The previous thread I saw about this error had the person just boot up a newer version of Renpy and that fixed it.
I just tried installed Renpy 7, just in case, and booted from there -- it seemed to auto-detect where my files were, in case that matters -- but python.exe opens, the computer freezes up a lot, and if I leave it long enough, I get a traceback that starts with this:
(There's a lot more, but maybe that's enough to give a gist of it)I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
After loading the script.
OverflowError: value too large to convert to short
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 306, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 415, in main
if renpy.parser.report_parse_errors():
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\parser.py", line 2664, in report_parse_errors
renpy.display.error.report_parse_errors(full_text, error_fn)
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\error.py", line 185, in report_parse_errors
error_fn=error_fn,
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\game.py", line 279, in invoke_in_new_context
return callable(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\error.py", line 43, in call_exception_screen
return renpy.ui.interact(mouse="screen", type="screen", suppress_overlay=True, suppress_underlay=True)
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\ui.py", line 287, in interact
rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 2649, in interact
repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 3132, in interact_core
self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 2055, in draw_screen
renpy.config.screen_height,
File "render.pyx", line 485, in renpy.display.render.render_screen
File "render.pyx", line 233, in renpy.display.render.render
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "render.pyx", line 145, in renpy.display.render.render
File "render.pyx", line 233, in renpy.display.render.render
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
File "render.pyx", line 145, in renpy.display.render.render
File "render.pyx", line 233, in renpy.display.render.render
File "C:\Users\Destiny_Smasher\My Projects\Visual Novel\renpy 7\renpy-7.0.0-sdk\renpy\display\layout.py", line 717, in render
surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
Now, in case it's relevant, I have been working off and on on this thing for over two years, adapting a prose fic and converting it to code for a VN adaptation.
Could it be that my file is just too big at this point? What would I do to mitigate that? I've barely gone about adding in media like images or sounds, so if the memory is the issue, I definitely need to figure out what to do about that.
I did release a fully functioning demo a year back and never ran into this error until more recently, after I've spent months converting all of the rest of the prose into VN code.
http://lis-allwounds.tumblr.com/Downloads
(it is a fan-sequel story to Life is Strange)
Thanks for any assistance!