Mission sqm corrupted (?)

[cornholio]

I don't know how it happened.  

In my mission sqm are about 300 to 500 "items" (?!) that are not in my mission. Mostly markers but alot of units and helicopters, ect... You can't see  any of these items in the mission editor, but there in the mission sqm (!?) I can't even merge my intro (made it seperate from the mission) cause it says I have to many units already (even though there are none on the map!)

I'm sure they all came from me "merging" stuff  from  other  missions of mine (how else). and now I'm trying to edit all the CRAP out of the mission sqm by looking at a normal, non-corrupted, BIS mission sqm and knowing what is in my mission and what is not in there.

Is that even possible or do I have to rebuild the whole friggen mission from scratch? (can I even say friggen?)

When I try to start my "edited version" of the mission sqm,
I get a message saying... "Cannot load mission"

I thought maybe I was missing some of those wierd thingys
like... }; or } or {  or even the correct position of the above thingys. but everything seems correct

It don't crash to desk-top...just the above message.

Thanx 4 any help (are you asleep yet?) ;D

[beowulf2014]

yes it is possible to just edit your mission.sqm file. The only problem is to MAKE sure not to leave out any ;;; in it....thay will cause a problem!

[asmodeus]

Yes, this can be a real pain in the :moon:

Had the same thing happen to me.. I was sure the mission.sqm was correct, but it just wouldn't load the mission no matter what I did!

So, I just unpbo'd my previous version, a voila!  You can just start from there.

I saw your post in beta testing..  And I have a working version of your mission before all this happened to you.. I'll send it to you if you want and then you just need "Amalfi's .pbo decryptor" to un-pbo it and you'll be on your way again!     ;D

Asmo

[cornholio]

Thanx guys

I was afraid of this. You see, I always save early versions and "un-pbo'd" all of them. they are all corrupted :'(  

Oh well, I think it would take longer to try to hack the mission sqm correctly then to just re-build the darn thing :-\

Thanx anyways!