Sprite wont appear on blank project [Solved]

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#1

Hello!
I’m learning Defold and I’m very exited to have something moving! However I don’t understand why my sprite is not appearing on the main.collection. I did make an Atlas and I can play my animations there. But once I create a Sprite and set the image property to the atlas, the sprite size is updated but nothing appears on the editor. I suspect it has to do with the default image shader’s because when I try to run the game i get the following errors:

/builtins/materials/sprite.fp
	_generated_b7e08114.fpc:
/builtins/materials/sprite.vp
	_generated_7e90358b.vpc:

Notice that the error has : but no message appear! is very weird!
I’m on OSX 11.7.8
I’m probably missing something and I’m sorry in advance!

#2

I just tried the demos and they are not running either, several of the assets print very similar errors… so is definitively something with my computer!
I have no clue on how to fix this!

#3

Maybe there is a video driver update available? That seems to mostly fix these kinds of errors.

#4

Thanks for answering! I’ll be updating my OSX to 11.7.10! hopefully this fixes it!

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#5

Hopefully it works. Let’s us know the outcome :grin:

#6

Unfortunatelly updating my osx did not fix the issue :frowning:
If anyone has any insight into this issue I will greatly appreciate it!

#7

What if you do Project->Build HTML5? Does it work in your browser?

#8

Thanks! I gave it a try and got this list:

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Screen Shot 2024-08-27 at 17.39.291544×1242 260 KB

is there a way to get a more detail log? perhaps I can get a better error message somewhere!

#9

It looks like there is an issue with all of the shaders… Are you using the latest version of Defold? I wonder if it’s an issue with the shader compilation on OSX 11.x. Ping @jhonny.goransson ?

#10

Hm maybe it’s related to an issue @AGulev fixed with the old tools for older Mac’s, but I don’t know exactly what the issue was :thinking: if there’s no output I think that perhaps the tool cannot be run

#11

Yes, I’m thinking which minimum OSX version are they designed for?

#12

Oh! that could explain the issue. I’m using OSX 11.7.10 (just updated yesterday from 11.7.8).
I’m using Defold 1.9.2.

#13

Can you try 1.9.0?

#14

It works! Thanks! I think I’ll stick to 1.9.0 then!
If you ever need me to try builds to fix the issue just hit me!

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#15

Could you please report this as a bug on GitHub so that we can investigate it and hopefully figure out how to run the tools on older OSX versions.

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#16

Done! Thanks for helping and I hope you can figure this out!

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