pre 1.1 beta information

Spiky Caterpillar

pre 1.1 beta information

#1 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 19 2015

The game has been released, and you should already have at least a version 1.0! This thread is for talking about some of the new updates coming in the future.

1.0.7, currently in beta, fixes a crash bug that would occur after selecting your queen in certain (relatively rare) circumstances. To install the beta 1.0.7, go to Options from the title screen; click on Updates; Select 'Enable' under 'Show beta versions', click 'Check for updates', and upgrade to 1.0.7.

(Other changes between 1.0 and 1.0.7: the 'upgraded from' note on the updater screen will be slightly clearer, and some platform-specific encryption bugs were fixed. The fixes for the crypto bugs should already be in the installers.)

Spiky Caterpillar

1.0.10 changelog

#2 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 25 2015

Player-visible changes:

The second sprite set is in. There's an option to switch art sets in the prefs. (Note that the new CGs are not yet in.)
The bug where button focus was lost whenever you selected a scheduler button with the keyboard (or, presumably, game controller) has been fixed.
A crash starting the mole case if Mallory had been the mole, confessed, and then you expelled her fixed.
Once you've beaten the game, you have the option to select the mole at game start.

(Also, to the player getting crashes while trying to upgrade from 0.9.38 - I've been unable to replicate the crash; you probably want a new installer.)

hanako

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#3 by hanako - May 25 2015

To add a little more detail:

Art Style 2 is now partially available in beta. Switching to style 2 will change the backgrounds, the character sprites, the minion cards (large and small), the photo indicators on your saved games, and the photos in the epilogues. It will not yet change the CGs, because the new CGs are not complete. This is a sizable patch because of all the art to download.

There will be a more informative option control for switching between style 1 and style 2 later. Right now it just says 1 and 2, that's not permanent, there will eventually be a preview showing the difference and letting you pick.

As mentioned, this version now lets you choose who you want the mole to be, as long as you have won the game at least once in the past. This is to make it easier to explore paths you haven't seen before (and hey, it makes my testing life easier too).

Ren

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#4 by Ren - May 25 2015

Updating doesn't seem to work for me: I've tried from an alpha version I'd downloaded (because); I've downgraded to the previous beta version and, finally, uninstalled the game and reinstalled it to update from that, but I still got an exception. I've uploaded the tracebacks via the game. 'http_exception' is not defined, this happens while checking the files.

Darksilverhawk

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#5 by Darksilverhawk - May 25 2015

I also got an exception when trying to update and uploaded a traceback. Tried updating from the most recent patch. Mine seems to be complaining about not having "game/students.rpcy".

LateWhiteRabbit

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#6 by LateWhiteRabbit - May 25 2015

Darksilverhawk:
I also got an exception when trying to update and uploaded a traceback. Tried updating from the most recent patch. Mine seems to be complaining about not having "game/students.rpcy".

Updating doesn't work for me either.

It seems I have the same issue:
UpdateException: Could not verify download of 'game/students.rpyc'

I've uploaded the traceback.

Spiky Caterpillar

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#7 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 26 2015

Ooops, I corrupted the patch while looking for security holes in the updater. (On the plus side, the crashes mean that the potential security hole I was looking for does not actually exist)

Updating to 1.0.10 should work now.

LateWhiteRabbit

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#8 by LateWhiteRabbit - May 26 2015

Spiky Caterpillar:
Updating to 1.0.10 should work now.

I still can't update. I'm getting a new error.

NameError: name 'http_exception" is not defined

New traceback has been uploaded.

I want those new sprites Spiky!

Spiky Caterpillar

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#9 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 26 2015

Hrm. Does updating work if you delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Black Closet\game\cache\1.0.10\ ?

If that doesn't work, try upgrading to alpha 1.0.10.1. (Don't touch 1.0.10.2 when it goes up, I'll be testing various updater-breaking things with it.)

LateWhiteRabbit

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#10 by LateWhiteRabbit - May 26 2015

Spiky Caterpillar:
Hrm. Does updating work if you delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Black Closet\game\cache\1.0.10\ ?

That worked. I'm guessing anyone that tried updating and got the 'game/students.rpyc' error will need to do that before trying to update again.

But I'm all sorted now.

I love the new sprites so much.

Darksilverhawk

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#11 by Darksilverhawk - May 26 2015

I was also able to update after deleting game\cache\1.0.10\. Everything seems a-ok now.

Ren

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#12 by Ren - May 26 2015

It worked for me as well, thanks!

LateWhiteRabbit:
I love the new sprites so much.

:D

Glad you like them, I hope the CGs don't disappoint you!

