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I am editing a winter map with a frozen body of water. The map works. I'm editing some areas of the water to be liquid (not frozen). I do that, export, test, and it's ok. I edit more, test, ok. I edit more, test, and bugsplat! It is difficult to pinpoint what specific change causes the crash. The warnings1.log file ends with:

21:26:39.07 GAME - CreateGEWorld in 1552 ms
21:26:39.08 GAME - SessionSetup finished in 1530 ms
21:26:39.09 GAME - WaterReflectionManagerSetup
21:26:39.09 GAME - WaterReflectionManagerSetup finished in 0 ms
21:26:39.12 GAME -- Recording game
21:26:39.22 SimWorld::LoadWinCondition: - [DATAcar/WinConditions/AABattle_Annihilate.scar] succeeded.
21:26:40.29 DB -- Unable to load symbols.
[Fatal] Ran out of PathSectors due to map fragmentation.

Owner: unknown

-- FATAL EXIT --
pathsectormap.cpp/409:!
--stack trace--

Application closed with error code 1129468744



...any advice as to what specifically I should be looking out for? Any known gotchas with editing ice which cause crashes?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Is there any trick to selecting a single spline when you have several layered on top of each other? I guess the same thing could happen with splats or even objects, but I am finding that it's splines that tend to stack up and become difficult to select just a single specific one.

Thanks.

Is it possible to scale objects? There are just some cases where it would be ideal to use a specific rubble model if only it were 75% of the size...

Thanks.

I have looked but haven't found any good tutorial explaining the texture tile tool. Any pointers to one would be welcome.

Going top to bottom, this is what I have figured out and what I still have questions on:

Edit modes - only "exclusive" available for now so no questions there. Brush size, feather, strength, and layer counts, all ok. Chunks - I see the flat square move along the terrain but don't really know if that's a bit of information I need to keep in mind for anything.

Layers - there are five buttons. The first looks like a lock, but pressing it seems to have no effect. The second is an eraser that blows away all painted texture layers in a square chunk. Guess there's no in-between when it comes to erasing - it's all or nothing.

The third button is for merging layers, and this is one that I do not really understand. If I try to merge 3 layers, for example, afterwards 2 of them disappear, which is expected. But the remaining layer is one of the 3 that was already there (not sure how it picks which of the original set to keep) and the look of what was painted changed because the actual texture used in 2 our of the 3 layers is completely lost, replaced by the texture of the single remaining layer. Is that what is supposed to happen? So merging just merges the painted areas, but not the textures themselves?

The next (4th) button is apparently for adding layers. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it's greyed out and I can't add any more layers. This has happened when I just have 3 layers total, so I doubt it was hitting the limit (what is the limit on number of layers, by the way?). If I save, exit, restart and reload I can then add layers again, so there's no rhyme or reason to why it sometimes stops working. Bug?

The fifth layer button is for deleting a layer - no problem there.

Now, each layer has a checkbox, which seems to toggle displaying a solid color (defined right next to the checkbox) or the actual texture. Is that solid color just for this visualization, or should I be paying more close attention to what color I assign to each layer? Then there's the thumbnail and texture name - all good. And the last block on each layer line seems to light up when your cursor is over an area of the terrain that uses that layer. Pretty cool way to see what layer is being used where.

The next section is labeled "Burner" and I have no idea how to use it. I'm sure I'm missing something important here.

The next section - "Textures" - is fairly self-explanatory except for the icons (red X, green checkmark, and a combo of both) which I do not yet fully "get". The state of each also changes depending on whether I've been working on the map in a single WorldBuilder session for a long time, or if I just reopened the application. But I don't think there's anything too critical I'm missing here - mostly just curiosity for the sake of completeness.

So... if there is a tutorial out there that covers the above, please let me know. If not, then perhaps someone with a working knowledge of the tile texture tools can shed some light on the missing parts in my ramblings. In particular, the "Burner" tool is high on my list of things I wish I knew how to use.

Thanks.

Ok, thanks. It's good to know I wasn't missing something obvious.