Thanks Glenn and Stark and Others on This Board:
Well, I'm not nearly finished with my game either. But because of the posts on this board, I wanted to see if I would have the same problems. Yep. I did. (Just in case you missed it!)
I really do think that the application program is terrific. It lets me do quite a lot of things. I don't have to know Real Basic to do it. I don't have to get Torque and figure out how to place the source code and get other things in order for it to work. Coldstone just doesn't like some things. I guess that I'm also afraid that the developers are too busy building Goliath to care about Coldstone, especially since they announced its upcoming arrival (although it IS for themselves according to what I've read, which doesn't make a lot of sense why they would announce it in the first place.) But ... people are telling me that they ARE addressing the bugs and I need to trust that.
As for me, I've decided to rebuild my game from scratch -- nearly. So I'm doing a different one. I have NO idea if my experiences will help you and the developers get the bugs out, but I think it may be a good idea for me to tell you as I go through it again, this time with some knowledge about how it works.
I copied only the graphic files into my new game that I know I want to use at this point.
I'm using the same map. But I had originally made the map larger than what it is and placed pictures. I started from the bottom. Big mistake. I began again from the top left corner and built my Cave with 95% Coldstone's graphics. But I reduced the map size without taking away the pictures from the bottom.
Today I enlarged the map size and deleted the pictures. Then I resized the map to the size where the pictures define the edges.
I'm using 90% of Coldstone's graphics for my Game_Interface pictures. I am now in process of selecting the game interface pictures and editing them. I can do two before Coldstone cannot see most of Coldstone's graphics in the Game_Interface file. I have to save the options and quit Coldstone, then open Coldstone and proceed. If I don't do this, my computer freezes and I have to reboot.
It seems to me that this is an indication of a problem.
I noticed that Stray used all lowercase letters. Is there some reason for that? I noticed that Coldstone translated my "Druid" to "druid". Another bug I think.
That's it for now.
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-- Debra
Danillitphil Productions