Ren

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#13 by Ren - May 26 2015

One small UI bug: when Mallory's second sprite is in a cutscene that can be skipped (like at the beginning), her hand overlaps with the 'Skip' button. It still works, but it looks a bit untidy and might be confusing to some, since her hand covers it almost completely.

bookworm37

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#14 by bookworm37 - May 27 2015

The update didn't work for me, it just kept crashing.

While running game code:
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 182, in script
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 182, in <module>
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 66, in upload_traceback
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 38, in upload_blob
File "game/network.rpy", line 62, in post_data
Exception: An unhandled error occurred trying to encrypt your message.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 182, in script
File "C:\Games\Black Closet\renpy\ast.py", line 756, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "C:\Games\Black Closet\renpy\python.py", line 1385, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 182, in <module>
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 66, in upload_traceback
File "game/tracebacks.rpy", line 38, in upload_blob
File "game/network.rpy", line 62, in post_data
Exception: An unhandled error occurred trying to encrypt your message.

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.17.7.521

Game: BlackCloset-0.8.5
Renderer: angle 1366x768
OS: Windows 7 6.1.7601 AMD64 Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel

hanako

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#15 by hanako - May 27 2015

Game: BlackCloset-0.8.5

If you never even got your version up to the actually-released 1.0, you need a new installer rather than trying to update from way back in early alpha. Uninstall what you've got and delete any remaining files, then email me your receipt to get a fresh installer email.

Franka

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#16 by Franka - May 27 2015

Switching to art style 1, then loading a game saved with art style 2, causes bad mojo (unloadable). At least sometimes.

Spiky Caterpillar

1.0.13 changelog

#17 by Spiky Caterpillar - May 27 2015

* Elsa no longer shows up as a random student name.
* Crash gossipping with girls who managed to stage their kiss-in without being disrupted by the Council fixed.
* Handling of some errors during upgrades improved. This should fix crashes complaining that http_exception is not defined.
* Files with checksum errors renamed to .corrupt variants in the cache.
* Credits available from Extras screen. And Ren's been credited.
* Training room bigcard no longer has cover/visibility icons.
* Crash loading saves in art set 1 fixed.
* Debugging info in the updater cleaned up a little.
* Girls who are buying drugs will now rat out their dealer if successfully detained.
* 'Just Say No' and 'High Rollers' cases no longer start in September.
* Stray image optimized.
* The biological modification easter egg case should now behave properly when it starts spreading. (There are still some cosmetic bugs I need to poke, though.)

Gamer

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#18 by Gamer - Jun 2 2015

I keep getting an error message in the game after accusing Thais of being the traitor (when Althea really was it). I get that screen that says "an exception has occurred" followed by a bunch of programming lines. The same thing happens too if I accuse someone else of being the traitor.

hanako

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#19 by hanako - Jun 2 2015

Gamer:
I keep getting an error message in the game after accusing Thais of being the traitor (when Althea really was it). I get that screen that says "an exception has occurred" followed by a bunch of programming lines. The same thing happens too if I accuse someone else of being the traitor.

What game version are you on? I believe Spiky has dealt with at least some problems relating to accusing non-traitors in recent patches, but I'm not sure if yours is covered or not.

Does the error that comes up give you the option to upload your error? If so, that's the best thing to do because that will come complete with all the line numbers and make it much faster to track down the problem and fix it.

Gamer

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#20 by Gamer - Jun 2 2015

I have version 1.0.4. Nothing comes up when I click 'check for updates.' I bought the game so how can I fix this issue?

Spiky Caterpillar

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#21 by Spiky Caterpillar - Jun 3 2015

Gamer - I believe the crash you're getting is fixed in the current beta version (We haven't made the fixes stable yet because there are also new features in the beta, so other stuff might be broken.)

To download the beta, select 'Enable' under the 'Show beta versions' option and then check for updates - the current beta should be available then.

Spiky Caterpillar

1.0.19 changelog:

#22 by Spiky Caterpillar - Jun 3 2015

New features:
* If you close the window, the "Are you sure you want to quit?" screen now has a 'suspend' option which will autosave the game wherever you are. If you suspend, the game will auto-load from the point you suspended the next time you start (it will also delete the suspend file). Suspend may expose some previously-hidden errors in the load/save code; if you encounter them, please upload or report 'em here!)
* The CGs for the new art set are now in.

Crash fixes:
* Crash on failed detention of the girl leading seances in a secret society case fixed.
* A crash if you failed while guarding a classroom against bombers fixed.
* A crash checking to see if Just Say No cases can start fixed.

Other changes:
* Unpickler improvements for a handful of variables.
* Improvements to the interaction between glasses and compound eyes in one of the easter egg cases.
* Compound eyes placed properly in art set 2.
* Debug messages and some unused code trimmed out.
* There are a whole bunch of under-the-hood changes to support a pending Feature that I can't remember if we're allowed to talk about yet.
* Pageup/pagedown should now work on loadsave.
* Loadsave should do a better job of remembering your focus location when you switch pages.

hanako

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#23 by hanako - Jun 3 2015

Related to the art changes, there are now two different Gallery sets, which must be unlocked separately. So you'll need to revisit scenes to get your CGs.

