How are you guys using UtiLiti?

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Xeinix

So for a little under a week now, I've been trying to load a map into UtiLiti to no avail. I'm currently using utiLiti v0.4.14, but have also tried versions below hat resulting in crashing (v0.4.13) or a pure black screen (v0.4.12). I'm going to Map --> Import --> Open and nothing happens. Is there something I'm missing? I've also tried re downloading the program.

CalvinMT

Xeinix
You've got a console tab near the bottom-left of the window.
Do you get a error message when loading the ".tmx" map?
And have you got a crash file?

Xeinix

CalvinMT Didn't realize that an error file was created until now. The contents of it are listed here: https://gist.github.com/ZacharySeebeck2020/75bb012d036068ab9340a996675c9491

The first commented image is when I loaded the .litiinfo file.
Then the 2nd is when I tried to open the map.

CalvinMT

Xeinix
I'm guessing something's wrong with your map file.
Have you tried opening another ".litidata" file? (https://github.com/gurkenlabs/litiengine-ldjam42)
Are you using Tiled to create your maps?
Are you using a recent Tiled version? (https://www.mapeditor.org/)

I can help you better if you're willing to share your files.
Otherwise, wait for one of the devs to pass by.

Xeinix

Ok, now that I'm home from school, I can give you better messages. Sorry about that. Ok, so when trying to open the GOIN game.litidata file, I get the error file and meaage in the console listed here: https://gist.github.com/ZacharySeebeck2020/4176fc96604ab702132dc64dc741b369

Also, yep we're using the newest version of TIled to make our maps. Also, here's the GitHub repo for the project. The utiLiti application is in there so I don't have to remember to download it when I have to use a school computer.

https://github.com/ZacharySeebeck2020/BPA-SoftwareEngineeringTeam'

I greatly appreciate your help. It's been a long week

CalvinMT

Xeinix
Ok, so...

First of all, no reason to open the ".litidata" file as it contains nothing.

Secondly, I had trouble with your "Base Tile Map.png". I couldn't load it into Tiled even after fiddling with location and stuff. So I had to open it in "paint.net" and save it again as a PNG (btw: you shouldn't use spaces in any file name when programming). After saving the new PNG, it was 13kB bigger than the original, but don't know why...

Then, I loaded the new PNG as the tileset in Tiled. Saved and closed. Opened utiLITI. Created a new project with the location of the ".tmx" file folder.
And everything opened up as it should.

My guess is that the problem comes from the PNG you created ("Base Tile Map.png"). I don't know if it's compressed, corrupted or anything. But something's definitely wrong with it.

Xeinix

CalvinMT Hmm. Ok, I'll look into that. Give me one minute and I'll see what happens

Xeinix

CalvinMT I'm able to open it just fine. Whelp. Nvm. The Photos app would open it. Now Photoshop won't

Xeinix

CalvinMT Hm. Ok. So I opened the photoshop file and reexported it as a PNG. Brought it into tiled, fixed the tile set. But I'm still getting the same "could not load map from file" problem.

CalvinMT

Xeinix

Can you try something for me, please?
Follow these steps:

Create a new folder somewhere. Like on the desktop.
Copy/paste "level1.tmx", "level1.xml" and your tileset named as "Base_Tile_Map.png" into the newly created folder.
Open "level1.png" with Tiled and correct the tileset's path if needed. Then save and close Tiled.
Open up utiLITI. Create a new project through the "File" tab, and select the new folder in which you copy/pasted the files as above.

This is to see if the error comes from a bad path handling.

If you get the same message, then try to look-up and change some settings when your in Photoshop.
I also advise you to use "paint.net" (https://www.getpaint.net/), ideal for pixel art.

Xeinix

Is it possibly because of

SEVERE Implementation of JAXB-API has not been found on module path or classpath.

in the console?

CalvinMT

Xeinix

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Let me check quickly.
I never had that error message before.

CalvinMT

Xeinix

I'm guessing it's related but have you got "javapath" and/or a Java jdk in your environment variables?

Xeinix

CalvinMT Ok, so nope. That didn't work. Hmmm. nightm4re on Discord is helping me sort out the JAXB issue. Maybe after that this will work.

Xeinix

Ok, let me try that. And yep. JAVA_HOME is pointed to the JDK

CalvinMT

Xeinix

What version of the jdk have you got.
I'm on jdk1.8.0_05.

I saw on some forums that they were planning to remove some JABX related files because they were deprecated.

Xeinix

CalvinMT That's what he's saying. I'm on 9 I belive. So I'm trying to install 8 and see what happens.

Xeinix

My god.

Xeinix

Yep that did the trick. For one, I had Java 10 installed alongside 8 for some reason. Once I removed 10 I could load it just fine.

CalvinMT

Xeinix

Great !
I'll be keeping an eye on your project. Could be interesting to see what others are doing with the LITIengine.