adobe animate has a serious bug

[kodena63091054]

I have been painfully trying to get past this disgusting error for months now.

Error: Error #2136: The SWF file app:/myaafile.swf contains invalid data.
at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite()
at flash.display::MovieClip()

the sad part is that i have determined that it is nothing ive done wrong but a bug with adobe animate. how did i come to this conclusion? through hours and hours and hours of diagnostics. my FLA file is 667,191 KB. sure it is huge but that shouldnt make a difference. yes it takes nearly 10 minutes to open in adobe animate. the error first appeared when my file had a huge issue. it must have happened with the sh!tty adobe animate not saving correctly and corrupting my file. basically, ALL my actionscript
code just magically disappeared from the file. no im not kidding, ALL OF IT just gone, over 200,00 lines of actionscript just GONE. so i went back months and pulled up an old version i had backed up that i knew had been working at the time and recovered the code, which of course was a months old backup but i decided to start over from there because this project is very important to me. fast forward a few months and im back up to where i was again. tried to publish it and BAM same error. so i started over. added just my code and to my suprise, it never threw the error, published fine. so i though okay it must be an issue with my sprites. added my sprites and it threw the error. okay awesome it is the sprites i thought. reloaded back to the working version and only added sprites and no code and well guess what, it published with no issues... HMMM OKAY THATS WEIRD. let me just say my sprites have no code added to them except for "stop();" thats really it, no other actionscript as i command all the sprites through the code on the main timeline. 

So i went back and created everything from scratch, code, sprites, everything. and guess what. it decides to throw the error even though there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with my file except for the fact that is is 667,191 KB. at this point i am absolutely in a rage. i have no idea what to do and this project is literally the only thing in my life that even gives me the tiniest amount of happiness. im willing to send the complete FLA file to whoever is willing to take a look at it to help. thanks

[kglad]

if it's just one fla, it's a corrupted fla.

create a new fla, copy all the main timeline layers from the corrupted fla to the new fla.

test the new fla.

[kodena63091054]

already tried that. it is the first thing that i tried

[kglad]

if that fails, then copy the upper half of layers and paste those into a new fla and test.

if that fails, copy the lower half of layer and paste those into a new fla and test.

[kodena63091054]

if i remove any significant portion of the FLA it publishes fine, there is no consistency, removing any random piece will cause it to piublish fine. im pretty sure it is an issue with size. as long as the size of the fla is below 667000kb it publishes fine

[Nicktendo28]

Where you able to get this figured out?

[kodena63091054]

nope

[kglad]

how much ram do you have?

[kodena63091054]

16gigs, it should be plenty

but that doesnt matter because adobe animate is restricted in it's ram usage. you can set it to be higher up to a certain limit, about 2 gigs is the max it lets you set it

[kglad]

upload your fla and post a link here

[kodena63091054]

kdngames.com/RMT/backup/6-27-2024/RMT.zip

[kglad]

opens for me:

what's your jvm setting?

[kodena63091054]

are you sure you included all the as files and resources? if you leave those out yes it will publish but i those files are imperative to the game. can you upload the swf file? my jvm settings:

-Djava.awt.headless=true
-Xmx4096m

[kglad]

i changed nothing in your fla. i'll check if i still have the files

[kglad]

https://www.kglad.com/Files/forums/RMT.swf

[kodena63091054]

the swf file you uploaded did not publish correctly. the game does not load

[kodena63091054]

the swf file you uploaded did not publish correctly. the game does not load. you did not get an error when publishing was finished? this is what the game would publish as if jvm size limit was set too low. if you increase the limit in the jvm you will get the error

[kglad]

my jvm is 1024 x 16

[kodena63091054]

thats definitely not enough

[kglad]

if you know how to solve the problem, what's the solution?  ie, how much jvm is enough?

[kodena63091054]

thats not the problem. if you change your jvm to 4096 you will get the error

[kglad]

why would you do that? increase your jvm to see if you can successfully publish your swf

[kodena63091054]

the error has nothing to do with the jvm. 4096 is required to publish the fla because it is huge.
the error is: 

Error #2136: The SWF file app:/myaafile.swf contains invalid data.
at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite()
at flash.display::MovieClip()

this is the error that is the issue. if you want to see the error you need to increase your jvm settings to 4096. if you do not increase your jvm the file will NOT publish at all. the swf file you sent is not a published game

[kglad]

my jvm is 2.5 times larger

[kodena63091054]

well i dont know then, but your flash is not publishing the game properly