Having Troubles with Sprites in Events - (failed to load image .png) - How do I fix it?

[flakeygm]

Just now I renamed some of the sprite files within my games images folder, after that I couldn`t do anything at first, as the screen was blocked with an error screen saying: Failed to load image name.png. That one I was able to fix myself, but now when I test the game and try to talk to NPC´s it pops up again - requesting to see one of the sprites. I have already searched for every mention of the sprites requested and changed it if necessary but it still keeps showing up! What can I do to fix the problem once and for all?

I also attached a screenshot for clarity if that helps.

 

[Suv]

If it's asking for that png then either it's still embedded in that event or other supporting events (like common events), scripts or plugins. If you can't find it specifically you can try building the event from ground up again (copying and pasting event elements one by one). Something should eventually come up.

Worst things worst, you can put a dummy transparent png for now, if you don't feel like looking.

 

[flakeygm]

If it's asking for that png then either it's still embedded in that event or other supporting events (like common events), scripts or plugins. If you can't find it specifically you can try building the event from ground up again (copying and pasting event elements one by one). Something should eventually come up.

Worst things worst, you can put a dummy transparent png for now, if you don't feel like looking.

The thing is it happens when I talk to any NPC at all - not just the ones using the sprite PNG. Plus I haven`t made any common events yet - so I really can`t seem to find the source of the problem ;-;
As for Plugins and scripts, how do I check if they are calling on that page specifically? I don`t really have any experience with scripting - let alone searching scripts for events either

 

[Suv]

Usually if you didn't set up a plugin to use the picture it won't cause any problems in that regard (well unless the plugin comes with some image requirements of it's own but it's usually stated). But from the way you describe it, it doesn't look like it's the case.

I don't know how exactly you handle event processing for talking, and it's quite hard to help looking for what's asking for that specific picture if you don't see the code. Does it happen only on this map or on all of them? Does it pop up when you try to interact with any event? Or just some of them? Have you checked if each event page has the corresponding character picture (if it's not there, the event page picture may still lead to it, even if the picture itself is blank).

Try looking for these kind of questions yourself as it's almost guaranteed you will always run into bugs during development. After a few you'll be able to identify the problems yourself.

 

[Andar]

OK, here are the basics:

That failure message always, and only, means that somewhere inside your project something is set to use a specific file and it wasn't able to find that file on loading.
If this happens after you renamed a file, then that means you have used that file somewhere in the project and forgot to change that reference to the new name. In case of a sprite - those are often used in multiple locations and it seems that you missed one of those locations.
Continue searching until you have corrected all such references, no other choice.

However, there is one thing you need to keep in mind:
MV operates under networking rules for filenames.
Under networking rules, Abc.png and abc.png are two different files - only Windows has that stupid override that loads the file with the wrong name if the correct name does not exist. So you need to make sure that the reference and the spelling of the file is identical even with capitalization.

Additionally, spaces are forbidden under networking rules - you need to remove all spaces from not only filenames but also folder names, or the game will not be able to load the files (or any file if you placed the project into a path with spaces or non-latin letters)