Anyone seen this? Weird image exporter problem.

Hey,

For some reason, C2 is doing things like this to images:

And... I have no idea why. This only happens when exporting the HTML version on the latest stable.

NW JS works fine.

Any suggestions? I've reinstalled and restarted everything, and this is a new, sudden issue.

Not sure why it would suddenly be like that, but check the project setting called "Clear background" and/or make sure the background layer is not transparent.

Not sure why it would suddenly be like that, but check the project setting called "Clear background" and/or make sure the background layer is not transparent.

That should fix it. If it's still there and you can, try exporting it on an other machine to see if the problem is C2 releated.

This is by design. Presumably you have set "downscaling quality" to "high" and you are looking at a spritesheet that was exported. (It should not appear like that in-game.) Since you told C2 to maximise the downscaling quality, to guarantee optimum rendering of lower mipmap levels without bleed, each sprite is positioned in a power-of-two cell and its last border of pixels are extended to fill the rest of the cell. This prevents the empty transparent space bleeding in when the driver generates the very small mip levels, which can cause minor artefacts like faint seams between adjacent objects.

This padding also uses a lot more memory. I'd discourage the use of "high" downscaling mode unless you see such seaming artefacts. I think I even put a warning in the editor when you choose that mode.

Okay! I'll try the export again without that downscaling mode selected when home.

Will let you all know. Thank you for the feedback!

Yea... even with it set to medium other image export errors happen, giving me 404s when I try to run the files.

A bunch of the images for spritesheets are missing.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

c2runtime.js:117 Error loading image 'http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/images/dialogsecondpartyfaceholder-sheet0.png': Eventa.onerror c2runtime.js:117

http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/ima ... sheet2.png Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

c2runtime.js:117 Error loading image 'http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/images/furnitureselector-sheet2.png': Eventa.onerror c2runtime.js:117

http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/ima ... sheet2.png Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

c2runtime.js:117 Error loading image 'http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/images/mom-sheet2.png': Eventa.onerror c2runtime.js:117

http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/ima ... sheet1.png Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

c2runtime.js:117 Error loading image 'http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/images/employeeplaceholder-sheet1.png': Eventa.onerror c2runtime.js:117

http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/ima ... sheet1.png Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

c2runtime.js:117 Error loading image 'http://ricethin.com/beans/demobuild/images/supplyselector-sheet1.png': Eventa.onerror c2runtime.js:117

On top of that, when exporting NW JS, this all works fine <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_sad.gif" alt=":(" title="Sad">

Looking here:

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/577/co ... imisations

This may be by design as image deduplication. However... it breaks my project since the 404 is a non-start error.

EDIT:

Deduplication was the error. I managed to fix it by just creating copies of the images and renaming them. Not much of a workaround, but it will do during development I suppose <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

If the server returns 404 not found, you probably just forgot to upload some of the files? C2 should never export references to missing files, if it does please file a bug report following all the guidelines.

I'm not sure if it's a bug, but I can file it later.

The problem is that during development, some sprites ARE identical.

So, for example, I have sprite.

FurniturePlaceholder.png

and

AppliancePlaceholder.png

Both of which are 32 x 32 pink squares.

Those will be developed into art assets and inserted along the pipeline.

During deployment to a HTML5 site however, AppliancePlaceholder-sheet0.png *doesn't* get exported as an image - in the /images/ folder after export. Meaning I have to manually make a copy of FurniturePlaceholder-sheet0.png and rename it to AppliancePlaceholder-sheet0.png to make the project work - (otherwise it throws a 404).

Do you think that's worth filing?

Thanks for your help and all you do!

Definitely, the export should always work unmodified, if there are missing files that's a serious bug we absolutely want to fix.

Try to crop your sprite, it will add 1 pixels to every direction and it might fix the problem.

Crop button in the editor:

Ashley - I'll look into it - I use some third party plugins, so they may be breaking something, and I don't want to file a bug without repro

I do usually crop the sprites to 'center' them as far as C2 is concerned, but thank you for the help!