Having Custom Map Issues?

[Dem0ncat]

Hey there. I am having serious issues, and I've been working at this for about two and a half hours now. I've also looked at other threads, and haven't gotten a solution. So my next best bet [Which was against my will] Was to come to the forum and ask.

Alright. Let's get to business.
First of all, I AM NOT
I REPEAT
NOT
Good at coding/custom-making things.
Whether it be Feral Heart, Dragon's Den, Everquest, I can't do any of this.

I made this map. Now it's time for you to really think here.
I've got my portal in my map. All dandy. I spawn right where I should, and when I go into test, There's a disk-shaped cloud thing (Most likely representing the portal to Cape.)
When I jump at this portal, The narrow bar at the bottom right says:
fhCapeOfWorlds 7575 595 3430;177

Don't know what any of that means BUT-

My map WILL NOT appear in Cape. Nowhere.
Notta.
I have exported my file already, it appears in 'exports' as it should.

I tried placing 7575 595 3430;177 in my Gate Destination under the Objects Tab. And yes-- 'Has Portal' Is checked in my Map tab, with the coordinates of where the portal should appear on my custom map.

With or without 7575 595 3430;177 in my Gate Destination, the map will not appear anywhere in Cape of Distant Worlds.

Is there something I'm screwin' up here???
I've also tried putting the .fhm file in Terrains where- I kid you not, turned it into a Notepad file. So honestly I'm just about ready to walk away.

Also, whenever I test, the character falls through the platform. Is there something that can be done about that also??

To be truthful, I wouldn't be surprised if I broke my game or something, but thank you so much for the assistance. You don't understand how much I appreciate it.

[Hakumi]

Wow, this seems like the interesting case.
Are you sure you're placing everything in the correct places and that your files are matching up correctly? There's probably some bugs with the files and you might to do a fresh one. The files may not have exported into the game correctly.

[Enoki]

Ah, I think ye got the gates n'portal mixed up. Gates are f'er connecting other custom maps together. There is only one portal in the map and it leads ye back to Cape. What most likely the issue is that ye 'ave y'er gate set up like the portal and the real portal is outside the map barrier waiting f'er ye to put it inside.

Also, be sure to check real carefully f'er the map portal. The new update has changed the portal appearance and has made it very translucent, so it may be hard to find. The portals will be located on the cliff-like structure, not on the bar-like mounds ye see when ye first enter.

Hope this helps. If not, let me know and I'll try to figure out what's going on in y'er map.

[Dem0ncat]

[Shrug] Like I said, I have no idea how any of this works.

All of the threads I've looked at said that you need a gate to connect A custom map to Cape.

I just don't know why there is no portal in Cape for me to get to the custom map.

[Dem0ncat]

[my stupid computer double-posted.]

[Wish I could get rid of this post. I feel horrible now.]

[Enoki]

[Shrug] Like I said, I have no idea how any of this works.

All of the threads I've looked at said that you need a gate to connect A custom map to Cape.

I just don't know why there is no portal in Cape for me to get to the custom map.

Nope, ye just need the portal (the one that ye check off "Has Portal [ ]"). Gates aren't needed unless ye plan on making it a map pack with multiple linked maps. The portal options should be found on the first tab in the map maker. Try adding in y'er coordinates and arrival yaw info to the portal and see if that fixes y'er issue.

[Dem0ncat]

Nope.
All it did was delete my whole map.


Well ain't this just peachy.

[Wyldercat]

I'm not too great with maps, so I don't have TOO much to offer, but maybe try exporting it again, or checking the name to make sure you won't confuse it with another portal?

Seems like an awful issue and I hope it fixes good fer you.

[Dem0ncat]

Thank you all for the help.

But my game has eaten itself and won't even start up anymore.

It just keeps??

Crashing??


Well so much for working on a map all day.

[Enoki]

Nope.
All it did was delete my whole map.


Well ain't this just peachy.

Um, I'm not quite sure how ye managed to pull that off. Ye shouldn't 'ave been able to delete the map by adding in a portal and deleting an unnecessary gate. Actually, ye shouldn't be able to delete a map at all just by working with it in map maker. 'Twould require going into the files and manually deleting a map folder.

Can ye explain further what happened? The map is probably still there.

Thank you all for the help.

But my game has eaten itself and won't even start up anymore.

It just keeps??

Crashing??


Well so much for working on a map all day.

Ah, just check y'er particles folder f'er copies. What's most likely happened is that when ye exported last, it added doubles of certain particle files. This causes FH to crash. So just delete those and start it up again.

Also, did ye exit y'er game and start it up again when ye went to go check f'er the portal in Cape? This could be why ye didn't see it. Try heading to Cape and checking to see if 'tis there now that ye had to restart FH.