Overgrowth Alpha FAQ

This is the Overgrowth Bug FAQ.

• This FAQ is intended for bug explanations, workarounds, and answer common bug-related questions.
• This FAQ NOT intended as a place for you to post bugs you might have found. If you want to report a bug please do so on Wolfire's Trac.

Please feel free to contribute to this FAQ, and the wiki as a whole!

Any entry should be formated as an informative title, followed by any of the following:

• Symptoms that the bug might exhibit.
• Details about the bug.
• Links to forum topics where the issue mentioned has been discussed/resolved.
• Workarounds to help avoid this bug.
• Fixing instructions to help fix the bug if it occurs.
• Any other relevant information.

General Bugs

Something-Something Won't Work! AHHH!

First and foremost, Don't Panic.

Disclaimer: Be prepared for it to just not work at times. Overgrowth is still in its Alpha stage, and the team is focusing more on getting essential features in than working out bugs and compatibility issues. The team will get to them, and will try to occasionally fix very pressing bugs, but sadly sometimes it will just take a while. However that doesn't mean that there's nothing you can do!

Here's what you can do:

• Look at the rest of this Bug FAQ to see if there are any that might fit your situation.
• Check the Secret Preorder Forum and use the lovely search feature. For example if on your Windows Vista PC, Overgrowth crashes when your character jumps, search for "Vista Jump Crash".
• Ask on the Wolfire IRC. Many users are long time Alpha testers and will be happy to help you.
• Ask John on Meebo. Although John's time is a valuable, non-renewable resource, he will be happy to help you if you need to talk with someone on the team.

Note: if you decide to request help anywhere please include relevant information such as:

• Alpha Number
• If you're running windows, mac or linux
• what version your OS is
• Relevant system information such as what graphics card your computer has, how Much RAM you have, etc.
• Any Error messages that you see.

I can't access all of the GUI. The window crops important parts of the screen.

This turned up, when the default resolution was lowered from 1024x768 to 800x600. You can resolve this issue by changing the settings, either to a higher resolution or to full screen mode. Changing display settings is done in the 'config.txt'-file in the Overgrowth data folder.

The first lines of the default config file should look like this:

screenwidth:	800
screenheight:	600
fullscreen:	false

You can change the resolution by changing the values for screenwidth/screenheight and go to fullscreen mode by changing the 'false' to 'true'.

When I try to load a Model it won't work

You need to make sure that you're not loading the model file, but the object file.

• A Model file is a 3d mesh saved as a *.obj file. this file contains no textures or shader data and so cannot be loaded by itself.
• An Object file is an XML that stores the filepaths for all the relevant data of an object, including the Model file as well as the textures and shader.

For example if you are trying to load a file located in Data/Models/example.obj you should really be opening Data/Objects/example.xml

When I load a Map...

... I get an error

• more to come...

... Overgrowth crashes

• more to come...

...That is a custom-made Map

1. Make sure that You typed the name correctly, including the *.xml ending
2. Make sure that it exists in Data/Levels/

Windows Specific Bugs

Error: cannot create the C:\program files\Overgrowth\Data\config.txt file. ...

This error applies to both Lugaru and Overgrowth.

Symptom: When attempting to edit the config.txt file the following error message is displayed:

cannot create the C:\program files\Overgrowth\Data\config.txt file. Make sure the path and file name are correct.

Explanation: Windows Vista Likes to save its config file in a different location. As discussed in this thread on the forums, The file is actually stored in: C:/users/admin/app data/local virtual store/program files/Overgrowth/config.txt

Mac Specific Bugs

I can't find the Data folder

With the mac version of overgrowth the Data folder is located within the application. You can access it by right clicking the "Overgrowth ##" application and choosing 'Show Contents", and then going to Contents/MacOS/Data

To make future access easier right click 'Data' and choose 'Make Alias'. Now drag this alias out of the application, somewhere easy to find, your desktop for example.

When you now try to open a file from within Overgrowth just navigate to the alias and you should have access to the Contents of the Data folder

It says on the forums/blog that you can right click with command+click, but it won't work!

Unfortunately in recent alphas this functionality has been broken. Right clicking is currently only possible with an external mouse, or on a trackpad with enabled two-finger right click.

Linux Specific Bugs

Bugs need to be added here

Does not exist

Oh noez! Currently there is no native Linux version of Overgrowth, but it's comming! However, in the meantime the Windows version can be run with Wine. It requires the Visual C++ 2005 libraries, which can be installed through winetricks.