Anoying pop up error mesage while mapping

BLUES_MAN · Post by **BLUES_MAN** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:20 pm

Hello all, Im new to Radiant but not mapping, (I have been using the Ued 3 from UT2003 for bout 8 months). So here it is, while Im mapping on radiant, I get a message about can t save a read only file, and it pops up with out warnin, and jus keeps poppin up until I stop it, anyone have any ideals bout this and how to stop it? any help would be appreciated ...BLUES_MAN

tuffstuff7 · Post by **tuffstuff7** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:32 pm

when you find out let me know i have that prob and it is anoyying if too many pop up you can not close them all and you loose what you were working on at least that has what has happened to me

Post by **jv_map** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 4:36 pm

Usually this stops happening after you've saved your map for the first time.

Otherwise, disable auto saving and snapshots in edit -> preferences (dangerous).

BLUES_MAN · Post by **BLUES_MAN** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:11 am

Firstly thanks for the quick responce, but whats ment by dangerous? could disabling auto save and such mess up Radiant? I have also heard that Quake uses Radiant to create maps as well, I don t know ifn thats true or not, maybe if so, there might be an answer in one of their forums?
ps... Anyone know of some Tuits for building a first level? somethin like what Noc (Architectronic) has done? Thankin all in advance ...BLUES_MAN

General Specific · Post by **General Specific** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:27 am

BLUES_MAN wrote:I have also heard that Quake uses Radiant to create maps as well, I don t know ifn thats true or not, maybe if so, there might be an answer in one of their forums?

OK, weel they use the same Editing tool because MOHAA is built off the Quake 3 Engine.....

BLUES_MAN wrote:Anyone know of some Tuits for building a first level? somethin like what Noc (Architectronic) has done? Thankin all in advance ...BLUES_MAN

this site has some pretty good tuts if you have not already looked, otherwise, try some of the links to other sites...

Post by **jv_map** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 6:38 am

If you disable snapshots, Radiant won't make those nice backups of your map.

It's just a matter of time until the editor messes up your .map file, so it's a good thing to have some back-ups when you need 'em.

You could also make your own backups ofcourse.

BLUES_MAN · Post by **BLUES_MAN** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 7:16 am

It looks like disabilin auto save has done the trick, no pop ups !!! wonder why the programers didn t catch that?anywho thanks again jv_map for the help, its greatly appreciated. I have already lost 1 map to the pop ups, it did it so much that I couldn t close the box, (snack break, and I didn t hear the pop up sound from my puter) when I got back, there was like 25 of them, and I had to cntl+alt+del them, losin the map in the process, didn t matter much, as it was a test map, but stung anyways. Thanks again...BLUES_MAN
p.s. I thought UT2003 was runnin with the quake3 engine, wonder why the editors are different?

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 7:21 am

It's a whole lot easier to simply save the map. This will make the message go away and still preserve the backup capabilities.