Cant preview my game

How do I...?
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I just downloaded the Game Develop engine and it looks amazing. I’ve been doing the tutorial, The only problem is - I can’t preview my game.
I use Chrome, and when I press preview button it opens a new window in chrome and the address is localhost:2828 - it’s just black page no loading no nothing.
also, I’m just moving from Construct 2 engine which is very similar and this has been working flawlessly.

I tried restarting my browser and opening as Administrator nothing helped.

-I use windows 7 64bit
-It’s a 5Html Project, And when I tried to view the “3DRacingGame2Player.gdg” it’s working but not in the browser, its a built-in preview.
-If I start a new Project and do not add anything just press Preview I see a grey background but if I add any sprite then try to preview I see nothing

one last thing I tried not adding Sprites and added extensions and Text and it did work. Something is wrong with the sprites… when I add any sprite objects the project turns black and wont show anything. (Even if I delete them and revert back to only text, I see nothing after adding a sprite to the project)

Anyone have a solution?

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Can you export a project that does not work ? Click on File > Export to the web. When exporting is done, send me the whole folder containing the game.

Try also these games and let me know if they are working:
compilgames.net/games/AngryPeasExample/
compilgames.net/games/WebShoot/
compilgames.net/games/WebSoldier/
compilgames.net/games/EnhancedTutorial/

One last thing, which browser are you using?

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Thanks for the reply!

I can view and play all the game links you gave me. plus the last one is the tutorial I was following.

The weird thing is, when ever i used sprites in a project I cant preview it at all. I tried reinstalling Game Develop and restarting my computer either didnt work.

here is the download link of the exported project: wikisend.com/download/912612/Project.rar

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Ok, it is because assets are stored in a folder on your desktop and they are not copied when previewing the game.
For now, be sure to always store the assets in your game folder ( or eventually in a sub directory of your game ) and everything will be ok :slight_smile:

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Ohh thank you! I would never have get that one on my own :blush:

I wonder why the engine does not copy the assets automatically… anyways big thanks!:slight_smile:

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The engine copies automatically the assets if they are located by a relative filepath.

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Yes, when the assets are stored in a folder relative to the game file, GD tries to keep the directory structure. Here, the assets are stored on the desktop and the game is in a folder on the same drive, so GD refers to the assets using relative filenames. ( …/…/Desktop/assets/image.png for example )
When the game is exported, GD tries to keep this structure but it does not work as GD does not have the right to create a folder in another location than the folder where the game is exported I think… Anyway I’ll try to change this behavior. :slight_smile:

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Whats a relative filepath?

Am I to understand I’m speaking with the creator of this software? Awesome work man!!

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A relative path is a path which is relative to a folder. For example :

../test.txt

refers to the file text.txt of the parent directory (represented by “…”) of the current folder.

folder1/test.txt

refers to the file text.txt of the the sub-folder “folder1” of the current folder.

In GD’s case, the paths are relative to the project folder.

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That should be ok for the next version, the directory structure of the assets won’t be preserved when previewing/exporting a game ( i.e: everything will be copied in the game directory ) so no more problem. :slight_smile:
EDIT : Done, see version 3.1.60

Thanks! :slight_smile:

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you sir have saved me a lot of trouble thankyou