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Bug: scene closes automatically on simple save.

by Sorin Daraban · in Constructor · 04/11/2007 (11:11 pm) · 5 replies

When I try to just simply save the scene I work on, a pop up window appears warning me to save my current work and some other new scene that I didn't create. Constructor doesn't crash, though, but just restarts.
This doesn't seem to happen after I relight the entire scene and then save.

Just I thought I'd let you know about this bug.
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Torque 3D Owner Caylo Gypsyblood
#1
04/11/2007 (11:34 pm)
You may try cheeking 'Scene' menu option, and take notice of the entry under 'manage entities'; Constructor allows one to edit more then ONE map at a time. I offer the guess that somehow the default loadup scene is being marked as 'dirty' (in need of being saved), and causing you that pop up message.

Torque Owner Sorin Daraban
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#2
04/12/2007 (10:07 am)
Yeah, I know that in Constructor you can work with more than one scene. I only work with one scene, so that couldn't be the problem.
When I try to save my work and continue, Constructor just restarts, closing everything.
Also, if I click on save on the popup window, when I reload my work, there's a warning saying that my scene does not exist and asks me if I wanted to load another scene. I click no and the scene still appears. Strange.

Torque 3D Owner Caylo Gypsyblood
#3
04/12/2007 (10:23 am)
Yes i have not seen anything like that myself, hope someone else can drop some insight.

Torque Owner James Pulliam
#4
04/13/2007 (7:43 pm)
When saving are you typing in the .csx i beleive it is.

when i tried to save a few scenes of mine and just put the name in. it would crash the constructor. then i made sure to add the ext. on after file name and it worked fine.

example being. when saving and making the name. write the full file name out such as:

castlewall.csx

make sure the ext .csx is placed with the file name.

as i said i had problems with the constructor crashing. wasn't sure what was going on, thought maybe i had too many background programs running and it was messing it up. but once i added the ext on file when saving i didn't crash anymore.

hope this helps you.

Torque 3D Owner Kenneth Holst
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#5
04/13/2007 (8:57 pm)
This has happened to me at work several times, and has been logged as a bug. However, it is hard to setup a consistant repro case for it which is slowing down fixing it. Rest assured it is known about and I hope to be able to get it resolved soon as it is very annoying!