Darksilverhawk

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#24 by Darksilverhawk - Jun 3 2015

Vonne's path, after the birthday party. Didn't kiss her, scene ended and I got an error (seemed to be complaining about an undefined variable during case generation). Uploaded traceback and continued, and Vonne is at 50 loyalty and 55 stress and isn't on break. I don't know if these two things are connected so here I am.

somestrangecircus

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#25 by somestrangecircus - Jun 3 2015

She's still waiting for you to kiss her and will not go on break until you do.

Visit my website

Avatar courtesy of Black Rabbit Illustrations.

hima

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#26 by hima - Jun 3 2015

I try to update from version 1.0 but I can't. This is the error I got.


I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 1274, in script
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 1274, in <module>
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 1156, in do_upgrade
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 793, in step
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 745, in get_catalog_yielding
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 354, in retrieve_yielding
  File "game/network.rpy", line 67, in encode_for_post
  File "game/network.rpy", line 15, in encrypt_for_spiky
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 1274, in script
  File "/Users/Hima/Downloads/BlackClosetRetail-1.0-mac/BlackCloset.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/ast.py", line 756, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "/Users/Hima/Downloads/BlackClosetRetail-1.0-mac/BlackCloset.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/python.py", line 1385, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec bytecode in globals, locals
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 1274, in <module>
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 1156, in do_upgrade
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 793, in step
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 745, in get_catalog_yielding
  File "game/updater.rpy", line 354, in retrieve_yielding
  File "game/network.rpy", line 67, in encode_for_post
  File "game/network.rpy", line 15, in encrypt_for_spiky
  File "gpg.py", line 279, in Encrypt
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Darwin-14.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
Ren'Py 6.17.7.521
 
Game: BlackClosetRetail-1.0
Renderer: gl 1366x768
OS: Darwin 14.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.1.0: Thu Feb 26 19:26:47 PST 2015; root:xnu-2782.10.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386

EDITED: I tried not using encryption and updated the game. It seems to work now. I guess the game didn't check whether GPG is there or not when I tried to update with encryption option?

I'm playing the game in OSX version btw. Would love to update to the latest version!

Franka

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#27 by Franka - Jun 3 2015

Wahhh! So many errors with new CG album!

(Tracebacks uploaded)

hanako

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#28 by hanako - Jun 3 2015

whoops, yeah, looks like viewing the cgs in the album is kind of messed up

Franka

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#29 by Franka - Jun 3 2015

...and Talmage is missing altogether.

Franka

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#30 by Franka - Jun 3 2015

Just waiting for the fix.

Ren

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#31 by Ren - Jun 3 2015

If you finish all the cases, does the game not provide new ones?

I had this happen a couple of times on my current play through - by the 22nd of September it happened twice, then I had a meeting with Talmage and the 23rd I still had no new case. Then it was the week-end. It's just a bit weird that it would happen, is all.

(I did have a few starts because I wasn't happy with my strategy, so I might have got a bit better but I wonder whether it's intended to work this way?)

grommile

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#32 by grommile - Jun 3 2015

The game provides cases at a fixed rate. If you finish a case early, you have some time to dissipate Stress and raid the supply closet.

Franka

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#33 by Franka - Jun 3 2015

Later on, I'm pretty sure you get new cases at once, but (somewhat) early on, you can finish everything and have free days to spare.

hanako

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#34 by hanako - Jun 3 2015

There's never anything set to trigger when you finish cases, but in semester 2 cases start on both Monday and Wednesday, so your chances of having any free time become very slim.

Ren

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#35 by Ren - Jun 3 2015

Understood!

The first time around I played I was so overwhelmed and the cases kept piling on me, it was a nightmare! So I was wondering if something changed and if it was going to go on that way.

Additionally, I got a crash (uploaded) just after inviting Althea to the movies. She doesn't like me, I get it, but a crash is a bit of an extreme measure to avoid me. :/

*sulks*

Franka

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#36 by Franka - Jun 3 2015

hanako:
There's never anything set to trigger when you finish cases, but in semester 2 cases start on both Monday and Wednesday, so your chances of having any free time become very slim.

That must mean I solve a lot of cases in two days later on.

Spiky Caterpillar

1.0.20 changelog

#37 by Spiky Caterpillar - Jun 4 2015

Mostly crash fixes today:
* Yet another crash checking to see if "Just Say No" cases can start fixed. This crash was probably responsible for Vonne deciding she won't take a break no matter how much stress she has, and also the one Althea used to get out of seeing you post-movie.
* Crash gossipping with the star from one of the Delicate Blossom variants fixed.
* Crash fading out of CGs in art mode 2 fixed.
* That last Talmage CG should now be available in art mode 2.
* CG thumbnail for elsa-gendo in art mode 2 cropped to proper size.
* 'Switch art mode' button added to CG gallery.

