Rustman Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 I spent 6 hours working on a map yesterday...saved it about every hour...I put 2 hours alone into a POW camp and it was tight...I had this thing all the way down to the smalled details.. Turned on my computer today to work a little more on it....file is gone. Just not there...undelete can't even find it, like it never existed. Wow...this is like a kick in the junk. How? I made it a point to save this thing regularly..and it was there..I turned the program off to go to dinner last night and fired it up again when I got back and it loaded fine then. Aaaaarrrrrgh! *sigh* Sorry...I'm just venting. Welp...time to start over. This time I'm saving it my hard drive, my external hardrive, and a flash drive that I'm going to unplug every time I back up the file. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_the_wino Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 That sucks. Are you sure it didn't default to 'My Documents' or sumfink? Sounds like it should be there somewhere. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Try a search using the file name. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Have you tried search, like 5 different ways. I have lost a fair number of things at least temporarily saving them under some insane default and/or accidental directory or name. I feel your pain though, its one of the worlds worst feelings, regardless of what you were working on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Try a search using the file name. Yup...tried it. Searched the entire hard drive...and my external harddrive. Not there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Whew! I think I found it! Don't know how it got moved to some obscure hidden folder in the Windows directory, but whatever...I'm pretty sure that is is. *crosses fingers* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Vista, I presume? It does that. Some "clever" file management that, unlike you, knows where your files should best be placed. You n00b. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEzra Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Did you look in the CMSF/Game file? Did you check down at the bottom for a .btt file? That's where they go normally but then I have XP. Glad you found it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 deleted per user request 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 That happened to me to (I have Windows xp). I just saved it in the wrong place! It didn't save in the scenarios folder, it saved one level higher than that. If you have Vista, then definitely check out Adam's post. You'd better find it 'cause I wanna play it eventually! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Vista, I presume? Just what I was about to say. Other Vista users have cried out in alarm over weirdly saved maps, savegames. etc. too. It ain't just you. Windows XP, for me it always wants to save in the "Game Files" folder, one up from the Scenarios folder. Which is convenient if you know where it went, not so much if you didn't 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixxkiller Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Upload it so we can lose it too! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Vista, I presume? It does that. Some "clever" file management that, unlike you, knows where your files should best be placed. You n00b. Windows 7 But anyway, now that I know why it dissapeared, I'm good now. Thanks all! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 You'd better find it 'cause I wanna play it eventually! lol...I'm not sure if it would even be a decently playable map. It's the first map I've tried and I was essentially just building it to get a feel for the editor. I took my topo map of the Camp Ripley National Guard center here in Minnesota and mapped out the 4 square clicks around one of the POW Camp training sites. Only dissapointed about a few things...there is no water terrain feature...no option for rivers or lakes in the base game...at least none that I can find. So, I just used the marsh tile for everything. Environment objects are pretty limited...I was hoping to find like a checkpoint gate or even just a stop sign. I can't figure out how to place an empty vehicle object...like if I just wanted an immobile abandoned truck. It's about 50/50 open terrain and woodland... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Yeah I hear you. Those complaints have been floating around for the last two years. You just have to use your imagination and some good terrain mods. I do know that water will be a part of the game once CM: Normandy comes out. Until then, there are some water mods that turn marsh into blue water. There's also a muddy water mod. My first map wasn't very popular, but I released it anyways and I still like it. Keep designing and you'll get better at it. I just haven't seen a POW camp map yet, so a lot of people would play it if you did release it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveMan Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 You can do immobile or even burning vehicles- Somewhere there is a button to change the status of the vehicle... maybe in the same area where you choose experience and ammo loadout levels. Definitely use them, they can add a lot of flair to a map. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 You have to pick the vehicles and assign them to one side or the other, then change their status to wrecked, IIRCC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 You can do immobile or even burning vehicles- Somewhere there is a button to change the status of the vehicle... maybe in the same area where you choose experience and ammo loadout levels. Definitely use them, they can add a lot of flair to a map. Yea, I saw that....the only problem I'm having is that, really, the only light vehicles avaliable to red are in the technicals unit and unless the vehicle is destroyed they are all manned by default and I can't figure out how to delete the crew. I the context of my map, I have a motor pool are on the camp that I would like to populate with various empty vehicles that could be manned and operated at some point during the mission, and inside there I also have a building with a couple attached shelter objects surrounded by various thing like supply pallets, drums, and tires...basically to simulate a maintenence area and what I wanted to do was throw an empty immobile vehicle under one of the shelters as like an additional environment object for that little scene...like it is broken and was in the process of undergoing repairs when the mission occured. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Take some specialist transport groups. Destroy them, then scatter them around the map. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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