My map loads... sometimes (black screen issues)

[YO_MA_MA]

so i have my map i've been working on a month or so. an the more recent version will load sometimes.

i tested this: test run a map from jass newgen editor (F9) and it loads fine. now all i did after that was a save as... a new/smaller named file. now when i hit F9 it kicks me back to the main menu and doesnt load my map. it's been doing this to me on a few differnt version of my map and i was wondering what the cause was. i have only added a few things scince this started happening.

sometimes when my map does load and i play, i get a critical error and war3 closes. other times it runs perfectly.

i want to ask is my map corrupted in some way? am i going to have to re-make it while i still have access to the files inside the editor (note i have always been able to open all my saves in the editor)

any ideas on this would be great. and let me know what else i can tell you. im sure u will have questions.

Thanks, YO_MA_MA

 

[Day-Elven]

It's fixable. As a rule critical errors are the reason of mistake in jass code.
Example:

call RemoveLocation( GetPlayerStartLocationLoc(Player(20)) )

Deleting location of non existing player --> all get critical error. It can be caused also by calling an unexisting functions, wrong variable values, and etc..

More rare it can be caused by some skills in object editor.
Example: you create a skill based on book of stats (permanent stats add) and use in by a none-hero unit.

P.S. Do it also kick you to main menu when you run in on Battle.Net?

 

[KYTON]

Let me guess... also when you you want to play the map in warcraft and select it, it does not load the player values at the right and tottaly bugs... right...that happened to me and...Whenever you SAVE AS with JASS new Gen Pack it does not run all the required saving procedures. Try just saving the map again with JASS new gen. The crass ingame can be caused by any of a number of reasons, but you should be able to load the map without problems if you saved again. Had the same problem and it worked for me

 

[YO_MA_MA]

P.S. Do it also kick you to main menu when you run in on Battle.Net?

kicks me back to my channel.

Let me guess... also when you you want to play the map in warcraft and select it, it does not load the player values at the right and tottaly bugs... right...that happened to me and...

not sure what that means. when i do single player/testing i start a LAN game and it wont bring me to the waiting for other ppl to connect screen.

Whenever you SAVE AS with JASS new Gen Pack it does not run all the required saving procedures. Try just saving the map again with JASS new gen. The crass ingame can be caused by any of a number of reasons, but you should be able to load the map without problems if you saved again. Had the same problem and it worked for me

well i opened it, hit save as, let it save. hit the save button, hit run game. ran fine. copied pasted it to my other warcraft 3 folder (without newgen) still worked. i think your method fixed it. makes sense cus i dont recall hitting save after my last few save as'


THANKS! +non-counting rep to u!
(Fixed until further notice)