Sprite preview not working (SOLVED) (Chris)

theatrx · Mon 23/01/2006 20:41:50

I'm using version 2.71.631 with sprite compression and the Sprite Preview does not work now. Is this supposed to happen in this version? I've been testing the game to see if they look all right but this is sort of time consuming.

SSH · Mon 23/01/2006 21:23:23

How do you mean "doesn't work"? The previews are corrupted, a window appears with no preview or nothing happens at all when you hit preview?

theatrx · Mon 23/01/2006 23:58:50

The top bar goes grey and nothing happens.

Edit by strazer:

No need to quote the post directly above you! :

Pumaman · Tue 24/01/2006 19:17:54

Seems fine to me, has anyone else had a problem with the View Preview?

Does it happen with all views or just one?

Barbarian · Tue 24/01/2006 19:35:06

I've been using the same AGS version for a while now with my current game-in-production, and been using the sprite-compression option, and I've never had any sprite type of problems.

Then again, maybe I don't fully understand (it's not a clear explaination) what the problem is supposed to be?

Gilbert · Wed 25/01/2006 01:10:39

How large are your sprites theatrx?

theatrx · Wed 25/01/2006 02:54:29

Sprites are about half the whole game which is 63 mg uncompressed.

It was smaller before I put 36 AGS gif files in for a little treat. But, it was worth it.Ã,Â It looks awesome seeing everyone in the same room with Chris.

I'm dealing with it at the moment.

I have one job left to do other than the little mess that I
made with the new two language text bar.Ã,Â I'm asking for the moon and I'm going to get it!

Gilbert · Wed 25/01/2006 03:08:39

Well I think that file size might be helpful to Chris, I was asking about the dimension of your sprites though.

theatrx · Wed 25/01/2006 08:48:55

Ahh. the sprite folder is a little over 43 mg.

As far as the actual sprites they range in size from very small about 7 to some very large sprites which are half the size of the page which is 640 x 480. Actually there is one set of sprites about 40 of them which are the whole room size. Hope this helps and thanks for the interest. Steve

Pumaman · Wed 25/01/2006 19:09:45

Quote from: Pumaman on Tue 24/01/2006 19:17:54
Does it happen with all views or just one?

theatrx · Fri 27/01/2006 08:30:07

All views. In the present state I cannot use the sprite preview at all.

Pumaman · Fri 27/01/2006 20:17:09

I don't know what to suggest, really. I've never seen this problem and it's never been reported by anyone else to my knowledge. You could make sure that your DirectX is up to date, but other than that I'm stumped.

Have you tried restarting your computer just in case theres some sort of resource leak?

theatrx · Fri 27/01/2006 20:20:41

I tried restarting...

I have the latest DirectX.

I've tried reinstalling AGS.

Everything else works except the sprite preview.

It's got me stumped too.Ã,Â Oh well.Ã,Â I finished the game without it so it didn't hold me back too much.Ã,Â It's just that it's a really nice feature.

Daniel Thomas · Mon 30/01/2006 04:04:57

Had the same problem.. I fixed it by removing ags from the windows-register.
To do this:
1) Run 'regedit.exe'
2) delete: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adventure Game Studio

That should fix it.

theatrx · Mon 30/01/2006 05:44:16

This worked perfectly... I'll let the moderators know.Ã,Â Thank you so much... This will make things so much easier. Steve

Pumaman · Mon 30/01/2006 19:45:19

That's strange -- I don't suppose you'd have a copy of the contents of the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adventure Game Studio
before you deleted it?

Daniel Thomas · Mon 30/01/2006 21:34:23

No, sorry.. It hit me after sometime I answered this that I should have told him to save it for bugtracking..

I can give you some hints though, when this happend to me I thought it just was my project, so I opened another project and tried the preview in that, it then said something like: The player is already opened.. Just like it was playing but didnt show up. Hope it helps.

Kweepa · Tue 31/01/2006 04:12:47

Most likely the preview window was off screen. (I guess that was obvious, but no-one said it.)
Did you change resolution, and/or monitor, recently?

theatrx · Tue 31/01/2006 12:17:54

Nope. Didn't change a thing. It happened right after I switched to sprite compression which also means after I switched to the new version of AGS. Deleteting the registry key worked. When I would ask for a preview the 'bar' at the top of the screen went 'grey'. I could continue with whatever else I wanted to do but no preview. I didn't really go in a look at any details for the h-key I deleted. I probably should have so at least you guys would know what happened... at least on my computer. I could probably reinstall again and see if I get the same problem if that would help.

Scorpiorus · Wed 01/02/2006 17:48:45

Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Tue 31/01/2006 04:12:47
Most likely the preview window was off screen.

Hmm, I'd guess that may well be a possibility considering that its position stored in the registry: ViewPreviewX and ViewPreviewY respectively.