grapper
July 25th, 2013, 16:33
I've been having some intermittent problems with my maps/Images in the SW ruleset. The problem started before the update to 3.4 and has persisted even after.
The problem is that some maps (.jpg images) will cause an xml error (image reference not found or something like that) and after that any time I try to open any image it just comes up blank until I close and relaunch the session. When this happens, my players can still open previously shared maps (including the one that generated the error). The problem seemed to happen most frequently with very large maps.
Possibly related to this is some strangeness with where in the images window (select box). When I drop an image in during a session, the image appears on one of the module tabs instead of in the main campaign tab.
Lastly, and probably unrelated. After upgrading to v. 3.4 of the SW ruleset, the chase tool seems to be broken. When I shared the chase window with my players no character (PC or NPC) showed up to them regardless of their visibility setting. I tried toggling to allow them to open/close the chase tool and that did not fix things. (in the previous version when the players closed and opened the chase or init tracker tool it would refresh for them fixing issues with cards not updating). At one point while toggling between GM/player open mode I got an xml crash.
Since I was in the middle of trying to finish up an adventure I was bad and didn't save any of the crash logs.
I've been running the same install of FGII since 2009, so I suspect that something may have become corrupted. My current plan is to try a clean install when I have some time, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on this. If the problem happens again, I'll save a copy of the xml error list.
The problem is that some maps (.jpg images) will cause an xml error (image reference not found or something like that) and after that any time I try to open any image it just comes up blank until I close and relaunch the session. When this happens, my players can still open previously shared maps (including the one that generated the error). The problem seemed to happen most frequently with very large maps.
Possibly related to this is some strangeness with where in the images window (select box). When I drop an image in during a session, the image appears on one of the module tabs instead of in the main campaign tab.
Lastly, and probably unrelated. After upgrading to v. 3.4 of the SW ruleset, the chase tool seems to be broken. When I shared the chase window with my players no character (PC or NPC) showed up to them regardless of their visibility setting. I tried toggling to allow them to open/close the chase tool and that did not fix things. (in the previous version when the players closed and opened the chase or init tracker tool it would refresh for them fixing issues with cards not updating). At one point while toggling between GM/player open mode I got an xml crash.
Since I was in the middle of trying to finish up an adventure I was bad and didn't save any of the crash logs.
I've been running the same install of FGII since 2009, so I suspect that something may have become corrupted. My current plan is to try a clean install when I have some time, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on this. If the problem happens again, I'll save a copy of the xml error list.