Item Description Error in Battle

[OneByte_]

So... I was testing my first battle and opened the item list. It all worked fine, except for the item descriptions, which looked like this:

#<RPG::Item:0x951f1b8>

Another interesting thing is that this value changes everytime I restart the game.


The items are set up like they should be. I defined name, icon, description & effects, so that shouldn't be wrong.


Here's a list of scripts I use:

• Venka's Bestiary v1.8
  
• Yanfly Engine Ace - Parallax Lock v1.00
  
• Yanfly Engine Ace - Ace Message System v1.05
  
• Yanfly Engine Ace - Ace Save Engine v1.03
  
• Yanfly Engine Ace - Active Battle Advantage v1.00
  
• Victor Engine - Basic Module
  
• Victor Engine - Pixel Movement
  
• Victor Engine - Active Time Battle
  
• Venka's Crafting Script v3.7 (+ Addons)
  
• Hirion Engine (Core, Main Menu, Status, Item & Equip)
  
• Theolized Side Battle System 1.4ob1
  
• MOG - Title (Particles, Background & Commands)
  
• modern algebra's Fix Picture to Map
  
• Moby's Script System - Text SE V1.0
  
• SIMPLE SPLASH SCREENS V 1.0
  
• Sleek Item Popup v1.14a
  

I have no idea what is causing this, but it's really annoying.

 

[Rinobi]

Looks like you printed out the entire item object (which contains all the info for that specific item) instead of calling the appropriate method for specific piece of information you wanted. Either way, a screenshot of your item description(s) from the database would be much more revealing.

 

[Shaz]

well, disable all the scripts, play again to make sure it works okay, then re-enable the scripts one by one, save, and play, until the issue happens again.  When it happens, the last script you enabled will be the one that causes it.


I bet something there says item instead of item.description.


I can see two or three scripts in that list that might modify how the item description is displayed.  Also, fess up if you've made any changes to the scripts yourself, because you could have broken something that was previously working - I expect if any of those scripts actually did cause this problem, it would have been reported many times and fixed by now.


You have got 3 completely different engines in there.  I'd question why.  It's very likely that they're not playing nicely with each other.

 

[OneByte_]

So first of all, thank you for your answers. I found out that the Item Menu from the Hirion Engine caused this. I don't really know why, as it definitely says '.description' there, but I'll remove it and find another one. A working one, hopefully. ;P

 

[Shaz]

Maybe that's not the line that's causing it.  Got a link to the script?  If you're going to abandon a script and go search for another every time some little thing goes wrong, instead of trying to figure out what's causing it and fix the problem, your game isn't going to go anywhere very fast.


If you create a brand new project and you add only that one script (from the location you originally downloaded it, not copy and paste from your current project), does the issue still happen?  If it doesn't, copy and paste it from your current project and see if it causes the issue to happen.


If you still can't get it sorted out, can you please provide a link to the script (actually to the forum thread where it's introduced would be better), and also provide a copy of the version of the script you have in your project, just so we can confirm we're looking at the same thing as you?  Save it as a text file to dropbox or put it into pastebin or something, rather than pasting it into your thread here.