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AGS Support => Advanced Technical Forum => Topic started by: crumpet on Wed 16/02/2005 10:02:03

Title: error message
Post by: crumpet on Wed 16/02/2005 10:02:03
whenever i walk to a certain place in my 1st room, i comes up with an error message ??? :(
Title: Re: error message
Post by: RickJ on Wed 16/02/2005 10:35:09
I think I know what your problem is.    :=
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Gilbert on Wed 16/02/2005 10:39:26
Please describe clearly what your problems are (like what had you done, what error messages, etc.), we can't help anybody just by guessing.


Also, you may use more descriptive subject lines. :=
Title: Re: error message
Post by: crumpet on Wed 16/02/2005 13:35:06
it says:
error: Load_room: unable to load the room file 'intro.crm'
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Oneway on Wed 16/02/2005 14:08:12
In AGS, you can't name the rooms what you want to.
The room files have to be called room#.crm where # is a number.

In the room editor window you can add description to the room numbers to keep track of them.
Title: Re: error message
Post by: crumpet on Wed 16/02/2005 14:15:32
they are all named correctly, i used the tutorial
Title: Re: error message
Post by: strazer on Wed 16/02/2005 14:37:13
- What happens at that certain place in room 1? Do you have a region there?
- What script/interaction editor commands do you use?
- Keep in mind room 0 is intro.crm, room 1 is room1.crm and so on.
- Have you saved the room files in the correct folder (game folder)?

In the future, please provide more details so we can help you better.
Title: Re: error message
Post by: RickJ on Wed 16/02/2005 16:27:28
crumpet,

I would like to appologize for my sarcastic remark.  I opened your post thinking I could help you but quickly realized that the lack of details made it absurdly impossible.   Well, it was 2:30AM where I am and I couldn't resist an attempt at some humor, hence my remark.   Anyway welcome to the AGS and have fun....

Cheers

RickJ
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Scummbuddy on Wed 16/02/2005 18:31:40
oneway, you can have a room called intro.crm, but that is as far as you can name room files. then it goes to what you said about room#.crm.

also, there is a splash image that you can have pop up, but i dont recall off hand the way that works.
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Oneway on Thu 17/02/2005 03:22:41
You're right scumbuddy. I checked the manual after Crumpet said he followed a tutorial. I never knew about the intro.crm, but then again, i've never finished a game for witch i needed to make one.
Title: Re: error message
Post by: crumpet on Thu 17/02/2005 10:00:03
it now does the error message randomly, i dont have to be in a particular place. it also tells me to contact chris, how do i do that? ???
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 17/02/2005 10:09:06
Quote from: crumpet on Thu 17/02/2005 10:00:03
iit also tells me to contact chris, how do i do that? ???
You're doing this here already.
You may at least post one instance of the error messages here for us to see what actually happened.
Title: Re: error message
Post by: crumpet on Thu 17/02/2005 10:15:55
this is exactly wot the message says: an internal error has occured. please not down the following info. error: load room: unable to load the room file 'intro.crm' ???
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 17/02/2005 10:25:37
That means, you had set the starting room of your player character to 0. So you need to save a room file named intro.crm for the game to start.

Note that AGS adopts a somewhat funny naming convention, that the file name of Room #0 must be called intro.crm, where ther others, for example that for Room 50 is room50.crm, etc. (I'm just repeating what had been posted here in this thread).

Also check that it's not because you had that crappy "hide known extensions" option checked for your windows file manager that you might have named the room intro.crm.crm.
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Ishmael on Thu 17/02/2005 11:43:01
When exactly does the message pop up? While the game is running? When you try to start the game? If you have set the player character to start in a room that does not exist in the game folder AGS warns you about that the starting room cannot be found, so I reckon you have a room change interaction somewhere. This leads me to thinking that you have just misnamed the intro room to something wrong like what Gilbot said.

Can you see the .exe etc. parts in the end of the filenames in windows exporer?
Title: Re: error message
Post by: crumpet on Thu 17/02/2005 14:40:46
it pops up about 5-10 seconds into the game
Title: Re: error message
Post by: Pumaman on Thu 17/02/2005 19:48:44
Check your various interactions to make sure you haven't used a Go To Room command to go to room 0.