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
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