GS Viewer - Not stable?

PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
I keep having to restart the GS Viewer App and the GameSalad Creator to get the iPhone preview mode working. After Compressing Game Assets, it just hangs. It doesn't do this every time, but it's happening a lot.

Why isn't the GS Viewer just a regular iTunes app anyway? That would be a way to increase the visibility of GameSalad and it should make updates less annoying.

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  • JohnPapiomitisJohnPapiomitis Member Posts: 6,256
    Same here, its only happening on the 4th gen for me though. AFter a couple tries it goes threw but then wont display fps. Ive installed the viewer a bunch of times again and the same thing happened. Viewer works on my 2nd genB an adhoc build of the app runs perfect on the 4th gen, so its definetly the viewer.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    I've had similar happen. If I click preview when it does that and the preview with viewer again from inside GS preview it goes through. not sure whats causing it cause it does seem random.

    @photics
    I mentioned something like that a while back and it was said they had tried a couple times but apple rejects it for not meeting guidelines. Im not sure why since I have seen other apps that are specially to expand functionality of computer software to the device. I think that would be great then we wouldn't have to screw with building it after each update.
  • mynameisacemynameisace Hull, UKMember Posts: 2,484
    Did this for me on the last version of the software too.

    Ace
  • 68kStudios68kStudios Member Posts: 219
    same problem for me (ipod touch 3g ios 4.2.1): viewer never works, always stuck on "compressing game assets".
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member, PRO Posts: 2,033
    This version has been worse than normal for me too.

    It's not so bad when the game is pretty small, but anything over around 15 meg, and it gets very unhappy about it.

    As a side note, I managed to get it to be a little better, by changing my wireless channel on the router to "11".
    It's still pretty slow at times, but hangs much less.

    I wish there was a way of sending down the usb cable rather than over wifi tho. Would make testing a much nicer experience (but not sure how feasible that actually would be)
  • tatvasofttatvasoft Member Posts: 1
    always stuck on "compressing game assets".
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    tatvasoft said:
    always stuck on "compressing game assets".

    the only time I get that is if you let your phone go to sleep before it finishes loading.

    Make sure you tap the screen occasionally and keep the device awake and lit up the whole time its loading.

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  • DizkoDizko Member Posts: 498
    Photics said:Why isn't the GS Viewer just a regular iTunes app anyway? That would be a way to increase the visibility of GameSalad and it should make updates less annoying.

    I see only downsides to doing that, subjecting the viewer to Apple's review process thus delaying it's arrival to us seems a bit silly to me.
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