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Bug report! Locked

A topic by Celianna created May 22, 2017 Views: 7,719 Replies: 151

This topic was locked by Celianna Sep 08, 2018

Bug report for 1.4 will be closed due to the fact all bugs have been records and fixed in version 1.5.

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FlamingDiva6 years ago (1 edit)

I'm really enjoying the new version! I love the client requests and earning money but while I was in the shop (not for the first time) my game froze then crashed. Then I just tried playing it again thinking that things crash all the time. I got this after clicking continue, I was shocked I could because I had forgotten to save my last game...

So I started a new game because I hadn't saved and I thought that was the issue but I got a black screen. The music was still playing, along with the guys voices, but the screen was just black.

And now after re-downloading and still getting the black screen, I am posting this. ~~My computer hates me~~

Update: I restarted my computer (it had an update) and it works fine now....

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Well, continuing when not saving the game results in the black screen - an known issue that shouldn't bother people because they're supposed to save at least once, hah. There is no auto save option, but I'm looking into that for in the future.

Seems the type error occurs only due to PC issues, so it's hard to determine what exactly is causing it. I think it's mostly due to your specs not being high enough (Tailor Tales seems to require 1GB of RAM at least). Probably best to play Tailor Tales with a freshly restarted computer with no other programs open to avoid the crashing.

LunarKnight6 years ago

I keep having a problem with some looks, where I'll hae it perfect, but then it says 'Nope. Wrong.'

I'm playing on a Mac, with the latest edition [only downloaded it a few days ago.]

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

How many times have you experienced this bug, and how much tailoring exp have you earned?

I'm aware of the issue, but thought I had it fixed when I released this version. Apparently not, hah. That's what beta tester are for :)

If you come across the issue again, delete the client. I'll work on a fix.

LunarKnight6 years ago

It's happened 3-4 times so far. Almost always on skirts, although once was a dress. Knowing it's a bug helps me not get frustrated. ^^ I'm sure it still annoys you, but I hope it helps.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Yeah it's something I thought I had fixed (I tried it out over 200 times to see if it still persisted but I didn't see it anymore), but I guess I was wrong. Sorry about the bug, as I said, just delete the client if you can't finish it. At least it doesn't occur all that often.

My programmer is re-doing the client system now, since we can't seem to replicate the bug.

Thank you for reporting :)

MidnightMiscreant6 years ago

Hello, I am playing your demo and having a blast so far (so much content!). Admittedly it seems I am stuck on one obligatory design and I'm not sure if it's my eyes (with tiny patterns sometimes it's hard to pick the right colour) or if it's a bug. It's navy dress with white gloves and white pattern. Not sure if anything else is hiding. Comparison photo underneath.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Check the sparkles pattern on the skirt - it should be default colour, it should not be white! :)

The sparkles are already white.

MidnightMiscreant6 years ago

Ooh, thank you so much. I have forgotten that patterns have default colours. I'll excuse myself since it was 5 am =D

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

No problem, I can see why this would get confusing. I'll keep it in mind in the future. Anyways, have fun playing again!

Lovebird6 years ago

Hi! I faced a bug when I clicked on the third CG for Neil in the CGs menu. It said something about not finding the width null, sorry I forgot. >.<

And when I opened the game to bring the error again to screenshot it nothing happened! I have no idea why it happened the first time.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

It's ok, I know why it happened. It's a core bug within the engine, opening/closing pictures too fast causes it. I'll try to add some extra wait times to avoid it for the next update. You may never get it, or sometimes run into it, just like how it happened with you :p

Athros6 years ago (2 edits)

First of all - I really enjoyed the game so far! Great job! I did encounter some bugs though (or rather, one bug and two minor things)

1st picture: Often when I tried clicking "finished" on orders it didn't work. It would always be when working on dresses and trying to finish from the skirt section as showed in the screenshot. Not a game-wrecking bug, but I encountered it very often as I always worked on the skirt last, haha.

2nd picture: Poor guy is decapitated :(

3rd picture: "Typo" (or are do you).

