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I've seen this happen as recently as a few versions ago, around 2.6/2.7. Can't say anything about whether it happens more now since I'm currently less active in actual mapping. |
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Looking at this, how should DarkRadiant ideally behave when it encounters those entities? Considering the case that a func_* entity is left over without any child primitives, I'm not sure it would be appropriate for DarkRadiant to purge those empty shells automatically, since there is a slight chance the mapper might have put them there on purpose (with custom spawnargs)? Display them as boxes in the map, similar to what the game does? On a larger scheme, these entities could be detected by some sort of validation process that is run automatically against the map when DR is idle? It could scan for those empty entities, missing links or missing textures and place a notification icon in the status bar? Or is this too sophisticated? |
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Displaying "empty" entities as "Shader not found" boxes in the map would be useful, the problem currently is that they're invisible and unselectable, so the only way to find them is in the entity list or, possibly, in an error message in the TDM console. The problem of empty entities also occurs regularly when renaming or deleting custom entities, as per 0005352. I think some way of detecting empty entities could be useful, working in the same way as the "Test for missing targets" command. This would already go a long way. |
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Idea 1: Involve dmap in this. Dmap should be able to identify a bad entity and declare it in a manner similar to a leak: put an ERROR message on the console and stop processing. If we then go back to DR and--similar to loading a POINTFILE--ask that the bad entity be displayed center screen by a primitive black brush that (I assume) makes it selectable. The player could then hopefully recognize what the entity is supposed to be, either delete it, or find the good version of the entity in a saved snapshot or previous copy of the map. |
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Just a bump on this, as occasionaly I get these entites in maps and have to use a work around to nuke them etc. |
- Anonymous
