Whoops 0.8.4 Bug - Orentation Changes When It's Not Supposed To

Photics

So OK, I'm working on my new game. I have a touch release action. When the touch is released, the screen rotates to landscape.

UPDATE: It's not just a touch release... when I hold the touch, the screen may rotate to portrait too.

Photics

Workaround: Add a Constrain... game.Screen.Device Orientation to your preferred setting... portrait / landscape

iPhoneDevForMe

Do I just type in portrait/landscape in the second box of change attribute behavior?

IntelligentDesigner

Yes, how on earth do you do this? Where is the game.screen.Device Orientation attribute? Something you set once, right?

IntelligentDesigner

None of my scenes have an auto rotation attribute...

Help?

IntelligentDesigner

Oh - It's an 8.4 thing?

Photics

This workaround isn't working well enough. For some reason, it keeps rotating.

Update: I'm using the poor man's debug again... maybe it's not "portrait" maybe it's a number.

IntelligentDesigner

@Photics, No man, go into the scene attributes for each of your scenes and update the new .8.4 Autorotate attribute... It was Landscape right checked, you probably want portrait checked...

Photics

Heh... I went back to read what tshirtbooth wrote. It works now. I would have posted sooner, but I was busy playing my game. Heh... or is it considered testing. Yeah, that sounds more professional... testing.

That's something to watch out for though. I had my game set for Portrait... but the landscape right box was checked by default.

beatrage

I think every time they change the engine or they are updating the publishing system with new engines if we are using older engines with less features than the new ones ...our new APP games comes up with new BUGS! this is a theory but i think this really happens because i am making my second game more than a month with no errors and now with this new update my game started giving me orientation errors at the start and change scene errors ( going to wrong scenes).

Please don't do this again or am going to give up once and for all... we developers really don't like to waste a month or a year making a game and see it going to the trash.

I haven't updated yet but I am seeing that there's no other way to cure my TODAY NEW bugs!

IntelligentDesigner

It's a new attribute, they had no way to preload it for you. (Maybe they could have checked the Game Orientation preference - "Target Display = 320x480 (iPhone Portrait)") But it gets saved in the .gameproj file so it'll be there for ever once you select it.

HTH, and Thanks to Mr T!

bladeolson

so should i be "unchecking" autorotate from each scene? if I want to keep it portait all the time? Looks like it is set to autorotate to the right currently

Photics

On mine, I checked auto rotate for both portrait modes. That way, if you flip the device, the game automatically uprights itself. It's actually pretty cool.

danayel

I can't seem to get this to work.

I think I have checked all the right boxes - portrait and reverse portrait, andset portrait and reverse in the advanced upload settings too, but it keeps autorotating to horizontal the moment the iphone is moved at all.

firemaplegames

And just to be sure, you checked Portrait/Portrait Upside Down in EVERY Scene?

danayel

actually never mind. it seems the problem was that my app wasn't updating when i dragged the new version onto itunes.