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Posted by G.Ballblue on Tue Jul 27th at 11:52pm 2004

I just fixed a few problems with my Classic map, when I got in compiling order, I compiled it, and got quite a surprise.

All of my entities FORGOT THEIR PROPERTIES!!!! Models weren't apearing, doors wont open, light enviornments don't face the right direction, everything has defaulted...

So, I now say, WTF HAPPENED?!?!?!?

The damage has already been done to my map, so I'm *edit* *edit* NOT *edit* *edit* looking for a solution to fix it. But can anyone tell me WHAT was the cause of this?! *rant*

Only thing I can think of was that I loaded up ubb3r sUpp3r Us3L3ss point file, while looking for a leak.

Thats the only abitrary thing I've done to my map. D: D:

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Jul 28th at 12:05am 2004

Don't you have any older versions of the map?




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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jul 28th at 12:08am 2004

No. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Jul 28th at 12:16am 2004

Well consider this a lesson learned. I doubt there's any way to get the entity values back. Did you try both the .map and .rmf? I have 50 versions of the map I'm working on.




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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jul 28th at 12:28am 2004

I don't have an rmf either [addsig]



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Posted by fishy on Wed Jul 28th at 12:40am 2004

sounds like you possibly compiled using the wrong fgd?

you know that hammer makes backups of the .map and .rmf everytime you compile, and names them as .max and .rmx, don't you?





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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jul 28th at 1:04am 2004

Holy crap, thats news to me! How the hell did that piece of info slip by me?! Not that I've ever had a need for them...but its the sorta thing you'd assume you'd know of. [addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Jul 28th at 2:24am 2004

I never knew that either, but at least Reno didn't know so I don't feel that stupid.




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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed Jul 28th at 2:31am 2004

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sounds like you possibly compiled using the wrong fgd?

you know that hammer makes backups of the .map and .rmf everytime you compile, and names them as .max and .rmx, don't you?


Holy damn! That's news to me! [addsig]



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jul 28th at 2:44am 2004

Even if I got a backup file, it would still have the same problem. I looked in the map file and check some entities, and all the properties were defaulted. And since you have to save every time you compile, then the max file would have the same problem :

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Posted by Rumple on Wed Jul 28th at 3:09am 2004

did u even look at the max file?

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Posted by G.Ballblue on Wed Jul 28th at 4:30pm 2004

Yep - it's no different :P [addsig]



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Posted by fishy on Wed Jul 28th at 4:39pm 2004

if you have an previously compiled bsp that is ok, you could decompile it and rip all the ents out together, and paste them back into hammer.





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Posted by $loth on Wed Jul 28th at 4:48pm 2004

2 words.....back up.

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Jul 28th at 5:20pm 2004

Condense, economise! One work 'backup'.




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Posted by Spartan on Wed Jul 28th at 6:34pm 2004

I remember once when I went to go open up one of my rmf files in Hammer, the whole map was gone. Unfortunatly I could do nothing about it. You can see how I wouldn't consider losing my entity properties that bad.



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Jul 29th at 6:18am 2004

Did you 'remove unused entity keyvalues' or something? I can't see this sort of thing happening unless you mess around with the FGDs and check for errors, fixing that problem.



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Jul 30th at 1:35am 2004

? posted by fishy

sounds like you possibly compiled using the wrong fgd?

you know that hammer makes backups of the .map and .rmf everytime you compile, and names them as .max and .rmx, don't you?

*Me chimes in with my own ignorance*

Good god man! I wish I had known that a long time ago!

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Posted by G.Ballblue on Fri Jul 30th at 3:14am 2004

? posted by Leperous
Did you 'remove unused entity keyvalues' or something? I can't see this sort of thing happening unless you mess around with the FGDs and check for errors, fixing that problem.

Actually, yes. A little while before I compiled, I did a quick check for errores, and practically every entity had an "unused key values" error

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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Jul 30th at 3:26am 2004

That's different. That just means you've ticked a flag or entered a value in an entity where it doesn't apply. Fixing a problem like that should not delete their other values. [addsig]




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