RMF Serial Error: Save My Map! Created 7 years ago2016-12-07 12:44:26 UTC by hlife_hotdog

A post where I need to ask for help, I never thought it would happen this late in the game.

So I'm having a problem where Hammer is not saving my map file with an RMF extension unless I specifically add it when saving for the first time. The problem is that I was working on a map for 5 hours and forgot to do this. It's been saving it, just as the file with no extension.

So now when I load the map, it's completely blank. I changed the file to the RMF extension and Hammer throws this error: SerializeRMF()v2.2 tried to load a file v0.0 Aborting

Can someone save my map, or am I gonna be starting again?

EDIT: I can open the file in Wordpad and all the data is there. So the File HAS map data, just Hammer is having a hissy fit.

So I'm having a problem where Hammer is not saving my map file with an RMF extension unless I specifically add it when saving for the first time. The problem is that I was working on a map for 5 hours and forgot to do this. It's been saving it, just as the file with no extension.

I think Hammer has always done this. I seem to remember it doing so, anyway.

As for rescuing the map, Pengy is the only person I can think of who might have enough knowledge of the formats to help

It's new for me, perhaps because of Windows 10? Who knows.

I've added the MAP extension and Hammer doesn't complain, but still loads an empty map.

I've loaded the map in CRAFTY and it works fine, all the brushes are there. So it's just Hammer being an asshat.

I'm using win10 and Hammer saves RMFs correctly. I've never had this issue.

Try opening it in Sledge and then, either, resaving it as a VMF to continue working in Sledge or exporting it as a .map to return it to Hammer.

Good luck; there's nothing worse than losing work.

Thanks Archie, that seems to have done the trick. Using Sledge to export it directly as a RMF file, it's loading in Hammer just fine.

With that said, I'll look at using Sledge since it was really new around when I left mapping and it seems to have come a long way.

It's got a tiny bit of funkiness around VM, but not enough to stop it from being all I use.

jackhammer could be also interesting for you hotdog

Whoa... hold up there. One new map editing program at a time plz

kthx