Feral Heart
Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: cookiesincrem on December 18, 2013, 10:58:02 pm
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Okay, so I've made my terrain and mask for a map I'm making, but when I put it in mapmaker, FH shuts down. Anybody know why this is happening and how to fix it???
Please help quickly! My pack is waiting :) Thanks!
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What program are you using to make the terrain? GIMP? Photoshop?
Make sure your heightmap meets these requirements:
- 513x513
- Grayscale mode, using grey colours won't work
- One layer only
- .png format
- No alpha channel
- Is saved as MAPNAMETerrain.png
- No transparency
Try following this tutorial:
http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=17452.0 (http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=17452.0)
Let me know if you need any more assistance :)
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I'm using GIMP, but what is an alpha channel? Other than that, my height map meets all the requirements you listed.
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By pressing and holding CTRL L on your keyboard you are able to remove the alpha channel (if there is one) through your layers menu. Right click the heightmap layer, which should be the only one there and there should be an option called 'Remove Alpha Channel'. If that option isn't available then don't worry, there isn't an alpha channel to remove.
With the later versions of GIMP you have to Export the image as a .png instead of saving it. Are you doing that? A message might appear asking you to export or flatten the image. Click Export and a box like this will appear:
(http://i47BannedImageSite/1z4bsl1.png)
Click Load Defaults and then click Export again. Make sure you're saving it in your Feralheart >> Media >> Terrains >> MapName's folder. When you load it into Map Maker make sure you include all capitals, spaces and symbols. Whatever your image name is just type it in exactly and don't forget the .png at the end.
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Yay it worked :D Thanks ^-^
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You're welcome, glad I could help :)