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by Earl_Vencar.:LLS:. » Thu 19 Feb , 2015 2:35 pm
I'm having major issues trying to get this map back up and running again. Elfy messed up big time ...
So Elfy made two texture files - rainbowtexture and rainbowtexture2. He was obsessed with making the rainbow track look more 'realistic', and so made a night version of the map to mess around with the texture. I gather he made the two new texture files to make sure the map wasn't dependent on any UnWheel files (the original track required the system file to play). The trouble - the URLs of both texture files were 'invalid' (I don't understand this part), which for some reason affected the original RainbowRace also (I later learned he re-uploaded the original to make it use the new textures, which I'm not happy about). He then quit, leaving the situation in limbo.
So yesterday I attempted to sort out the issue - I uploaded a previous version, which was not dependent on the new texture files. But for some reason the same URL issue occurred with the rainbowtexture redirect file - logically, it is not supposed to be downloading these files ... so this morning I deleted both texture files and wiped the system clean of RainbowRace[C] and RainbowRace[x-mas], before re-uploading again the previous version. Now the map cycle won't even recognise RainbowRace as being uploaded - I can only assume Elfy has messed up more files than he should have been messing with, because all was fine until he started renaming files and creating new dependencies ... I don't understand why the map cycle won't recognise the map at all.
Would anyone be able to offer some assistance? I'm flummoxed. The map was popular and many hours have gone in to editing a number of versions. At the moment I have only one solution - re-uploading the two texture files Elfy created (although offline they seem to be broken anyway).
Edit: checked the UnWheel Rally map LightTrack, which uses the same rainbow texture file, and this works fine. So this has confused me even more.
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