This is starting to get on my nerves so hopefully one of you guys can help me out a little. My game is beginning to get quite large and I have noticed that after working on a new portion (in QDK) that when I go back and play through some of the earlier work, that strange things have happened. For example, an object such as a coat in the third room of the game is no longer available for interaction. The item shows up on the right side of the screen but when you try to look/examine/etc Quest can not see it. The only way to fix this that I have found is to remake the item and fix all the scripts associated with it. Why, if the coat has worked fine for three months, does it fail to work when the portion of the game I was working on had nothing to do with that room or the coat. I suspect that it might have to do with synonyms...but I'm not sure. Advise me...please.

I've never heard of changing a later part of the game, effecting the earlier part...
If you could find something to reproduce it then that'd be helpful.

I've had a slightly similar thing with quest, in that if an object name is repeated, by you creating a new object with the same name as an existing one (easly done in a large game) OR cloning an object, and not changing the name, then the new and old objects are visable in the interface but you can do diddly-squit with them.

That's understandable - as Quest/QDK get's confused over them both.. Two objects with the same name will ruin it - and in QDK I thought Alex had stopped this from happening - but perhaps not.

QDK does not let you add a second object with the same name as another (not case sensitive); but you can create objects during the game with duplicate names. Then the disambiguation menu comes into use so make sure you use good 'alias' or 'details' properties. Script performed on an object will affect all objects with the same name. More testing could be done in this area or you could avoid the problem altogether.

Thanks guys...I'll check it out.