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

1. Alright, this is very important to clarify for me right now:

- Are you able to click the Finished button, at which point the window will pop up saying that there are still some things missing?
- Or can you not click the Finished button at all?

The former is a noted bug I'm aware of and will be fixed in 1.4, and the latter is a bug that should not be re-occurring at all, so it's important to know which bug you're encountering!

Thank you for the other two screenshots :)

Athros6 years ago

The latter. When clicking "finished" nothing happens at all. If I switch back to shirt it suddenly works fine.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Alright, thank you. You're playing 1.3.1, right?

Athros6 years ago

Sorry for getting back so late - but yes I was.

Lilred6 years ago (2 edits)

So, I got a number of things. First, I really enjoyed the game, normally I don't do the dress-up thing but I rather liked the amount of customization put into it (minus the shoulder ruffles. I just don't like those for some reason, but to each their own). Though, there's a number of grammatical errors that I really hope you get around to fixing. This is probably going to be rather long, but I played through the whole thing and tried to do everything to try and give you the best feedback possible.

Bugs I found (I am using Windows):

Supposedly perfect dresses are "not what the client wants." I had bought everything from the store I believe. General problem causes (I tested a lot):

-- sometimes a skirt/dress will ask for baby doll, but on a few skirt types baby doll will not show up (such as on the short knife-pleated screenshot--it was apparently looking for a black baby doll which I found eventually. Another was in gray.)
--the tiny details are difficult to determine correct color for, a zoom option could probably fix this
--I looked through, and on the primarily brown and green dress for example (unfortunately I screenshot on the sleeves tab) 4 of the 6 available hemlines (shirts) didn't work (all dresses--the hemlines are there, just layered incorrectly)
--occasionally there would be something under a different layer (see above)
--I had one client where they had asked for a design on their clothes nearly the exact same color as the main piece in the glitter pattern and I couldn't see it so I was clicking blindly until I figured it out.
--Clients who ask for short sleeves/small sleeves with patterns killed me, because more often than not the pattern would be in the cut off portion or just hard to notice due to the close color (most notably the snowflakes). I feel like a solution to several of these problems would be an ability to see requests for specific pieces/layers at a time. But I also don't know how to program a game so maybe that's not a viable option.

I could not design a pair of pants with a single rose. The rose didn't show, so I deleted them. They were gone. I made a dress. Screenshot of what happened. Note the tab.
--Furthermore, with the same pants issue, I kept having a problem making dresses. I don't remember how I fixed it, I think it was save and quit maybe, but I did. Still, every time I made a dress, my deleted pants came up. Plus side--the pants worked. Downside--my dresses that should have been there did not. This screenshot was done with a design dress-->make dress on the blank slate dress.

Not really a bug per se, but when I try to put details (like roses) on dresses, I have a certain layer goal on where I think they should show up. I discovered that there were a lot of layers. That caused that rose problem you see on the next dress. I feel like if there was any way to have something telling you which layer you were on it would help.

Overall there seems to be a layering issue with clothes, such as if you put a skirt with the flowy overlay hemline (I forgot what it was called it's getting late you'll know with the screenshot) with a shirt, the shirt unceremoniously takes over. Also, shoes. I like having pants with boots, but I don't think the pants layer should go over the boot layer at the least. I like my pants tucked into my boot. I have a few example of layer issues.

About the store purchases, when you buy either A) all of the items from a page or B) all of the items from a section, the rest of the items disappear. Sometimes A, always B. I noticed someone else say this, but I thought it said that they were on Mac, so I figured I'd put it here. Going out of the store and back in was a solution.

Angela's dress--she asked for gold dress. I made gold dress. She comes in to receive red dress. Effort is drained down toilet.
--Angela side note--I don't have a screenshot, but when Angela is drunk/her cheeks are red and her eyes are closed, it's kinda creepy because the red isn't blended into her eyelid area and she sorta looks like a demon.
--Another Angela side note. There's this one area of inconsistency (I don't remember what chapter number it is, but it's this next screenshot) where Angela says "...your really cool aunt will beat them up for you!" where the entire rest of the time she is explicitly his cousin.

