edited buildings not saving in gem

[micro]

Hey guys, in a bit of a pickle here, the problem I am having at the moment is, when I copy n paste/move buildings, well when I go back into the map I have been working on after saving via f3, well they are not there, so I have to do it all over again ughrr, this has been happening over the last 3/4 days now, and its driving me potty.

Can someone please tell me how I can save in the gem editor, so when I go back into the map, everything I have edited including buildings, are still there.

I even gave my map a brand new title thinking that may work, but oddly enough its not even highlighted when I go to load it, its not even listed, like it has totally dissapeared.

I have never really had this problem before, so I can't understand why it is happening now.

Thanks

[djsatane]

stuff like buildings you are editing in F2 map mode right? F3 is script and you shouldnt really place buildings through script but on map instead. You can work with simple map stuff even when you are in F3 script mode by hitting F2 and editing map but if you really wanna do full map work you need to load the map in F2 mode.

If you still have problems then post example of what you are doing.

[micro]

Originally Posted by djsatane

stuff like buildings you are editing in F2 map mode right? F3 is script and you shouldnt really place buildings through script but on map instead. You can work with simple map stuff even when you are in F3 script mode by hitting F2 and editing map but if you really wanna do full map work you need to load the map in F2 mode.

If you still have problems then post example of what you are doing.

well I have been editing in 1x1 argentan map, and everytime I copy n paste one of the buildings in there, well it never saves, like I will copy a building as one entity, then put it somewhere else, in the hope that its still there when I load up the map again, but its never saved, like I made a new title for the map, thinking that might fix it, but again it never saves, very annoying really, as the ammount of time that I have spent editing ect, even the new title I made for the map, well its not even highlighed in my list of saves, like its totally dissapeared

but thanks alot for the input, it means alot

like when I say I copy one building, I mean an actual building thats part of the map already, not a building I have taken from the construction category.

[djsatane]

Where are you saving it? remember that original maps are within pak files, save the map as something else under map folder and open that see what happens.

What you doing is fine and I done that many times that normally works fine, but your problem I bet is the fact you not saving it properly or to proper file. Try to extract that map from pak file and name it something else even then edit it and save. Or you could create a mod and edit it under mod folder.

[micro]

Originally Posted by djsatane

Where are you saving it? remember that original maps are within pak files, save the map as something else under map folder and open that see what happens.

What you doing is fine and I done that many times that normally works fine, but your problem I bet is the fact you not saving it properly or to proper file. Try to extract that map from pak file and name it something else even then edit it and save. Or you could create a mod and edit it under mod folder.

well when I save my map edits, I just hit f3, and save it, well overwrite the edited map anyway, but I never knew what you said about the pak files.

but yeh, thanks so much for the saving tip, I will give that a try , especially extracting the map pak first.

[djsatane]

When you save in F3 mode it will save any changes you made to script as far as map it may ask you if you made changes to map itself, but remember if u add something in f3 mode aka script like building and save and then load just the map file it the changes will not be there because you did that before in script.