Disappeared Sprite folder and character

[Elianto]

Hi,

I post here since I don't know if this is something I done wrong. Yesterday I created 20 sprites divided in 2 folders (1 for each character) and 2 characters with 7 views each. Saved and tested many times the game and then closed all. This morning I loaded the project and the ags engine tells me that I have some orfan sprites recovered in the main folder. Now I miss the second character his views and his sprite folder disappeared and all his sprites are in the main sprite folder... why? what  may Ihave made wrong???

[Gilbert]

Hmmm what did you use for the name of that folder ? I don't know but it can be caused by using some special characters in the name, which can't be read back by the editor (apart from the usual crash, programme closing errors, etc. of course).

You can just recreate the folder and drag the sprites back into it.
Folders are not that important internally (apart from the folder sprite limits, so you MUST put some of the sprites into folders if there're MANY sprites) as the sprites are only referenced by their sprite numbers, using folders just helps us to have better organisation.

If that problem pops up again, do post here again.

[Elianto]

I Named the 2 sprite folders with the name of the 2 characters... I can recreate the folder but both the views and the character 2 settings are gone too, so now I've to redo them too   

[Gilbert]

There're probably some problems (caused by your computer or a bug in the editor maybe) when you last saved the game, which corrupted the game files, making them unusable. In that case the editor would try to recover it using some backuped game files (namely backup_ac2game.dta and backup_acsprset.spr) instead of the corrupted ones.

[Elianto]

Thanks... the spr backup was fxxxed too but the .dta backup worked so i don't have to redo views and settings