Then there's a sort of funny hour-minute thing going on in the last one. I didn't know the hours stretched so long! (It says, "you have played for 5 hours and 289 minutes" --this was after I finished Neil's current route)

*Edit* Until I can figure out how to upload a picture, no screenshots. I chose to upload through here, it told me to choose my file, it said "uploading" and then there were no pictures. I don't know what to do about that.

Lilred6 years ago

I figured it out :)This one was sort of funny until I realized that my dress was irrecoverable that the pants stole the spot of. I deleted these pants several times. Kept taking a dress spot. As seen here:Sorry, should've just screenshot the boots but that didn't happen. Pants also cover the shoes a wee bit, though I feel like that's less of a problem. This wouldn't be except I normally put pants inside of boots and also you see the boots hiding out behind MC legs.

Sorry there are so many, but I figured it was more helpful to put up screenshots.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Hi there! It would also help explaining what you did because it's not so obvious in each screenshot :p

The pants taking in the spot of a dress is definitely a bug - did this happen when you deleted an item? At least, that's what I think happened; you deleted a dress, and these random pants showed up instead. Did you ever close the game without saving?

Overlaying errors however is just something we all have to live with. If shoes overlapped pants, it would still look weird because not all shoes perfectly overlap the width of the pants, and vice versa. if you want something skintight and tucked into shoes, go with legging instead, since they're below shoes :)

And if you want the skirt to overlap the top, you're going to have to turn it into a dress instead - otherwise tops will always overlap skirts.

You definitely earned quite a bit of money!

Lilred6 years ago

Yeah, sorry.

I made those pants, but they didn't work properly in the pants tab. So I deleted them. Then I went to make a dress, and when I went to the dress tab, that weird mishmash is what happened. At that point I had saved but I hadn't played for so long that I had ever closed the game yet.

The first screenshot was me getting an error over and over again that the dress was incorrect. By sheer luck I tried the baby doll and it didn't show up on the skirt and I thought, "Oh dear." So then I started putting colors on the baby doll and clicking "finish" until it worked with a black baby doll and I got my funds.

The next one was a design that was also not being accepted, so I went looking to find things that might not be showing up. As all hemlines seem to be viable options to clients, I went to check there and 4 of the 6 types (line, ruffles, scallop, big ruffles) are not able to be seen. I was not about to go through the whole slew of color and hemline combinations for that one, so I deleted the client.

Well, I can understand having overlay problems, and I appreciate the tips. Though, I would still like there to be a little more in-game forgiveness on how the layering works--like on the thumbnail for that weird rosy skirt thing I did, it shows all of the roses on top but that isn't the case with one of the rose details especially (and I really thought I had treated all of my details equally with just as many layer-clicks). I made that particular skirt at least four times just because I was determined to figure out the layering thing. I then gave up and succeeded on a much better work with the power of luck. Maybe if there were a way to edit garments?

And yeah, I did make a bit of money, ha. There were some really interesting designs that came up that I wanted to do, and then some more, and then things spiralled out of control. Also I really liked having enough money to just binge a few chapters at a time but also wanted to have a bit more challenge, so I bought out the store while I was at it :p

Sorry also if I seemed snarky/blunt about the overlay thing, I'm just one of those people who get focused on details.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

When you say the pants didn't work properly, what do you mean?It's definitely happening because you deleted some bottoms though, that's for sure. You can't delete the weird pants/dress combo either? The more info you can give me on what you did and what happened helps me out a ton! Then I can re-create the bug and find a fix for it :)

Clients not accepting outfits that match perfectly is a well known bug and will be fixed in the next update. If you come across an impossible client, just delete them.

Oh right, the babydoll item was a test, I should not have added it to the game haha. It doesn't have a graphic for the other skirts, so it may show up invisible on some clients if you own it. Although I'm confused about the layering issue you mentioned. What were you trying to achieve with the details?

