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Ciachociech66 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

I’m using a PC with Windows 11 and I’m using RTX4070. Once more, I tried to launch this game normally and as a administrator, but the same error occured. Moreover, I tried your three other projects:

  • Space Trader re-Factor - not working, the same error
  • Space Shooter Demo (Prototype) - as above, but launch after second attempt
  • 3D Terrain + more (Code included) - this works perfectly

What I can do additionally is try on different PC device (with Win10 and GTX1050Ti), if something will change, I will give a reply.

EDIT: On my second device, the game is launching but closes after a short period (I only see something which looks like stars on black screen). Logging from console:

ERROR::SHADER_COMPILATION_ERROR of type: FRAGMENT                                                                       ERROR: 0:1: '' : illegal non-ASCII character (0xef)                                                                     ERROR: 0:1: '' : illegal non-ASCII character (0xbb)                                                                     ERROR: 0:1: '' : illegal non-ASCII character (0xbf)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      -- --------------------------------------------------- --                                                              ERROR::PROGRAM_LINKING_ERROR of type: PROGRAM                                                                           Attached fragment shader is not compiled.                                                                                                                                                                                                        -- --------------------------------------------------- --

About Space Trader re-Factor game there is running, but closes after short period, it looks that graphics is good, except one console line: “Failed to load texture”

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programmer_jeff66 days ago(+1)

ok, thanks, that helps me, the space trader re-factor and the game jam game both used the same project files ... hmmm

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programmer_jeff64 days ago(+1)

Ok, I watched someone live had the same problem (they were streaming the game and I was able to narrow down the problem and this solution fixed it), but if you save the file as UTF-8 encoding, it will eliminate the Unicode errors, not sure why this happens, but I blame my lack of understanding the plethora of settings available in Visual Studio.  Anyways, hope this helps, and I will try to update the files for these two demos upon next release... in fact, that may be the next release.

Thanks again,

Jeff

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Ciachociech62 days ago(+1)

Thanks for suggestion, also after figthing with my antivirus (Avast seems to be not best option too choose after all). I want able to finally test a game. I can appreciate the art style of game. I also like the idea that you didn’t used any “popular” game engine and utilize your own code (together with GLFW and OpenGL I guess). According to game, I like the idea of merging fireflies and the fact their child has their colors and similar patterns.

P.S.: I see that you pass colors from/to shaders as variables 1:1 (each variable for color). You could try using tables to store colors.

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programmer_jeff62 days ago(+1)

Thanks for playing and the feedback!  Yes, I already have some tables of colors that I've used in the Space Trader game, one for Asteroids' colors, and one with different shades of blue for Ice Crystals.

Anyways, take care,

Jeff

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