Bug: Custom Placeables appear/disapear randomly

• Version found: 1.0.1008.0
• Status: Open

Description

Custom Placeables appear/disappear randomly from the game between area exports from the Toolset. Sometimes when opening an area in the toolset an error message is printed in the log "E: 16:31:34 - Could not get the name for the appearance: Resource "keystone.utp", Tag "keystone".". Usually restarting the Toolset will make the error to go away but it's usual that a placeable doesn't appear in the game evenif there were no errors during export. Sometimes everything is working perfectly fine. Also the same error is sometimes displayed for Creatures using a custom appearance.

The problem will only appear with custom placeables/appearances those are brought to the toolset using the 2DA "system" like placeable_types_myplaceables.GDA or APR_myappearances.GDA. I would presume that the Toolset somehow fails to collect and combine all these GDAs.

If the Toolset manage to export everything properly, I don't recall seeing anything to disappear from the game when restarting or reloading a saved game. I am aware of that some modifications doesn't appear in the game unless restart the module from a "clean table". But that's not the problem here.

Workarounds

Restarting the Toolset before exporting anything will reduce the frequency of the problem and improves a chance of successful export.

This may well be a special case of the M2DA dropdown bug. Close the toolset as soon as the error message is encountered, and export the resource affected again on reopening.