[Import] Models comitting suicide.

[Guillimans]

Hey there, last night I was play testing the latest version of my map and everything was running fine. But as soon as I just opened it now I see that all of my imported models have committed.
I literally did nothing upon opening it and it was like like LEL THIS MODEL CULD NOT BE FOUND!.
So I check my models importants and all is fine, so I decided to remove the import aspect to one of the non-skinned models (yes this can be done) but ultimately that didn't work either (and yes I did close and re-open the editor).

So ultimately my models have gone AWOL, anyone went through the same thing and/or know the answer how to fix this that hopefully doesn't require me going a few years worth of work back and doing it all again?

 

[Nichilus]

what models are you talking about? Was it a pack of models? (e.g. custom blood elven structures)

 

[andreasaspenberg]

some models only work in mdl format so i suggest trying to convert them and then importing them as mdl. that helped me at the very least.

 

[RobertMKD]

Just ignore that MODEL CAN NOT BE FOUND if the models work in-game.

 

[andreasaspenberg]

if the model works then that error message can be ignored yes but, if the model does not work then my solution could help.

 

[PublishedShadow]

Another thing you can try is to go into your Warcraft 3 Map directory > test folder and see if you can recover that map instead of losing everything. Assuming it's the last thing tested and that map was working.