Editing garments is not a feasible option, sorry :( once the design is finished, it saves it into a single image and all of its data is lost. Saving the data for each garment would just crash your RAM. I may have made the system a bit too complex, haha.

Lilred6 years ago

Well, the pants issue was that I used the rose detail (I think I only had a couple of details at the time, the teardrop one and that rose) and it did not show up, so I deleted the pants. After that, they were gone. I think I tried to make them three times, and I deleted each one. So I gave up on that. Then I made a dress, and the pants showed up there instead and as the weird combo, also with the rose detail showing up, oddly enough. I did delete that as well, but the combo then showed up as a different dress that I made. Deleted that, too. At this point, I hadn't closed the game at all yet. Defeated, I saved and quit, and when I came back later, everything was working fine, rose detail included.

I see, the babydoll thing makes sense. Deleting all impossible clients is a can-do.

As for the details, I was just trying to get them to show up on the skirt (or pants, from earlier). They showed up completely fine in the thumbnail, and I thought I had moved them all to the foremost layer (I used the buttons that seem to move from straight from the first to the last layer), as they looked fine in the design as well, but you can see in the screenshot that one of the roses is missing due to being on a different layer, and the big rose is under the shirt. Since the second is probably because shirts override skirts, I'll just readjust for that one, but the medium rose missing is a little irritating, since that was about my fourth attempt to get all of the details to work. I still don't know if that answers your question. As a side note, I did eventually succeed with a different dress, so it does work fine, it's just hard to tell if the details are actually on a layer that leaves them visible sometimes.

Oh, I see. Not feasible at all then. How many layers are there to a skirt or a dress, then? Just on the basic level. I think even knowing that would be helpful. Or maybe if there was a sound effect to the layer buttons? Because right now there isn't any, and I think that would help, even if there was just one to tell if you had hit the foremost or last layer, or if the buttons faded out when you couldn't move in one direction any more. I don't know if either of those options are feasible either, but it seems that it would be simpler than crashing RAM. Ah well, everything is a learning process :)

SupremeDalek6 years ago (1 edit)

Hi,

For some reason on the mac the game crashes (for me at least) immediately after you try to save your character's look. I'm not sure if it's just me or something else entirely. Here's what the notification looks like:

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Yep, a noted bug - Mac doesn't want you to overwrite files, which is what's happening here.

Someone else did this to get around it:

I had this problem too but found a way to make it work: right click on
the game and choose show contents, then go to the file MacOS, click on
the thing called nwjs and your game will pop up along with another
window, but you should be able to save this time.

SupremeDalek6 years ago

Thanks so much! Sorry about the repetition. I really appreciate your quick response!!

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

I'm going to assume it worked then? :D

SupremeDalek6 years ago

Yep, sorry for being vague haha. Thanks!

Desrin6 years ago

This solution worked for me, too! Thanks so much!

Lalalalovesong6 years ago (2 edits)

Hiya! Really enjoying this game so far, it's rather addicting :'D

My problem is that I can't seem to change my outfit after finishing Neil's 11th chapter (welp, I reckon that I'd need to change my outfit for the next chapter, since I have to design my own ball gown) and as I've looked into the respective folder, that CLTH_00010.png is missing from it, so it's probably either a missing file or a coding error which originally meant to say CLTH_00011.png ('coz that one exists).

Does any of you guys maybe have an idea on how to fix this (playing the latest Windows Beta version, btw)

Thanks a lot everyone~!

Edit: I managed to fix it by renaming CLTH_00011.png into CLTH_00010.png !:D Leaving this here for everyone who might face the same issue. Have a lovely day everyone!^^

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

It's not actually a bug - it seems you've created an item (#10), then deleted it, but never saved the game after deleting it. The game is now trying to find the image for item #10, but it doesn't exist, hence the error.

Luckily the next update should force an autosave after you create a design so that this kind of issue doesn't crop up anymore :)

happyham6 years ago

Hi!

I'm playing beta 1.3.1 on a Mac.

