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[Dark Ice Dragon]

Damn! something strange happend and all connection whit all levels don't work anymore...honestly i don't know if it was my fault or something don''t worked as it must, but the fact is that a this game is now almost impossible to play! the more important map is gone and warps are all wrong!
Fortunately i have a copy of the file,but this copy is older than the update "revolution", and maybe even a little more, so is like return back of at least 3 months
I will try to fix it, but this incident will slow everything...anyway i will not give up

[Shane]

Sucks to hear you lost so much progress! However, it's good to see you're still dedicated to your project, it's an attitude a lot of quest/game developers should have. I wish you luck on completing the quest.

[Dark Ice Dragon]

Sucks to hear you lost so much progress! However, it's good to see you're still dedicated to your project, it's an attitude a lot of quest/game developers should have. I wish you luck on completing the quest.

Thanks, I will do my best,after an initial discomfort i decided to look on the bright side and i will remake it more nice than before !

[SkyLizardGirl]

!O_O! Oh waits a minutes!

Did you ever trys:    Double-click image below to see better.

 

Spoiler

    

^If there is some way you can look back at some of your Auto-saves - that is IF you do autosaving,  You can pull back your work from the past, in a past Auto-save game file. Your Map may still be on one you are looking for.'

 

But 'DO THIS' Before it is too Late!  <<    

 

You may be able to save the map you lost from that day, Check all your auto saves To Open in the editor and load.  And Save as EXTRA Map.qst  so you can copy the map you lost from the saved backup too the game .qst file you haves now.*

( But this is for 'Only' if you do use auto-saving in the ZeldaC editor.)

Edited by SkyLizardGirl, 24 December 2015 - 10:34 PM.

[Shane]

Could you please write in a font colour that's readable with the PureZC Dark Green skin? Thanks.

 

But yes, Quest Timed Auto-Saves and Quest Auto-Backups are very useful. In the ZQuest Editor, go to Etc -> Options... and go to the second tab labeled 2 and it will show the options you have with Quest Auto-Saves and Quest Auto-Backups. You can have as many backups as you want, and you can set a specific amount of time when ZQuest makes these backups.

[Timelord]

Chances are that by now, the previous .qt* file was replaced, unless the OP always uses the 'Save as...' option when saving quest changes. From what I read, the problem was data corruption in general, too, meaning it would carry into auto-saves.

I'm rather curious what could have caused this, and you might want to send the file to Saffith so that he can check it. It may be as simple as an improperly offset value in the quest file; and may be indicative of a ZC bug.What version of ZQuest are you using to build this quest?

Did ZQuest crash, or hang, while saving at any point?

Edited by ZoriaRPG, 24 December 2015 - 11:05 PM.

[Dark Ice Dragon]

Dear All, thank you, i just read it, i will now try to recover the autosave as adviced by the SKy Lizard Girl.

 

In short here what happend : the quest was almost complete, but i wanted create a new level where the heroine had the possibility to decide if go to the last level or simply escape and unlock a hidded ending, since i already used all the maps i created a new map by raised the map count.

 

Then, i passed almost all the rest of the event of 23 Dec to create the new level in the new map, then i saved ( and i'm still cursing that moment ) then i try to play it  but the map where the quest begin was no the right one and all warps between a level and other don't work anymore.

The game seemed all wrong , warps brought in levels wrong and absurd positions , like the upper left corner.

 

Then i open again the editor and i notice that a Map disappear and another ( short and incomplete ) was deleted too but replaced by the level i just make, i still don't get why warp of non-deleted maps don't works..and i go in panic !

 

Yesterday, after calmed down a bit ', i realized that MAYBE ( but i'm not sure of this and i don't know if it was a my mistake or of the program ) when i changed the map count, maps must have been decrease rather than increase, so the maps got deleted and all the D-Maps no longer corresponded to the maps , it seems that all warps that was connected to the map that disappeared was automatically connected to one of the other maps.

The problem is that one of the deleted map was a kind of map of the world connected to all other areas of the game (15 ).

At the end of 24 dec i try to remake few screen of the deleted map and now, after fix the initial data, the quest start in the right screen!seem is working! i also fix all the warps of 3 levels, if there will not new malfunctions i should be able to solve everything.

I take this opportunity to apologize for my bad English and I hope that what I wrote is understandable . i learned the  English all alone and this is the result .

 

EDIT :

i was able to load my more old auto-save file, but it have already the problem.

I'm making this quest whit 2.50

My suspect was wrong, the map number was really increased, but i cannot  exclude that change the map count somehow  caused all this situation

Edited by Dark Ice Dragon, 25 December 2015 - 06:12 PM.

[SkyLizardGirl]

!0_0! Decreasing maps can be really really dangerous when working with the maps you have.

 

Only increase them whenever you get to that option, beware of the decrease.* 

 

I felts very very sorrys abouts what happened to your project, i was just reaching for somethings to helps you.

Edited by SkyLizardGirl, 25 December 2015 - 07:15 PM.

[Dark Ice Dragon]

!0_0! Decreasing maps can be really really dangerous when working with the maps you have.

 

Only increase them whenever you get to that option, beware of the decrease.* 

 

I felts very very sorrys abouts what happened to your project, i was just reaching for somethings to helps you.

Thank you, don't worry if this will never happend again the damage is not that great as i belived at the beginning, the only serious damage is the "death" of this map and the fact that i must fix the warps:  http://www.purezc.ne...d=2795&view=259

 

is boring cause i started it the...22 Aug 2015.

 

All the other thing work well, tiles,combos, sprites,music,everything and i found a way too fix the warp also if is time-consuming

[SkyLizardGirl]

!0~0! i wants to see that map^  i can'ts for some reason.* anyways. //

[Dark Ice Dragon]

!0~0! i wants to see that map^  i can'ts for some reason.* anyways. //

I will post something once will be possible, for now i'm remaking only the essential screens for testing the warps, 

is a good thing that all combos i made was not damaged but they must be placed again on the map and the secret  must be re-set