Darksilverhawk

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#38 by Darksilverhawk - Jun 4 2015

This is really weird, but when I updated and reloaded my current game, I noticed all my autosaves are suddenly listing as being on Rowan's route when I was actually on Thais's. I'm still on Thais's route, the autosaves are just listing wrong.

(I also came over to say that Thais, despite the game telling me she was out sick on Nov 1st and 2nd, still showed up for cases, but that was before the bugfix. I assume this is related to the other weirdness the Just Say No bug was causing.)

Franka

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#39 by Franka - Jun 4 2015

This error is funky. Viewing Rowan feet worship CG in art style 1 (in the gallery), then trying to use the scroll commands, switches to the art style 2 picture.

Franka

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#40 by Franka - Jun 4 2015

And now I can't reproduce it.

EDIT: Even funkier. Entering the gallery with art style 2, switching to art style 1, then attempting to scroll Rowan's feet worship CG, switches to art style 2. Loading a game will then also be in art style 2, but going into options will show that you've chosen art style 1.

For ultimate funkiness, Rowan's feet worship in the game will scroll in art style 2, if you've done this.

Spiky Caterpillar

1.0.22.2 changelog

#41 by Spiky Caterpillar - Jun 6 2015

Art set 2 changes:
Saves on Thaïs-path should now have Thaïs' photo.
Credits updated.
The CG Album should behave better, and stop randomly shifting into art style 2.
New art switcher menu in.
Changing the art set now actually changes images that are already on screen instead of waiting for a point where the game re-shows them. (The reason it wasn't working before was that if you change the art set from the preferences, you're actually in another context and just changing temp copies behind the preferences screen.)

Other changes:
The A Delicate Blossom variant where the star's friend is distracting her with constant partying now has a persuade option.
The game should now only let you turn on crypto if GPG is installed.
A slight tweak to platform checking which should fix a (rare) crash in which winboxes complain that uname is not defined.
Unsuspending now keeps the suspension file around as 'unsuspended.bcs' in the save dir, so you can upload any bugged suspended saves (as long as you don't overwrite them with a new suspended save).
Compositing error that gave Althea an extra chin in a couple poses fixed. (This was actually an error in the tool I wrote to optimize png-stacks. Lazy caterpillar is lazy.)

Behind The Scenes:
Some of my debug features have been tweaked.
A bit of cruft in the code cleaned up.
Better handling of students with duplicate names (if they're actually created in-game; hacking your students to have identical names will still do weird things.)

And several of the bugs I introduced in 1.0.21 and 1.0.22 are fixed.

Spiky Caterpillar

1.0.23 changelog:

#42 by Spiky Caterpillar - Jun 7 2015

A couple of harmless warnings on load have been silenced.
The art mode selector now indicates which mode is selected (once you've manually set the mode, that is.)

Darksilverhawk

Re: Current Beta information - Bug reports, fixes, and addit

#43 by Darksilverhawk - Jun 7 2015

Wait, what? Why can I downgrade to a version that doesn't exist?

(also, there's an unsightly black bar at the bottom of the art style picker.)

hanako

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#44 by hanako - Jun 7 2015

I'm confused...

Darksilverhawk:

Wait, what? Why can I downgrade to a version that doesn't exist?

Doesn't exist? 1.0.4 is the version currently in the installer, isn't it? It's the stable non-beta version.

(also, there's an unsightly black bar at the bottom of the art style picker.)

Also not sure what you mean - if you mean the black on the bottom of the style2 side, that's because style2 backgrounds are like that? They have lower saturation and black bars on the tops and bottoms, it goes better with the style2 sprites that way.

If you mean something else, can you show a screenshot?

Darksilverhawk

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#45 by Darksilverhawk - Jun 7 2015

Oh, that makes sense. I was just confused and momentarily couldn't count.

Yeah, and I meant that bar. It looks really weird, but again, if it's supposed to be like that it's fine.

Spiky Caterpillar

1.1 changelog

#46 by Spiky Caterpillar - Jun 10 2015

The game will now default to the new art mode if you haven't already chosen your art mode.
Some stray pixels on Thaïs's new sprites fixed.
Some bugs I introduced in art set 1 fixed.
Credits tweaked.

The demo can also be updated to 1.1, which pulls in (I think) all the fixes between 1.0.7 and 1.1 that affect the demo, slightly cleans up the UI for upgrading from the demo to the full, and now has the correct hotkeys on the title screen (so 'E' doesn't crash by trying to jump to a nonexistant extras screen.

Hanako Games