Pile of Lines

[zephyr]

I have a level I had left unedited for a couple of years that I came back to using Doom Builder 2. It plays just fine. No errors. But whenever I opened it up for editing its just a series of random lines.

http://tinypic.com/r/rm38r7/5 <- Example

Is there any way I can recover this level?

[Melon]

Looks to me like you've opened it up in the wrong format. Is it vanilla Doom, or Doom in Hexen format or one of the others? If you're not sure, just try them all until it works.

[Bloodshedder]

You've opened up a Hexen-format map as Doom format.

[Gez]

That seems likely, the lines are not defined on the same number of bytes so if the map is read as the wrong format the wrong values will be interpreted. See this and this for more information.

[zephyr]

thanks you were right. i can't believe i didn't even think of that. been a while.