bugs Simtropolis 9.0.x - Bugs & Issues Report Thread

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

What is a GIFV, and how is it different from a GIF?

[Samerton 833]

I believe .gifv files are (currently) Imgur specific extensions for what's effectively a looping .MP4 video.

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

When viewing a file's details, the download button seems to be broken. Got this in both Firefox and Chrome.

EDIT: Well that was fast... seems to be fixed now.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

2014.10.16.20.38 - Bug or Issue (or my ineptitude) :unsure:

So, most times when I'm in this here editing box I can paste pic linkys or quotes and they pause a moment then display as I expect. However, sometimes a quote doesn't fully resolve itself into what it will look like after I click save. Like it's just texty rather than the banner and such it will become.

Another issue, definitely not a bug since it's likely coded this way deliberately, is length of url to image has a certain length limit. (Not sure what it is specifically value-wise.) But, too long and it just shows as a link even after saving post. I shorten the file name and then all is good. This could just be a written tip in some guide to Using Post Editor. Tie this in with what I said here as a side digression in my Challenge idea:

23 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

... the one I have in the works is how to use 3 tabs on ST and one or more tabs on 2nd monitor to quickly create those pretty, useful embedded links ...

-Cori

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

Re-hiya.

Just a little something I noticed. It might be my browser at fault, but if not maybe someone would like to know. Here's an image:

And I see similar for icon_simtrop.png in Simtropolis Social Forum.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Are you suggesting that this file should have displayed as an image?

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

1 hour ago, A Nonny Moose said:

Are you suggesting that this file should have displayed as an image?

Indeed. With the .png extension I did expect to see an image.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

^ Only if the relevant file was a valid PNG.  Were you able to open either in a graphics editor to check?

Also, for a web site like this one, PNG format is overkill.  Converting them to JPEG would be more productive.

And, did you try the embedding tool or did you just paste them in?  The embedding tool shows up by clicking on the Insert other media button in the lower right of the frame.

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

Thanks, I've fixed it!   

Also done the same for other forum categories with broken icons.

The image was there, just wasn't being sourced correctly. Looks like it was trying to redirect, probably caused by one of the site upgrades.

E.g.

Before

<img class="ipsImage" src="https://community.simtropolis.com/?app=core&module=system&controller=redirect&url=%2Fimages%2Ficon_sc4.png">

After

<img class="ipsImage" src="https://community.simtropolis.com/images/icon_sc4.png">

 

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

7 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

Thanks, I've fixed it!   

Also done the same for other forum categories with broken icons.

In a cyclonic whirlwind, boom. It was done. (I see them now.)

 

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

This one is prolly a different situation. In this post:

I see this for the .jpg:

<img src="http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/310/maccjbjpg.jpg" alt="maccjbjpg.jpg">

I'm guessing the image no longer exists on the host, but I'm hoping it might be an easy fix.

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

Yeah, looks like that one has left the building.

ImageShack must've done a mass pruning, likely when they moved to a subscription only service. I remember a couple of years ago, quite a few images suddenly vanished. Sadly, nothing much can be done I'm afraid.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

So, I was on your ◆ LOTW's page. There are some wonderful linkys there.

They all go someplace except Simmania Tutorials and Realistic Functional Railyards.

 

(Getting tired of me yet?)

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

Ah, thanks it's been a while since I checked those. I really ought to update the list with more stuff.

Fixed the Simmania link, looks like they moved from that old address. Here's the new one: http://simmania.darkbb.com/f12-tutorial-center

As the the railyard tutorial, that site doesn't seem to exist any longer. The Wayback Machine has the page archived here, but the images aren't showing I'm afraid (kind of the focal point). A shame since it was quite a useful guide. I'll try and find a similar one, or if someone can suggest one.
 

On 28/04/2016 at 0:51 AM, CorinaMarie said:

(Getting tired of me yet?)

Not at all, you're most welcome!

[Samerton 833]

On 4/30/2016 at 1:34 AM, Cyclone Boom said:

Ah, thanks it's been a while since I checked those. I really ought to update the list with more stuff.

Fixed the Simmania link, looks like they moved from that old address. Here's the new one: http://simmania.darkbb.com/f12-tutorial-center

As the the railyard tutorial, that site doesn't seem to exist any longer. The Wayback Machine has the page archived here, but the images aren't showing I'm afraid (kind of the focal point). A shame since it was quite a useful guide. I'll try and find a similar one, or if someone can suggest one.
 

