Slight Symbol Catalogue Issue
LadieStorm
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I've been noticing recently that sometimes when I open a symbol catalogue there will be one red x in what I'm opening, usually the first symbol listed in the catalogue. It's even happening with cc3+ symbol catalogues.
For example - right now I'm working on my challenge map, using cd3's Symbol set B, the classic Greek based structures. The amphitheatre, which is the first symbol in the set, is showing up as a red x, even though it was there when I opened the catalogue. If I go into the program, and go into the symbol catalogues I see that the amphitheatre is there....but when I load it, because it's the first symbol, it becomes a red x.
It doesn't matter which catalogue I open. And it doesn't happen all the time. but it's happening enough that it's starting g to become a problem.
Anyone have ideas on how to fix it?
For example - right now I'm working on my challenge map, using cd3's Symbol set B, the classic Greek based structures. The amphitheatre, which is the first symbol in the set, is showing up as a red x, even though it was there when I opened the catalogue. If I go into the program, and go into the symbol catalogues I see that the amphitheatre is there....but when I load it, because it's the first symbol, it becomes a red x.
It doesn't matter which catalogue I open. And it doesn't happen all the time. but it's happening enough that it's starting g to become a problem.
Anyone have ideas on how to fix it?
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I'm pretty sure this is NOT how the program was intended to be used, but it works and it gives me the versatility I need to make my maps. It's sort of a no holds barred style and it works. I've been doing it for a while.
Mind you, over the last couple of days I've also noticed this problem - but only with the new Challenge map that I most recently started.
(I thought it was just something that I was doing wrong - as I have a tendency to do! LOL
Great to know about the WizKids project. Congratulations!
I guess that means you won't really have time to enter the competition yourself, which is a shame
Unless.... and knowing your reputation for turning out masterpieces in a matter of minutes... ?
Thanks for the compliment
If you do need to resolve the problem, some folks here well might know a better solution than mine, but this one works:
1) Click the Open Symbols Catalog button above the list of currently available symbols.
2) Open the catalog (.fsc file) that currently is open on your screen.
3) In that catalog, click the VH version of the first symbol in the list. If there is no VH version (some third party collections), click the HI version of the first symbol in the list.
After that, everything should work again.
@Mark- I will try this, thank you for the help! As it happens, I DO need the first symbol in this particular catalogue. It's the reason I chose this catalogue!!! You're a peach, Mark, as always :-D
Then again ... on second thought ... I suppose it depends upon who is biting.
What happen if you do place the red X symbol in the map? The symbol catalog view is different from the map view, so I am wondering if it shows up correctly in the map even if it is wrong in the symbol catalog.
I get a red X. It appears that CC3+ occasionally has trouble finding the first symbol in the catalog.
Juuuust a thought here, since it only started happening recently to all but Mark.
My machine received a 4.5GB 'automatic update' just recently (which wasn't very friendly of them since I have a monthly allowance of just 10 GB and had no idea what had happened to half my monthly allowance till my machine took nearly an hour to install the following day)
The red X thing started happening a couple of days before that, but given the size of the update I'm wondering if there were a couple of preparatory mini updates, one of which might have upset the way files are indexed.
After what I will call 'the big one', it was taking me several minutes to open folders with lots of files in them, as if the index had been destroyed and was in the process of being re-written. I was on the point of raising the issue directly with MS, when I noticed that once the folder had been opened the first time things returned to normal, and I haven't had a red X since then.
Maybe there are two things going on here - Mark's red X problem and a different one that has affected a couple of us only recently.
I haven't seen this red X problem in CC3+, but I'm using Win8.1.
Even though I don't officially have the newest version of Win 10 - the one that drove Lorelei nuts the other day - I've got the Cortana problem myself now. She's part of that massive update that wrote off half my broadband this month! LOL
I hope I get the same guy I spoke to about the automatic downloads when I contact MS again about that a-Grrrr-ivating female jack-in-the-box pop-up.
I am now attempting to access the dd3 vegetation catalogue, to keep up with my cartoon look for the Themiscyra map. I've got the standard symbols, and the varicolor symbols in my window. So can someone explain why I am clicking on the standard tree symbol (non varicolor) from the dd3 catalogue, but the tree on my cursor is the tree from the cd3 bitmap B default catalogue? If I click on the varicolor tree, I get the varicolor tree.
I'm confused...
In any case, check your symbol manager and look for a symbol matching the name of the symbol from the DD3 catalog, then rename it.
I had the same kind of issue today, and I did not understand what happened. It was a collision between bushes from DD3 and from SS4. LadieStorm, maybe this tree from CD3 is also provided in another annual or in a symbol collection, with a colliding name?
I haven't had a chance to check back and see if my two trees are named the same...if they are, I will stick the dd3 in front and see if that works.
-Open the symbol manager
-select the symbol by clicking on it.
-Click the Rename button
-Type in the new name.
This will only change the name of the symbol in this map. Your second symbol should now show up when you place it.
However, once again I know what most of the buttons do....but don't know what they are called! I even have the manual open, and the symbol manager button isn't listed on the view screen... so uhm which one is the symbol manager?
Dropdown menu, first option, Symbol Manager.
Once you're there, look for the symbol that has the same name as the one you're trying unsuccessfully to use. Click that symbol in the list and then the Rename button and put in a new unique name. After that, you can insert the symbol that you want.
Note: This also will occur often when you use the CSUAC 2 or the Dundjinni Archives. Both have quite a number of duplicated names. But the symbol manager renaming solution resolves such problems easily and quickly.
Thanks, Mark!
I'm having it now all the time