'AM' working on a new level: Azaran Zodiark

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:30 am

I have been anyway, until just yesterday when all my work got blown out of the water. Upon reopening dle-xp, I found that even though I had saved last time, I lost all my work except the first unfinished entry room. Yet, after deleting all instances of the level on my hard drive, d2x-xl still manages to find the most current version of the level and I can play it! Its able to find this 'ghost' level even though my computer searched everywhere and cannot. So I guess I'm just gonna have to have this ghost level sitting on my computer somewhere that I cannot find and start over on the level. So here is a screenshot of what the entry room should have looked like. But I've decided I want to take the level in a different direction. Oh well, 3 days wasted. No use crying over it, just have to be even more careful of how I save and back up my level.

I will post updates here on the new variant of the level as I get time.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:43 am

wow! Very nice!

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:31 am

Nice!

That 'ghost' level must be in one of the D2X-XL folders somewhere. My guess is that the file has somehow been renamed.

If you really want to find it, here are a couple suggestions:

Go through the mission folder, and remove/move the files one by one until that level disappears from D2X-XL... that'll tell you which file it was.

Ask Diedel if he'd be willing to add a function to log the file location when D2X-XL loads a level.

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:49 am

By golly, I figured it out! For some strange reason, the current version of azaran zodiark had overwritten the entire apocalyptic factor hog file. (there's nothing left in that af-xl.hog file except for the azaran files. Which is weird since all I ever did to save my level was: File > Save. Other than the initial 'save as' to create a azaran.hog file, I just merely saved it 'as is' every time. So its weird that it somehow jumped ships to the af-xl.hog file. Regardless, progress on the level has resumed again. I just have to redownload apocalyptic factor from the descent mission database again to recover that mission. All is well, the screenshot in the previous post is still current now!

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:29 pm

Thankfully you don't have the only remaining copy of that one.

Stroodles · Post by **Stroodles** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:49 am

Grats on finding it in again.

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:48 pm

This level ain't dead yet!

Major update, this level is still alive and kicking. These should give a brief glimpse into how detailed and how massive this level is going to be.
Click on images for larger view.

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:13 am

This is only the first half of this room! The second half extends down and to the left at the end of the hall.

DarkFlameWolf · Post by **DarkFlameWolf** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:41 am

More progress after a long time, here is the boss room: