Map corrupted after MarkerEditor

[Lionhardt]

I have put down AI markers with the hazard marker editor and this broke the map. the editor crashes instantly upon loading it and ingame the com does not spawn. I know the markers are causing it, because I have replaced the marker section in the_save.lua with a backup version of the file and the map was working again. But I would like to avoid to do 1,5 hours of marker placing all over again and on top of that maybe break the thing again.

Here is the faulty code, could somebody have a look and maybe spot whats wrong? Thank you.

http://pastebin.com/Tuhfhv4T

[Plasma_Wolf]

I can't take a look at the code now (I assume it is the save.lua, which is automatically generated, so I don't think anyone could find the error in a more efficient way than you: compare it with the save.lua of another map and see f there's something critical missing or something bad in the new file that isn't it here in the file of a working map).

Other than that, I have experience with one case of broken maps after messing about with the marker editor, or maps that don't work in the marker editor after changing something in the original map editor.

That problem had to do with having too many spawn points on the map. The marker editor won't load after you've added more than eight ACU spawn points in the map editor and something similar can go wrong if you do something in the marker editor.

As you can guess, this problem will not occur if you have 8 players or less in the game.

[Dragonfire]

Did you connect all points?
You must connect the points, press right mouse key on a marker and drop to another!
If you try to load the map again with the Marker Editor it say the line with the error ... fix it

Ps.: sometimes the 'Naval Area' are broken ...
Search for them, e.g. Line 221
Did you see the mistake?

[Lionhardt]

No I don't. 221 is the line "['prop'] = STRING( '/env/common/props/markers/M_Expansion_prop.bp' ),' )," , wich is part of

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                ['Naval Area 01'] = {
                    ['hint'] = BOOLEAN( true ),
                    ['color'] = STRING( 'ff0000FF' ),' ),
                    ['type'] = STRING( 'Naval Area' ),
                    ['prop'] = STRING( '/env/common/props/markers/M_Expansion_prop.bp' ),' ),
                    ['orientation'] = VECTOR3( 0, -0, 0 ),
                    ['position'] = VECTOR3( 16.5, 63.1114, 173.5 ),

The error message I get though is "Invald Symbol 'in variable name!." (written exactly so)


Edit: I have now checked all pathnodes and they all have adjacent nodes.

[Sulo]

No I don't. 221 is the line "['prop'] = STRING( '/env/common/props/markers/M_Expansion_prop.bp' ),' )," , wich is part of

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                ['Naval Area 01'] = {
                    ['hint'] = BOOLEAN( true ),
                    ['color'] = STRING( 'ff0000FF' ),' ),
                    ['type'] = STRING( 'Naval Area' ),
                    ['prop'] = STRING( '/env/common/props/markers/M_Expansion_prop.bp' ),' ),
                    ['orientation'] = VECTOR3( 0, -0, 0 ),
                    ['position'] = VECTOR3( 16.5, 63.1114, 173.5 ),

The error message I get though is "Invald Symbol 'in variable name!." (written exactly so)

You got extra stuff at the end of that line, it should be like:

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                ['Naval Area 92'] = {
                    ['hint'] = BOOLEAN( true ),
                    ['color'] = STRING( 'ff0000FF' ),
                    ['type'] = STRING( 'Naval Area' ),
                    ['prop'] = STRING( '/env/common/props/markers/M_Expansion_prop.bp' ),
                    ['orientation'] = VECTOR3( 0, -0, 0 ),
                    ['position'] = VECTOR3( 369.5, 65.56, 256.5 ),

[Plasma_Wolf]

Silo, I must miss something obvious here, but what's the difference between you code and that of lionhardt?

[Lionhardt]

Ah, ok, thank you! But that wasn't it unfortunately. Map still does not load.


@Plasma: End of line 5, odd bracket and comma.

[Sulo]

Ah, ok, thank you! But that wasn't it unfortunately. Map still does not load.


@Plasma: End of line 5, odd bracket and comma.

Dont forget the asterisk and same thing in line 3

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' ),' ),

in the whole code, there might be quite a few of them from what I can see.

[Lionhardt]

AH!! It worked! Thanks a billion man!!


I guess this is a bug of the marker editor?

[Sulo]

Might be just a random praser bug, I was using the same editor and it worked just fine we might be using diffent versions or something like that though.