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Would it be acceptable for you to send us those two projects for analysis, along with the original images that it mentions?

Sure, I'll get on that tomorrow

More weird update:

I checked the student's computer profile. There are two project folders. One of them has all black sprites, the other shows the proper sprites.

The location for the black sprites shows the EXACT SAME LOCATION as the locations for the project with proper sprites.

As in, there is a cardboard box sprite, and for both projects the sprite location is set to the exact same C drive images location. It's just that for one of them, all of the sprites are black, and in the other, all of the sprites show up.

I tried to reimport from source, and nothing seemed to happen (as described above). So I'm still at a loss for how or why all of the sprites are black, if for both projects, they all point to the same sprites!

I would suspect that the student is deliberately doing something to cause this problem, and is lying to you about it, in order to get out of an assignment

I definitely had that thought, but I am very confident that the student is not cheating based on what I've seen.
 

Could you elaborate on that, what happened? Were there any errors, or they just were not replaced?

I clicked File > restore... and nothing happened... like, I didn't notice the any popup windows or any process. Then I checked the sprites and they were all the same.

How does the user import sprites, and where from, is it from files, or using clipboard?

Ohhhh now I'm wondering if the student did something like copy/pasting. I have no idea, the student was working on it outside of class.

this may mean that there were no game re-saves

Again, Oohhhhhhhh, I now bet this student wasn't saving at all, and was just pushing through each time until the end...
 

Just to follow up:

1. The computer drive had PLENTY of space.
2. The student was NOT using their One Drive.
3. Doing file>restore from source did not work
4. The backup sprite sheet was TINY like 7 kb, and obviously did not work when used.

I really really want to find out what the student was doing. I am always so intrigued when a student shows me an error that I have never seen before.

Thanks for all of your help, everyone!!!

I should have stated earlier that this student has intentionally chosen to NOT use Github Desktop for version control. I typically just make them do it, but this student managed to avoid it completely, even when I was sitting down with them, creating the repository for them.

**I didn't know about the backup sprite sheet! I'll try that.

**I also didn't know about the "restore all sprites from sources" function, but now I see it right there under "file".

This student works on the school computer, and we typically have a lot of space, enough to run lots of Unreal Engine projects. BUT, maybe the student is accidentally saving to their one drive? I know they're not using a jump drive because they only feel comfortable working on the one specific lab computer.

I think what happens is it turns black a moment after the student finishes and saves at the end of a long night. I once got a video from this student showing the game, and then ten minutes later a worried email about the sprites turning black again.

I'm going to check the disk space on the computers they work on, and see if I can do the restore function. THANKS!!!!

one of my students has been experiencing this error almost every time they work on their project. Every time it happens, the student STARTS OVER FROM SCRATCH, and does enough work to make their game function. They save their work, then when they open it the next day, they see this error and all (or most) of their sprites are black rectangles.

I would love to be able to tell this student what they're doing wrong, but I have no idea what they do outside of the classroom. This error has never happened to me before, but I've only been using it since last Summer.

Does anyone have any idea why this keeps happening to this one student?
(image of error attached)

Text of the error message states:

Sprite file (acsprset.spr) contained less sprites than the game prject referenced (109 sprites were missing). This could happen if it was not saved properly last time. Some sprites could be missing actual images. You may try restoring them by reimporting from the source files.

Hey all, not sure this is allowed but I would LOVE an explanation as to why AGS doesn't allow rotating a sprite similarly to moving a sprite.

I do know about creating a dynamic sprite, I'm just intrigued by why in programming one has to go through such a complicated process of rotating.

Thanks!

I'm new here but I would suggest posting the snippet of your code. I've gotten that error before if my code was written slightly incorrectly.

[Genre:]

Genre: Cozy Horror Point-and-Click Puzzle Game (5-20 minutes)

Link to free web-playable version of game on Itch.io:
Link to free playable game



Description:
Welcome to Monty Monster's Birthday Bash! Monty's monster pals are on their way to celebrate, but first, he needs help decorating for the big day. Can you lend a hand and make everything cozy and cute before his friends arrive? Let's make Monty's party the sweetest bash ever! (Caution: There may be lots of blood.)

Greetings!
Hi there! I fell in love with AGS a few months ago and have been lovingly crafting this game in my free time ever since.

Completion:

MMBB is fully playable up to the ending, but there's lots of stand-in art and sound along the way. The puzzles are all working, but I'm still refining them as well, and may edit them based on playtesting results. My children are also telling me that there needs to be more risk in the game so I'm adding more ways for the player to accidentally die.

- graphics 65%
- puzzles 90%
- scripting 80% (the game is finishable)
- music/sound 30% (LOTS of stand-in audio clips that I need to replace)

Walkthrough:

Monty's Birthday Bash

https://brianheagney.itch.io/montys-birthday-bash

Got this one by randomly searching for ags and I haven't seen it in the DB and don't think the author is here in the forums either.

Hi AGSer! Thanks for linking my game. It's fully playable to the "end" when your friends finally come over and wish you a happy birthday. But it's far from finished. I do appreciate you linking it though, it completely slipped my mind to do that here.

I first started using AGS and I have completely fallen in love with it. I am having so much fun using it to make my little cozy horror puzzle game.

Thanks again!