If you are talking about Neroxis generated maps, I worked through this the other day with the help of Arma and a handful of other folks (thanks guys!). I have a bat file that renames the folder/files, find/replaces the file content references, and hex edits the scmap all in one go. It does everything Arma listed for you. MadMax, you have to edit the scmap or the map doesn't load correctly once you launch a game on it. Textures do not load.
If you follow Arma's steps, you should be good to go.
@arma473 Ah, thanks! I was missing step 9 since I was too lazy to open the file in a hex editor.
I don't want anyone to go out of their way to really do anything about this. I think I am a pretty fringe case in my desire to play sandbox on generated maps. Thanks for all the info though as it is pretty interesting to know how the map files, lua files, and .scmap files all work together.
@sheikah In my use case, I don't want to keep a document of map names and have to launch the faf client to re-generate a map simply to play solo in sandbox mode. It is way easier to keep the local files and bypass the faf client completely, launching the game executable and loading a map in skirmish.
The client did zap it the next time it was closed after it was renamed back. At least now I know it is the client that is removing the folders, so I can work around it. Thanks everyone!
Ah, okay - thanks guys. I tried renaming the files (first just the folder name, then all files in the folder) but the client cannot correctly load the map after renaming things. But, I think I have a few permutations of renaming that I could try. Worse case, I could copy the files to some place safe and then move them back when wanting to play them in sandbox mode. I could write a quick bat file to handle it.
Tangentially related to "saving Neroxis maps": Is there a way to prevent the Mapgen maps from being "purged" from the local map folder? They seem to stick around for a while and then vanish.
I like this idea as well, especially for players with hearing disabilities - it would make a nice QoL improvement.
I wanted to come back and update this thread for others who may have this issue. I was only able to log in by downloading Firefox and setting it as my default browser. Once I did that, it successfully authenticated me. Things to note:
Hey Blackfox, what is in the error details?
By default, I use Chrome. However I changed my default browser to Edge to try to resolve the issue with no success. I rebooted in between changing the default browser, just to make sure, with no success.
Edit: I am at work at the moment, but it dawns on me that because I am part of the Windows Insider Program, my OS has updated to Windows 11 22H2 before the update's feature release this autumn. I believe this update happened only a handful of days ago. If I had to place bets on what is causing me to have login issues, I would put money on that. I could remove myself from the Program and roll back Windows to pre-22H2 as a test. Or, perhaps I could try to understand what changed. It could be that others will experience this problem when the update rolls out later this year so maybe I can give the dev team a leg up on incoming issues.
How did you fix this? I updated my client and cannot get past this error. I've reinstalled, uninstalled, restarted, installed again, etc.