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i just installed the 0.19 version of flare on my ubuntu system and i absolutely love the game only problem im having is the game will randomly shut off in the middle of play doesn't even save my experience progress stll playable when it wants to but frustrating when your in the middle of a long quest and it cuts out on you...any ideas for a fix???
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I am sorry to hear that, ringmasterdan1!
Usually the game is saved when you enter a new map, but not while walking around in the areas.
To help the developers find and fix the problem, we'd need to have some more knowledge, such as which exact version of Ubuntu do you use? Did you install the version from the Ubuntu repositories ? (Softwarecenter or apt-get or alike). Or did you rather download the tarball for linux from http://flarerpg.org/ and compile it yourself?
It would be awesome if you could either narrow down the problem ("occurs only after opening the inventory" or such), or if you could compile flare yourself with debugging symbols.
See https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-engine/wiki/Ubuntu-Build-Instruc...
To the "cmake ." you'd need to append " -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug" and then continue with the instructions there.
And then run the game with a debugger attached:
gdb ./flare -ex run
im running ubuntu 12.04 LTS and installed flare 0.19 off the flare website by cloning the engine and game with git useing the instructions found here https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-engine/wiki/Ubuntu-Build-Instruc.... The game shuts down at random in the middle of game play i'll be in the middle of battleing a goblin or zombie etc and it just closes out. sometimes it will play for only a few minutes and others it will go on for 20 minutes or so. However, when i open flare on the title screen in the upper left corner it says warning: a game wasn't specified falling back to default game. did you forget the --game flag? (eg. --game=flare-game). see --help for more details. I am not at all well versed in useing the terminal it took me an hour to figure out how to change the directory i was working in. on a completely unrelated topic I would love to learn how to write my own mods for flare if you could point me in the direction of some very basic tutorials to start me off that would be great. look forward to hearing from you.
So you are already familiar with compiling the game yourself. Awesome :)
So to run that game you'd need to addto the commandline option:
--game Specifies which 'game' to use when launching. A game
determines which parent folder to look for mods in, as well
as where user settings and save data are stored.
--data-path Specifies an exact path to look for mod data.
So you want to start modding away? Well I think we have some information at the wiki at https://github.com/clintbellanger/flare-engine/wiki
or at http://flarerpg.org/create/
However I think it would be best to get in touch with other flare contributors. So I'd recommend writing an email to Clint or visit the IRC or asking questions here in the forums.
as i said before i am in no way experienced with writing code or anything along those lines the only reason i figured out how to compile the game is by following the step by step instructions on the wiki page but i'll see what i can figure out with all of this thank you