Not at all, you're most welcome!

Just a little note about the Simmania link; the new Tutorials board can be found here, the tutorials are probably scattered around the site at the moment so they'll need to be tracked down and moved. Hope that helps in some way

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

8 hours ago, Samerton said:

Just a little note about the Simmania link; the new Tutorials board can be found here, the tutorials are probably scattered around the site at the moment so they'll need to be tracked down and moved. Hope that helps in some way

Thanks for the link, but that forum appears to show a 'not found' error. It also doesn't appear visible on the main index.

Does it require signing in?

[Samerton 833]

9 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

Thanks for the link, but that forum appears to show a 'not found' error. It also doesn't appear visible on the main index.

Does it require signing in?

Apologies, should be fixed now.

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

Hi all,

There's a few noteworthy additions from the latest board updates. Just thought I'd post a quick summary:

• Finally it's here! The return of Post Preview in the editor:    (on the far right)
  It also offers different views to show how a post would appear on different devices, which is quite neat.
  See this article for more info.
   
• A filter on the STEX has been restored to sort files by most downloaded:
  
  

 

• Misc improvements to the Activity Streams and search category filters (in forums).
  For the streams, this includes an RSS feed for the "All Activity" page, and an option to take you to the first unread post:
  
  
  
  
  See this article for additional info.

 

• For a more accurate representation, ratings on the STEX now show half stars when applicable.
   
• Ability to ignore being notified when a user mentions you in a post. This can be set in your Ignore Settings (per user toggle).
   
• Many other misc bug fixes and cosmetic things, including an issue with uploading animated GIFs.

 

Hope these are useful, and please continue to let us know of any new issues.
 

Regards,

-The Admins

[Delta 88 262]

When I try adding two images to my signature, it gives me the error "Too many images" even though it also says the maximum number of images is two. It only allows me to have one image. I've seen other members with two images in their signatures, so what gives? Also, the maximum height/width of the allotted image is way too small (only 300x50). I can barely fit a clear image in there.

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

On 30/05/2016 at 4:51 AM, Delta 88 said:

When I try adding two images to my signature, it gives me the error "Too many images" even though it also says the maximum number of images is two. It only allows me to have one image. I've seen other members with two images in their signatures, so what gives?

Hi Delta 88,

Unfortunately, I believe emoticons are also counted (since they're technically images as well). There's not currently a way to exclude them from the validation check, so maybe this could be the reason...

If you'd like, once you've added a second image, I can add the smiley back for you manually.
 

On 30/05/2016 at 4:51 AM, Delta 88 said:

Also, the maximum height/width of the allotted image is way too small (only 300x50). I can barely fit a clear image in there.

This has been a site policy for quite a while, but it could be reconsidered if helpful.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

1 hour ago, Cyclone Boom said:

This has been a site policy for quite a while, but it could be reconsidered if helpful.

If you are considering a policy change, I'd vote for one image twice as tall rather than two smooshed ones.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

Just a wee bit of editing if you wouldn't mind. As I learned here, there's another dependency for PEG-MTP Fire Station which isn't listed so could you add CSX MEGA Props - Vol03 (v1.0) to the list?

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

1 hour ago, CorinaMarie said:

Just a wee bit of editing if you wouldn't mind. As I learned here, there's another dependency for PEG-MTP Fire Station which isn't listed so could you add CSX MEGA Props - Vol03 (v1.0) to the list?

Nice catch thanks, I've added it to the description. The fire station needs a proper fire engine!

It's somewhat of a surprise it wasn't noticed earlier.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

3 hours ago, Cyclone Boom said:

Nice catch thanks, I've added it to the description. The fire station needs a proper fire engine!

It's somewhat of a surprise it wasn't noticed earlier.

Keep in mind it was @rsc204 who figured out which dependency was missing. And, apparently, many peeps already have the required file since they have lots of content so it could easily go unnoticed.

I'm starting out fresh and have very few plugins atm. Like, I can count them on one hand and still have enough fingers left to type.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

Anonymous time travelers?

