Troubleshooting Guide

[DCurrent]

Discussion thread for trouble shooting guide. This is an in progress guide I am working on to help with some of the occasional esoteric issues creators might run into. OpenBOR is one of the most stable engines you will ever find. It will catch and record just about any issue and dump to the log. There are however a handful of special cases where you get a silent shutdown or undefined behaviors. Hopefully as time goes on I can address them.

 

[O Ilusionista]

It's worth mentioning one issue, which was fixed in the latest version of V4: Pointing to a non-existent palette was causing a silent shutdown.

 

[DCurrent]

It's worth mentioning one issue, which was fixed in the latest version of V4: Pointing to a non-existent palette was causing a silent shutdown.

Thanks, I'll get that added.

DC

 

[DCurrent]

It's worth mentioning one issue, which was fixed in the latest version of V4: Pointing to a non-existent palette was causing a silent shutdown.

Do you recall if the shutdown is instant or only happens when you try to use the palette?

DC

 

[O Ilusionista]

Do you recall if the shutdown is instant or only happens when you try to use the palette?

DC

I just ran a test: the engine only closes when you're on the selection screen.

 

[kimono]

This isn't a silent shutdown, but having a

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value that's too low can lead to an "invalid animation name" message.
I don't know if it's possible to be more precise about the error because sometimes I check the name of my animations
even though their title is correct.

 

[O Ilusionista]

This isn't a silent shutdown, but having a

But this is explained in the manual.
The point of this topic is to cover things that aren't there and causes silent shutdown - which is not the case here