Published game is pretty much empty

[Gamer4Life]

I attempted to publish a game to by selecting file/publish/stand and downloaded/compressed the file into a folder. For some reason when I run the .exe file it only shows 1% roughly of the stuff that is in the game. The game launches and has a small part but almost nothing in it. Is there something I did wrong?

[extenz]

The first map after you run your game will always be "start.map" so make sure you map's name is "start.map"

[Haydenmango]

Try un-checking "Only include used files" when you publish your game.

[Undac]

Well, we'd need more details. What can you see in debug mode, but not in release: maps or events and objects from maps? Do you have multiple maps? If so, is there a method to swap between maps? Are you using cpp, lua or both? etc

[Rick]

To elaborate on Haydenmango's comment, which is probably right, if you load a lot of assets via code only (ie those assets are not in the map file) then the engine doesn't know you want those assets as it doesn't seem to go through your code to see what assets you need but just looks at the map file.

[Josh]

The editor actually does scan Lua and CPP files looking for file names.

[Rick]

Interesting. A few months ago when we would check the box to only include used files we were getting similar errors this guy did and we were loading a fair amount of stuff via code. We unchecked that box and it would work. When we would look at the log it wasn't loading some resources that only got loaded via code so we made this conclusion. Might be a bug (or maybe you fixed/changed this in the last few months?).

[Josh]

If the name of the file is procedurally created it won't be included. The file name has to be in the code.

[AggrorJorn]

I was helping someone were vegetation that was painted via the terrein editor, didnt end up in the Publishers game. Does the publishing add those vegeations Models too? I would just include everything to be sure. Once your game gets to the finale release you can start dumping assets you no longer need.

 

[Gamer4Life]

The cause to this was that the wrong start file loaded so i deleted all the extra ones i had and changed the one I wanted to the default start map name.