why does my viewer keep messing up but gs is fine?

QbAnYtO

things keep messing up and becoming unusable on the viewer but i keep trynna fix them..

my LATEST issues is this..

hero dies, retry button pops out, u press it and it restarts the scene. plays FINE on gs. but on the viewer i touch "retry" and NOTHING happens. i reinstalled the game salad viewer and restarted my phone and gs itself but no avail. does anyone else have this issue?

crazyfishdev

maybe the rule is not set to if touch is pressed <><

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QbAnYtO

it is. which is why it works on gs. don't understand why its not working on the viewer

jonmulcahy

sounds like you have a bad rule or missing attribute somewhere, that always causes the viewer to freak out, btu the GS preview can handle it.

make sure you check all your otherwise statements

crazyfishdev

thats funny... It has been working for me... try redoing the rule (if it not too hard)

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QbAnYtO

yea i did just that and threw it on the device gonna test it now....

crazyfishdev

lets hope it works! <>< (the fishes flippers are crossed(in my mind))

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QbAnYtO

its working on the first level. but if i die on the second level and hit retry it wont detect.. its a universal rule and it USED to work on the device aswell... then all the sudden it stops working... what gives?

jonmulcahy

just recreate the rule

QbAnYtO

i did/ i deleted the old one and recreated it.

btw does the viewer represent the finished product??

anyways yea i did recreate the rule and problems still persist. man was almost done and gonna submi my app today

also on level 3 the "do you want to save?" button doesnt pop up grr!!!!

Chunkypixels

I had the same problem with a project... worked fine in the Creator, but just locked up when running on device or in the viewer. I spent days going over the project with a magnifying glass, looking for a broken rule/attribute, but just couldnt seem to track the problem down.

I'd pretty much resigned the project to the bin, and was getting ready to start it over from scratch, when I thought I'd put it through Darren/Waynes GS Project Attributes utility to see if it might help... and it did. The utility didnt report any issues, but when I exported the file, it seemed to have cleaned up whatever the problem was and give me a new working version.

So if youve been working on your project for a while, and cant track down the problem, it might be worth buying the GS Project Attributes utility to see if it might fix it.

Its a great utility, and well worth the money.

QbAnYtO

Chunkypixels said:
I had the same problem with a project... worked fine in the Creator, but just locked up when running on device or in the viewer. I spent days going over the project with a magnifying glass, looking for a broken rule/attribute, but just couldnt seem to track the problem down.

I'd pretty much resigned the project to the bin, and was getting ready to start it over from scratch, when I thought I'd put it through Darren/Waynes GS Project Attributes utility to see if it might help... and it did. The utility didnt report any issues, but when I exported the file, it seemed to have cleaned up whatever the problem was and give me a new working version.

So if youve been working on your project for a while, and cant track down the problem, it might be worth buying the GS Project Attributes utility to see if it might fix it.

Its a great utility, and well worth the money.

how did you do it. just threw the project in there and click "fix" or semething?. i WILL buy it RIGHT now if i must.

Chunkypixels

I just loaded the broken project into the utility, and then saved it back out again.

The newly saved file then worked perfectly when I tried it on the viewer and did an adhoc build.

The utility is great for tracking down unused/redundant assets and attributes, and for organising your attributes better. It seems that it does something behind the scenes too though, and can help fix some hidden issues.

Wayne explained it a bit, that theres sometimes "anomalies" can creep into the XML file, and that the utility checks and compares for them from between GameSalad versions and repairs them if it finds them.... or something like that.

QbAnYtO

hmm..... sounds intriguing.. i MIGHT buy it if i must. in the mean time i'ma try fixing this. its just one issue after another