SP-Studio Bug report

[Jareen2]

Janina when you press on the mr garrison glasses you will get the new buzz glasses

[Janina]

Thanks, now it should work again. If you still have problems please load this file an refresh it.

Some times, when you save the picture the resulting JPG has an horizontal displacement of about one pixel from a given line downwards. It can be solved moving a little bit one of the objects... but it's annoying to save and check and move and save and check again...

It can be seen in this two pics taken from the contest's gallery:
here, noticeable in the center line of the chest:

or here, at the center of the image (walls, eyes...):


¿Any solution instead of screen captures?

[Till]

...And sometimes the last row of pixels is added on the other side of the picture..

But as the save function is the part of the studio Janina didn't code herself, I guess this bug isn't easy to manage for her too..

[Janina]

Yes, unfortunately I cannot fix anything there .

You can avoid this problem by making a screenhot instead, this way you get the best quality. Screenshots can be created easily in newer versions of Windows by using the "Snipping Tool", which can be found in the start menu.

[Till]

...and on mac OS X with the App "Screen capture". It can be found in the Launchpad in the folder "more" (or else, because I don't know how it is exactly called, I of corse use the german version).
But anyway, I learned to prefer this little freeware application.

... Thanks anyway.

[ADePALMA1251]

I don't think it's that big of a deal since saving it as a .PNG is way better anyway. Caribou has put together a fantastic little guide to saving images as .PNG. Click here to check it out.

Screen captures can give more quality (you also can play with the resolution of the screen to get higher sizes) but as you have to use an editing program (paint, photoshop,...), even being allowed to use it in the contest, these programs marks the file with exif information and makes you supicious of editing. If you use the SP-S exporting device the files won't had that marks demonstrating the non-edition condition.

[Janina]

I can asure you I will never suspect someone for cheating just because of the exif information of the file. Actually I have nevery thought about this because I use screenshots myself all the time .
If we suspect somebody it's because of how the picture looks like, if there are parts of it which cannot be created by using the SP-Studio.

[Jareen2]

When i press on the burned skin i will get the fur skin..
and on my other computer for some reason it will work just fine...

[Janina]

This is a cache problem again. Your browser "remembers" the old skin-file and does not recognize the changes.

You can fix this by loading the skin file: www.sp-studio.de/head/headn.swf
Press refresh and then you can close it again. It should work now .

[Eggyslav]

The "sitting shoes" item can't be removed/replaced with other shoes, when I choose other shoes, the sitting ones stay, and when trying to delete them, I delete the second shoes i've chosen....

[Janina]

Good to know, I will try to fix it with today's update.
It seems like I forgot something in the code. The new shoes are on a different level than the others ones, so it was a bit tricky.

[Janina]

Unfortunately this is more difficult than I thought... I don't know how to solve the problem right now . Sorry, but I will have a closer look after Christmas.

[Caribou]

In the meantime, you could always just move the "sitting" feet offscreen if you want to delete them.

[Caribou]

There's an usual bug with the three new shirts at the bottom of the last column in the Freestyle section - they look fine as long as you don't move them anywhere, but if you do then all the areas shaded with the darker tone turn black.

Also, not sure if this is a necessary result of the new shirt-layering system, but the thicker of the two sets of wrist-bands is no longer above the top shirt layer.

[Eggyslav]

Also, not really a bug, but I would prefer the rococo cravat to be worn above at least second layer, it would look better that way....

[Caribou]

Eggyslav wrote:

Also, not really a bug, but I would prefer the rococo cravat to be worn above at least second layer, it would look better that way....

Agreed. Although the new layering system may make sorting out things like this quite a lot of work for Janina.

Thers a bug where instead of hands it makes my person where a shirt

[Janina]

Right now I am working on a little update to fix all of these bugs. Thanks for keeping an eye on them!

@IDKASAPERSON: I checked all hands but cannot find this bug. When exactly does it happen?

[Janina]

BUG FIX

The update is online now and I hope everything works:

• The three new shirts can be moved now without the strange color changes.
• Sitting feet should finally work without interfering with the regular shoes or with shirts. Sorry, this took so long... I did not find the reason for the problems until now .
• The two types of eye makeup fill the whole eyes now, so you can use them to color closed eyelids. This was a contest wish by Caribou. I know it is not exactly what you asked for, because I changed the makeup instead of the eyes... but the result should be the same. I prefer to keep the selection of the eyes as simple as possible for now and keep it separated from the make up, so I did it this way.
• The wristbands are back on the layer on top of the shirts.
• The rococo cravat got its own layer on top of the shirts as well.
• A small bug with the Kratos belt was fixed. It coverd parts of the hands.
• Two hats and the fish tail can be flipped now.
• Hairstyles sorted.

when i start out with the skin

[Janina]

So you start with the skin, click on the big shape, select a color... and instead of hands a shirt appears? Do you click anywhere else? And does this happen every time?

Sorry, but I cannot help you right now, because I don't know how this is technically possible. The skin category is not connected with the shirt files, so I am confused about this error. But perhaps you can describe more details about it or somebody else can reproduce it.

[Caribou]

Janina wrote:

The two types of eye makeup fill the whole eyes now, so you can use them to color closed eyelids. This was a contest wish by Caribou. I know it is not exactly what you asked for, because I changed the makeup instead of the eyes... but the result should be the same. I prefer to keep the selection of the eyes as simple as possible for now and keep it separated from the make up, so I did it this way.

Would it be possible to keep the old crescent-shaped eye make-up as well as the new ones? The new ones work fine if you actually use the pieces as eye make-up, but the old shapes were really useful to use in other ways because of their shape - I've seen a lot of pictures where people have used the lower set to give their character large breasts, for example, and I've certainly used them both many times whenever I've needed a random curly-looking bit. I'd hate for one of my contest wishes to limit what people can make with the creator and I think the crescent-shaped pieces would be badly missed by quite a few people.

That said, the new round ones would offer new possiblities for interesting uses as well, so if it's possible to keep both sets (on the same layer, I guess, as an either/or option) then that would be ideal.

[Janina]

Normally I would grant your wish and include both, but in this case I prefer the new one. The most important reason: For those users who don't use the move function (and unfortunately these are many people) the two items look the same, and so it would be very irritating. And a more personal reason: the strange look of the old eye makeup was an error. I did not draw it this way on purpose. When I included it I did not think about the possibility that somebody could move it and see how it looks without the eyes in front of it, so this was pure laziness . I wanted to fix this for a long time and it was never supposed to look this way, because I felt like it's unprofessional.

[Caribou]

This isn't really a bug, but the Hall of Fame link has reverted back to the old one, without the new layout and the winners over the last year or so.

[Janina]

Only the link in the gallery or si there another place where the link is wrong?

[Caribou]

The link in the gallery. Not sure about any others.

I never got,the weird "Bug Report" so weird?!