Does this happen to anyone else? Unable to save with parallel balloon

[Tsukihime]

While saving, the console kept saying "Object too deep", which sounds like a problem when it's trying to serialize the data using JsonEx.


I was wondering why my game couldn't save. Spent maybe 10 mins turning off all plugins, turning them back on, thinking maybe it's a combination of them that caused problems.


Then I finally narrowing it down to this:

It's an event that just keeps showing a balloon on the event itself.


When I try to save my game, it doesn't want to save.

 

[Hudell]

If the problem is happening on the serialization, it's probably a circular reference.

We just need to find out what is causing it. I glanced over the character class and it appears that the balloon is only referenced by id, but I'll check better.

 

[Shaz]

Someone else posted the same error message earlier.  Of course there was no indication if they had something similar happening.

 

[Hudell]

When the balloon is playing, it receives a reference to the Game_Interpreter instance. This means that JsonEx is trying to serialize the whole interpreter on the save file :/

Edit: Actually, any running parallel process would cause the interpreter to be serialized, but when a balloon is playing, the interpreter receives a reference to the character that is playing it, making a circular reference.

 

[AirshipCanon]

This is a definite bug.
Here's a link to a topic from someone that had encountered the same issue.

 

[Shaz]

I wonder if you could make the bubble into an animation, and use my Looping Animations plugin, as a way around it?  Doesn't require parallel process.  Though a normal parallel process event to show an animation on an event might have the same issue, as I think animations & balloons on events are done in a similar way.

Is the issue because it's a parallel process?  If it were just a single iteration, and you tried to save at exactly the time it was playing, would it also give you the error?  (This might be easier to test with an animation that has a lot more than 8 frames, if the issue happens with animations on parallel process events too)

 

[Hudell]

The event has it's own interpreter because it is parallel. With any other trigger, the interpreter class wouldn't be serialized.

Still, is there even a reason to serialize the interpreter? I have to check how it worked on ace, but I imagine this is just a simple problem of not paying attention to what they were doing when they wrote the serialization.

 

[orlando]

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