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I was in this room with the submarine and shot the bottom fish and got the following error. I’m using Version 10 of the game. I was only able to reproduce it once after several attempts and it seems like it only happens when I collide with the fish at same exact moment as the fish is hit by my torpedo.

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ERROR in
action number 1
of  Step Event0
for object obj_ship:

Pop :: Execution Error - Variable set failed x - read only variable?
at gml_Object_obj_ship_Step_0
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gml_Object_obj_ship_Step_0 (line -1)

Bobo The Cat2 years ago (2 edits)

Thank you I will test this tomorrow but I can already tell you that I most likely can't solve it. It's a weird error message that doesn't make any sense . I googled it and it seems to be a Game Maker bug. That's why I learn to use Unity right now. The most frustrating and time consuming part of development was finding workarounds for Game Maker bugs and with every update of that program there were new bugs. Sadly noone tells you that you shouldn't make updates while working on a project . I stopped updating game maker weeks ago because with the new update nothing works anymore and it even crashes everytime you watch the intro.

Bobo The Cat2 years ago (2 edits)

After half an hour I managed to reproduce this bug. It might have to do with the bubbles. After one game maker update the bubbles often crashed the game. Before the update they worked perfectly fine for several years. After one week of work I found a workaround. But this bug is much more rare and if I try to fix this for another week ( I most likely can't fix it anyway) I will never be able to start making Bobo The Cat 2 (and I can't wait for that. In my mind Bobo 2 is already finished.). But your effort was not in vain, this is really interesting for me and important to know.

genderquery2 years ago(+1)

It’s definitely not a game-breaking bug. Since there’s a save right before this, no progress is even lost. I’d much rather have Bobo 2!

Bobo The Cat2 years ago

That's good to hear. But I have to say that it might still take some years. I will start from scratch and will have to learn c# and unity while making this game. And there are many complicated little mechanics that are not so obvious for the player like the culling-system.

If there were good chances that I could solve this bug with less than 20 hours of work I would do it because I am not sure if the bug is limited to that room. I think it can appear in all rooms of the watertemple that are accessible with the submarine.

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