I think the developers and some commie hackers can, but I am not sure if they will help you.

Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. My maps are pretty popular and I would hate to just never be able to edit or update them ever again.

Hi,
You can update your maps whithout conversion, just open the map with the editor, modify it and publish it again, when you finish testing it gives you an option to update existing map, choose it from the list and it will update. Sometimes it´s a bit wonky but it works at the end.

This reminds me that when I have some time I have to go thorugh all my maps and tweak them for the new art and backgrounds.
Cheers!

Once converted the files are encrypted, and for good reason. Else anyone could simply steal your maps, if you failed to have backups your only hope are devs doing it for you, but i guess they have to have a strict no-can-do policy here else they end up with tons of those requests.

Originally posted by Ankon:

Hi,
You can update your maps whithout conversion, just open the map with the editor, modify it and publish it again, when you finish testing it gives you an option to update existing map, choose it from the list and it will update. Sometimes it´s a bit wonky but it works at the end.

This reminds me that when I have some time I have to go thorugh all my maps and tweak them for the new art and backgrounds.
Cheers!

Well the problem is, I had uninstalled the game without even thinking about the map files.
Once I reinstalled after the offical release was when I realized everything was gone.

Originally posted by St0l3n_ID:

devs doing it for you, but i guess they have to have a strict no-can-do policy here else they end up with tons of those requests

It could be our little secret.

It's the Bropocalypse maps, by the way. Forgot to mention that.

I guess there really is no way to do it. RIP in peace Bropocalypse.

I recall work in progress/local maps saving in the steamcloud in Portal 2, maybe the devs could add the same to Broforce so this doesn´t happen. It´s a shame someone willing to mantain their maps updated and functional can´t do it because of the loss of the original files due to a reinstall.

Cheers!

Originally posted by Ankon:

It´s a shame someone willing to mantain their maps updated and functional can´t do it because of the loss of the original files due to a reinstall.

Yeah I came back after the official release with intentions to bring the first 7 maps up to date, and add maybe 3 more, but I guess that's not happening. It'd be nice if a dev could at least respond with some sort of work around, or even a "nope sorry can't do it."

Originally posted by St0l3n_ID:

Once converted the files are encrypted, and for good reason. Else anyone could simply steal your maps

Source engine has had things like V-MEX, BSPSource, BSP2MAP, etc to convert their .bsp map files into .vmf files that can be opened in their Hammer World Editor, and if anything it allows newer mappers the ability to decompile maps and really get inside to see just how some things are done. I know the Broforce map editor is nowhere near as complex as Hammer, but I personally think we would only benefit from having a more open source and some form of decompiling tools.

I wouldn't mind people using my bfc files.

Originally posted by Soup Calhoun:

I wouldn't mind people using my bfc files.

Exactly. It's not like we are making money off of our maps or anything. It's all in fun.

Hey, sorry, I always forget to check these threads. It's best to post in the normal discussions (or just ping me directly) if you have something to ask here.

But yeah, unfortunately, there's no real way to convert to .bfg from .bfc except for an extremely hacked thing that I do. If you're going to lose a level that you really, really spent a lot of time on and it's the best level ever and you'll cry if you lose it I can reconvert it for you. I think something broke in our steamcloud saves, I'll look into that.

Originally posted by raithza:

If you're going to lose a level that you really, really spent a lot of time on and it's the best level ever and you'll cry if you lose it

Well, it's Bropocalypse 1-7, which are all 5 stars with collectively 11,000+ ratings.

Here is a link to the collection.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=373326375


I'm not going to "cry", but like @Ankon said.

Originally posted by Ankon:

It´s a shame someone willing to mantain their maps updated and functional can´t do it because of the loss of the original files due to a reinstall.