[ADDED VIDEO] BUG - Random show commands not working

[CutlassBoardgame]

Throughout my project random show commands are stopping working. Initially I could fix a character not showing up, by making a copy of the image, and pasting it in the same file with a different name, but it doesn't work anymore.

The code is literally

show maya7 at left

and it already works in other places in the project.

I've since made a duplicate of the image, and replaced it in a place where it wasn't working which was:

show maya8 at left

which worked until I went and changed a 7 to an 8 in a second location, and now the first maya8 won't work.
Lint shows nothing, no errors on launch, just the art won't show up.
please help, this is killing me

[Ocelot]

I have a suspiction that you never hide images.
Try to do:

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hide maya7
show maya7 at left

If this works, then you will need to fix another problem before you run into it.

[CutlassBoardgame]

No, I show and hide after each instance, usually it surrounds a specific line of dialogue.


Also, I just loaded a save on one of these hidden image points, and the image was there, but when I clicked back it wouldn't load it anymore.

[Imperf3kt]

Have you accidentally copied and pasted an extra space (or one too little)?

[CutlassBoardgame]

Have you accidentally copied and pasted an extra space (or one too little)?

Nope just double checked this. I'm telling you, it's not on my end, because it works one minute, and then doesn't work without me changing anything.

[Alex]

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Try to rename your characters like

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maya p7
maya p8

So, 'maya' would be the tag for all maya images, and only one of them could be shown on screeen at a time.

[CutlassBoardgame]

Here is a video with annotations showing the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6Z6S8 ... sBoardgame

The maya images don't show up at all playing through chronologically, loading that save is the only time it shows up. The "maya7" image is used about 70 times elsewhere in the project.
(l - Alannah Dialogue, m - maya dialogue)

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l "Oh.."
hide alannah7
show maya7 at left
m "Look man, what do you want?"
"Skeleton King" "I'm here to ruin the prom, isn't that tonight?"
"Skeleton King" "I don't see any decorations up or anything."
m "That's at the end of the week!"
"Skeleton King" "What day is it now? Friday, right?"
hide maya7
show alannah5 at left
l "It's tuesday."