for the grid, I must have changed something in an update that messed that up. I will fix it, and put out an update soon.
Thank you kindly! I don't want to use a backup plan and want to keep using your program, but having an ungridded map as a fail safe is a blessing!
Last edited by LurkerShep; May 2 @ 6:58pm
I made some Edits to my above post with some new info.
Tavarin  [developer] May 2 @ 7:43pm 
Heyo,

So player one is all good now?

The deleting stuff really shouldn't be happening, since the save file is only read from when loading into the game. If he tried to open the character editor from in game, without being properly loaded in, then that may have overwritten his data, but you said his actions came back, so the data should still be in the character file.

The appearing under things is because there is a local game object of the player character which has the image set to be behind everything, which only the local player would be able to see. Then there is a multiplayer object placed on top of that that everyone can see. If the multiplayer object doesn't load properly, then the single player object is the only one visible, thus their image would appear behind things. I did it like that as a quick way to tell if you are loaded correctly.

When a player is loaded into the multiplayer the game tries to load the health and hit dice information first, and sync that info to all players, so it's likely he got come connection error when trying to connect that prevented the game from syncing the health info, and thus stopped loading the player there.

But I'm not sure exactly what happened. For the Notes I use the following string
;--; to split each notes page (needed to keep old saves compatible), so if he typed that into his notes it could have caused errors. But it shouldn't have erased any data, since the save file is only modified when you use the character edit to save changes.

One thing you could do is send me their character save data (located in the Dungeon Maker AppData folder, under characters), and I can see if it looks normal.

And lastly I figured out the grid toggling, though it was odd because it worked fine in my editor, but didn't work in the game build. But I managed to figure out the bit of code causing an issue in the build only, and fixed it. I will post an update soon with that fix.

Cheers
Last edited by Tavarin; May 2 @ 7:44pm
Yeah, Player One showed up all fine when I tried it out earlier when I had Player Two around to collect things for this report.

I'll have Player Two send me the data. How would I send it to you so you can check?
Edit: He has two folders. One is .dmc and a .dms, which would you need?
Last edited by LurkerShep; May 2 @ 8:45pm
Tavarin  [developer] May 2 @ 8:56pm 
You can email it to me at contact@tavaringames.com. And send both please, one is his sprite, and the other is the character data.
Sent your way. Thanks for working with me to solve his issue, hopefully we can find out why his stuff got deleted in the first place!
Tavarin  [developer] May 2 @ 9:22pm 
Heyo,

The files look fine to me, I can open it up, and was able to log into a hosted game without issue. The notes are missing unfortunately. The only explanation I can think of is that they used the in session character editor when they wasn't correctly loaded into the game. At this point I can't really think of a way to fix it, other than to verify they're properly synced online (make sure your image is on top, and actions are loaded in the left bar) before opening the in game character editor.
< >
Showing 1-8 of 8 comments
Per page: 1530 50