Scenario design question

[K K Rossokolski]

!!#%%^&*$$~! Komputers!!!! I am working on a big early desert scen, and my description, a classic of deathless prose, has disappeared...I opened the scen just before for a final tweak...and no F~!$#%^&&* description. Totally blank. The rest is fine.

Any thoughts, gents?

[Huib Versloot]

I'm afraid it is gone Rod... Writing scn descriptions is one of those things I really hate... The same thing happened to me in the past. Nowadays I write them in notepad first and copy/ paste it when I'm done.

[K K Rossokolski]

Thanks mate. My computer skill has not reached notepad. I might use a bleached,cellulose-based semi-absorbent micron thickness opaque film, coupled with a graphite-filled wooden writing tube.

[Hawk Kriegsman]

Thanks mate. My computer skill has not reached notepad. I might use a bleached,cellulose-based semi-absorbent micron thickness opaque film, coupled with a graphite-filled wooden writing tube.

Rod,

I think it would be easier if you just used paper and pencil! :whis:

Thanx!

Hawk

[Big Dawg]

Rod,
Good @%$#&^%!!! morning my friend.

If you have a "Microsoft Windows" based computer click "Start" in bottom left corner.
It will create a drop down window. Look on bottom for "All programs".
You should find "Notebook" there. You can type to your hearts content then name/save the description. You can edit it as you go.
;)

[1925frank]

I haven't lost description files, but I've had them spontaneously corrupted so that nothing in the scenario worked until I redid the description.

Big Dawg, I didn't find a notebook, but I found Microsoft Word. Can you draft a description in Microsoft Word and paste them into the scenario file description?

[Mr. Guberman]

hmmm...I have never had this problem.

When I began the laborious task of translating my DEI scens into the ME format (they being originally designed using the original Dutch mod hosted here) I was long since removed from the immediate research and lacked the inclination to bone up. This translation process required ammending the original OOB files (adding and replacing units) and creating a completely new scen file (as the original would not recognize the ammended OOB). I simply cut and pasted the original scen descripts from the original scen files before trashing them (here too...after the paste, sometimes some ammeding, regarding spacing, primarily, was required). That ability was a Godsend.

Frank...Word will not work, it must be in notepad, though I have never tried doing it in wordpad...

KKR...open the "scen" file in notepad...at the bottom of the file is where the scen descript is located...see what you have there.
Give me a PM if you feel so inclined.

Cheers
Curt

[1925frank]

On my home-made scenarios, what I've had happen two or three times is when I try to pull up the scenario to play it, I'll get an error message. I don't recall what the actual message is, but when I look at the scenario info box (the box with the scenario name, date, description, file name, and author), I'll see a whole line of back-slashes or forward-slashes. I learned that if I go to the scenario editor and clean up the description portion, everything runs fine. I have no idea what triggered the description portion to get corrupted. I don't recall if other portions (such as the author and date) had to be cleaned up as well. I've never had a description file disappear.

[Herr Straße Laufer]

I've used stone tablet and copper chisel. Broke three mallets so far. But, I rarely lose the descriptions. :smoke:
Except for that one dropped tablet. But, that one is being cemented back together. :rolleyes:

RR

[1925frank]

You can pooh-pooh that dropped tablet, but that little episode made it into a book, and its story has been told over and over again for many centuries. And it's not a story about which people are inclined to giggle. The Egyptians were smart to use papyrus.