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Sand: A Superfluous Game

An open world, base-building, adventure survival game with quirky humor and Llamas!​ · By Voided Pixels Studio

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A topic by Voided Pixels Studio created Feb 19, 2018 Views: 13,632 Replies: 640
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Developer(+1)

Post all bugs you find here

every time i try to play i get a pop up that saids this

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############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 3
for object obj_camp_fire:

Creating instance for non-existing object: -4
at gml_Object_obj_camp_fire_Other_13
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Object_obj_camp_fire_Other_13 (line -1)
called from - gml_Object_obj_camp_fire_Other_4 (line -1) - <unknown source line>

Developer(+1)

Found the issue. Patch is live.

(+1)

is it solved?

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hey void, i think there is some problem with your game but i really like the game and also i wish you keep adding more and more stuff. THANKS MAN. and also can you add floor building, more event/building, more vehicle and weapons, AND THE MOST I WANT "STEALTH MECHANIC". i,m so so sorry for asking man. if you cant do it, ITS OKAY :D

Developer

Thank you for your interest. More is coming for sure. I am working on some behind the scene things like missions and event spawning right now so nothing I can really update with until those systems are in place. I've already have an idea for stealth mechanics. I will probably be like nothing you've seen before :)

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Developer

So it works now?

Thought I posted this ages ago but must have forgotten, crystals don't seem to appear in the items list. :)

Developer

Yeah some items are like multi purpose items. Milk for example gives you 1 water and 1 meat (protein). Crystals give you electronics. They are suppose to give you more then one but they only give one right now. They are planned for high end rewards. I had at one time a much larger item list but decided to simplify it down.

Ahh, makes sense, I had just assumed I was also getting electronics and simply couldn't see them in the mass of loot. :)

That game is awesome! So tiny but so deep :)

I have done some quests but now the only one (repeatable) quest I can take its a "BONE SMASHING" at farm.

Other quest I have named "NONE" with the task "ERROR NO DATA". Is it a bug or I did something wrong?

Developer

No that is all the quest right now :( sorry.

I'll be added more and more as I develop. I am glad to hear you got through them all. The first ones are just tutorial quests. Where any confusing? or do you think there should be more or less?

Thanks for the feed back. Glad you like the game! 

All seems fine. The only confusing thing for me was that "Error no data" mission :)

Maybe you could name that last mission someting like "That's all for now" and the task "Just have fun! My boss will bring more quests soon ;)"

Developer

i used to have that LOL don't know why it is showing the default message. I'll see if I can change it :

When I did the tutorial, I got ahead of it in several places which caused some issues, for example when it told me to go do one thing, I would start on another (multitasking) like collecting seeds while collecting wood for example, I gathered too much and later when it asked me to go collect seeds it wanted new seeds, not counting the ones I'd already done, this can cause issues with getting stuck and slowing down the game significantly. :)

Developer

So I have several versions of missions. One mission type is COLLECT X amount of things. Another mission type is HAVE X amount of things. So I have that functionally built in. I may have just not set the right mission type for that mission. Was it the seeds mission in particular?

I believe so, cannot quite recall.

I started playing the game, put it in full screen because some of the text was kind of hard to read. I pressed Esc at one point, thinking it would bring up a pause or save menu, but instead the screen just went white and froze. I couldn't tab out, exit full screen, ctrl+alt+del or anything, eventually it finally just closed and suddenly I got a bunch of pop ups from my malware protection program that it had deleted a bunch of the files. So I don't know if the game saving triggered the malware and deleted everything and that's why it froze, or if it freezing somehow caused all the bad things to happen.

Developer

Right now I have ESC closing the game (if you are in your base). That should be changed pretty soon to a better system. As far as the malware what program are you running? The only thing I can think it is trying to save the base data when it closes??

