Missing or hidden waypoint file

Mmeaninglez | 2013-03-12 02:38

I've made a map (gee, what else is new?) and was testing it with bots. I happened to look at the map .cfg file and noticed that there was no .wpt file with it, just the .ogz file. I completely closed the game and opened it again and went to my map. I used /loadwaypoints and the game message read "loaded 1412 waypoints from packages/base/gulley.wpt". Bots can use the waypoints I loaded. However, I looked again and still could not find the gulley.wpt file. I did a whole computer search and found the file, but could not find where it had been. I copied the .wpt file into the packages/base folder and can now find it there.

While I managed to solve this problem, I want to ask if anyone knows why this happened?

[this occurred on a completely unmodded copy of Sauerbraten: Collect edition]

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SomeDude | 2013-03-12 04:47

This sounds like an OS thing rather than a Sauerbraten thing to me. My best guess is that you had the base folder open before you made the .wpt file. The file was created in the base folder, but was not visibly alphabetized like the other files in the window. Had you closed and reopened the folder, I bet you'd have seen it was there all along.

Suicizer | 2013-03-12 06:32

If you are on Windows, it's in the MyGames/Appdata/... directory.

RaZgRiZ | 2013-03-12 06:49

No such directory really, it's now USER/Documents/My Games/Sauerbraten

Suicizer | 2013-03-12 11:21

Whoops! Was partly confused with the directory of Open Arena, my bad. Pretty though to keep in mind when not being on a pc.

Mmeaninglez | 2013-03-12 18:29

Yeah, i probably just failed to re-alphabetize the list. Thanks for the responses anyway.

The only other possible reason I can think of is something to do with the windows 7 OS and Sauerbraten being in in C:/Program Files (x86), while I had Justice edition located actually on my desktop. I doubt that's the reason though and I'll just chalk this one up to my own fallibility.

RaZgRiZ | 2013-03-13 00:04

By default Collect stores all its files in said "home" folder, so your waypoints were in the right place, you just moved them over to the install path.

SomeDude | 2013-03-13 01:26

For future reference; you can right-click the file in the search window and select "open file location" to find out where it was hiding.

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