New to Fuse4-want a Faery Tale Adventure like game

tdg8934

@Jongjungbu I was able to add in your timer into my game along with all of the items I listed to @xevdev . I had to double the length to account for after midnight going into the next morning as the character in the original Faery Tale Adventure (FTA) game did walk around all night getting very tired and stumbling a little as he walked due to being tired while looking for a building with a bed or mat to get some rest.

Only one issue is the ultimate system crash after a minute or two. So tired of crashes with Fuze! I hope 2.15 will come out ASAP

Jongjungbu

You might have a runaway memory leak or array access that Fuze isn't detecting, and so it crashes. I've seen that happen before. It's pretty good about catching invalid array access, but sometimes it will still run despite accessing it out-of-bounds (particularly if it use to be in-bounds), and that may then crash your program.

xevdev

Did the crash use to happen before. If it didn't you may have to move your createimage() so they only happen once.

tdg8934

@xevdev yes crashes have been with me for a while. I spent the day narrowing down the areas / functions causing them but when I think I have it after a couple of successful attempts isolating functions, I get a crash the 3rd time.

I think I have it now isolated to both the Character Walk() AND MenuPress() functions. When there commented out in the main loop, I don’t appear to be getting any crashes.

xevdev

If it's a minute or two it would mean that you've got some memory allocation in a loop somewhere. It would be an array or a create function. Ideally you could move all those to the start of your program before any code to manipulate them is called.
If you have the fps meter enabled it will show you a free memory left counter. If that's going down during your game that's a memory leak. All fuze programs currently if stopped do not release all the memory used in a game and this leads to a crash but this takes quite a few runs to achieve.

tdg8934

@xevdev

ID: Z7573MND51

If you or anyone can check it out. Currently I only have the CharacterWalk() commented out in the main loop. It should crash within a minute or two. If you comment out the other function call MenuPress() it shouldn’t crash.

Thanks. I am not seeing any memory leaks

xevdev

I'll have a look when it becomes live.

xevdev

Had a look at your old code.

I would have thought that would throw an error.
So return void
What I can see is you are also using OSx and OSy to push sprites off screen. I don't use sprites but I think they may have updated the sprite control set with removesprite()?.
Someone else may know better.

Martin

There is certainly a remove sprite command (always has been) but moving them off screen is also a perfectly valid way of doing things too if you want to do it that way. The reason people typically push sprites off screen when they are not in use is that sprites can have custom properties added to them which is incredibly useful but if you use 'removeSprite()' then there is a bit more work involved in making sure that the sprite still exists before accessing these properties. A simple way round that is to create an empty sprite at the start that you never use (we'll call it nullSprite but it could be called anything). This sprite has no image, no custom properties and never has any of the built in properties set. Then after calling removeSprite(spr) you would assign spr = nullSprite. That way you can ensure that you don't get an error by accessing a property that doesn't exist by checking if it is equal to nullSprite first.

An example of what I'm talking about - this isn't necesarily a real world scenario:

nullSprite = createSprite()

player = createSprite()
setSpriteImage(player, image)
player.x = 100
player.y = 100
// Custom properties
player.lives = 3
player.health = 100

// Some time later
if player != nullSprite then
    player.lives -= 1
    if player.lives == 0 then
        removeSprite(player)
        player = nullSprite
    endif
endif

I've used this for ship firing shots where you have an array of maybe 10 shots and when the player presses fire you rattle through the array looking for the first slot in the array that isn't nullSprite and then create a new player shot, otherwise if all the slots are taken you just ignore the fire button.

xevdev

Yes this basically what I do but I don't use sprites I just use struct in an array and the drawimageex () to display them. All the commands for sprites are things you need to really keep track of anyway. So I can't (blame fuze then(in the end it's myself)) see the point of sprites or maps other than you can create these in fuze.

xevdev

but i cant see anything yet that is that problematic in this code (old code) yet. So its interesting in that all of the code I've written never crashes like this.

tdg8934

@xevdev

I’m almost sure I have this figured out to be too many c=control(0) statements where there should only be 1 in a loop.

The character selection blue screen uses it along with MenuPress() and CharacterWalk() functions.

xevdev

@tdg8934 hopefully yes. I once tried something like that. In another thread somewhere I'll look.

xevdev

https://fuzearena.com/forum/topic/804/crashing-what-did-i-do
This is it

xevdev

And you should check out saharamins reply at the end I use this and it's awesome.
https://fuzearena.com/forum/topic/645/any-way-to-hide-this-mess-of-initialisation-code/6

tdg8934

@xevdev SUCESS - NO CRASHES !!!

Following Sahara-Min method:
“
function main()
// Program starts here
return void

// Other functions...
// Variables...

main()
“

See the working crash free (WIP) FTA like game:

ID: Z7573MND51

From now on I will always use this program layout.

Thanks so much especially @xevdev and @sahara-min

tdg8934

All,

I have made some great updates to the (WIP) - FTA like game

Updates:

Fixed logic so when you find objects they are removed not going into the abyss
Have N S E W NE SE SW NW and Home teleport locations (Use if you have a travel stone)
24 hour day over 1800 seconds (Set it to what you want but it might get dark sooner)
Green jewel night vision capability
Bird totem zoom out capability
Find object- keys, jewels, rings, jade skulls, orbs, glass vials, bird totems, money bags, treasure chest
Coins (find money bag)
Use Glass viaL to increase vitality
Help menu

Plus previous stuff - all crash free!!!

What’s not working yet:
Keys, orb, ring, jade skull, sea shell
Creating bad guys to fight
Creating landscape, water
More...

ID: Z7573MND51

tdg8934

Update on the FTA (WIP) game!

‪FTA ‬
‪ID: Z7573MND51‬ (Live)

For all that are following this game development. I’m now over 8K lines of code still with no crashes.

I have been focusing on going outside of the home village of Tambry. You can teleport to 9 locations (if you have a bird totem). There is now a cemetery when the character can also fight to the left or right now. The grim reaper is inside of the crypt and will give you a gold statue if you come back after midnight. If you continue south and then to the right along the paths (note teleport stations). You will find the capital city of Marheim where the king is at. His daughter is missing. Lots more to see and do but not going to give away too much yet. See the pics ![alt text]( image url)

xevdev

Looking really sweet.

tdg8934

@xevdev yes I’m pretty happy with it . I just can’t believe how much work is involved in the details. I love spending every free minute I can on it daily. I have learned so much on this project being my first Fuse4 program.