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Constructor stoppes saving

by N R Bharathae · in Constructor · 12/30/2007 (8:20 am) · 3 replies

This is something I've encountered before but can't seem to resolve now. I use two harddrives, I have my OS and programs on one drive and keep all of my content on another (this is a fail-safe setup I use to keep from loosing my work because of BS windows issues). At any rate I discovered Constructor wouldn't save work on a model that's imported from another drive.

So I fire up Constructor and load a local model (one sitting on the same drive as the program) and yep, Constructor won't save work done on any model now. The save function only operates properly once in a while. That is the save process doesn't appear to work like it once did so I'm guessing something has made FUBAR of Constructor's innards.

I've already tried uninstll/reinstall with no change in performance. So, short of having to format my drive and reinstall windows+Constructor can ANYBODY give me a fix for this problem?

Thanks in advance.

N.R.
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Torque Owner Vashner
#1
12/30/2007 (9:15 am)
Hum even with Save As. And you don't get an error message back?

Did you try to just create a box and save it? Does that work?

I doubt it's constructors problem hum. Something OS or security related.

Do you have security that controls at the app level? Might need to put in
allow for Tcon.

Torque Owner N R Bharathae
#2
12/30/2007 (9:53 am)
Well, I wouldn't put it past Windows to foul things up but I just tested your box example and it works with that. I was able to save a simple box with a subtraction modifier then was able to open it again without any problems. I then opened my model, which is fairly complex, and got the 'no-save' result I described earlier. I am using 'save as' and Constructor is not returning an error. When I press save I'm not getting the black box that usually signals a completed save. So obviously something with my model is causing it to bypass the save function, but what would that be?

BTW, my system is indepentant of the web. I keep my workstation isolated so I don't get viruses.

P.S. I've been working on this same model in Constructor for a year now. Then suddenly it doesn't won't to save any changes made to it.

Torque Owner N R Bharathae
#3
12/30/2007 (11:19 am)
Problem solved. I was trying to edit EntranceHall_0.csx and Constructor was refusing to save any changes to this file. I then reduced the name to just EntranceHall.csx and no more problems. I'm thinking now that you really need to save your working model to your primary harddrive if you're bringing in a model from a secondary source. I think by renaming the model then saving to the primary drive I 'registered' the model as a native of my first drive.

Originally I thought maybe Constructor wouldn't allow a user to affect changes on LOD copies of your model but that wouldn't make sense since modelers would need to edit the LOD versions to reduce they're polycount.

Thanks for playing Vashner.