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FlowScape

Let Nature Flow from your Brush · By PixelForest

v1.3 Ground has disappeared in old saves

A topic by djrewsef created Jul 01, 2019 Views: 412 Replies: 10
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Made some maps in v1.2 64b Windows 10. Used the flat ground map as well as some other hilly ones. Built a whole bunch of stuff on them and saved, thumbnail of the save shows the ground properly. Updated to 64b v1.3 and loading up those saves has the ground disappeared. All my stuff is just floating in nothingness. Tried to "replace" the ground by selecting the ground base I wanted again, but it spawned that in as a fresh base and deleted everything I built.  Went to manage, check for updates and I'm up to date. Persists through game restarts.

 Oddly it didn't affect maps I had made in 1.2 that were more or less the randomly generated ones. The ones with missing ground have buildings on them. 2 are cities with city walls and houses and trees, 1 is a camp scene with tents, archer towers, and a fire in a forest.

Any idea what happened or if this is recoverable?

Developer

hmmm that sounds odd, have you got the latest patch? go to manage, check for updates

Yup, says it's up to date

Developer

Sorry about that, the new version has the landscape sculpting being saved, it could be ab issue with that, ill check the code to make sure it doesnt happen with old saves

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I tried saving a default terrain in both 1.2 and 1.3 and comparing the jsons, and yeah, the 1.3 terrain coordinates save even when you don't sculpt it, and of course the 1.2 terrain doesn't save coordinate info.  It looks like it needs to have a way to assume if there's no coordinates in the file, it was made in 1.2, and load the default shape like it used to.

Developer

I might be able to get around this by adding a CTRL click on a landscape to load just that landscape back into your scene

Developer(+2)

The new update has the ability to bring back the terrain

(+1)

Thanks for being such a great dev! Definitely deserve the success!

(+1)

WOW you did that fast!  Many more thanks!  :D

So how does that work? Missing my terrain and unable to bring it back. Using latest Windows version via the app.

Developer

Left control click on the terrain thats missing