Sprites simply vanished?! There are some weird symbols been displayed.

[Danilo_Dias]

Hi everyone! I`m currently working in a project for at lease 2 years and I never saw anything like this happens.
Yestarday I was working in a cutscene for my game. In this cutscene I made smoke objects go up and they change animation for a bigger sprite. Ok.
Everything was working right and I`ve saved my project. Today I was working in more cutscenes and finished. When I get back for the older cutscene I just saw this!

weird1.jpg

As you guys can see the smoke sprites were replaced by that symbol...

When I openned the frame editor I saw this:

weird3.png

When I openned the active it was like this:

weird2.jpg

What is going on? =( I`m really scared, is my game corruped or something like that?

Thanks!

edit: I`ve tried to edt these objects and I cannot edit them =(

[happygreenfrog]

If you aren't using the latest version of MMF2, then it is quite likely that it got partially corrupted, since I think older versions of MMF2 had issues related to that. Technically speaking, even newer versions can have it happen, as rare as it can be, so, even if you have the latest build, then, based on the way it looks, it may very well be corrupted (someone else may think differently, though, so keep that in mind). There may still be hope for your project, though, since there are ways (albeit somewhat tedious ones) that can get it recovered. Also, for future reference, make ABSOLUTELY SURE to make backups often. I had a near-loss of a MFA file because of an issue with an extension that made me learn that the hard way.

This guide I wrote a while back on how to delete a bad object should apply to this for the most part, so you may want to have a look: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/80364-How-to-delete-a-bad-object?highlight=bad+object

I hope this helps!

[Danilo_Dias]

Thanks man. I`m going to take a look in your guide. My mmf2 version is up date. I had a last week backup. I have a little question. My last week backup don`t have the cutscenes. I made 3 cutscenes frames and just the cutscene frame 3 had this error. Can I copy cutscene frame 1 and 2 to my old build? It is risk? Thanks!

[nivram]

If it was me I would first try copying the cut scenes. Just make sure the ones you do copy do not have errors. If you are not worried about time it would be completely safe to start from scratch. Code a little then test. Keep doing that until the project is done . Back up often. In my first room of of my project there are 35 backups.

Marv

[Danilo_Dias]

Thanks man. I`m going to take a look in your guide. My mmf2 version is up date. I had a last week backup. I have a little question. My last week backup don`t have the cutscenes. I made 3 cutscenes frames and just the cutscene frame 3 had this error. Can I copy cutscene frame 1 and 2 to my old build? It is risk? Thanks!

Thanks Marv! I`ll do that! =D