Attempting to create a story results in error spam due to null state

[tlitookilakin]

Describe the bug
Attempting to create a new story via Story.new() repeatedly spams the error log with errors until the game is closed. The exact error differs every time but all of them stem from setgets being called while state is null

To Reproduce
Create a new story while running inkgd on godot 3.3 stable

Expected behavior
Creating a new story should work instead of crashing the game.

Ink files
N/A

Environment:

• OS: Windows 10
• Godot version: 3.3 stable, standard
• Inklecate version: 0.9.0
• inkgd version: 0.2.2

[Antokolos]

Confirmed, I tried to use inkgd on Godot 3.3.3 stable, standard, and it refuses to work.
In my case the error was in the following line

inkgd/addons/inkgd/runtime/call_stack.gd

Line 397 in 3127d99

return self.current_thread.callstack

The reason of error was self.current_thread being null

[blawnode]

I'm having near-identical issues. Is the inkgd project inactive?

[ephread]

Sorry for taking so long to reply folks, yeah, it's a bit inactive. I should probably update the README (and remove the trailing star in the ink library). I haven't had time to work on it in almost a year now.

I'll try to find some time to investigate soon.

[videlanicolas]

Is this happening only in Windows? I'm not seeing this issue in Linux (Debian 11).

Here's my example for reference:
Godot: 3.3.4.stable.flathub
Inkgd: 0.2.1

extends Control

const InkRuntime = preload("res://addons/inkgd/runtime.gd")
const Story = preload("res://addons/inkgd/runtime/story.gd")

var story : Story

func _ready():
	call_deferred("load_story")

func _input(event):
	if event.is_action_pressed("ui_accept"):
		continue_story()

func continue_story():
	while story.can_continue:
		var text = story.continue()
		print(text)
	if story.current_choices.size() > 0:
		print(story.current_choices)

func load_story():
	_add_runtime()
	_load_story("res://test.ink.json")

func _load_story(ink_story_path):
	var ink_story = File.new()
	ink_story.open(ink_story_path, File.READ)
	var content = ink_story.get_as_text()
	ink_story.close()

	self.story = Story.new(content)

func _exit_tree():
	call_deferred("_remove_runtime")

func _add_runtime():
	InkRuntime.init(get_tree().root)

func _remove_runtime():
	InkRuntime.deinit(get_tree().root)

Can you confirm you have runtime.gd as a singleton?

[tlitookilakin]

sorry for the late response- I do indeed have the singleton set up, and yes it has been occurring on windows. I even tested it with the provided example project and ran into the same issue. I haven't tried it with the latest release, so when I get a chance, I'll do that and let you know if it works.

[Lertsenem]

I have the same issue using Godot v3.4.2, and I can't figure it out.

It feels like the plugin refuses to create a story (fails happens once InkStory.new(json_story) is called, inside the InkPlayer), because _story (or sometimes _story._state) is null.

InkPlayer nodes created in editor still work, but I can't change their Stories dynamically (or create new InkPlayer node), which is pretty inconvenient. :/

[ephread]

@Lertsenem 😕

Which version of inkgd? Which OS? Does it happen after an export or while debugging?

[Lertsenem]

@ephread
I'm on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS), I'm using the last inkgd stable version (0.4.5) cloned as a git submodule for my project, configured to use inklecate v1.0.0 (directly bundled with Mono).

It happens while debugging, I did not try to export my project yet.

[Lertsenem]

I can get the example project to run, and you are loading new Stories in it from code, so there must be something I'm doing wrong. But I can't figure out what.

[Lertsenem]

I managed to solve my issue !

I was trying a stupid method to create the ink_file like

var my_ink_file = InkResource.new()
my_ink_file.json = "res://my_story.ink"

replacing that with a simpler

var my_ink_file = load("res://my_story.ink")

makes everything works as expected.

Still no idea how this resulted in such a weird error though. :D