Dr Killed My Map!

[bob_arctor]

I saved in DR, and now when I open the map in DR it's a blank, and in D3ed...

 

 

Any idea what's wrong?

 

The last thing I did in DR was add a end cap patch to a window and invert capped it.

[greebo]

Could you send me the map? There is most likely something amiss with the texturing or the patch vertices. A ZIP or something would do the trick.

[OrbWeaver]

That's interesting, I have seen that problem many times in DoomEdit but I didn't realise DR could create it as well.

[bob_arctor]

http://www.filefactory.com/file/5d57ba/

 

Okay, hopefully that pk4 is right.

[SneaksieDave]

Yep, I've had that happen a number of times. You can replace the .#INF shit with proper values from other brushes, and it should load fine again.

[greebo]

@bob: Thanks for the PK4, the isolated .map file would have been enough, but that's ok as well.

 

Yes, there is a bogus patch in the .map file with vertices set to infinite coordinates. DoomEdit doesn't like this, obviously.

 

We could circumvent such problems perhaps if DarkRadiant emits a warning during the map saving process (like "Invalid Patch Vertices found. Correct? Yes. No.").

[OrbWeaver]

Ugh, definitely not a popup question dialog. You are right that some better handling is necessary, such as detecting infinities and replacing them with a valid number during map save. Even better would be to figure out where the infinities are coming from and try to avoid producing them, but this may be impossible.

[greebo]

Agreed. The place for this should be the patch exporter stuff, shouldn't it? I'll open an issue in the bugtracker for this.

[bob_arctor]

Cool I deleted the infs and the map is fine!

[greebo]

Bob, can you remember what steps you did before this occurred? You said, you created an end cap?

[SneaksieDave]

As did I. Tonight I put up a facade wall which included a bevel patch and inverted bevel endcap. I rotated it as well, to create the other side of the arch. I used the texturing hotkeys to texture it - I think first I hit shift-MMB, got the warning, then clicked ctrl-MMB. I assume any of those could be important steps.

 

End result on trying to reload the map a few hours later: fails to load with 'Brush 8, parse error'. I've got a case of the #INFs (126 surfaces in total).

 

// primitive 8
{
patchDef2
{
"textures/darkmod/city/wall/brick_dark"
( 3 3 0 0 0 )
(
( ( 136 -448 164 1.#INF -1.#INF ) ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) ( 136 -480 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) )
( ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) )
( ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) ( 136 -456 188 1.#INF -1.#INF ) )
)
}
}