Gone city tile

io_bg · May 22, 2009, 09:14:29 AM

Hey, guys, I've got a problem: yesterday I played (and saved) a regular city tile and when I started the game just a few minutes ago, the tile was gone! It showed just a whole in the region and I couldn't click on it. I opened the "regions" folder and I found the file which contains the city, but I didn't find it's thumbnail pictures. Is it possible to make some kind of a "fake" thumbnail which the game will overwrite when I save the city again? If you need a picture, I'll post one. Thanks in advance.

Jonathan · May 22, 2009, 09:28:02 AM

You could try importing the city into a new tile (in game the computer with an arrow above it)?

Jonathan

Pat · May 22, 2009, 09:29:18 AM

Hi io I've had this happen before it should be no problem at all just click on the tile and see if the city loads like it should... If it does and then your fine it was just a glitch in the thumbnail...

io_bg · May 22, 2009, 10:07:40 AM

Thank you guys for the replies but the problem remains. I've importing the tile but it just goes to the region I import it into. And I also can't click on it.

Jonathan · May 22, 2009, 10:17:47 AM

Then backup the city, and open another city in the reader, copy the pngs and put them in the city with a problem.
Maybe it will work, but I have my doubts.

Jonathan

io_bg · May 22, 2009, 10:23:19 AM

Well, the city pngs are in the same folder as the cities and I tried with renaming the both pngs (the alpha one and the "standard" one) but after the city names there are a few numbers and maybe they cause the problem because I don't know what do these numbers do.

io_bg · May 24, 2009, 01:29:38 PM

Any other ideas, guys?

Pat · May 24, 2009, 11:09:42 PM

io I am sooo sorry I wish I knew what to do further but I never had such a problem or heard of one.... Maybe Tage or Wou will stop in?

io_bg · May 25, 2009, 04:10:16 AM

Don't worry, Pat, I'll wait for them

wouanagaine · May 25, 2009, 06:18:31 AM

Quote from: Jonathan on May 22, 2009, 10:17:47 AM
Then backup the city, and open another city in the reader, copy the pngs and put them in the city with a problem.
Maybe it will work, but I have my doubts.

Jonathan

Quote from: io_bg on May 22, 2009, 10:23:19 AM
Well, the city pngs are in the same folder as the cities and I tried with renaming the both pngs (the alpha one and the "standard" one) but after the city names there are a few numbers and maybe they cause the problem because I don't know what do these numbers do.

Jonathan was refering to the png inside the savegame, not the png written by SC4TF/SC4Mapper
Try to open the region in SC4TF, if it succeed, then just do a minor change in the weird city ( raise a point by 1m for example ) and save the region, SC4TF will prompt you if you really want to save, revert to god mod or cancel => just "save"
( of course make a backup of the city before)
If SC4TF can't read the weird city, chance are high the savegame is totally screwed

io_bg · May 25, 2009, 08:52:11 AM

SC4 TF can read the city, I raised an undeveloped point a bit but when I start the game it again shows a hole it the region.
Here's a picture:

If someone is interested in opening it with the Reader, here's the a link where you can download it.

wouanagaine · May 25, 2009, 12:35:52 PM

I will download it and see what is wrong ( from another pc tomorrow )

io_bg · May 29, 2009, 01:58:05 AM

I don't want to be insolent, but it's been 4 days... Any progress?

wouanagaine · May 29, 2009, 02:35:57 AM

Ooops sorry

I've looked into reader

The png are not correct

I suggest you applied Jonathan advice

- Backup the city
- Run reader
- Open another city with same size ( ie a large city )
- sort by "entries"
- select the 4 pngs
- right clic and select 'Copy files"
- open the weird city
- paste the files ( right click and select paste or CTRL-V )
- sort by "entries"
- locate the png ( now you have 8 )
- select the 4 ones with 101 in size
- delete them ( right click, choose 'remove files' )
- right click and choose 'reindex'
- right click and choose 'rebuild directory'
- save the file

try it in SC4

From SC4SaveExplorer, your data ( lot, building etc.. are still there )

io_bg · May 29, 2009, 10:14:24 AM

Thank you but after I copy the 4 PNGs from another city and paste them into the weird city, I see only 2 PNGs with size 101... So I have to delete 2 other ones but I don't know which they are

wouanagaine · June 01, 2009, 11:20:24 PM

You can try to delete the first 4 pngs first ( ie before pasting the new one, so you won't have to choose

)

io_bg · June 02, 2009, 08:48:13 AM

I made everything you wrote, I even did it a few times and the city still doesn't show...

wouanagaine · June 02, 2009, 12:05:45 PM

Can you post your config.bmp so I can try to load it in SC4 ?

io_bg · June 02, 2009, 12:21:21 PM

Sure, it's attached below:

Jack_wilds · June 10, 2009, 12:41:42 PM

Hello Everyone, Jack wilds here...

Watching this with interest as this is happening to me

... its really a mystery, no apparent causes...

but another thing to add is previous to 'missing city' is the saving to leave to region, but instead I experience a mini-dump or direct crash -no warning... so the plop thickens

hoping to hear for developments, answers...

Jack

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