Game cache not working in new editor?

[Voljin]

Hello Hive,

I like to consider myself a fairly decent map editor in GUI, and I have worked with Game Caches extensively in the past, but for the life of me, I cannot get this one working and I'm starting to think its the new editor and not me. Hopefully, I'm wrong. Please look at my triggers and tell me I made a mistake somewhere though, cause I simply can't. I've checked the spelling on both maps 100 times. Both maps are in the same campaign and have buttons, transitioning from one to the other works perfectly fine, but the game cache data isn't loading. I added in the Store Integer Player 1's Gold and typed in "keysersoze" at the beginning of map 1 just to check to make sure it was the game cache, and it is DEFINITELY the game cache based on all the tests I've ran. Under the current triggers, I can have 500g and a hero in map 1, but nothing in map 2.

Oddly, and I'm not sure if this is related or not, but sometimes when I enter the campaign via custom campaigns (I only have a visible button for map 1) I will get immediately sent to map 2 for some reason.

I've tried playing on old campaigns where I used the EXACT same triggers for GUI (In fact I believe I copied them to this map and just changed the name of the game caches), and they work fine when I play them in campaign mode. Is this all the new editor's fault? And, if so, how can I fix it? Thanks!

Map 1 triggers

• GC Initialization
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Set the time of day to 6.00
    • Game - Turn the day/night cycle Off
    • Game Cache - Create a game cache from MegCache.w3v
    • Set GameCache = (Last created game cache)
    • Game Cache - Clear GameCache
    • Trigger - Turn off (This trigger)

• Go to map 2
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Pause all units
    • Sound - Play SoulPreservation <gen>
    • Cinematic - Fade out over 2.00 seconds using texture White Mask and color (0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%) with 0.00% transparency
    • Set LeftFrom = 1
    • Game Cache - Clear GameCache
    • Game Cache - Store Hero as Hero of Units in GameCache
    • Game Cache - Store LeftFrom as LeftFrom of Variables in GameCache
    • Game Cache - Store (In-game time of day) as Time of Variables in GameCache
    • Game Cache - Store (Life of Hero) as LifeHero of Units in GameCache
    • Game Cache - Store (Mana of Hero) as ManaHero of Units in GameCache
    • Game Cache - Store (Player 1 (Red) Current gold) as Gold of Variables in GameCache
    • Game Cache - Save GameCache
    • Unit - Unpause all units
    • Unit - Remove Hero from the game
    • Wait for SoulPreservation <gen> to be 0.00 seconds from finished playing
    • Game - Save game as <Empty String> and change level to MMap2.w3x (Skip scores)

Map 2 Triggers

• GC Initialization
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Visibility - Create an initially Enabled visibility modifier for Player 1 (Red) emitting Visibility across (Playable map area)
    • Set LoadingFrom[1] = Load from Map1 <gen>
    • Set LoadingFrom[3] = Load from Manor <gen>
    • Set LoadingFrom[31] = Load from Map31 <gen>
    • Game Cache - Create a game cache from MegCache.w3v
    • Set GameCache = (Last created game cache)
    • Trigger - Run It works <gen> (ignoring conditions)
    • Trigger - Run Load <gen> (ignoring conditions)

• Load
  • Events
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Cinematic - Fade in over 2.00 seconds using texture White Mask and color (0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%) with 0.00% transparency
    • Game Cache - Reload all game cache data from disk
    • Set LeftFrom = (Load LeftFrom of Variables from GameCache)
    • Set Explored2 = True
    • Game - Set the time of day to (Load Time of Variables from GameCache)
    • Set ManualLoad = True
    • Player - Set Player 1 (Red) Current gold to (Load Gold of Variables from GameCache)
    • Game Cache - Restore Hero of Units from GameCache for Player 1 (Red) at (Center of LoadingFrom[LeftFrom]) facing 0.00
    • Hero - Set Name of (Last restored unit) to (Name of Player 1 (Red))
    • Unit - Set life of (Last restored unit) to (Load LifeHero of Units from GameCache)
    • Unit - Set mana of (Last restored unit) to (Load ManaHero of Units from GameCache)
    • Set Hero = (Last restored unit)
    • Camera - Pan camera for Player 1 (Red) to (Center of Load from Map1 <gen>) over 0.00 seconds

 

[Pyrogasm]

How To Post Your Trigger

 

[Voljin]

How To Post Your Trigger

Thank you Pryo!

