error message

[crumpet]

whenever i walk to a certain place in my 1st room, i comes up with an error message

[RickJ]

I think I know what your problem is.   

[Gilbert]

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.

[crumpet]

it says:
error: Load_room: unable to load the room file 'intro.crm'

[Oneway]

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.

[crumpet]

they are all named correctly, i used the tutorial

[strazer]

- 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.

[RickJ]

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

[Scummbuddy]

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.

[Oneway]

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.

[crumpet]

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?

[Gilbert]

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.

[crumpet]

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'

[Gilbert]

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.

[Ishmael]

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?

[crumpet]

it pops up about 5-10 seconds into the game

[Pumaman]

Check your various interactions to make sure you haven't used a Go To Room command to go to room 0.