I spent what I consider to be a large amount of time on what I thought was going to be just a fun new layout on the 'Tidal' canvas last night. A 30 minute forging jaunt turned into an 8 hour marathon. I fell in love with my new map, it has ziplines, it has castles, sunken ships, awesome caves, modded weapons. I was loving my new map. Then disaster struck. I went to load a custom game... It never loads. Just crashes to menu, over, and over and over. Now I know they said the lighting took a long time, but they said it would sort itself out. I hope 343 patch this soon.
It is basically timing out because of the load. When you are at the black screen with the rotating circle in the bottom left, that is the time that the game is baking the lighting. Unfortunately, right now the lighting will not sort it self out, there is a surface on the canvas itself that is currently receiving high resolution shadows causing an enormous lightmap to be generated for it. That is something that 343's forge design team will have to go in an fix.
Hope they fix it soon, releasing a canvas that is unplayable is strange but I guess they needed to have something for the update? I'll keep working on others for now.
Think anyone could try my file to see if it may work on your box? 'Wreckage' GT - LoTuS If it doesn't load in custom games for anyone else I guess waiting for the ever so slow 343 update train to roll by is my only choice.
Spawn about 100 lights away from your map, by doing this you are over writing the lighting aka making it crash. After dropping 100 or so and then try to generate light. If you put enough down you wont be able to generate light. Then it will load in a custom with out generating light.
Life-effing-saver. I will trying this in the morning. Thank you SaLoT! Making it playable will be great for the time.
I feel you, I'm working on a new map called Koutetsujou, and I'm only about 200 objects in and it takes 7 minutes to bake lights -.- and then it has 70/30 chance of just dying. The other night I lost progress because it went crazy during baking, so much so it returned to the main menu saying 'couldn't join match' and bugged the menu, so I couldn't press back, and it also distorted the main menu, I had to hard reset DX
I spent about an hour yesterday working on a racetrack. I forgot about the bug, and tried to bake lighting without saving first. All that work just went up in a puff of smoke.
I know its too late but you can actually still save a map if it wont generate lighting and its stuck. While its blacked out you can still hit start go down one and press A. By doing that you pause go down one from Resume to Save. Even though you never saved as it'll just save as "tidal". Unfortunately its too late but you can still save when this happens