I have 4 dresses in my character's outfit wardrobe, so 3 on the first page, 1 on the second page. If I click the top-left item on the second page, and then go back to the first page and click on an item on that page, a trashcan delete icon appears on the top-left "remove outfit" space. See below:

Similarly, if I click the top-right item on the first page, and then go to the second page and click on the item on that page, a trashcan icon appears in the top-right empty space on the second page. See below:

Same thing happens if I click the bottom-left item on the first page, a trashcan appears on the empty bottom-left space, and same again for the bottom-right and the bottom-right empty space.

On my previous save game, I clicked on the trashcan in the empty space, and an error appeared. I couldn't click anywhere so I quit the game. When I restarted the game, returned to the outfit wardrobe, and tried to change my outfit, another error appeared. I ended up starting the game again from scratch by uninstalling and reinstalling. Unfortunately I don't have screenshots of the errors, but from memory I think they were the same error as the above poster's error ("Failed to Load: img/.....").

I hope my explanation is okay!

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Thank you, these are very detailed! I've replicated the bug and am looking for a fix now :)

happyham6 years ago

No problem! Thanks for all your hard work ^^

MarsCaspian6 years ago

okay yeah, i left a comment earlier but deleted it to try the game again. cx

so i'm doing the client clothing and i'm pretty sure i've got it down but it's not letting me proceed? i'm not sure if you'd call it a bug or not.

unless i'm using the wrong material or the wrong colors?

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago (4 edits)

Haha yep, someone else mentioned it and I was working on a fix! Seems the data got corrupted, so you can download the fix here. Drop and replace that file in your Tailor Tales > www > Data folder and it should work again! You do not need to create a new game for this to work. I apologize for a sloppy release </3

Edit: turns out, you DO need to create a new game. Your previous save file has the corrupted data stored unfortunately. Thankfully this was right at the beginning of the update haha. Go to your www > save folder and delete all files in there to start a new game.

wildandalive6 years ago

by new game do you mean we have to start all the way from chapter 1??

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

No. Delete all files in your www > save folder to start a new game with the current update and the downloaded fix (or just re-download the game from itch.io and delete your old one if you want to be sure). I apologize for the error.

MarsCaspian6 years ago

got it. thank you so much for your help and hard work ! really love your game!

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Thanks! Let me know if this fix works :)

lotussomeday3656 years ago

I'm having the exact same error, but for the pink flower dress in Neil's passionate ending. I am for sure the dress is right but it wont let me proceed. I downloaded the link and attached it to my game, deleted my save files and it still won't work for me for some reason?

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

That's unfortunate. It's time to delete your Tailor Tales 1.4 folder and re-download from itch.io again as that version should work.

wildandalive6 years ago

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princessbarb216 years ago

Got this error when Mc fell on top of Neil

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Thanks! Reload and try again, this can sometimes happen due to a core bug in the engine itself.

princessbarb216 years ago (2 edits)

I reloaded several times to try again, but it still happens. I play it through the itch.io game manager

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

It's unfortunately not an error I can fix right now, but I do have some ideas how to circumvent it in the future. If you come across it, try pressing F5 so that the game reloads without closing the game, it should hopefully skip it this time. Make sure you're not running anything else either that slows down your RAM.

princessbarb216 years ago

Alright, thanks

LetiGame6 years ago

Hello there!

I really like the game, and I couldn't wait to see Neil's ending...Unfortunately I can't seem to achieve one of the client's request, but I think that my model is the same. (I apologize in advance if it's me that made a mistake with the model ^^ )

I saw that someone ran into the same issue and that you told this person to delete the folder and download the game again. But I've just downloaded it, so it should work if you uploaded the fixed version...

So I hope that you can find how to fix this ( I will be patient to see what's next in Neil's route x) )

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Very peculiar as that bug should be fixed. Perhaps my newest update to itch.io got mixed up and the bug is back again.

Are you a returning beta player and have you just started the game? Or have you been playing this version for a while?

