SOS! Mission got corrupted?

[Reflected]

Guy I really need some help here. I've been working on a really complex mission, put 40+ hours in it. It's full of trigger zones that trigger sounds, and you can spawn stuff with the F10 menu, then it would set flags to values, and spawn more stuff, etc...

 

My problem is: all of a sudden, sounds don't play when I enter zones (such as Waypoint X right at the beginning), and nothing spawns when I select some F10 items. Some do spawn. For example Bayeux = nothing. Caen = stuff spawns.

 

Could anyone please have a look at it? Re-starting from scratch is not an option definitely :(

 

Thanks a lot in advance!

Greg

Overlord - Spitfire Ace.miz

[Exorcet]

I can't look at it right now, and might not be able to for a while, but FYI copy and paste works across missions.

 

You can copy units, open a new mission, and paste them. I think as long as you don't click on the map they will go to their original position. I've had to do this for some missions of my own that failed to work properly for some reason. Upon copying them into a new file, they would work correctly.

[Reflected]

Thanks for the info. I also have like 40 complex triggers. Will those be lost?

[Exorcet]

I don't remember if you can copy triggers. One thing that you can try is to unzip the .miz file, find the trigger lists within and copy it to your new .miz file using Notepad++.

 

As always make backups of everything in case of mistakes or new problems.

 

Also, is this a 2.1 Normandy mission? If so I won't be able to look at it, sorry.

[Reflected]

It's 2.1. I tried copy pasting, triggers get lost, and the units aren't pasted to the exact same location :( I really wish it was possible to fix it.

[Exorcet]

Can you try unzipping the .miz and then copying portions of the file into a new .miz?

 

If you're unfamiliar, the .miz is really a renamed .zip file. If you change the .miz extension to .zip, you can unzip the file into 3 (I think) files. One will be a mission (not sure on name) file that contains all units and positions. You can experiment by copying parts of this file to another file and seeing the new copied mission works. Something might be broken in your original mission file. If you copy everything except the broken part of the file, you might be able to recover your mission.

 

Try searching for mission file unzipping on the forum for more info. It's been discussed before.

[Reflected]

No joy :( but thanks for trying to help.

[MadDog-IC]

Guy I really need some help here. I've been working on a really complex mission, put 40+ hours in it. It's full of trigger zones that trigger sounds, and you can spawn stuff with the F10 menu, then it would set flags to values, and spawn more stuff, etc...

 

My problem is: all of a sudden, sounds don't play when I enter zones (such as Waypoint X right at the beginning), and nothing spawns when I select some F10 items. Some do spawn. For example Bayeux = nothing. Caen = stuff spawns.

 

Could anyone please have a look at it? Re-starting from scratch is not an option definitely :(

 

Thanks a lot in advance!

Greg

 

Here you go, after a fair bit of time trying to suss it out, found some errors in the dcs.log, I have it fixed.

 

Look's like having errant OR statements in some of your triggers with out another statement was causing a compile error and partial crash in the code, causing trigger zones and radio stuff not to work. I removed the extra OR statements in the conditions and all is good.

 

ie.

 

IF you have some thing along the lines of:

 

• Zone Trigger
  
• If unit in zone (Pilot #001) OR OR
  
• Play "Sound.wav"
  

Fixed Mission:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u2j6q9ewleenjhh/Overlord%20-%20Spitfire%20Ace%20-%20Fixed.miz?dl=0

 

 

Regards, Ian.

[Reflected]

Hi Ian,

 

English not being my native language I can't possibly express how grateful I am to you for taking your time to fix this. I would have never realized this was the problem. I put so much work into this and so much testing you can't imagine, and now you saved me from having to redo it all over again. I hope when the mission will be finished it will reward you by giving you some immersive single player fun. Thanks again, mate!

 

Regards,

Greg