Missing Secrets UDB.

[DarkIceCyclone]

Hello!

 

I've been trying to fix my horribly hilarious first release of a map and I've ran into a pickle: I can't seem to find 3 secrets even in the Ultimate Doom Builder. According to game, there should be 8 of them, but I can only find 5 that are supposed to be there. So the question is, how do you find the ones in the map editing tool itself?

 

Using UDMF since ironicly it's simpler to use and has a more complete tutorial on youtube.

Edited October 24, 2021 by DarkIceCyclone
Added a small fact.

[Egg Boy]

2 minutes ago, DarkIceCyclone said:

Hello!

 

I've been trying to fix my horribly hilarious first release of a map and I've ran into a pickle: I can't seem to find 3 secrets even in the Ultimate Doom Builder. According to game, there should be 8 of them, but I can only find 5 that are supposed to be there. So the question is, how do you find the ones in the map editing tool itself?

 

Using UDMF since ironicly it's simpler to use and has a more complete tutorial on youtube.

you likely have multiple sectors tagged "secret" within other secrets.

[DarkIceCyclone]

24 minutes ago, Egg Boy said:

you likely have multiple sectors tagged "secret" within other secrets.

That's kinda the problem, as far as I'm aware of, I don't. I'll keep hunting. I did have a crash before this though, when I was detailing some parts of the map. 

 

Edit: issue found. Apparently one of the sectors decided to be 4x4 stairs sector in the corner of the map.... god

Edited October 25, 2021 by DarkIceCyclone

[Not Jabba]

You can use the Find and Replace tool to find them (under the Mode drop-down menu in the main toolbar). It may depend on how you set the secrets (line action, sector effect, item flag, etc.), but I think all are searchable. I work in UDMF and set my secrets using sector effects, so I would open the tool, set the search type to Sector Effect, and search for effect 1024 (generalized effect, secret = Yes, nothing else selected).

[DarkIceCyclone]

cheers, will keepo in mind

[Nevander]

Also keep in mind in UDMF things can be tagged secret too.

[Kan3]

Usually this happens to me when I tag a thing as a secret and then I forget to unckeck it for the next thing I place, so that I often find myself in a map with dozens of secrets.
To "repair", I Select every thing in the map (deselecting the ones that have to be secrets), rightclick and, if there are any secret tagged actor, unceck the secret tag