Feral Heart
Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Ravensmourn on January 29, 2013, 03:50:22 am
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Well, I made my first map terrain and mask, I went into FH and made the map so I would have the file to save them in. I then saved the mask and terrain into that file under (what I think) is the right name, they were saved as glenTerrain.png and glenMask.png. I thought it odd that I didnt get the usual "export this" message, but didnt think much of it and continued starting up FH to add in my new fancy map features. As soon as I typed in the terrain's name the game froze then said exsactly this: "FeralHeart.exe has stopped working". From that point the only option is to shut down the game. All I really want to know is why this is happening, and if there is a possible solution I can perform on my end. It is just so unsavory having flat ground or some rolling hills from watermill. Thank you for any help.
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Make sure that your terrain and mask are the following:
- 513x513
- Greyscale Mode (Terrain) || RGB Mode (Mask)
- Saved as .png
- One layer
- Saved in your Terrain folder, perhaps in your map's folder.
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Double checked, everything is right according to what you said. It is still not wanting to let me type the name in though. I can type in the watermill's name but not mine.
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What program are you using to make your map terrain and mask in? For example, I'm using GIMP :)
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Same, it is my favorite art-ish program.
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Maybe following a youtube video would help :)
Terrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW06Rat6lq0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW06Rat6lq0)
Mask Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HLjeownUs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HLjeownUs)
Mask Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm59FCy4NJ4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm59FCy4NJ4)
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Greetings, me and my friend stumbled upon your issue with this. If you are using GIMP 2.8 version, you cannot save the terrain as a png file. You have to click export then click more options (I think that's what it's called) scroll down and look for .png click that export and then export again.
Then, once you make sure it's by the name whatever you wish and then Terrain.png. If that still fails make sure it is greyscale, 513x513 hope this helps. I'll be by your side trying to help. xD I know how you feel, the same thing happened to me
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I'm having this same problem, I've double checked, even triple checked that it is .png, greyscale, 513x513, 1 layer and it is in the right folder and I'm using GIMP, but FH still crahes when I try to access the terrain
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If your game crashes when you enter the name of the image you simply didn't save it correctly, even if you triple checked. Make sure you follow the tutorials properly especially when it comes to saving the image and regarding the usage of layers since a heightmap must be flattened, layers also cause crashes.
Here's yet another video of this even though 3 already posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO8tyhSQPU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO8tyhSQPU)
If you still cannot get it right, the most fail proof way to turn your image into a working one is to.
1. Save the image as a .jpg
2. Load the .jpg only in the editing program of choice.
3. Save the .jpg as a .png
4. Load the NEW .png in FH.
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I've had this happen too and it was caused by alpha channel sneaking in.
You could check: layers tab ->Transparency ->Remove alpha channel