Map Locations Demo

waldron

I'v tried the sprite placement code but not really used it before so I was unable to test that

pianofire

@waldron When you say "in the main loop" do you mean not inside a function?

waldron

in my case with the namemapareacode i had
areaNames = getmapareanames()
with the for loop code in the main loop
in my test program iv not put it into a function and it crashes.
if i put the areaNames = getmapareanames() outside the main loop it runs as expected.
in my other programs the results are 50/50 where i do store that code in a function they either run fine or crash .
do i need to reference these or ? confused as my code hasn't changed but since the patch that piece of code crashes the system.

pianofire

@waldron No it definitely shouldn't be crashing. I have raised an issue for this

waldron

@pianofire thanks been driving me bonkers haha if i comment out the collidemap() it doesn't crash so i think its as spacemario describes above.

waldron

just one last one with this, after testing the namemaparea() that was causing crashes this also caused crashes with my other programs where they would just crash when i run them at random with some with scary graphical glitches.
so last night i didn't test that piece of code and my other programs didn't crash anymore :) currently using detectmapcollision instead as a workaround.

Spacemario

@waldron One thing I may resort to is loading every one of my game's maps before the main loop even begins, and populating my actor arrays that way.

It's contrary to the way my "engine" works-- which loads "assets" on-demand when levels are swapped-- but the Switch has so much RAM for the kinds of games we make in Fuze, that holding the entirety of the actors in memory the entire time the game is running should be no big deal.

If I make that change, I'll post here whether or not it works around the crashing.

pianofire

Please could one of share and submit a program that crashes so I can test out a potential fix. Thanks in advance

waldron

@pianofire you can download my lint gamejam game CZ563MND5U that has it
i do have a smaller program with the problem isolated which i can share later if needs be?

Spacemario

@waldron Just a heads-up, I tried the map entity initialization outside of my game loop, and it still caused Fuze to crash-- figured I'd let you know.