Auto map save

by CrazyTB on 10/09/2006 01:18, 3 messages, last message: 10/10/2006 04:56, 838 views, last view: 04/07/2024 19:29

Today I was doing a very productive coopedit mapping session. It was getting really good. Then, suddenly, sauerbraten froze, and I didn't save the map after most things were done. So, I lost the map (I have a half-way done version, but it was too much work lost so fast).

I suggest an auto-map-save feature. This should be enabled whenever we start editing locally or in coopedit mode.

The idea is to save the map every <X> minutes (4 or 5 looks good). To avoid filling the hard drive with useless temporary maps, only the last <N> (5 is good) auto-saved maps should be kept.

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by Gilt on 10/09/2006 02:43

basically this:

savemap5min = [sleep 300000 [savemap; savemap5min; ]]

plus some added smarts to control it however you want it...

... though the real answer is for you to reproduce it so that it can be fixed.

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by shadow,516 on 10/10/2006 03:33

Compulsory saving is your friend.

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by Passa on 10/10/2006 04:56

Didnt the other people in the coopedit session save the map for you?

If youre working on a map by yourself offline, make it a habit of saving whenever you do something big. I have had heaps of crashes when building maps, but luckily I save the map every 3 minutes or so anyway. By the time the map is done, my base folder is like 100mb from the .bak files ;)

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