Blank Actors

7brownjack

Hi,
When I preview the game on the gamesalad viewer some of the actors show up as a white box instead of the graphic. This usually changes after a couple of times playing the game, so i just assumed it was a loading issue on the viewer. However, I have recently done an Ad Hoc test and discovered that some of the actors are still showing up just as white boxes and this time don't change when played a few times.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Cheers,
Jack.

tatiang

In those actors, are you changing their image using a tableCellValue, a Change Image behavior, or a Change Attribute behavior? If not, what happens when you delete one of the actors from the scene, turn off all its rules in the prototype, and then add it to the scene and preview? Does it still show as a white box?

7brownjack

@tatiang
They're just actors I'm using to display a text but in a designed font so I've saved them as a image then placed them on the scene as actors. I tried deleting them from the scene and re-adding them. Still no joy.

Thanks for your help

tatiang

There are a lot of threads about this available by Googling white box actor gamesalad. Here are a few:

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/26760/player-appearing-as-white-box
https://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/49834/white-boxes-where-actor-should-be
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/67365/problems-with-png-images-use-these-methods-to-fix-your-pngs/p1

7brownjack

Thanks again for your help, I'll give some of them a try. Cheers