I literally tried doing that like 9 times, but could not remember how!

 

[Wrda]

I don't recall needing to reload game cache data from disk for it to work.
Apart from that, I can't find anything that would make game cache not work, on a quick glance.

 

[Voljin]

I don't recall needing to reload game cache data from disk for it to work.
Apart from that, I can't find anything that would make game cache not work, on a quick glance.

Right!? I'm losing my mind here! Could it be something else not associated with the triggers? The entire games been acting strange since I downloaded patch. I tried playing Rexxar campaign and many of the units had their names crossed out and replaced with letter "p" or something. I'm wondering if the patch jacked up editor too.

 

[JsonDalao]

Long ago, HT replaced GC, and 1.29 did not have GC at all

 

[Wrda]

Long ago, HT replaced GC, and 1.29 did not have GC at all

What? GC = Game Cache?
Game Caches exist since Wc3 TFT, at least since 1.24, that's when I'm sure I used them.
Hashtables can't do what Game Caches can at a higher level.

 

[JsonDalao]

What? GC = Game Cache?
Game Caches exist since Wc3 TFT, at least since 1.24, that's when I'm sure I used them.
Hashtables can't do what Game Caches can at a higher level.

But blizzard banned it

 

[Voljin]

But blizzard banned it

Wait, are you saying game caches have been banned since 1.29? Do they not work at all now or what?

Also, I tried using handles before but couldn't make them work right. Idk, maybe the new editor changed some things there too. I thought they could only be used within a single map and not between campaign ones?

 

[JsonDalao]

Wait, are you saying game caches have been banned since 1.29? Do they not work at all now or what?

Also, I tried using handles before but couldn't make them work right. Idk, maybe the new editor changed some things there too. I thought they could only be used within a single map and not between campaign ones?

Yes, 1.29 is already banned for GC and RB

 

[IcemanBo]

@JsonDalao you're statetemnts seem confusing. Can you explain in what form game cache is banned? It can be still normally used. And what is even RB?

 

[JsonDalao]

@JsonDalao you're statetemnts seem confusing. Can you explain in what form game cache is banned? It can be still normally used. And what is even RB?

Oh, I'm sorry, I just tested GC and it does work. Maybe I did something wrong, but HT is still more efficient than GC.
RB is "return bug".It's like "GetHandId", But it's much more powerful than "GetHandleId"

 

[Daffa]

Game Cache works normally, I have no idea where such statements of Game Cache removed from use ever stated by any of the company employees. Heck, that broke entire campaign they have if they did.

Show me the trigger invoking the save cache. My campaign (build on 1.31) works properly with caches. I suggest running debug messages across all game cache actions and see where it fails.

EDIT:
Reload data from disk before creating the cache should resolve the issue, if memory preserves.

EDIT 2:
@JsonDalao Only Return Bug is removed due to security issue it generates.

 

[JsonDalao]

Game Cache works normally, I have no idea where such statements of Game Cache removed from use ever stated by any of the company employees. Heck, that broke entire campaign they have if they did.

Show me the trigger invoking the save cache. My campaign (build on 1.31) works properly with caches. I suggest running debug messages across all game cache actions and see where it fails.

EDIT:
Reload data from disk before creating the cache should resolve the issue, if memory preserves.

EDIT 2:
@JsonDalao Only Return Bug is removed due to security issue it generates.

I'm sorry,It's my fault, maybe I haven't used Game Chche for too long.Because in my country is through the server archive implementation of national player data storage

 

[Voljin]

Well, I ended up just downgrading from 1.31 and now everything seems to be working again. Must have just been the fact that they were old maps or something? Idk...