Polyworks ate my map (again)

[ultraman]

Well one fine day I tried to load my latest map, I get this error:

Then after closing that window I get this one:

Then upon closing Polyworks I get this one:

Grrrr...

[jrgp]

Maybe, restart?

Check if directx is installed?

Back up the folder Maps that is inside the polyworks folder, reinstall polyworks, then copy that folder into the new installation.

[Anna]

Does this happen only when you try to load a certain map? I can try to recover it again if you want.

It seems to be a serious error but I don't know what could be causing it yet. Are you using the clear unused scenery function often?

[numgun]

This happens when I undo scenery with ctrl + Z. Not sure fully but thats when it always happened to me.

Maybe you should do a automatic unused scenery clear funtion that erases the crap every 5-10 secs.

[Anna]

I did a little test just now, I'm able to break a map by following these steps:

- place some scenery of different types
- delete a few of them
- clear unused scenery
- undo (error!)
- save

So I think clear unused scenery + undo is the problem. I'd suggest that you only do clear unused scenery at the end of a mapping session, and don't save after you get that D3D error because it means the the map data is corrupt. I'll have a fix for this in the next version (probably I'll make it clear the undo history after clear unused).