I worked on a map for several days, yesterday I saved it and now it won't load up anymore.
The map file size seems ok.
When loading the map the screen just stays blank. There is no error message nor indication of any kind. The map just doesn't show up

This was a common thing to happen back in the UED days. But what can I do?
Wasn't there a way to merge the map content to a new map or anything?

Any ideas, help?
Map/changes lost forever?
Backup tool?

If you mean the viewport is blank, i.e. you can't move around and it's just a white screen, then you need to go to View > Viewports > Configure... and if the little box doesn't pop up, press Alt on the keyboard and it will. Select your layout and the viewports will be back.

If the viewports are there, open the log and tell us what package it says it can't find.

No sorry, thats not it.
I mean when I load the map the viewports just stay black with the space wireframe. The editor window name changes to the map name, but the map doesn't show up.

This usually happens if a object in the map is missing from a pack. But there is no error message and nothing is missing. The map simply doesn't load or show up.

Maybe a single actor is broken, but Is there nothing to recover the map?

What's in the log?

As I already said:
Nothing

it goes like

loading map 'my map name'
loading various packages
unloading garbage


finish
nothing on the screen expect the level name.
Are you a veteran UED mapper? I'm sure you ran into that same situation at least once.
It's really common for UED suddenly stopping to load a map. But In my memory I remember something like a solution. Either a Unreal map restore tool, or a way to load a map without broken actors.

If it's broken actors, you'd see SOMETHING in the log telling you it couldn't load X class in Y package or something along those lines. It sounds like your entire map was deleted and then saved over. How big is the .unr file? You can try opening the .unr file in Notepad, saving it as a .t3d, and reimporting it, but I'm not sure if that will work. I know most data is stored in basically a text-like format for .t3ds and .unrs are similar, but not quite the same.

Yeah, as I said. Theres no error message. Just loading... and nothing shows up but the map name.

That "broken" map is slightly larger than the previous save, which still loads.
Something must have gone broken. The file size seems totally appropriate

I've changed a many things and it was one of those relieving moments where everything goes right and just flows with the time.
And then *booooom* It won't load. Yeah, great.


btw: Any great ways to create rain?

I have had this, , but was from importing, the map loads, but just an edit screen.

It has got to be a missing texture, like importing a ut2004 map, but it still loads for ut
Without the texture from a known scourcefile

Try "texture cull" in the command line at the bottom of the editor from now on.

Yeah like they've said, this is nearly always (always for me) a missing file of some sort. Either a texture, music, sound (onpfootsteps?) etc.

Please post your editor.log contents on pastebin and link to it here. I've gotten this error before and it's always been a failure to load some content.

As for rain generation, you have a couple options:
1.) Use 227's WeatherEmitter classes.
2.) Use PrecipitationGenerator.

I've seen other rain generator mods out there, but the only one I've ever had success with was PrecipitationGenerator.

Hello Pcube thanks for your help offers.

But there is really NOTHING erroneous or failing in the log.
It's simply loading 2-3 packages used for the map, then it goes unloading garbage and presents a empty map.

The file is 4.69Mb.

The only thing I remember doing before saving the map for the last time is: Changing some settings for a group of equivalent movers at the same time.

Is it not possible to load a map with everything working, everything failing omitted?

Hey. I'd love to help you but... we need THE LOG or the file itself.


http://pastebin.org/#stopbeinglazyweWANTtohelpyou