Editor hangs at 'Creating editor panels...' splash screen (v0.1.6)

[DeMoth-1]

Environment

• OS: Windows 10 Pro (version 2009, 64-bit)
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
• GPU Driver: 572.83
• CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K
• RAM: 32 GB
• Infernux Version: 0.1.6 (fresh install via InfernuxHubInstaller.exe)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Download and run InfernuxHubInstaller.exe
2. Launch Infernux Hub from Start Menu
3. Editor splash screen appears with 'Infernux Engine' title and 'Sugar' project name
4. Progress reaches ~50% showing 'Creating editor panels...'
5. Editor hangs indefinitely at this point

Expected Behavior

Editor loads and displays the main editor interface (Hierarchy, Scene View, Inspector, Project panel, etc.)

Actual Behavior

Editor splash screen stuck at 'Creating editor panels...' indefinitely. Progress bar shows approximately 50%. No error messages, warnings, or crash dialogs appear.

Screenshots

Additional Context

• Clean install only, no Vulkan SDK installed separately
• No previous Infernux version present before this installation
• Tried relaunching multiple times with same result
• GPU drivers are up to date (RTX 2080 Ti running driver 572.83)

[DeMoth-1]

[ChenlizheMe]

Thanks for the detailed report. This looks like a known encoding issue.

Could you check if the directory path for the "Sugar" project contains any non-ASCII characters (e.g., Chinese characters) or spaces? There's currently a Unicode encoding bug in the project creation pipeline — if the project path contains Chinese characters or whitespace, the engine may fail to create necessary directories and hang indefinitely at "Creating editor panels..." without throwing an error.

This is a known issue and will be fixed in the next release. As a temporary workaround, please try creating the project in a path that uses only ASCII characters with no spaces, such as C:\Projects\Sugar.

Thanks again for taking the time to write this up, really appreciate the detailed reproduction steps.

[ChenlizheMe]

I've opened the issue, and will close it after the problem is solved.

[sumingwang233]

佬，我刚刚检查了Sugar项目的文件夹路径，并不存在非ASCII编码的问题，但我同样也出现了该 Issue 描述的同样的问题，然后我发现创建的 Projects 的文件地址也不能有中文，在这里提醒一下

真的希望有朝一日能够用熔炉引擎做独立游戏开发，祝愿大佬做的这个项目能越来越好！