Game Freeze

[Dr. Funk]

I'm having a problem here. At one point in my project during dialogue, the character you are speaking to walks away for a moment. he returns and nothing happens. there is supposed to be more text after that but no it just freezes. I can't move anymore and there's no error message or anything. i can still move my mouse and close the window. I tried numerous times to fix it but it just won't work.

 

[xgamexfreakx]

it sounds like you have an autorun process that keeps running after your event. Make sure that you throw all the right switches to activate all of your event pages and have at least an erase event at the end of it or a selfswitch to a blank page....

 

[Unka Josh]

That might also be a symptom of the dreaded "Wait for Move's Completion" issue, too.

 

[Dr. Funk]

yeah that's probably it unka, there is a wait for move completion, and when I get rid of it it works. Is there a way to fix it?

 

[Unka Josh]

Two ways, actually.

1)  Change the Wait For Move's Completion to a generic Wait command.  Not a bad idea, but a little imperfect.

2)  Figure out what's going wrong.  See, a WFMC will freeze a game if the Move Route can't finish, because, for example, it's trying to move a sprite into an occupied square.  If you have any Set Move Routes going on, test which one is causing the freeze by altering them and/or checking "Ignore if can't move," which, incidentally, will also prevent the freeze. 

Edit:  The best way to test for a move that's freezing the game is to set any even that's moving to Through.  That way you should be able to determine where it's trying to move into a solid object in a highly visible fashion.

 

[Dr. Funk]

well i found the problem, and i fixed it too. it wasn't either of those actually. I just had a bunch of events with a stop animation that weren't on parallel process :lol:

 

[Unka Josh]

Actually, I'm confused, now.  If you set a custom move route in the switches to the left of an event box, it doesn't need to be parallel process-- it'll do the movement that you tell it to automatically.  Or, if it's just the basic stop animation, you can just check the "Stop Animation" box.

 

[Dr. Funk]

I was confused too, but as soon as I put all those events on parallel it fixed the freezing.