New to Spark, Prop window not showing?

StixNStonz

Hey,

Long time NS1 mapper turned professional, utterly addicted to NS2 and thinking of starting a map. I booted up the editor and started on a basic tutorial, but when I click the Create A Prop button, no new window pops up / out. All the other buttons seem to pop out their windows just fine. I did an NS2 steam Verify Cache and it's still happening. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Stix


**EDIT FOR FIX:

Mendsasp fixed it! By pasting this directly into Windows Explorer bar:

%appdata%\Natural Selection 2\Editor\

and deleting options.xml, that returned the editor to default and the window showed up. I'm assuming that a link broke when I moved my Steam directory. Yay for solutions!

DarkSeraph

From the menu when you have selected the Create a Prop button: Window -> Prop Browser should be checked

Let us know if that's not it.

StixNStonz

Yep, that's checked. Unchecking and re-checking it does nothing either.

StixNStonz

One thing is that my Steam directory moved from C:/Program Files/ etc to a different drive. Can't remember if that was before or after NS2 installed, but either way, maybe the Props directory lookup has a bad link? Any way I can check that?

DarkSeraph

I was hoping someone else would help, since I have no bright ideas left. At this point I'd just reinstall and pray that works.

StixNStonz

Tried reinstall. Still no prop viewer.
Sooooooo... guess I won't be making an awesome NS2 map?

DarkSeraph

We must be overlooking something, I'm just not sure what it is. Maybe show a screenshot of you with the prop 'pulled up' (and not showing)?

Also make sure that it isn't just 2 pixel wide on the right side - see if you can pull a divider outwards.

Mendasp

You can get your editor back to default if you go to %appdata%\Natural Selection 2\Editor\ and delete options.xml

StixNStonz

Yeah, Dark, I tried that a bit, hoping ti was just off to the side or something. Hell, maybe I have to plug in my second monitor and it'll be on there (I recently moved and haven't plugged it back in yet, but my desktop isn't set to extend, and I haven't opened Spark proper in years).

Thanks for the link Mendasp, I'll try that out.

StixNStonz

The options.xml wasn't there (didn't have an appdata directory, nor a /editor dir), but a search did find it in some buried folder of all numbers. Opened and saw NS2 stuff. Deleted that and still, no difference.

What. The. Shit.

Muzzzy

Are you sure you typed "%appdata%" right? (with the mod signs).

DarkSeraph

I have Win 7 and mine is located in C:/Users/<USERNAME>/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Editor/

Make sure you have hidden folders/files visible or you wont see AppData folder.

Mendasp

If you copy paste what I posted in Explorer it will get you to the correct folder.

StixNStonz

WHUUUUUT ok it worked. I thought you meant that AppData was under Steam and the search found nothing. I didn't realize you could paste it directly in and do its own search thing.

Crazy. Thanks guys

Fivz

You should totally make ns_nexus again. guess who this is.