Defold won't let me upload a file into a tile source

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#1

I downloaded the new update and every time I try to upload a file into a tile source or tile map, the mouse turns into a loading rainbow circle thing and I can’t click anything. I also let it load for a long time and experimented with smaller and bigger files, and it still ended up this way. What do I do, it’s frustrating when I can’t upload my tilesets. It was working earlier.

#2

What do you mean by upload? When you click here to select an image?

tilesource
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It should be instant.

You can always go back to an older version. Here is the previous one: Release v1.4.7 - stable · defold/defold · GitHub

But I would prefer if we could figure out what is wrong. Are you using Windows, Linux or macOS?

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#3

Mac OS. And yes, I tried to upload the image and before it was instant. I just tried to upload an image again and it’s still happening.

Edit: I went with another version and it still behaves this way.

#4

I just re-downloaded the editor and tried to upload an image into a tile source and it’s doing it again, I really want to use Defold because of how minimalist the engine is compared to other engines but I think I’m going to be forced to use godot.

#5

Could you please record using Quicktime and share the .mov here?

I use Defold on macOS every day and have not encountered any issue like this.

#6

I don’t know how to do that but I took a screenshot

Screen Shot 2023-07-20 at 12.07.08 PM
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edit: i just noticed that the mouse being turned into a rainbow circle doesn’t show up.

#7

And what image do you select? DImensions? Format?

#8

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#9

Super easy:

#10

An asset I downloaded from itchio. i don’t know the specifics.

An error occurred and it says:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/[name of computer]/Desktop/My Project/main/Modern_Exteriors_Complete_Tileset_32x32.png (No such file or directory)

edit: another error:

java.lang.AssertionError: Assert failed: (and root (.isDirectory root))

edit: another error:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Flush is forbidden from target!

edit: I tried to upload the image again and it did it again

#11

It did it again after uploading the image

#12

Perhaps you could share the image here?

#13

It was paid and we aren’t allowed to share it but heres the link to what i bought

edit: heres some info. 5.3 mb, 5632x8032 dimensions

#14

Defold on my mini m1 stops responding when trying to add an image of these huge dimensions to a tile source, just like on your mac. You’ll need to choose a smaller one I guess. Do normal sized images work (say 2048 x 2048 or smaller)?

#15

Woah. That’s big. It will turn into a 8k texture taking up a whopping ~260MB of memory uncompressed. And it is 352 by 502 16x16px tiles. It sounds a bit wild if this is a single tileset?

#16

Its 32px32px and the reason I’m using the big one because defold doesn’t support using separate tileset for one map so I thought that I would use the mega tileset, the tileset that had every single tile. I just experimented using a much smaller tileset and everything works perfectly.

So I guess my only problem is how I’m going to get defold to create a map with multiple tilesource. Is that possible?

#17

Its doing the thing again, like how big of a file can I not do without the engine slowing down?

#18

4096x4096 should be fine. You’d likely need to split it to multiple tile maps if it needs to be bigger than that.

#19

It’s a bug, please report an isssue on github.

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