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Map rotation problems

I think this may be a major bug. After rotating the map and then rotating it back to it's normal position, I get a message, "Map not saveable in 'Rotation'. (Wording may be a bit different)

After closing game and trying to restart I get the following message.
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Re: Map rotation problems

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Can you provide a savegame where that can be reproduced? If not, then simu.log may give us some more information.
Which ST revision do you use?

Re: Map rotation problems

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Quote from: whoami – on
Can you provide a savegame where that can be reproduced? If not, then simu.log may give us some more information.
Which ST revision do you use?


I could send you a save game but all you'll get is what I've put on the screen below. If I go to an earlier save, before the rotation problem it will work ok. All the save games are only 1kb so there is no information in them. I lost about 5 hours work.  :( :(

I don't appear to have a log file, I've looked in all the usual places where it used to be but unless the title has changed I don't have one.

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: Map rotation problems

Reply #3 –
The savegames are broken, so the error that shows up is not the original one. A rotation bug may be the root cause for this, but there can also be other reasons.
 

Re: Map rotation problems

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What version did it happen with?
  
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Well the old fish_swarm is know to cause this.

Re: Map rotation problems

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Quote from: prissi – on
Well the old fish_swarm is know to cause this.

@Prissi This may well be the problem. I have 4 Fish Swarms linked together. I'll remove them and see what happens.

@wipi35 Yes I do, it saves every month.

@DirrtyDirk PAK64-100 r1956-r1986

@Whoami The only log file I have is the svn.log. I didn't see it before because the .log was hidden. There's only one line it anyway, because there is no 'save' to give info about.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: Map rotation problems

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About the missing log-file..

I almost don't dare to ask... but did you remember to start with "-log 1 -debug" for that?
  
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Re: Map rotation problems

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Quote from: DirrrtyDirk – on
About the missing log-file..

I almost don't dare to ask... but did you remember to start with "-log 1 -debug" for that?

I almost don't dare answer.

Hey listen!! You're talking to an altziemer ridden, going on senile, old coot here, what the H@*% are you talking about? ;D ;D
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: Map rotation problems

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Prissi, You were right mate. I tried to save with several 'Rotations' and I got the same results. I took out the 'Fish Swarms' did several more rotations tried a save and it worked fine. So it seems that the old problem with the 'Fish Swarms has returned.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: Map rotation problems

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I twas never fixed, respective I think I did not released the fixed pak64 fish swarm as Artistic licence yet.

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Quote from: prissi – on
I twas never fixed, respective I think I did not released the fixed pak64 fish swarm as Artistic licence yet.

Playing on. It seems that it occurs when a number of Fish Swarms are linked together. I replaced my four linked ones with four seperate ones and, touch wood, it seems to be ok.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: Map rotation problems

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Quote from: Colin – on
Hey listen!! You're talking to an altziemer ridden, going on senile, old coot here, what the H@*% are you talking about? ;D ;D

Come on Colin, don't flirt with your old-age problems. You're not nearly as old as I am!!  ;D

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Apart from that - it can easily happen, to all of us - regardless of age. Let's just say you changed the .bat file or the windows shortcut and simply forgot to include it...

I know that you are neither stupid nor a newbie - that's why I made such a show of hesitating to ask. But you are still a human being - that's what made me ask nevertheless :D
  
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Quote from: wipi35 – on
Come on Colin, don't flirt with your old-age problems. You're not nearly as old as I am!!  ;D

I bow to your superior wisdom. I've always respected my elders.

I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: Map rotation problems

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Quote from: DirrrtyDirk – on
Apart from that - it can easily happen, to all of us - regardless of age. Let's just say you changed the .bat file or the windows shortcut and simply forgot to include it...

I know that you are neither stupid nor a newbie - that's why I made such a show of hesitating to ask. But you are still a human being - that's what made me ask nevertheless :D

That's ok Dirk, I understand, truly I do. :-*

I must find out why the extensions aren't being shown. I only have the one batch file (svn) the extension is not shown, but the contents consist of just one line. I've seen the troubleshooting log before, so I know it contains a lot of information.

Anyhow the problem solved, at least to my satisfaction. If Prissi wants to bring out a fix well that's ok too.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it

Thought for the day

 When you are up to your backside in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.