Well, I have made a stupid error that's put me behind for a couple of weeks. I noticed my computer had reduced performance in games so I checked my hard drive capacity. It wasn't good, only a couple of free gigabytes left.
I decided to uninstall a heap of games to free up space and bring the performance level back up. Well, that wasn't such a great idea. Because I use the SandBox 2 editor which is packaged with Crysis, I wasn't thinking that if I uninstalled Crysis itself, it would uninstall the editor aswell. So I went ahead and uninstalled Crysis.
Just before the uninstall finished I realised what I had done and cancelled the process. Thankfully, I'd done it just in time to salvage my SDI map but I wasn't sure if it would still work, parts of it might have been deleted during the uninstall. I deleted all the extra files that had been left over from the uninstall and went about reinstalling the game and editor.
When I tried to run the map, it wasn't working as it should. Bits and pieces were missing and the map would crash (quit unexpectedly) a lot. After hours of tweaking files in the Crysis folder and remaking all the missing parts, the map is finally back to where it should be and I can continue working on it.
I'm really lucky that I didn't have to start the whole map from scratch and I don't think I'll be making that stupid mistake again.
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What a relief to get it back!
ReplyDeleteIs there an export or backup option?
You really need a way to backup this project because computers can behave unexpectedly at any time - not to mention users :-)