WE Autosave

[VictorOfSweden]

I wonder if anyone has thought of this earlier, but wouldn't it be great if you could turn on an autosave function in the WE that saved a copy of the map named e.g. "AutoSave.w3x" once every x minutes. The current autosave function can "destroy" a map (or at least it steals a lot of your precious your time) if you make a mistake and the WE autosaves your map. I know that the WE saves your map when you test it, but if you don't test your map that often it's kinda worthless. Hours of work may still be lost.

 

[Darkdraak]

Keep saving is the key word, i add something and save, make a trigger and save. its the best way to work and keep things organised. i like it to have many backups on my maps.

 

[Ralle]

there exists autosave but not really a backup

 

[VictorOfSweden]

But if you keep saving your map with the same name after every little change you make, and the realize that you made a mistake at the beginning. What do you do then?

 

[Darkdraak]

I always save under a new name, for example: Holdem poker project v0.0001 and next save Holdem poker project v0.0002, i actually have 182 saves of my old aos and 130 saves of my new TD for the contest here. (for the td biggest part of saves are worthless because i reworked the system completely halfway through)

 

[Ralle]

I have 381 backups of wh40ktd

 

[VictorOfSweden]

@ Ralle:

@ All: But you still agree with me (about having a better auto-save function in the WE), right?

 

[asasin850]

personally id rather not have to wait 5 minutes for my comp to save a map every time i add something.......

...With a smaller map it would be fine but id die with an autosave with a bigger map....

 

[VictorOfSweden]

Agree... I never thought about larger maps, really. But if you could choose how often to save the map, would your problem be solved?

 

[Ralle]

maybe making it save slowly? so it saves in the background using the remaining RAM and CPU available..

 

[VictorOfSweden]

That may be a solution, but I don't think Blizzard will fix it anyway. As far as I know they still haven't fixed that dumb jass bugg yet, so why care about this? Sad but true

 

[asasin850]

Wat Jass Bug?

 

[VictorOfSweden]

This one. As I was searching for the URL I found out it wasn't as old as I thought, but anyway... It can't be too hard to fix.

 

[Shados]

You would be able to implement such an autosave function in a custom editor but I don't think any are still being worked on, but it's a good idea.