Ground Texture are not staying put.

[Damaricus]

I am just starting to work with the software so I am probably doing something wrong but when i place any ground texture and then go to either add another or expand the one i placed it bounces off the grid or disappears altogether. I have tried this on mulitple different texture from mutliple different folders. I have also started several new maps getting the same result.

[Excend]

Hmm, I'm not really sure I can picture what you are describing. "Bounces off the grid"? Can you make share before and after screenshots?

[Damaricus]

The issue resolved itself after I shut the software down and came back to it the next day. It's working great now. Must have been a glitch with the original instance.

[Excend]

Well I'm glad to hear it's working now!

[Kockaspiton]

I had exactly the same problem and exactly the same solution. When I first launched the program and put down a ground rectangle, when I tired to add a new one the older one was stuck to the cursor. Also ctrl+z and zooming did some wonky stuff. It seems like a minor annoyance, but I almost went for a refund because I tought it would persist, now I'm glad that I didn't.

[Lindsey]

I have experienced this problem, and it's exponentially worse the larger your map/the more elements displayed.

[Excend]

Originally posted by Lindsey:

I have experienced this problem, and it's exponentially worse the larger your map/the more elements displayed.

In sounds like the issue these two are describing only persisted with their initial run of DPS, and it sounds like your issue has persisted past that. So perhaps you are describing something slightly different. Can you please give specific examples of what you're experiencing and when it occurs?

[Havick]

I am trying to rescale something using the button in the upper left hand corner. When I initially hit the scale button a black dot appears (only) in the upper left corner of the object and when I left click the mouse, the object centers on the dot and when I move the mouse the whole object moves but does not resize.

[pyro]

Originally posted by Havick:

I am trying to rescale something using the button in the upper left hand corner. When I initially hit the scale button a black dot appears (only) in the upper left corner of the object and when I left click the mouse, the object centers on the dot and when I move the mouse the whole object moves but does not resize.

To scale objects you may use the slider in the top toolbar when creating or in edit mode.
The scale tool works with control points of figures, objects have only one control point,
so it does not affect them. It is designed to scale entire rooms and affect the walls and the floors,
ordinary objects simply move around.
Imagine, you drew a room 10x10, arranged furniture in it,
and then realized that it is too cramped, so you may select the whole room and all elements it contained in and scale it to 12x14.

[Darcwave]

Ive had the same issue just using the puddle tool. I put down a bottom layer for a map. When I edit it and try to pull the points I put down it shifts the entire texture outta whack and not just the point I was adjusting.

[Caboosir]

I have this issue as well. It has persisted pass a restart of the program. Continues to persist, it is only by chance of luck that I get it to go away. Items will magically teleport to another section of the grid. I find it happens more frequently after I GROUP a section layers together.

Otherwise I have also found that if I haver a LOT of layers that it can cause them to essentially make a jiggsaw puzzle for me. It is very frustrating after you spend a few hours setting up one section to have it disappear.

CTRL-Z has saved my progress on some of it... others haver become soo ruined I've had to start over from scratch. Or even just disappeared. I feel that the way this is going this is a bug in the program, nothing any one person is doing.

[Excend]

First thing I'd like to note is that we have two or maybe three active issues being discussed in this topic right now, so saying "I have this issue as well" is a bit confusing.

Originally posted by The8BitzChef:

Ive had the same issue just using the puddle tool. I put down a bottom layer for a map. When I edit it and try to pull the points I put down it shifts the entire texture outta whack and not just the point I was adjusting.

Are you talking about using the scale tool with the puddle? Or just normal edit mode on a layer?

Originally posted by Caboose:

I have this issue as well. It has persisted pass a restart of the program. Continues to persist, it is only by chance of luck that I get it to go away. Items will magically teleport to another section of the grid. I find it happens more frequently after I GROUP a section layers together.

Otherwise I have also found that if I haver a LOT of layers that it can cause them to essentially make a jiggsaw puzzle for me. It is very frustrating after you spend a few hours setting up one section to have it disappear.

CTRL-Z has saved my progress on some of it... others haver become soo ruined I've had to start over from scratch. Or even just disappeared. I feel that the way this is going this is a bug in the program, nothing any one person is doing.

It's certtainly a bug, but to find what's causing the bug Pyro needs to understand what people do to encounter the bug so he can reproduce it and then debug it.

[slumberjack]

Originally posted by Incendiary:

It's certtainly a bug, but to find what's causing the bug Pyro needs to understand what people do to encounter the bug so he can reproduce it and then debug it.

I have the referenced issue above as well (Caboose's), Its difficult to say what I as a user am doing to spawn this bug, as it feels less like triggering an event and more like some sort of threshold is breached with continued use. That's what it feels like. It happens with complex maps, specifically maps with more than a handful of grouped folders. Sometimes restarting can temporarily fix the issue, but with diminishing returns.

I can corroborate on the symptoms as well. I'd be happy to share my latest save file that clearly demonstrates this issue.
https://gyazo.com/557dfc15d45a8c4c53707b0d94ceefb3

Case A

What I did: tried to use Wall Line tool to draw a segment perpendicular to the "C"s.
What happened: Nothing

What I noticed:
• Earlier, when this was happening elsewhere in the map, I noticed that it was easier to get vertices to "stick" if the space i clicked was not yet covered with any other elements.
  
• This led to me clicking around to find suitably unoccupied spaces, then moving the vertices after the fact. Interestingly, this led to an issue described above: if another object was previously selected, it would move in time with the vertices I was actually focused on. Deselecting everything shortly helped, but eventually it seemed like whatever controlled what was selected broke down.
  
• here are some screenshots i just took, click-by-click, demonstrating what areas i was able to successful put a vertice on. As you'll see in the sequential pic, moving these vertices can also have ...interesting effects. https://gyazo.com/8428d71bead10d6a0bf6f44b94cbb6fe https://gyazo.com/126790ce7dd9e8a44484cf328a200c9b https://gyazo.com/d31738e6ae71ee391069fb5442ac3b7b

Case B

This occurred in the process of capturing the first screencap.When I opened my save just now, the lower "C" thing was about 10 squares lower, and i certainly did not leave it there. When i moved it to the place seen in the screenshot initially, it disappeared. I've found through use of the program that (upon zooming out) I can usually see the wayward element somewhere on the peripery of my design. After it disappeared, I hit CTRL+Z, and it is where it is in the photo, where i meant to place it.

[Excend]

I think some sort of threshold deal is a valid hypothesis, and thank you for all your details. I would recommend sending that map to Pyro and seeing if he is able to reproduce these things using that map.

Although, I wonder, if it is a threshold type event, then it might be tied to system specifications. We will see what Pyro has to say about it.

[Darcwave]

Im not sure what triggered it in my case. I created an object using the polygon tool. Then it was like I could not deselect the layer that was below it. Whatever action I did next it would move around the bottom layer. Restarting my computer seemed to fix the issue and I havent encountered it again yet.