Posted by: Gameanater - Sunday, January 7, 2018 4:35:15 PM
I'm making a map for my personal mod and seem to have run into a little issue. Whenever I load it, the screen goes black and only shows my cursor, which I can't move. The strange thing is that the music and ambient sound effects seem to play just fine, but I can't do anything. I can't move my cursor, bring up the pause menu, Alt-Tab out, or even do anything with Task Manager to close ZH. I end up having to sign out and sign back in just to do anything with my computer after loading this map.
I tried deleting the minimal scripting I did but that did not change anything, and I don't believe I ever did anything with the map settings or the border. Can anybody figure out what I've done wrong here? It kinda sucks especially since I put a ton of detail into this map and it won't even load.
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Posted by: SkyMix_RMT - Monday, January 8, 2018 3:01:29 PM
Create a new map and start copying stuff from your mission this new map untill the same error occurs, by then you'll figure out what caused the issue.
Posted by: i^love^mixery - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2:42:46 PM
Did you change the border lately? This usually happens when the border gets broken.
Do you have a backup?
If no, how much work did you put in it?
I can potentially repair it using a HEX editor, but it's a lot of work.
Posted by: Gameanater - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 12:40:20 PM
[quote=i^love^mixery;146921]Did you change the border lately? This usually happens when the border gets broken.
Do you have a backup?
If no, how much work did you put in it?
I can potentially repair it using a HEX editor, but it's a lot of work.[/quote]
As far as I remember, I never touched the border.
No I do not. (Stupid me.) In fact, I actually started work on this map a few years ago but I think I had the same problem and never got around to fixing it. I must have forgotten about the problem until it happened again.
I put a *lot* of work into the map design, but the only scripting I ever did was to remove the fog of war just so I could see how it looks in-game, and to play music. It still plays the music oddly enough.
It's a really small map but I put a ton of detail into it. I definitely could just start over, maybe make the map bigger, it would just be tedious.
If you want to try fixing it with a HEX editor, it would very appreciated. If not, I'll probably just delete the map and start fresh.
Posted by: i^love^mixery - Sunday, January 14, 2018 2:20:29 PM
Just took a look at your map.
It's not the problem I had thought first, it's actually simple:
You placed a train engine without a waypoint path for it to take. That freezes the game. Just delete the train engine and you are good to go.
Posted by: Jundiyy - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:58:12 AM
I've not looked at your map but this happens to me for a few reasons, 2 for sure.
1. If it's meant to be for multiplayer (even vs ai but you can choose your army) then you need player 1/2 starting positions.
2. If it's a mission map, then you may have forgotten to check/uncheck "is player computer controlled".
