A tip - might save you some heartache Created 19 years ago2005-07-15 11:08:12 UTC by Playbus Playbus

Created 19 years ago2005-07-15 11:08:12 UTC by Playbus Playbus

Posted 19 years ago2005-07-15 11:08:12 UTC Post #120994
I just had a frightening experience, I hope that this post will prevent anyone else encountering the same problem.

Tip:

When you are setting up game_text messages, never ever, EVER put the text to be displayed in quotation marks.

Doing so will stop the VMF loading into hammer and give you a horrible scary error message.

For the last hour I'd thought I'd lost an entire weeks mapping! It's scary as hell.

Thankfully, you can fix the problem by taking the quotation marks out of the VMF with notepad or similar, and then the file will load into hammer again.

But hopefully you'll never have to do that now.

Well, I gotta get back to mapping......

(Day 13 is about 70% complete)
Posted 19 years ago2005-07-15 13:14:12 UTC Post #121007
What error message did it return? Curious...

env_messages seem to work well for mod stuff. It localizes excellently =]
RabidMonkey RabidMonkeymapmapmapfapmap
Posted 19 years ago2005-07-16 05:38:06 UTC Post #121140
The error was "Unexpected End of File"

Which had be thinking, ohmygodcorruption! at first.
Posted 19 years ago2005-07-16 05:49:39 UTC Post #121141
Ah, makes sense.
RabidMonkey RabidMonkeymapmapmapfapmap
Posted 19 years ago2005-07-17 11:46:21 UTC Post #121573
Ah thats why! I got scared when I thought I lost a map but Seventh cleverly told me to edit it in notepad. I deleted the entity thinking HL2 doesn't like me :tired:
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
Posted 19 years ago2005-07-17 15:26:25 UTC Post #121632
Nah, all it's saying is that it's found a " mark and it recognizes that as an EOF, when it really needs some closing characters instead.
RabidMonkey RabidMonkeymapmapmapfapmap
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