error after deleting 400 pokes + rearranging the dex

[juliorain]

After deleting say 400 Pokemon in the nat'l dex, rearranging *all* of the battle sprites and *all* of the icons, and deleting them from all of the PBS files I get this game crashing error message that I don't understand:

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Pokemon Fusion Beta 0.2
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Exception: RuntimeError

Message: filename is nil

SpriteWindow:219:in `initialize'

Pokemon_Sprites:117:in `new'

Pokemon_Sprites:117:in `pokemon='

Pokemon_Sprites:102:in `initialize'

PScreen_Load:172:in `new'

PScreen_Load:172:in `pbSetParty'

PScreen_Load:171:in `each'

PScreen_Load:171:in `pbSetParty'

PScreen_Load:324:in `pbStartLoadScreen'

Main:6:in `main'
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EDIT: I am using essentials v 16.2

 

[Vendily]

If I read the error correctly, you are trying to play a game, where a save file exists, and it's trying to load the icon of the party pokemon.
Try deleting your Game.rxdata, since old data doesn't play nice with new code. (Should be in Documents/Saved Games/Pokemon Fusion Beta 0.2).

Gonna teach you how to fish debug (Or at least how I did this).

Spoiler:

Let me bring your attention to these three lines.

Pokemon_Sprites:102:in `initialize'

PScreen_Load:172:in `new'

PScreen_Load:172:in `pbSetParty'

(Errors are read bottom up in order of script executions, the most recent at the top)
So This has to do with the party (pbSetParty) and sprites (Pokemon_Sprites). The load screen only has sprites when there is a save file. But, for the fun of it, let's check line 172 in section PScreen_Load:

    for i in 0...trainer.party.length
[COLOR="Red"]      @sprites["party#{i}"]=PokemonIconSprite.new(trainer.party[i],@viewport)[/COLOR]
      @sprites["party#{i}"].z=99999
      @sprites["party#{i}"].x=151*2+33*2*(i&1)
      @sprites["party#{i}"].y=36*2+25*2*(i/2)
    end

Red line is 172. It's creating an Icon sprite, just what we predicted. But it gave us an error, and the only thing we changed was deleting a bunch of pokemon, and their image files. So RMXP tries to load a file that doesn't exist. And that explains our error.

Honestly, deleting your save file is the first step, and you should always do it when you make edits to your scripts and stuff.

 

[juliorain]

Wow! Thanks that fixed it! I kinda sucks that the people who downloaded the last version will have to start anew!

EDIT: figured everything out...had to update EBS. The glitch went away. yay!