Every time I start a game I get this bug report after a few seconds:

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############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation
ShaderName: sh_outline
D3DXCompile failed - result
at gml_Script_outline_start
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_outline_start (line -1)
gml_Object_obj_collection_node_Draw_0

Developer

I got this on an older computer I had. Try updating direct X drivers.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/179113/how-to-install-the-latest-version-of-directx

Developer

WINDOWS 10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35&44F86079-8679-400C-BFF2-9CA5F2BCBDFC=1

Developer

Also this post on STEAM forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/360740/discussions/1/483367798505023937/

Developer

Let me know if these fix it.

I do have an older PC but it's still running Windows 10 and has DirectX 12 installed right now. From what I can see I have fully updated drivers and Windows.

Developer (1 edit)

Graphics driver maybe? I did something and got it to work, just can't remember. Did you try installing links? the second one is the runtime environment which is different then the drivers.

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Every time in the game...
Some sort of FATAL ERROR shows up and shuts the game down. 
Can u fix this??? 
Really great game by the way, love the story line. 
I'll be really happy if you can fix this error. 
XD

Developer (1 edit)

Can you tell me a little more about the error? Does an error message show? What were you doing when the game crashed? Was it the same thing? Is it the error above?

Sometimes things glitched out like the Llama and the enemies. Not very often but it happens. And when I quit the game it says that the game got some problems and it needs to shut down and it did, even though there's nothing that's actually broken but you might want to keep that in mind.

Also if we can pet or hug the llama that would be cool, they are cute ;3

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you can't build wood, stone floor/ blue,green,red rug on North-West/West/North tile of an existing floor

you can still build Rugs around wood, stone floor though, and vise versa,

but new banned zone will appear as well..

you can't build painting/ wall torch/wall light on the banned zone created by Rug floor

Metal floor, farm plot, stone path seems fine, no such problem (the floors in dev section are fine)

wall banner, wood shelf show red background when you tried to build them on any wall/window/door, but you can still build them



weapon workbench, car station can not be flipped, when you try to flip them, the preview image show them flipped.

but when you actually built them, it doesn't get flipped.

(weapon workbench does have image_xscale set to -1.000000 though but car station doesn't)
and the preview image of flipped car station is kinda off...

also, the weapon spawn zone may get blocked by obstacles,
unlike the car station, it doesn't show red background when the spawn point blocked by something


photocell, volt meter, switch, small battery and the farming, lumberjack, ranching robot don't have collision box

after you built the flipped robots, the starting position of the robots are kinda off

the image of flipped solar panel is kinda off, doesn't match the collision box

Developer

Yeah the flipping thing seemed to cause lots of bugs lol.

 Thanks for the list! I work on fixing those today.

Developer

Ok a new build is live fixing the can't build floors bug

Developer

Great Work! Love it :)

  • Rugs and floors
    • Fixed it. Read new dev log :)
  • photocell, volt meter, switch, small battery and the farming, lumberjack, ranching robot don't have collision box
    • Some items don't have collision boxes they are meant to be that way.
  • also, the weapon spawn zone may get blocked by obstacles, unlike the car station, it doesn't show red background when the spawn point blocked by something
    • Fixed it. Good find!
  • wall banner, wood shelf show red background when you tried to build them on any wall/window/door, but you can still build them
    • Fixed it
  • after you built the flipped robots, the starting position of the robots are kinda off
    • Fixed
  • the image of flipped solar panel is kinda off, doesn't match the collision box
    • Fixed
  • weapon workbench, car station can not be flipped, when you try to flip them, the preview image show them flipped.
    • Fixed: weapon work bench flips now. car station will not (yet).
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found some damage issues, tested in Dev playground ( didn't test on skelly, but I guess its all working)

grenade does no damage on chick/ chicken
grenade/ pistol/ sub-machine gun/ machine gun/ does no damage on baby_cow/ baby_wooly
grenade does no damage on cow/ wooly
grenade/pistol/sub-machine gun/machine gun does no damage on baby_llama/ llama
pipe/bow does no damage on llama

I'm not sure about whip but it seems fine though...

Developer

The whip is suppose to be used on animals to heard them. It should not hurt them.

Grenades don't do damage to anything but enemies. I just didn't get around to fixing it for other things.

