Help needed. An error occured while loading frame...

[Gabriel_V]

Hi,

I am an young newbee and started to create my little game project. After working hard on level 2 yesterday and saving it, today the application states "An error occured while loading frame #5. Do you want to continue loading this application anyway? If you answer Yes, this frame will be removed from the application."

Frame #5 is the level I was working on for hours yesterday, so I am obviously very frustrated.

Two questions:
1) Is there any way I can correct the problem and get back my work?
2) What may have caused this and how can I prevent it from happening again?


The MFA file is about 7MB, so if someone knows how to fix the issue, I can also send it along.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Gabriel

[Jeff]

If you email the MFA file in -- we can look when Yves is back from vacation.
But I fear your work will be lost. Chances are its gone for good.

Check and see if you have some backup files names .001, .002 and so on and rename them to MFA.
You can open those up and see where you saved those.

Its hard to say where this error came from - It could have been a problem caused outside of Fusion.
Could be a hard drive issue, an anti-virus issue or something else.

In general you want to save regularly and also save under new names.
Then you can step back if you need to without losing all your work.

Sorry it happened but take steps to have it not happen again and go take a look for those autobackup files. Unless you happened to turn that feature off in Fusion.

[Dengarde]

I have my project set up to save five backups for just in case. Usefull for when stuff like this happens, that way your losses are minimal.

[Del_Duio]

Guys, I just had this error happen to me too (with Hasslevania 2 no less, NOOOOOOOOO!!!)

It says an error occurred while loading frame #36.
Do you want to continue loading this application anyway?
If you answer Yes, this frame will be removed from the application.

The weird part is that I haven't worked on frame #36 (a story cutscene) in years!

This has never happened with this mfa before, ever, going on like 9 years. Luckily I had a backup mfa (the .001 file was corrupted and gave me the same frame #36 error). So what I did was load the file, have it remove frame #36 (ack!) and then copy frame #36 over from my other backup from a while ago and saved the mfa again.

Upon loading it back, I got the same frame #36 error...

I mean I just replaced it, and it's nothing super fancy at all trust me. I don't get why it's happening NOW of all times. It's not a Windows 10 thing is it? I've moved my 2.5 over to my Win 10 laptop a few months ago, I don't know if that'd mean anything but this sucks.

[Del_Duio]

EDIT:

It's fixed!!!!

Just in case this happens to anybody else, here's what I did:

I went back to my old backup and looked at every aspect of what was on frame #36. Turns out there was a missing array object that was referenced in one of the event groups. This array wasn't being used on the frame and I must've left this event group in by accident. I added the array object from another frame and re-saved the project, and it now loads up normally again.

I don't know if this is what was causing it (since sometimes if I forget to have an object on a frame it'll still load and etc.) but for whatever reason I think the MMF Guardian Angel was looking out for this sorta' thing and stopped this frame from loading up altogether.

WELL THANK GOD.

Jesus, this almost ruined my whole night lol.

[schrodinger]

Scary thing
maybe if Gabriel_V could upload the file somewhere and Del_Duio take a quick look,
some idea could pop out if you were doing similar things to cause this?

I've luckily never seen it, but I rarely go past few game frames (if this is multi-gameframe-related)

If you have never seen before maybe something related with latest builds?
assuming you both are using latest builds..

anyone else having ever seen this?

[Del_Duio]

Hi buddy, just fixed it literally minutes ago!

There's 206 frames to this right now, but I still need to make some more before it'll be finished.
As weird as it sounds it HAS to be that I was missing that array object and some of the events (in a disabled group, no less!) were looking for it.

I never had this error before either, scary indeed!

[schrodinger]

Great to hear you fixed it!
Would be cool if Gabriel_V could confirm it's the same or similar for him,
at least we'd have a reason, and still better - a solution

so the culprit was a missing object referenced in events (sounds familiar )
(was it also global, I guess?)

[Del_Duio]

Yeah it was!

It had to be a combo of the two. Maybe it's just that the more advanced versions of MMF catch things like this better so there's no catastrophic error later for the player base.

[Gabriel_V]

It worked for me! Thanks