Gardens of Kyresoo

Troubleshooting

Unless you have just downloaded Gardens of Kyresoo, get the latest code jars (programs) here. Unzip the KyresooJars.zip file. Inside you will find a new Jars folder. Move the contents of this new Jars folder into your Kyresoo/Jars game folder, replacing the older versions. This will ensure that your applications are up to date..

Transplanter runs, but LabTray just shows a white screen (Windows)

The most likely cause of this is a graphics chip that can't handle the "Transparency" genes in Kyresoo. This is an "advanced" feature that allows exotic transparency effects. Turn off the Transparency feature with the following steps.

  • Start the Envirotool.

  • Check the "Disable Transparency" box.

  • Hit "Exit". Then restart the LabTray tool.

  • The change, being external to the world of Kyresoo, will take immediate effect. Other Envirotool changes, being native to the Kyresoo world, only happen at their own given moment in the Beat. The yellow "Dance" button primes the tool to make the requested changes at the appropriate moment in the Beat.

  • The following genes are now disabled. TRANSP, BLENDE, FRONTB, BACKB. These genes cooperate in providing some exotic transparency effects. None of these genes are used in the sample flowers shipped with the current version of Kyresoo.

  • Gardens of Kyresoo was designed to run on low end computers. I assumed that not everyone who would enjoy it would have the latest hardware. It doesn't use any graphics features introduced after 1998. My nVidia graphics card from 1999 handles the Transparency function (technically, the GL_Blend_Equation) just fine. I was surprised to see that other manufacturers graphics chips gained that capability much later.

Transplanter runs, but LabTray just shows a white screen (Mac and Linux)

Try checking "Disable Transparency" as outlined above. If that doesn't work, a white screen may indicate your JOGL library files are in the wrong place. See the Mac and Linux forum pages for the latest information on this.

Unzipping Kyresoo.zip produces a Kyresoo folder within a Kyresoo folder

This is a function of the particular unzipping tool your computer happens to be using. Unfortunately, they don't all behave consistently. Some just produce one Kyresoo folder, others a folder within a folder. Simply move the inner folder to location you want, and discard the outer folder.

Flower image is replaced by a gray box in transplanter tool

This is known bug in the low level java code we are using. We hope it will be corrected in a newer version of Java. In the meantime, just click on some other flower image and the gray box will disappear. This bug only seems to appear when you first start a transplanter session, and goes away once all the images are properly "cached".

KBasic.bat and KLab.bat don't run on Windows 98

These sample batch files start several tools at once. They are set up to run under Windows XP. To modify them to run under Windows 98, remove the "path" command in the first line of the batch file. You may also want to edit the "Properties" of the batch file, and check the "Close on Exit" checkbox under the Program tab.