Tons of stuff isn't working in my game, why?

Bug Reports
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@grazer Here’s a big one.

For some strange reason, Messages eventually stop sending.
Check Day Parent and watch as around 8, suddenly numbers stop feeding in from the messages.
Fast forward is currently on by default.

Use Spacebar to fast forward time
Use Enter to fast forward an hour

Look at the image below, the stars are still out at 12 noon, because the Alpha stopped around 50% or less.
If you spam Spacebar, messages will send again and then stop. You need to keep hitting space to make the % go up, because it just stops receiving messages from Global clock on the GUI layer. Sun Parent seems to have a similar issue, because sunset never triggers either. The game also will not load at all in Html5 mode. For some reason, Once also would not (IN) on the number that all the filters go into, so I had to make a separate Number 0 in both parents, just to Once the Alpha to 0 when the game loads in. I’m stumped. I feel like it’s Flowlab engine bug related and I can’t fix it, especially messages eventually not sending.

EDIT

Managed to find each bug and work around it so the game functions properly, bugs found below.

Turns out the primary cause is Always and Timer 0/10. Timer 0/10 is not only significantly faster than Always, but it freezes key inputs, so you can’t hit Spacebar to stop the fast forward. It seems that they both run so fast, that eventually messages lag out and can’t keep up with the frame inputs. Timer 1/10 works fine, it’s just a lot slower than I would like. An unrelated bug is that uploaded music is unbearably loud, even on Volume 0. I guess Volume doesn’t work for Uploaded Sounds. My song that I made is very loud at only Volume 3. Something else to look into I guess.

Edit

The sound bug might be a Chrome related bug, because Puffin is actually quiet enough that I need my volume up all the way in my car. My laptop uses Chrome though, and the music is on volume 4 and crazy loud for my laptop only being on 15/100 volume.

https://flowlab.io/game/play/1190244
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Hey @“Mhx Ar” - first off, this is an awesome demo. I really like this idea and the implementation.

I think all the problems you’re having are caused by loops. It looks like the Sun Shader and the Day Shader both have alpha logic that is initiated by a Once trigger, but the Number blocks 0 and 100 can feed back into themselves and hang the logic. I may be misunderstanding the logic, but it seems like that’s what is happening.

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@grazer
I’m not so sure. Like I said, I did a lot of testing on this, and I’ve noticed for the last 2 years that I get a lot of problems when using always. For whatever reason, always and timer 0/10 tend to feed data through some behaviors, even if they aren’t supposed to, like a switch could be turned off, or a logic gate should not be being triggered, but data is still feeding through anyway. I noticed that messages eventually stopped working, unless I toggled to a slower timer. In a different game, I was making a fan that rotates using a timer and always, when doing so, they were moving so fast, that objects would clip through them, get stuck inside the fan, or get stuck to the fan, but if I used a 1/10 timer instead of always or 0/10 timer, it worked perfectly fine, and objects slid off the fan as they should, it just looked laggy because it rotates slower. Always and 0/10 timers just seem to be too fast and they break a lot of behaviors.