Editor Weirdness

[malthaussen]

I have been fooling around with the WITE editor. Just bought the latest edition, since my old laptop won't actually run WITE 2. I've been having some unexpected results.

1) I tried to make a new leader. Followed the manual (not that it's hard to do), saved the scenario, and when I load the scenario back up, the leader is not there.
2) Okay, maybe you can't add leaders. I chose an extant leader and modified his name/ratings. Saved the scenario, but when I load it back up, it reverts to what it was. Likewise if I start a new game with the scenario.

3) Even more weirdness: I added a unit to the German OOB. Placed it on map, saved scenario. Started scenario and am playing it now. Cool, that works, right?

4) Except when I load the scenario file now, the unit is gone. WTAF?

5) I should mention that I made a copy of the scenario I intended to fool with, made the changes in that copy, but when I save the changes, the original scenario is altered, not the copy! Except, of course, it appears not to be altered at all (but how come my added unit worked -- once?) I cannot actually alter the copy of the scenario, which seems... odd?

At my wit's end (not that that is hard). What am I doing wrong? Be gentle.

-- Mal

[Denniss]

either make those changes in generic data to keep them or lock generic data for this scenario so these changes are locally saved.

[malthaussen]

Interesting. Creating leaders in Generic Data does work, they show up in the Scenario Editor and can be used. But if created in the Scenario Editor, they don't save.

Creating units in Generic Data seems not to work, but now I can create them in the Scenario Editor. And I've loaded the editor and scenario several times, the changes still take.

Which still makes me wonder how I lost the first unit I created.

Weird, but whatever works, right?

-- Mal

[Denniss]

If you load a scenario and change leader this will not be saved unless the generic data is locked for this scenario.
Changes made wth generic data loaded will save and affect all non-locked scenarios