I made it so baby animals are invincible. 

Llama might also be invincible? I kept killing mine on accident so I turned it off. I'll add it back some other time.

I think I actually still have the Llama breeding in the game. If two llamas are next to a nest they make babies. HaHa. I planned on implementing that for other animals just got busy making other things.


I made it so baby animals are invincible. 
Llama might also be invincible? I kept killing mine on accident so I turned it off. I'll add it back some other time.

shotgun blast works! (tested in normal mode)


I think I actually still have the Llama breeding in the game. If two llamas are next to a nest they make babies. HaHa. I planned on implementing that for other animals just got busy making other things.

it might cause performance issue... especially when you can't kill them


Developer

Oh no! Shotgun to the face?!

HAHA I guess I should limit the llama amount? Maybe 10?

Developer (1 edit)

OK baby animals should be fixed now. Will work on killing the big ones with grenades next. Oh and removed llama breeding.

I load the game and i get this error

___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation
ShaderName: sh_outline

D3DXCompile failed - result

at gml_Script_outline_start
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_outline_start (line -1)
gml_Object_obj_collection_node_Draw_0

Developer (4 edits)

I got this on an older computer I had. Try updating direct X drivers.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/179113/how-to-install-the-latest-version-of-directx

ALSO this:

WINDOWS 10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35&44F86079-8679-400C-BFF2-9CA5F2BCBDFC=1

Also this post on STEAM forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/360740/discussions/1/483367798505023937/

OR

https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/solved-vertex-shader-compilation-crash.38923/

Im on windows 10 and my direct x is version 12 i still get the same error upon entering and attempting  to play the game.

Developer (1 edit)

Did you install the link? It isn't a directX version but a runtime for an older version of directX that they took out of Windows 10. At least that is what I think it is lol.

Use this one:

WINDOWS 10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35&44F86079-8679-400C-BFF2-9CA5F2BCBDFC=1

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FATAL ERROR was fixed when I updated my DirectX. 

The only time it crashes is when you enter build mode and right-click E.D.I.E.  

Please dont remove Llama breeding :(

Developer (1 edit)

I'll add it back soon. I am working on make cows have to drink. :)

I'll check on the EDIE bug. Thats what you get for trying to delete her :)

I tried to delete her because a llama was stuck in her. 
I never realized EDIE was Female tho. 

Developer

EDIE (sort for Edith) is a girls name EDDIE is a boys name. I mean shes an AI so... I guess it doesnt matter :)

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when you are running the game in full-screen mode and died during gameplay, the game just LOCK in foreground, and stuck there.
you can't alt-tab to other program or window. I can't even  alt-tab to task manager either.

you will have to press windows key then click the program icon on the task bar to bring back the game.
and after that, you still can't alt-tab to other program or window, it still lock in foreground.

when you are running the game in windowed mode and died during gameplay, the game automatically minimize itself.
you will have to click it on the task bar again to bring back the window. (same thing happened when you hit "delete mission data")


weapon workbench can't flip, only the preview image flipped...

and I found save glitch (storage didn't save properly, it just disappeared), don't know how to reproduce it though

Found a bug. 

When you enter the Orphanage with a car, the car appears in a room where it can't get out.

This was in 0.2.7

imma check if you fixed it in 0.2.8 

Developer

No probably didn’t. I’ll put it in my list to fix. I’ll put in a parking spot object where cars spawn as a fix for now.

Developer

fixed

THANKS!
:D

when I started using ver 0.2.8, every mission that I did got repeated. Was this intentional or not? 

PS: I kept the stuff I had tho. And the things I built.

Developer

Maybe you hit the delete missions button by accident? 

I have a suggestion, make cars have health because it is SO easy to kill skellies in an invulnerable vehicle. 

Developer

At the end the car will have health and fuel you have to craft.

hey im starting out and to build a wooly you need 100 veggies but i have 90 and it wont let me hold more

Developer (1 edit)

Build more wood crates. They increase your storage level. Barrels increase your water/oil storage level.

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