Possible bug

[asciimonster]

I may have found a bug, but need your help in replicating it. I noticed that sometimes I meet a challenge, but are not rewarded...

Could you try:
- Start a challenge for the challenge menu.
- Fail the challenge
- From the end screen, choose "restart race"
- Finish the challenge successfully
- Now you will not get your reward...

[ggreenn]

I'm pretty sure that when you choose "restart race" from the end screen after a challenge with nitro you are not awarded if you win when you restart. "little red line in nitro meter is missing"

[asciimonster]

Actually I think the restarted race is not viewed as a challenge at all. It also explains the nitro line missing.

[Auria]

There is no special "challenge mode" when racing, you can unlock features without going in the challenges menu first, so that's not the issue there

To help more, we would need to know exactly what challenge caused this issue

[asciimonster]

I found this behaviour in a lot of different challenges... hence my impression it implied to all challenges.

[Auria]

Weird, in my tests I did not see this. Could you provide specifics next time this happens? (e.g. I was doing challenge X, I finished at rank Y with time Z)

[asciimonster]

I reset my challenges to test this. Here's one:
Challenge: Farm 3xAI Time<2:30 Win=NN (Not Necessary)
1st run: Time=2:35:59 Win=NO => Unlock=NO
2nd run: Time=2:24:89 Win=NO => Unlock=NO

P.S. please note: this is the SECOND farm challenge. There is one just like it before that, that worked. Hmmm. Could it be that the completed challenges aren't removed?

[Auria]

Hmm, something is wrong there, we have only one farm challenge. Is it possible that you installed STK over an older installation, and thus have some old files left around?

Apart form that, I tested that particular challenge, and had no problems So I don't know what's wrong for you

[asciimonster]

I'll try a clean install then.

Just on time too... I removed any trace of the old programme and installed the 0.7 version.
After the re-install I selected a challenge straight away and had a programme crash (possibly because after the clean install no kart has been selected?).
I still have to report that the completed challenges were not removed... (In this case: win snowtuxpeak against 3 AI)

[Auria]

I'll try a clean install then.

Just on time too... I removed any trace of the old programme and installed the 0.7 version.
After the re-install I selected a challenge straight away and had a programme crash (possibly because after the clean install no kart has been selected?).
I still have to report that the completed challenges were not removed... (In this case: win snowtuxpeak against 3 AI)

Hi,

for all crashes, we will need a backtrace from gdb, otherwise I'm afraid it's hard for us to do anything

and yes, removing the data files does not remove your user data (~/.config/supertuxkart), so solved challenges will remain solved

[hiker]

I'll try a clean install then.

Just on time too... I removed any trace of the old programme and installed the 0.7 version.
After the re-install I selected a challenge straight away and had a programme crash (possibly because after the clean install no kart has been selected?).

No, that shouldn't be the reason - if there is no config file, 'tux' becomes the selected character (and I also tried that on Windows without any problems). Any messages if you run stk from the command line?

I still have to report that the completed challenges were not removed... (In this case: win snowtuxpeak against 3 AI)

Removed from where? Challenges stay in the list of challenges, but get a different icon. That's normal.

I've already created a ticket for adding version numbers to challenges (to avoid problems with trying to load old/left-over challenges), and I think this should also include solved challenges ... probably.

Cheers,
Joerg

[asciimonster]

(...) Challenges stay in the list of challenges, but get a different icon. That's normal.

Icon? What icon?
* Asciimonster looks blankly ahead *
Oh. Now I get it! Completed challenges are shown as a cup... I really didn't get that. I thought the cup indicated that challenge unlocks a cup and the others unlock a track... Sorry.

I personally think a medal or a laurel overlaid over the original icon is a clearer indication that that challenge has been met.
Also the order of the challenges change constantly, I think it's better if every challenge had a fixed position.

[Auria]

Challenges will improve in the future, but for now this is what I had the time to code

[asciimonster]

I'm running the windows version so debugging is not an option. (why isn't there a --debug option?)
This is another puppy I found before the programme locked up on race start:
"[KartSelectionScreen] WARNING: could not find a kart named 'locked' "
Also starting a race with a large amount of karts (10+ BRING ON THE MAYHEM!) seems to be troublesome for some tracks (e.g. canyon)