[Hiphopopotomus]

Once upon a time I opened my .vmf and all the entities were gone. It's too late for .vmx to work but I noticed I had an old working and playable version of the map as a .bsp, I rejoiced because I know it is possible to decompile maps. So I got VMEX and decompiled my map, I opened it in hammer and after getting to 98% hammer just closes out, re-open and all the entities are gone. I checked the de-compiloe log and it says "Entities 310" I think it might be something wrong with my hammer. Maybe because there are too many entities? Anyways I would appreciate any help I can get.

Not the visgroups, already checked that.

[Zanarias]

VMEX isn't guaranteed to decompile your map properly ever. It's more of an analyzing tool to see how things are done, and not there to recover a VMF.

Basically I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly broken.

EDIT: You can try using BSPSource which is essentially an updated VMEX, but that might not do anything either.

[Hiphopopotomus]

Zanarias posted:

VMEX isn't guaranteed to decompile your map properly ever. It's more of an analyzing tool to see how things are done, and not there to recover a VMF.

Basically I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly broken.

EDIT: You can try using BSPSource which is essentially an updated VMEX.

Unfortunately same problem, but I tried unchecking world and made it decompile into entities only and it worked! Thank you so much! I was actually preparing to replace all 310! I owe you one man :D

[jelknab]

I save my .vmf's in dropbox where i can restore previous versions.

[MaddaCheeb]

jelknab posted:

I save my .vmf's in dropbox where i can restore previous versions.

This is the best way to go. I do the same and in case my computer ever shits out on me, I know my maps are safe.

[Hiphopopotomus]

So after many crashes I re-assembled the map with the entities from the decompiled map, and after saving under a new name, I close hammer and a few errors pop up. Next time I open it, all the entities are once again gone. Anyone have any ideas. Just in case it helps in the diagnosis, I want to note the crashes are Hammer just instantly closing upon copying the entities or pasting, not the program going white and being notified it stopped responding.

[Hiphopopotomus]

Any help?

[Guy123]

The same thing happened to a map I've been working on for a small GMod community, I opened up the map one day and the entities were gone, and the backup was broken too.

[VIOLATION_SNG]

Has anyone found a fix for all the entities disappearing? This just happened to me as well.