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[Jimmy Chicken]

I'm having severed trouble with the INF on Dark Forge. It keeps corrupting my Levels

I us BBEdit Lite 6.1.2.smi to do all my programming and I don't add it until the end, but I do add my completion elevator when the level is still in progress. I also make back ups of my levels.

I would like some advice from other Dark Forge users

[Burning Gundam]

If the problem with the INF is having scripts where they shouldn't be, here's my trick.

Write the script like you normally would, but instead of adding the item and seq parts at the beginning, just write the script and only ad seqend at the end. It hasn't failed me at all. Here's a simple example

item: sectorname(?)
seq
class: elevator scroll_floor
event_mask: 0
speed: 10
angle: 45
seqend

But instead, try this.

class: elevator scroll_floor
event_mask: 0
speed: 0
angle: 45
seqend

Just ignore the item and seq script parts all together. Don't worry, Dark Forge will write in those parts as it saves the INF. Just make sure that if you make any changes to the script in the future to add seqend at the end every time, or it will corrupt the file.

If that wasn't the problem, I don't know what it is. I assume that's the problem. Good Luck!

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[Brad Oliver]

[Burning Gundam]

I've been able to do it with Microsoft word and convert it using MacGober. It worked for me .

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[alkaline888]

Jimmy C., this is a longstanding issue -- try searching the archives for past references and strategies. Patrick Haslow probably has been the most vocal on this.

I've done all my INF on DarkForge (contrary to Patrick H.'s repeated advice to us) and suffer only an occasional corruption. I don't include seq, item, or seqend when I write code -- but I do include an extra, hard carriage return at the end. E.g.:

class: elevator basic
event_mask: 4
speed: 16
stop: @0 hold
stop: @24 hold
[AND PRESS RETURN AGAIN]

This has been working for me very well. But use at your own risk!

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[Burning Gundam]

Interesting. Maybe I'll try that sometime. But my method has never failed me. You should try mine sometime Alkaline888.

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[Patrick Haslow]

I guess I have used Bbedit for so long now I couldn't change. I must say though that large scale INF effects involving tons of sector definitions are easier to handle with a text editor, because of it's handy "find" option it can quickly locate the INF definition of choice. It would have taken me far longer to do the sunset effect in The Dark Tide II if I had used Dark Forge!

[Burning Gundam]

Maybe I'll just start to use a text editor instead.

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[Nottheking]

That's another thing I like about WDFUSE: you can double-click on a sector or line reference, and it will take you to the INF definition that sector or wall has. I suppose that the "find" function of a text editor would work just as well...

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[Patrick Haslow]

To clarify- Dark Forge works exactly the same way. It is after all based on the same source code as WDFUSE. My point was that after trying to use both the INF wizard and Dark Forge's INF field I find that a text editor gives me more control over my editing.