Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 I got a dance circle which I placed and it is working. It had several dance anims loaded most of which I didn't like. So, I deleted all but two. I then added four of my own. All six of those work when you use the circle. But, when I added the seventh dance, it doesn't show up in the dance menu. I tried deleting it and adding it back. But, it still doesn't show up. The object instructions say that you can add as many dances as script memory will allow...but, seems strange that I would run out at seven anims. Any thoughts about how to diagnose the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Without seeing the script it's gonna be a shot in the dark, but trying to guess how it works... Have you reset the scripts in the object? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiramanell Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Wee more context might be helpful. AVsitter? Did you add menu items? You're really going to have a bit more specific. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiramanell Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 10 minutes ago, Rhiannon108 said: I got a dance circle which I placed and it is working. It had several dance anims loaded most of which I didn't like. So, I deleted all but two. I then added four of my own. All six of those work when you use the circle. But, when I added the seventh dance, it doesn't show up in the dance menu. I tried deleting it and adding it back. But, it still doesn't show up. The object instructions say that you can add as many dances as script memory will allow...but, seems strange that I would run out at seven anims. Any thoughts about how to diagnose the issue? Also, you can be pretty much certain it's not the script running out of memory. If the dance names are storerd in some sort of list, as per usual, then (depending on the length of the dance names), you could store like 100-200 of them, before memory ever became an issue. Besides, if the script would really run out of memory, it would simply crash (with a debug notice, about a stack overflow or something). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 25 minutes ago, kiramanell said: Wee more context might be helpful. AVsitter? Did you add menu items? You're really going to have a bit more specific. I did reset the scripts and that didn't do anything. I didn't do anything to add the menu items as the dance anims I added after I bought it just automatically showed up until this last one. By "AVsitter?" do you mean is it an object you sit on that animates your avi? If so, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KT Kingsley Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) What happens if the offending animation is the only one in the object? What happens if you add yet another animation after the offending one? What happens if you rename the offending animation? Oh, and Avsitter is a script system for playing animations in objects that are sat on. It lets you customise stuff like the menus. It doesn't sound like it's involved in this. Edited July 27, 2019 by KT Kingsley 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 A clue: I tried adding a dif animation and it doesn't show up in the dance menu, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KT Kingsley Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) How many buttons show in the menu now? If it's 12, including the animations and the control buttons, then maybe the script hasn't been written to accommodate multiple pages and is just ignoring anything that takes it over the limit. Edited July 27, 2019 by KT Kingsley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 Also, I deleted one of the dance anims that does show up and the other new one still doesn't show up in the dance menu even though I can see it in the content tab when I edit the object. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 10 minutes ago, Rhiannon108 said: By "AVsitter?" do you mean is it an object you sit on that animates your avi? If so, yes. AVsitter is the name of a specific, very common animation engine, but I think you'd recognize it if that was what the product uses... you'd need to edit a notecard called "AVpos" to get animations into a menu, if you were using that script. Can you list what script names appear in the contents of the object? (I'm guessing it's a custom job) (... and it is actually new information that the object is one you sit on in order to be animated, so that may prove useful) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 There are only eight dances and the new one isn't showing. It has nine slots on page one of the menu. So, even when I deleted one, the new anim isn't on page one of the dance menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 When I added the anims that did show up in the menu, I just copied them into the contents and didn't do anything special for them to show up on the menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 I added the particular anim that isn't showing up to another dance ball and it works fine. So, the anim doesn't seem to be broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 I reread the instructions with the object and it does say to just drop anims in and that it can handle any number as long as you don't run out of memory. Also, I sent a notecard to the designer but not hopeful he will answer since his inworld store is gone and it's an older product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Any chance the missing anim is the one named "Gothic Seductress Slow 6 - Abranimations" ? It seems to be the longest, and longer than 24 characters, and that's the limit on the length of text names in a dialog. But normally it would either shout a nasty debug message the owner would see, or the script would handle it correctly, so maybe that's not the problem. (If that *is* the problem, maybe try renaming the anim to something shorter?) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 9 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said: Any chance the missing anim is the one named "Gothic Seductress Slow 6 - Abranimations" ? It seems to be the longest, and longer than 24 characters, and that's the limit on the length of text names in a dialog. But normally it would either shout a nasty debug message the owner would see, or the script would handle it correctly, so maybe that's not the problem. (If that *is* the problem, maybe try renaming the anim to something shorter?) That was it!!! Thanks!!!!!!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiannon108 Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 Btw, it didn't give a debug message before when I added it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 If the creator was lazy like I am, they may have just had the script ignore any names that are too long, to avoid the error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiramanell Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 15 minutes ago, Gadget Portal said: If the creator was lazy like I am, they may have just had the script ignore any names that are too long, to avoid the error. Or maybe that's a sign of not being lazy. Rather than let the scipt crash, the coder did some sanity checks on the input first (which is actually very wise: all data not supplied by yourself should always be treated as 'tainted', and be dealt with accordingly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 4 minutes ago, kiramanell said: Or maybe that's a sign of not being lazy. Rather than let the scipt crash, the coder did some sanity checks on the input first (which is actually very wise: all data not supplied by yourself should always be treated as 'tainted', and be dealt with accordingly). The not lazy solution would be to generate a numbered list and make the buttons into numbers. Or truncate the name into something readable. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiramanell Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 11 minutes ago, Gadget Portal said: The not lazy solution would be to generate a numbered list and make the buttons into numbers. Or truncate the name into something readable. Fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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