Feral Heart
Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Kittycatty on October 31, 2012, 10:37:30 am
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Sorry i think this has been asked before once or twice but when I searched it I didn't get any results.
I recently exported a new map, and whenever I open feralheart it crashes seconds later. I made a restore point on my comp. just before exporting my map, so I CAN restore it, but I'd perfer not to. I can't re-install feralheart. What do I do to fix feralheart? I've opened it 3 times now and the same thing keeps happening. Can someone help me?
Once the problem is fixed this poll may be locked ;)
Oh and 1 more thing, I have exported maps before, but this is the first time my feralheart keeps crashing
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Make sure when you edited it was possibly a 513x513 greyscale image. If it was something different it won't work - You also need to make sure your editing software supports Greyscale :) And that there is only one layer. (Merging layers/flattening layers is still the same, it won't work) I use GIMP, so there's not much to say about that xD Just be sure to double check. :3
~Kash
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Yeah I used Greyscale and it only had one layer :/
(and it was 513x513)
In the map maker it was VERY laggy so maybe that has somnething to do with it?
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Did it have many items?
Or maybe this has something to do with the game itself, because since there are SO many members around now, the FH coding might have got confused and probably can't deal with the exports. Maybe that's the case..
But otherwise, this happened to me before - and it was 513x513 greyscale. This happens to lots of members actually.. I'm not positively sure what happened though. So maybe you should swim around the boards and see if there was an answer on how to deal with this problem (there is quite a lot of help boards about this problem, so you'll PROBABLY find an answer. x3)
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I think your problem is the exporting bug with particles.
Check your FH/Media/Particles and your FH/Media/Objects/My_Objects folders for any double particle files.
They will have _0 or _1 tacked on to the end. Delete any duplicates.
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@Kashii-Spazz
In my map I had used all of the feralheart items (that you get when downloading feralheart), the 'Noobplants", WombatAnimalPack, and some food pack (all made by Jayfeather55)
And I did use those in my last map. The only difference is, that I used a custom terrain made by a friend. (I got the terrain when downloading their map then I put it into terrains. Then when I was making my map, I saw (ex: grass_7) in my terrains in the map maker.) Maybe I should copy my feralheart folder, put it on my pendrive, and then delete the old folder then re-install feralheart? I've uploaded my map on mediafire so I can re-download my own map if needed XD
@CloudFish
No I looked in my particles file (just like you said) and there was only:
-aura (material file)
-aura.particle (particle file)
-splash (png file)
-star (png file)
-water (material file)
-water.particle (particle file)
-watersmoke (png file)
So what do I do?
Oh, and when I re-install feralheart will I have to add all the meshes back into the map maker?
EDIT: Oh! I think I found the answer! One person just posted something about using custom terrains. They said that when they used a terrain a friend gave them, It screwed up their fh and they had to re-install. I guess thats what I have to do.
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Oh haha, well good luck! If you need/still want all your terrains/objects, etc. then just save the folder as Feral-Heart and copy-paste them back in. xD
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Oh no I deleted the old feralheart folder, then I re-installed feralheart, put everything from the old folder into the new fokder yet it still crashes!!!! ;(
Maybe I can try deleting my map :(
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:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( Nope still didn't work :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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D: ... Well.. I suggest searching for doubles once more, like CloudFish said? And also - wait umm... I'll test the map maker out for you so if I find any problems, I'll find out how to fix it and tell you.
(Because the same stuff happens to me)
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OK thank you :D
Oh, and I found out u can access maps from FH plus, (because they have CapeOfDistant worlds there)
But, Since its the map that screwed up my fh (thats what I think at least) then what if it messes up FH+ too? OoO
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Check your my_objects folder also, they are usually here.
