I broke my map...

[holodog]

Somehow.

I launched the normal game executable (ie, fallout2.exe), and now when I try and open my map through the editor, it just crashes to desktop immediately. Before I had launched the game the map opened fine.

I'm hoping there's some config setting I need to reset.

I don't have patch000.dat, so that's not messing with anything.

 

[Sirren67]

Apparently that's a problem related to new protos: if you don't set them to read only (and i mean those in C:\fallout 2 folder), then the game deletes them when you run it even if you do not have patch000.dat. Always backup them. If I got the problem correctly the only way to open your map again is to put back in place your protos. I lost a couple of HUGE maps this way: make a backup copy of all your files. It's long and boring, but it's worth the candle. Bye.

 

[Xavierblazer]

You could try to use debug mode to trace the problem.

 

[Kahgan]

if the portos are the problem, you can usually fix it by making a lot of new random protos showing the yellow/red/orange messy thingie, then open the map, then delete all those new protos that's on the map, then go back to windows, open the fallout2 folder/dat/ and delete the proto folder..., then make all your new protos over agian, this time with backups of both the map and the protos and so on...

 

[holodog]

This is definitely proto-related, but not deletion.

Launching the game executable doesn't delete anything in the /dev/proto/ directory, however when I open the editor the slot for my new proto shows a blank window. When I try and edit that blank slot I get a 'error adding prototype' message. I can still create new protos in the subsequent slots, just not the ones that contained my earlier protos.

Recreating new protos doesn't seem to change anything as the map still crashes.

 

[MaFFej]

Hello.

I renew holodog's question - I have this same problem, anyone have any idea what to do with this? I have problems with opening one of my maps, strange is it that ALL others loads without any wrinkle - this one... not. I have added some new protos (scenery) but I haven't use them on my map (when I add one of new protos to one of exists maps and save, I can load them later - there is no technical hitch). There are some chances to 'rescue' broken map?

PS. Sorry for my bad english and... you can see that I'm totally noob in modding - just starting.
PS2. Everyone who can use Polish - PM me .