Beginner Problem - Nothing Appearing - SOLVED :)
by Marleen Monroe · in Technical Issues · 01/14/2011 (4:37 pm) · 6 replies
Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me out here because I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle. I just installed Torque Game Builder on my mac today and have been working through the tutorials included in the official documentation.
So far so good, but I've just reached the 'Animated Sprites' tutorial and after setting everything up and hitting the 'play' button nothing happens. The animations are running fine in the editor, but when I run it I don't even get a window popping up. The TGB Game program opens, but does nothing.
I'm sure this is something REALLY obvious but I honestly can't see anything wrong with what I've done. I've definitely saved the scene and all... I even tried restarting TGB but it still does the same thing. Any help here would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
So far so good, but I've just reached the 'Animated Sprites' tutorial and after setting everything up and hitting the 'play' button nothing happens. The animations are running fine in the editor, but when I run it I don't even get a window popping up. The TGB Game program opens, but does nothing.
I'm sure this is something REALLY obvious but I honestly can't see anything wrong with what I've done. I've definitely saved the scene and all... I even tried restarting TGB but it still does the same thing. Any help here would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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#2
01/15/2011 (8:50 am)
Are there any errors in the console.log ?
#3
Hmmm this is very odd, is there a reason it wouldn't be compiling?
01/15/2011 (5:59 pm)
That is the file produced when the project is built, yes? Well... it's not producing one :/ I hadn't thought to check before so I hadn't noticed it was missing.Hmmm this is very odd, is there a reason it wouldn't be compiling?
#4
01/16/2011 (3:24 pm)
Ok I've found a solution - I needed to place my game in the same folder as the example ones which come with the project. It seems a bit strange to ask you where you want to save your project but not allow you to work with it if it's anywhere but the default location :/ Is there a way I can have projects in different locations? I don't like the default place as it is within my applications folder. 
#5
This will cause issues sometimes.
Verify that wherever you put the project there is not a space in the absolute path.
01/18/2011 (4:30 am)
Was there a space in the path of the old project?This will cause issues sometimes.
Verify that wherever you put the project there is not a space in the absolute path.
#6
I've removed the space, moved it back to the old location and now it compiles fine. Thank you very much!
01/18/2011 (9:20 am)
That's it! How strange, I've never come across a program that doesn't like spaces (punctuation marks yes, spaces no).I've removed the space, moved it back to the old location and now it compiles fine. Thank you very much!
Marleen Monroe