Disappearing Sounds - The Whole Drop Down Box goes away for no reason.

[Preacher316]

I am using the beta version 2.5 and all subsequent updates. (windows 10)

 

 

I will enclose a screen shot as an attachment. One in fifty times I save a .miz file after editing "anything". I will notice a sound file did not play when triggered to play. So I go back and look at the triggers to see why it did not play, and the file is gone along with the whole drop down box, which does not show in the mission editor "Trigger" "Actions" window. It just disappears.

 

 

When you have fifty sounds in a mission, it's hard to know which ones did not trigger, from the one that just erased from the mission editor due to this bug. I know of no way to duplicate it, but I can not be the only one that this is happening to. It is totally random about 1 in 30 or 50 save .miz file edits. I never know why or when it will do it.

 

 

- see photo attached.

[Preacher316]

Update: I now know what is happening to cause the disappearing sound box.

 

To reproduce this bug, you must delete a sound.ogg file from the ACTIONS panel, which is also used in other trigger's ACTIONS panels.

 

If that same sound.ogg file was used in another trigger's ACTIONS panel, the sound.ogg might be inadvertently removed from the other trigger in which you used that same sound.ogg file. It happens only once is while. Hard to duplicate unless you use a lot of sounds, then you are bound to have it happen. This is a difficult bug to catch, but it is there. FYI

 

 

I know the sound should have played, and when I go back to see why it did not, I see the "File" box, to select the file, is gone (as shown in the image thumbnail enclosed) - It has happened dozens of times to me and I could not figure out the cause, But now I know the cause. Deleting the sound from one trigger, effects the other triggers in which that file is used.

 

When I again start making more missions with many sound files being added and deleted, I will let you know if it is still happening as of after December 5 2019

 

Thanks for checking.

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks for the heads up on this will take a look.