LetiGame6 years ago

I'm a returning beta player, I've played the version 1.3 and I was on Neil's passionate route. So here, I just started the game, choose returning beta player, and I encounter the problem almost right away.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Alright, try redownloading it again, let me know if it works this time or not. I uploaded another version.

LetiGame6 years ago

It seems to work, once I started the game I was on Dimitri's route, so I change it and get to the chapter 26 of Neil's. I didn't seem to encounter the same client's request for now. I'll keep on playing and let you know if the problem comes back ;)

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Well that's because you went from Dimitri to Neil, so you skipped the clients requests for chapter 26 entirely, it doesn't tell me whether it's fixed or not :(

LetiGame6 years ago

Ho :s sorry, the game started automatically on his route and I couldn't find a way to start on Nail's route :s I jumped from Dimitri to Neil by choosing the chapter 25 so I thought that I would have the request again :s

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Oops, my bad, seems this version got uploaded with a save file I forgot to delete. If you wanted to restart, all you'd have to do is go to your WWW > Save folder and delete all of those files in there. But that's if you want to start over, you don't need to.

LetiGame6 years ago (1 edit)

Hi again, sorry for the late reply!

So I just tried it, and I worked, I managed to achieve the client request :)

Kaya Sharp6 years ago

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Oh something definitely broke there. Does the pattern move away from the skirt when you cancel and re-accept the client? And it doesn't let you finish, right?

Did you do anything special before accepting that client? How many times would you say that the random clients wouldn't accept your request, despite matching it perfectly?

Do you think you can upload your save file so I can check it out? The file should be located in your Tailor Tales > www > save folder and called "file1.rpgsave" if you could upload that to for example dropbox and send me the link, that'd be great!

Doomzilla6 years ago

So I'm not entirely sure that this was because of your game, but I think there's a good chance. I think it caused my video driver to crash. I can't be sure because my computer seems not to have logged it, but it froze up mid sentence and then the entire screen went black before starting back up again. The game is still a black screen but otherwise my computer is working fine again.

I was playing Dimitri's route, Chapter 2. MC had just got ditched by Alex and they were sitting on the sofa talking about Dimitri's birthday. MC was in the middle of the line where she wonders if she did something wrong.

I just replayed the scene without issue. If it happens again I will update.

I'm sorry, I wish I had more info or was more certain, but it was alarming enough that I at least wanted to give you a maybe report.

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

That seems to be unfortunately hardware related, Tailor Tales is quite taxing. Can you tell me your computer specs, how much RAM you have etc.?

Doomzilla6 years ago (1 edit)

i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 16GB RAM, x64, R9 270x 4GB

My first guess was out of date drivers, but that wasn't the case. Maybe the video card itself? That I have a SSD? It's a gaming desktop but getting a bit dated. I haven't had the error happen again though. I'm checking the performance now, but it doesn't seem at all taxed.

Atramento6 years ago

Hi! First of all, I love this game half to death. As soon as I found this bug I panicked. I'm playing Neils story and read through the whole story except the 28th chapter on the passionate route. When I try to click the continue button, the screen fades to white for a second and makes a sound but doesn't move onto the story. Am I missing something I need to do?

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Thanks for playing Neil's ending! Chapter 28 is the epilogue and not yet added to the game, therefor you can't continue :)

Atramento6 years ago

Ah okay, thank you for letting me know! I'm glad there wasn't anything wrong.

Athene-nike6 years ago

Hi there! I downloaded the 1.3 version of the game on a mac, but now it's updated to 1.4 I get an error message whenever I start the game up, reading 'error, failed to load: img/pictures/BG_boutique_floor_01.png and I cannot progress beyond that!

CeliannaDeveloper6 years ago

Hi there! Please delete 1.3 and treat 1.4 as another stand-alone version, do not attempt to import your save file or merge the two versions together.

Does the error still occur with a clean download?

Athene-nike6 years ago

Uninstalled and installed the game again, it works perfecly now! Thank you for the quick reply!

(also Dimitri is honestly too cute I'm not sure my heart can take it!)

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