can`t edit the game: AGS can`t find any Sprites

[nomp]

AGS can`t find all my sprites (I wonder about it, since all sprites are in the directory and I didn`t  delete anything).

"ERROR: The editor attempted to display sprite 153, which is an invalid slot number. You may have deleted a sprite that was still in use.

It is advisable to restore your game from a backup, since an illegal operation could occur in the game engine as a result of this."

This message repeats with every sprite number and later the program breaks up. I can`t edit the game any more. It`s a hardcore problem. Is there anything to save? About the last sentence in the error message: "restore game from a backup", how is this possible?

[RickJ]

If you look in your game folder there should be a number of files, amoung these you should find these..

  ac2game.dta
  acsprset.spr
  backup_ac2game.dta
  backup_acsprset.spr

Use WINZIP or someother file compressor to make a copy of the entire game directory.  Then copy backup_ac2game.dta and backup_acsprset.spr to  ac2game.dta and  acsprset.spr respectively.  If this isn't helpful I don't have any other ideas.  Perhaps some other folks here can be of further help.

Most of us normally make zip files on a regular basis, so that if something like this happens we have somewhere to go back to.  Remember to do this in the future.

Good luck,  I hope the auomatic backups are there and in good shape.  

Cheers

   

[Pumaman]

This means that your sprites are corrupt somehow, if you didn't delete them yourself.

"Restore from backup" means try as RickJ suggested - but preferably, use a backup copy of your game to restore it from (you do make a backup of your game folder once a day, right?)

Still, I'm curious as to why this problem happened - did your computer crash while it was saving the game at all, or anything like that?