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Ah, I though was just me! I have been having this issue with a few large maps I have been working on, constantly having to re-add stuff to their respective layers. I though it was just me and I was loosing the plot. |
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It appears that this primarily happens when loading a saved map. Probably what's happening is that the node order kept in the darkradiant layer information is getting out of sync. It's as if an extra node or nodes is being inserted into the order, or one or more are being skipped. My workaround is to keep DR open all the time. If I don't, I spend the first 30 min after loading the previous night's work putting things back into their correct layers. |
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Does this happen in small maps as well? Or just with our presumably large working map? |
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I can't say for sure that this happens or doesn't happen in small maps. I just created a new map with 20 brushes, func_statics, and AI in it. I defined 10 layers and spent time putting the objects into layers, moving them among layers, closing, reopening, shutting down DR and reopening. The problem didn't occur. So either it's something that begins to happen as a map grows, or when a specific object type is added, deleted, clipped, made into a func_static, etc. Very hard to pin down. I looked briefly at the sources and the darkradiant layer file that's saved, and couldn't make hide nor hair of what could be wrong. Unfortunately, the layer information is kept 'per node' and there's no identifying info in the node data that ties it to a specific object, other than position in the node list. Something that might help in debugging this would be for DR to add an entity name / brush number / primitive number for each node as it's saved, and ignore that extra info when the map is read. This won't hurt DR function, but might provide a clue as to what's going on by looking at snapshots of the saved layer data as time goes by, especially near DR restarts and map reloads. |
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Ok. But I gather it's kind of reproducible in your work-in-progress map? Might this be a suitable test bed for me? |
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I can ship you a snapshot of my WIP for testing, sure. Will send in a PM. |
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I'll set this to resolved after the recent tests with 1.7.0pre5. Can be re-opened if necessary. |
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This is still happening in 1.7.0 (using the x64 version) |
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@Biker, is this still happening to you? I haven't seen it in the last 4 years. |
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Yes, I am fairly sure I have seen this still happening. But can't say for certain which map I was working on when I saw it last. |
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I will monitor this and close the tracker, as I am the only one working on very large maps atm. |
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This still happens on 2.6.0 but only for a small amount of item and even then only on very large maps. |
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