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

Here's a post which could use a conversion from the old BBCode: VIP RuralPack along with my attempt to do it for you. Let me know if this works as c & p. Note: The "important.png" no longer exists so I put Important in its place. For size="3" I guessed 16 point. I could not test the SC4Devoton linky since they are in Maintenance Mode atm and I did not alter any grammatical aspects. (Tho I really wanted to at least change "download before" to "downloaded before".)

- - - Start Edit - - -

 

This pack contains seasonal plopables plant, and various decorative elements for your landscape. The seasonal props has the S logo.

Note: For fitting with other seasonal items, props need to be planted the 1st September. We do not recommand you to use seasonal trees on growable LOTs.


Important  EDIT: If you download this modd before September 27th 13:00 (GMT +1) you can re-download to get all the icons


The Pack are included:

• Corylus seasonal
• Narcissus seasonal
• Populus seasonal
• 2 pampa grass
• Iris pseudacorus seasonal
• Pteridum Aquilinum seasonal
• Sarothamnus scoparius seasonal
• Nymphaea
• Potamogeton natans
• 2 Arundo donax
• Mossy Rock
• Kayaks
• Boats
• Bathers and Fishermen
• Cows and cow dung
• Chicken
• Heron

The Plopable props are found near the end of the Mayor Mode Flora menu.


DEPENDENCIES

Important There is one dependancy concerning the flora tuning parameters:

Seasonal Flora Patch for All Terrain Mods


INSTALLATION

Auto Installation: Double-click the installer file to start the installation. The program will guide you through the process. You can change the default installation path, but we strongly suggest to keep the standard folder in order to make future updates and additions easier.

MAC Users: File Juicer should enable you to use this installer package. If it's ZIP archive it is necessary to make the same manipulation that during installation manual (see above).


CREDIT AND FEEDBACK

Models by Ben, Girafe, Orange, Vnaoned. Modding by Badsim.
If you have questions or problems you can leave us a message SC4devotion thread

 

- - - End Edit - - -

 

[timoman 50]

not sure if this is a bug, or just a poorly implemented feature... but when searching under content "Files",  and Fine Results In... is "Content titles and body", results appearing are from text in the comment section. I don't know if this is accidental, or if you consider the "body" to include "comments" (I would think "body" means the description of the file, but thats just me)

either way it makes searching a pain because you are going through all kinds of files which have nothing to do with your search term, simply because someone's comment included that term

[Cyclone Boom 16,829]

On 06/06/2016 at 11:58 AM, CorinaMarie said:

Anonymous time travelers?

That's interesting, as the dates show up correctly on the file itself:
https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/31115-coris-zone-data-view/?do=showRep

The date (01 Jan 1970 UTC) happens to be the start of Unix Time. So maybe the date value is missing on the profile page, similar to how the users are shows as Guests. It appears to be an issue on all profiles.
 

On 06/06/2016 at 3:09 PM, CorinaMarie said:

Here's a post which could use a conversion from the old BBCode: VIP RuralPack along with my attempt to do it for you. Let me know if this works as c & p.

Thanks for that! It worked perfectly.
 

41 minutes ago, timoman said:

not sure if this is a bug, or just a poorly implemented feature... but when searching under content "Files",  and Fine Results In... is "Content titles and body", results appearing are from text in the comment section. I don't know if this is accidental, or if you consider the "body" to include "comments" (I would think "body" means the description of the file, but thats just me)

Agreed, it isn't as user-friendly as it could be, and there isn't much benefit to searching in comments.

The IP.Board devs keep saying about improving the search interface, so this is something that still has room for improvement in releases to follow. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

After a quick test, selecting the Content titles only actually also searches in a file's description. So this looks like a way around excluding comments from the results. It'd make more sense if this was instead the default option.

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

On 6/9/2016 at 0:45 PM, Cyclone Boom said:

Thanks for that! It worked perfectly.

You're welcome.

So, I just checked the validity of the SC4D thread linky and it (in the original) goes to page 2 which is off topic comments on other stuff. The author prolly intended it to go here instead: SC4devotion thread. Is that something you would change or leave the content exactly as posted?

[CorinaMarie 29,558]

Piers 1 needs dependency linky updates to:

 

PEG MTP SUPER PACK 1

PEG MTP Mid Wealth Growable RES AFrames

PEG MTP Logging Roads 1

PEG OWW2 Resource Pack 1

PEG OWW2 BDK Beach Development Kit