I'll admit I'm new to installing norn breeds, and decided to try my hand at it today. Everything seemed to go smoothly, until I got into the game.
I downloaded the new 2017 Norn Pack breeds. I put all the gen and gno into the gentics folders, and put the egg agents into the agent folder. (I made sure to only do breeds I own btw)
Now when I go into the game, though, when I click through the norn breed and it gets to Bengal Expressive, the egg layer menu vanishes. It won't pop up and only the top bar is left.
Press ctrl + shift + w together, and then ctrl + shift + a to disable autokill, try it again and post the error message here for us to see. You don't need to post the whole thing though, just the error part.
If you remove that breed's egg agent, restart the world, and try again, you may fix the bug. If not, remove the next breed and repeat until it goes away. Then you can re-add the removed egg agents safely.
You'll need to repeat this process every time you make a new world, however (unless you remove the egg agents before you make the world and add them back after you've made it).
That worked! I tried one of my old worlds and the Egg Layer works fine. That's a bit annoying, but I suppose it's okay as long as I get to play. Is it just the Egg Agents I need to remove or all the gen files as well?
Thanks for the quick fix though. It's great to still see a community for this game despite how old it is.
Just the egg agents. Absolutely nothing else (unless you want to completely uninstall the breed for other reasons).
For what it's worth, the error is the result of the max number of images available for the egg layer image is based on whatever sprite is loaded first. A lot of egg layer images use a frame higher than 0, so if that first sprite only has one frame, then when it tries loading an image with a frame count higher than that it throws an error.
It's a strange error, and I'm not sure why it happens. Until I (or someone else) figures that out, this fix will have to do. Alternatively you could find another breed that appears in the egg layer before whatever one you had before, and hope that one keeps the error from happening.
I usually don't play C3 by itself, so I'm not sure, but would a portable egglayer help at all? I mean, if there is one that will work C3 undocked. I had to get a work around for one particular breed, and the portable ones worked pretty good once I learned how to use them correctly.
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