Problem with game demo

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:42 am

well, there's a problem. Whenever I try to test my game, When the demo comes up, the cursor is outlined by a white box, and instead of saying Daniel for the player name, it says in negativly colored letters: UNNAMED, then when I click done, it blank screens. Shows an empty menu with no buttons. It says to post the Realityfactory.log file, and I think this is it, but I am not sure:
Searching for fullscreen driver

Initializing Game Shell...
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--- Reality Factory 0.75C ---
--- For more Information, visit: ---
--- http://www.realityfactory.info ---
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Parsed RealityFactory.ini file

Genesis3D Initialized

*INFO* VFS detected (not encrypted)...

Initializing Camera Manager...
Initializing User Input Subsystem...
Initializing Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing CD Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Midi Audio Manager Subsystem...
Initializing RF Menu Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Network...
Loading Menu.ini...
Parsing Menu.ini...
Initializing Menu
Initializing Collision Manager Subsystem...
Initializing Network Manager Subsystem...
Initializing AVIFile Video Subsystem...
Launching Reality Factory Game Shell...
Entering CRFMenu::DoMenu()
Entering CRFMenu::ProcessMenu
Entering Windows Message Loop, Rendering Game Menu
Entering CRFMenu::ProcessMenu
Entering Windows Message Loop, Rendering Game Menu
Entering CRFMenu::ProcessMenu
Entering Windows Message Loop, Rendering Game Menu

Post by **paradoxnj** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:30 pm

Sounds like you're having an alpha map issue. Did you create an alpha map for your cursor?

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:41 pm

I havent even gotten around to changing the menu from the RF default. I just hit compile and it comes up like that.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:03 pm

Did you change the bitmaps? An alpha map is an black and white version of your diffuse map. This tells Genesis 3D what pixels to make transparent and which ones to color.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:05 pm

none. It's all as it was when I got RF. I tried to re-install the demo program, but the problem just got worse. Maybe I should just start working on my own menu.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:28 am

here, These should give you a visual

Post by **paradoxnj** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:38 pm

That is an alpha map issue. You need to provide an alpha map along with a regular bitmap to solve this problem. The 255th slot in the color palette is the color that is transparent.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:16 am

well, Should I just re-install it?

Post by **paradoxnj** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:57 pm

You can try. What kind of video card do you have?

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:22 am

Dunno, my diagnostics is funky and doesn't say. Anywhere.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:39 pm

Right click your desktop and choose Properties. Click the Settings tab. The name of your video card should be in there.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:16 pm

k, well, it's an Intel 82852 GME. I think it would be better, if someone just copied the regular menu Alphamap and e-mailed it to me. Because that's missing. I'll bet that's the problem.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:06 pm

You are not using a very good video card. That may be the problem also. Switch the driver to OpenGL and see if it works.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:30 am

Hey, thanks. If I seem a little hopeless, it's because this is a new computer and I'm not used to it yet.

Post by **paradoxnj** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:01 am

I highly recommend that you go out and buy yourself an NVidia or ATI graphics card. It doesn't have to be the best, you can get a discount one to start with.