Map making issue/I lost all my progress due to unique glitch?

[angels_]

So I've been working on a map for a very long time. It's a city map, and it has quite a few objects (it was nowhere near done, but there were plenty of objects in there), and I believe the problem I'm having is a bit unique?

I was messing around and I think I flew a bit too high or out of bounds, and there's pretty much no hope for me getting back to where my map is. And, whenever I press "Test" in hopes of the character somehow falling back into somewhere recognizable, I end up crashing. My little pointer to show where I should be is nowhere to be seen.

The only notable change I can see when I try to fly back ANYWHERE is the yaw, which changes as I look around, but none of the coordinates change when I try to fly anywhere, so I think I might be locked in place.

So, it's not a problem with loading the map, and I don't think it has to do with objects being too laggy, because I had a pretty good frame rate before this happened.

I'm pretty savvy when it comes to map making/editing things/fixing problems with my own game, but I have no idea where to even start with this. I'm willing to post any screenshots/information you may need to help me fix this problem, because I'm kind of desperate.

Is there any way I can recover my work? Or is it lost forever?

UPDATE: So, I can successfully press "Test" now and have my character fall down into the top right corner of the map, although it takes a while. But, still, I can't seem to get my camera back to a position where I can add new things to my map. Is there any way to reset the camera?

[Bawfle]

This sounds like it was stressful to deal with first hand... However, when you test, and you land in the corner, have you tried running to the center of your map? Once you've done that, try returning to the map making mode and see if that does return in the same position as the character did. If not, try again with the whole character to central map thing, and F3 THEN try going back to map making mode.

[angels_]

This sounds like it was stressful to deal with first hand... However, when you test, and you land in the corner, have you tried running to the center of your map? Once you've done that, try returning to the map making mode and see if that does return in the same position as the character did. If not, try again with the whole character to central map thing, and F3 THEN try going back to map making mode.

I tried this, and sadly enough, it did not return me to a workable spot on the map. Just took me right back up to being stuck somewhere in the sky.

By any chance, is there a way for me to copy my map files somewhere and make a copy of it? Could anyone provide a directory to find my map's files? And, would this harm any of my data? I'd really hate to have everything completely screwed over

[Bawfle]

There is a possibility... I think. I haven't tried it before myself, but, you CAN reach the details of your map in Local Disk (C:) // Feral Heart // Media // Terrains and you can find your map listed there. [mapname].map is the map 'build' itself, and the folder named as your map holds all the maps details. Maybe you can try copying the .map file and your  map's folder and try re-naming it? Keep in mind that you will need to rename the .cfg's and some things inside the .cfg's in the folder as well, as they will be named as your map's name (not display name), so you will need to rename it to a new/different map name. Like I said, never tired it before, but as far as I can see, as long as you rename your old map name in the folder and elsewhere, then it just feels logical that it should create a copy of the old map but with a different name of course.

I actually want to ask of you if you could open up [mapname]Terrain.cfg and screenshot what's inside? I just saw something in there of a map on the computer I am using and it just caught my interest. I would like to check a theory I have, but I don't want to quite explain yet beforehand.

[angels_]

There is a possibility... I think. I haven't tried it before myself, but, you CAN reach the details of your map in Local Disk (C:) // Feral Heart // Media // Terrains and you can find your map listed there. [mapname].map is the map 'build' itself, and the folder named as your map holds all the maps details. Maybe you can try copying the .map file and your  map's folder and try re-naming it? Keep in mind that you will need to rename the .cfg's and some things inside the .cfg's in the folder as well, as they will be named as your map's name (not display name), so you will need to rename it to a new/different map name. Like I said, never tired it before, but as far as I can see, as long as you rename your old map name in the folder and elsewhere, then it just feels logical that it should create a copy of the old map but with a different name of course.

I tried copying the folder, renaming it and renaming the files inside, but the "new map" didn't show up in-game at all, so I might do some more exploring with that to try and get it to work.

I actually want to ask of you if you could open up [mapname]Terrain.cfg and screenshot what's inside? I just saw something in there of a map on the computer I am using and it just caught my interest. I would like to check a theory I have, but I don't want to quite explain yet beforehand.

Here you go.

[Bawfle]

Never mind, my thought/theory was wrong, it's just that I thought there would be some differences compared to a map I have on here already but they're pretty much the same other than map names. I thought, since I have no clue what LODMorphStart is, I thought it might have to do something in terms of camera spawn. I was wrong. Nevertheless, if you want, you could wrap up those map files (including your height and terrain files) into mediafire, and I could try and do something myself? See if I can rename things or even get it to work? That's if you feel you want to/can trust of course!

[angels_]

Never mind, my thought/theory was wrong, it's just that I thought there would be some differences compared to a map I have on here already but they're pretty much the same other than map names. I thought, since I have no clue what LODMorphStart is, I thought it might have to do something in terms of camera spawn. I was wrong. Nevertheless, if you want, you could wrap up those map files (including your height and terrain files) into mediafire, and I could try and do something myself? See if I can rename things or even get it to work? That's if you feel you want to/can trust of course!

I would normally be okay with this, but I'm about to leave for the local theme park and I'll be there for another 4 or 5 hours, and usually, I'd probably be most comfortable doing this while in a join.me session or over skype, and I'm not sure if our schedules could handle that. Of course, I'll be on my phone for the next four hours and will be checking it often, but I'm not sure how much I'll be able to communicate.

Otherwise, if you're okay with doing a skype or join.me session of you trying to fix it in about 5 hours (it's 5:00 PM for me), I'd be willing to hop on with you to try and figure it out.

I'd also be down to give you a free drawing or something along those lines if you could manage to fix it for me? I'm not sure how the website's floof-o-meter works so I'm not sure if I'd be able to do that haha

[Bawfle]

Ahh okay then, have fun though! But back on topic, I don't think those sessions would work either in that case as in 5 hours it's going to be past 6am for me. But I guess there is always a gap for others to suggest fixes! I think sleep for myself will actually give me a bit more focus on finding a fix or way around this problem. Also, if you select the 'Nuzzle' button (which more or less looks like a link) under someone's forum icon (only seen when someone has posted something), then that will add onto that person's Floof-O-Meter count.

[angels_]

Ahh okay then, have fun though! But back on topic, I don't think those sessions would work either in that case as in 5 hours it's going to be past 6am for me. But I guess there is always a gap for others to suggest fixes! I think sleep for myself will actually give me a bit more focus on finding a fix or way around this problem. Also, if you select the 'Nuzzle' button (which more or less looks like a link) under someone's forum icon (only seen when someone has posted something), then that will add onto that person's Floof-O-Meter count.

Alright, thanks for responding and trying to help! I'll hop back on here in a couple hours and see if anyone else has tried to help find a solution If no solution has been found by then, though, I'll try and get back in contact with you, if you'd like.

[Bawfle]

I'll be sure to check  back up on this as well, and if you do eventually fix it then yes I'd love to know! I think if you provide the answer to your fix if/when fixed, then it could be locked up and other users can look here if they ever have this issue.

Update: I went ahead and got myself into the same situation in mapmaker to see what I could do. I went as far out as I could until I could no longer see the map, and I then clicked and dragged the pointer on the map in the top right corner and it sent me straight back to the map. If you can't see it, it's because you're looking forward. You just have to look down and you should be able to see your map and all that's on it.