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Problem with game demo

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:42 am
by Agentarrow
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

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:30 pm
by paradoxnj
Sounds like you're having an alpha map issue. Did you create an alpha map for your cursor?

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:41 pm
by Agentarrow
I havent even gotten around to changing the menu from the RF default. I just hit compile and it comes up like that.

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:03 pm
by paradoxnj
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.

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:05 pm
by Agentarrow
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.

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:28 am
by Agentarrow
here, These should give you a visual

Image

Image

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:38 pm
by paradoxnj
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.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:16 am
by Agentarrow
well, Should I just re-install it?

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:57 pm
by paradoxnj
You can try. What kind of video card do you have?

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:22 am
by Agentarrow
Dunno, my diagnostics is funky and doesn't say. Anywhere.

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:39 pm
by paradoxnj
Right click your desktop and choose Properties. Click the Settings tab. The name of your video card should be in there.

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:16 pm
by Agentarrow
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.

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:06 pm
by paradoxnj
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.

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:30 am
by Agentarrow
Hey, thanks. If I seem a little hopeless, it's because this is a new computer and I'm not used to it yet.

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:01 am
by paradoxnj
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.