I'm just going to move myself to this thread to consolidate everything, no need to have you guys jumping back and forth to the other thread.
I cloned the project, threw in a few packs, launched it with renpy, and it loaded. I went to start a new game and got this jargon:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 80, in script
python:
File "game/script.rpy", line 86, in <module>
chars = load_characters()
File "game/library/functions - loading data.rpy", line 49, in load_characters
dir = content_path('chars')
File "game/library/functions - loading data.rpy", line 4, in content_path
return renpy.loader.transfn('content/' + path)
Exception: Couldn't find file 'content/chars'.
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "game/script.rpy", line 80, in script
python:
File "C:\Users\Mason\Desktop\renpy-6.99.5-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 797, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "C:\Users\Mason\Desktop\renpy-6.99.5-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1448, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "game/script.rpy", line 86, in <module>
chars = load_characters()
File "game/library/functions - loading data.rpy", line 49, in load_characters
dir = content_path('chars')
File "game/library/functions - loading data.rpy", line 4, in content_path
return renpy.loader.transfn('content/' + path)
File "C:\Users\Mason\Desktop\renpy-6.99.5-sdk\renpy\loader.py", line 578, in transfn
raise Exception("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
Exception: Couldn't find file 'content/chars'.
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.99.5.602
PyTFall 0.53 One thing at a time...
Every other button works (load game, credits, etc.) but when I attempt to launch into a new game that's what I get. That is more path errors than I care to discern for myself. Admittedly I wasn't sure where to put everything so I put it where it seemed to be appropriate. The girl packs (both their image folders and data files) I put in games/library/characters and the testing.rpy file Xela gave me I put in the top level (just in "game").
1.) Did I put everything in the right place?
2.) Am I missing something I should have?
3.) Is that error supposed to be there and has anyone gotten it before?
Sorry for all the "new guy" troubleshooting going on here. Once I get up to speed it'll be smooth sailing... Well, as smooth as it gets in game dev.