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| Red Faction : [RED] Editing : Corrupt Map |
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  Posted 16th May 2008 9:49am |
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I have a bit of an issue. In my file mercbasebackup.rfl
Red has somehow corrupted one of the Texture filenames with one of my custom textures and changed the file extension in the code from
0000mtl_Generatordetail04green.tga
to this:
000mtl_Generatordetail04green.twQezoiE
In line 350810 in the code.
A corruption has occured of just a few tiny bytes.
I cannot get Red to load the map until those
missing bytes are restored, even if I correct that
to tga it still won't load.  |
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Assman15  |
Posted 16th May 2008 9:52am |  |
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There's not much you can do about a corrupt file other than revert to a backup. I don't know of any way to fix corruptions caused by RED. |
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| RF Grim Reaper |
Posted 16th May 2008 10:28am | |
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I'd shorten the textures name length as a start. 'mtl_gen_det04_green.tga' or similar does the trick. You should always truncate texture names where you can, save you having problems later when you end up with files like: mtl_floor_detail_checker_green_blue_with_light.tga  |
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| goober |
Posted 16th May 2008 11:00am | |
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RF doesn't like long filenames, make them shorter.
You can load the map (I believe) by checking View ->Render Nothing (except brushes) then loading the map. You'll then need to select all faces with that texture and give them a different one. |
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Posted 16th May 2008 11:17am |
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It was a small cylinder tank brush that I made in a single player level that had a custom texture on both ends of it that's causing the crash, now that I know what Red does to a long filename (corrupts it and changes the code in the saved file). So I turned off all rendering, and tried to load it but still won't load in.. There's probably no way to salvage it unless I know what the missing bytes were. I only lost a few hours of work, won't take long to replace it...
I think this program checks the saved file to see if all the checksum adds up before accepting to load it and if one byte is wrong, it prob not load. |
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Modified May 16th, 11:29am by Enforce |
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| goober |
Posted 16th May 2008 11:25am | |
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| Quoting Enforce | | Obviously the program thinks its running under windows 95 if ti don't like long filenames. |
RF was developed using Windows 2000 (or possibly Win 98) so, no. |
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Posted 16th May 2008 11:46am |
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Tried Digital's Trick
I added the 00 hex after it and got rid of the other rubbish...
This time instead of just bombing out immediately and crashing with the error.
This time the file Loads in, and displays my map, then crashes with the unknown bitmap type error. |
| Red limits breached?, Yep, (20,000 fces and its still going !) |
Modified May 16th, 01:13pm by Enforce |
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| KERPAL |
Posted 16th May 2008 10:25pm | |
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| Quoting goober | | You can load the map (I believe) by checking View ->Render Nothing (except brushes) then loading the map. You'll then need to select all faces with that texture and give them a different one. |
Or Render Everything.  |
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| goober |
Posted 16th May 2008 10:27pm | |
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Why? That will render the corrupt textures, which will still make it crash  |
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| KERPAL |
Posted 17th May 2008 4:59am | |
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Modified May 17th, 05:04am by KERPAL |
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