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Well I looked in my My_Objects folder, and I found these:
(I had downloaded JayFeather55's CityMeshPack, WombatAnimalPack, and the NoobPlants pack+ some things from FH+ a long time ago)
[exact order]
>acaciaBark
>acaciaLeaf
>acaciaLeafYellow
>>acaciaTree (material file)
>acaciaTree.mesh
>AurlentAnimals.fho
>AurlentDens.fho
>AurlentPlants.fho
>barell(png)
>barell_n(png)
>barell02(png)
>barell03(png)
>barell001.mesh
>barell002.mesh
>barell003.mesh
>barell005.mesh
>barell006.mesh
>barell004.mesh
Oh man there are ALOT more so I don't think I can type them all XD
I scrolled through my_objects yet I mostly saw png files, materail files, .mesh files, .fho files and a couple Irvan View TGA files. I'm not exactly sure what a TGA file is, but I think the only diffrence between TGA and PNG is that you have to double-click TGA files to view them because they don't give a preview (with one click) like PNG files do. Oh and there was also one GLWeather.particle file. I didn't see any messed up numbers or numbers that repeated themselves so... What do I do now Cloud? :(
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Wait, do you mean objects or terrain textures? o_O
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just do a search in windows explorer for particles in your my_object folders to be sure, if not, there's something else that can be tried, though it'll be long and lengthyish
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Sorry guys but I'm getting confused XD
@CloudFish
You mean I should search it in google? Oh or do you mean I should click the windows icon and type into the search box where you can look for programs on your computer? But what do I type?
@Kashii-Spazz
The things I listed were in my_objects folder.
I used a custom terrain in my map. (I also deleted my map and some of the things connected to the map from my FH exports so I don't know why i still can't open FH :/
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i am meaning, if you are using windows, on the bottom of your screen, against the startbar, you should see an icon of some folders; this is windows explorer. open it up and navigate to your feral heart's my_objects folder and in the right hand corner should be a search tool. type into this "particle" and see if any pops up.
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OH ok! :D
So I searched "particle" in the search bar when I got to the feralheart folder like you said and got this:
1.A folder called particles
{inside the folder: -aura (material file)
-aura.particle (particle file)
-splash (png file)
-star (png file)
-water (material file)
-water.particle (particle file)
-watersmoke (png file) }
2.weather_0.particle
3.weather_1.particle
4.weather_2.particle
5.weather_3.particle
6.Particles.fho
7.GLWeather.particle
8.Rawr's Particles.fho
9.water.particle
10.aura.particle
11.Plugin_ParticleFX.dll
12.weather.particle
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xD Oh sorry, I'm a dumbcookie.
Do you mean heightmap /terrain/ or a terrain /texture/?
If it's terrain textures that you list with your mask, make sure the texture is a 512x512 .jpg RGB color image that was saved in terrains >> textures. :3
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2.weather_0.particle
3.weather_1.particle
4.weather_2.particle
5.weather_3.particle
delete those ones
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OK thanks cloud!!!! I'll do that now
@Kashii-Spazz
For my Terrain map that I made in gimp it was 513x513, no layers, greyscale, no masks
For the ground texture in the map maker I used some custom grass from a friend called grass_07 (I deleted it from my exports already)
EDIT: OH THANK YOU CLOUDFISH!!!!!! IT works! :D I was able to open FH ^^
Thanks so much guys for your help :)
PS: Should I put my map stuff back in my exports? (the parts I deleted that belonged to LOST <----the map with the custom terrain)
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Yes, but remember to be careful because duplicates can cause problems again :3
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Ok I will have to re-download my map at some point though, (because I deleted it by accedent XD) but I think I'll wait a week or so because I don't wanna mess my FH up again ^^
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Hehe alright, you should download a different FeralHeart as a backup.
And PS: If you uploaded your map by Mediafire, I suggest downloading the map now because it has limits, and once your upload reaches the time limit, MF will remove it and you'll have to upload it again.
There is no way to fix this.
There is also no way to get it back either once it reaches the limit.
Useless uploader is what I say. x3