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Map Maker Map Recovery

By Xmaster13

For anyone who may have crashed or accidentally closed their game before managing to save their map - This is how I went about rescuing my map from such a situation.

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Category: Maps or Levels, Walkthroughs

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15 Apr, 2022 @ 9:09pm

15 Apr, 2022 @ 9:43pm

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What this guide is for

TL:DR - Go Here, Copy This, Make Backups

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What this guide is for

My game crashed while testing my map and I didn't even save after working on it for hours. I kept the window open for awhile hoping it would come back and started looking for the save data. After failing to locate it I open the game hoping I had saved it. In the map maker I did not have any saved maps, but after clicking on the 'manage maps' button I found where the maps are saved. Going there I was still dismayed to see nothing in the maps folder. However I noticed a temp save file in the root directory of the game. I plopped that into the map folder, went back to Lumencarft to refresh the map manager folder & was right back into my map!

It being a temp file, I would guess that if you tried making a fresh map before recovering the map you lost then you might be out of luck. However, the file was up to date from the moment I jumped in to test it (my first wave crashed the game).

TL:DR - Go Here, Copy This, Make Backups

Go here: C:\Users\*Your*User*Folder*\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Lumencraft
Should be a temp.lcmap in the folder
Copy that file to the Maps folder; Load map and make a copy (or several).

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KoBeWi [developer] 30 Apr, 2022 @ 6:43am

Wave presets are an interesting idea, definitely something that could be added.

And Godot is an excellent engine, good choice :)

Xmaster13 [author] 28 Apr, 2022 @ 2:55pm

Right on - Thanks for the info! I forgot about that shortcut.
On another note; Thanks for adding plants to the map maker, I was waiting for those to publish my map.

Any chance we could get an 'auto-fill' feature for creating waves? Maybe with preset difficulties? I find it tedious testing the ones I make and Its hard to know a good starting point.

Your game has been super inspirational BTW; I just started teaching myself Godot & it's really cool to see such a tight game made in the engine.

KoBeWi [developer] 28 Apr, 2022 @ 5:29am

FYI, temp.lcmap is created when you test the map. The game saves the map to a file and then plays it.

btw you can use %appdata% instead of C:\Users\*Your*User*Folder*\AppData\Roaming .

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