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Forcy

4 Nov, 2015 @ 1:54pm

Updates changed my level (lost the file)

Hi guys,
I started to get into the editor again and made a new level. But I am kinda sad as I realised that one of my old levels changed quite a bit (I assume through game-updates).
I created that level around christmas last year and used a lot of bright colors and some things that had no collision that I placed on the road.
It is still playable but it gets so bright nowadays (I guess they changed the fog or sth.) that you can almost see nothing and at the last part you have to look out because there is a "virus-spider" on the road that had no collision back when I placed it there.

The worst thing is, that I no longer have the file of the level.

So my question is: is there a way I can edit the level file from the workshop and update the level?

I don't know if I'm allowed to post the name of the level here ^^ (advertisement in the discussion forum and stuff)
Also tell me, if I'm in the wrong section, but I thought this isn't actually an technical issue but more of a question about the editor.

Last edited by Forcy; 4 Nov, 2015 @ 2:00pm

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Krispy

4 Nov, 2015 @ 2:01pm

Yeah its happened once or twice before that Refract updates the game and that breaks some community levels. Its all for the better of the game though. So we will just have to deal with it :)

From what ive heard from them, they are often quite afraid to introduce drastic changes although they know it could potentially be better, Because they too are afraid of breaking some of their favorite community levels :P

You should be able to find the workshop levels in
"C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\My Games\Distance\Levels\WorkshopLevels"
Then move the .bytes file to MyLevels folder in
"C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\My Games\Distance\Levels\"
Now it should be editable in the editor when you launch the game next time.
But you have to restart the game if its running while you do this!

Idk about uploading/updating it again, as ive never tried it myself. But im assuming its going to register it as a brand new level. In which case i recommend removing the old one to avoid having duplicates on the workshop ;)

Hope that helped!

EDIT: i think the workshop discussions is the right place for this :)

Last edited by Krispy; 4 Nov, 2015 @ 2:03pm

Forcy

4 Nov, 2015 @ 2:08pm

Originally posted by Krispy:
Yeah its happened once or twice before that Refract updates the game and that breaks some community levels. Its all for the better of the game though. So we will just have to deal with it :)

From what ive heard from them, they are often quite afraid to introduce drastic changes although they know it could potentially be better, Because they too are afraid of breaking some of their favorite community levels :P

You should be able to find the workshop levels in
"C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\My Games\Distance\Levels\WorkshopLevels"
Then move the .bytes file to MyLevels folder in
"C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\My Games\Distance\Levels\"
Now it should be editable in the editor when you launch the game next time.
But you have to restart the game if its running while you do this!

Idk about uploading/updating it again, as ive never tried it myself. But im assuming its going to register it as a brand new level. In which case i recommend removing the old one to avoid having duplicates on the workshop ;)

Hope that helped!

EDIT: i think the workshop discussions is the right place for this :)

Thanks for the info, I already thought that I would have to make a new entry.
I mean if the level was kinda new and not that popular I would do that.. but that's not the case

And fixing everything would mean a lot of work and I'm not even sure how popular new workshop-entries are atm.. So maybe some time in the future (right before release or sth.)

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