Feral Heart
Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: fireflye97 on November 16, 2014, 01:48:18 pm
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Hi everyone! I may be a mapmaker, but I'm still a little new to the system. Recently, I took on a request that wanted the map to be really large. (Like 20000 to 400000 or something like that...) but I have a huge problem with that. I use GIMP and of course I put the image size to 513 x 513. But when I go to FH and try to make the terrain bigger, the game crashes. Can someone please tell me how to make larger maps please?
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The width should be able to reach quite far, but the second field for height I'm not certain copes 400 000. Not even maps like Ascension island has that much, maybe it's a typo but even 40 000 in height is quite massive. Try something more reasonable like 1000 maybe even less.
Try to do smaller size increases on the width instead of just one huge leap, place a tree or something on each end and run through the map yourself so you can grasp just the mere size of it and then see if it's big enough for you.
It was a while ago since I did this but I think my game crashes of a 999 thousand width sized map. Game cannot really handle it well, I honestly do not know how the game would react just to a map in the 99k sizes with a heightmap on top of it either, neither do I see any use of having a map any bigger than 25 000-40 000 since the details in the heightmap just becomes big ditches or hills. Unless you just want empty space to run around on that is.
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Thanks for the help Red, but it seems that my game can't handle anything above 513 x 513, so I'm just going to have to work with what I got.
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That's the size of the heightmap image, not the size of the map Floofie.
You do not change the map size by increasing this image, it's done within the map maker after you add the heightmap image.
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Oh my gosh.... I'm sorry, I'm tired, I feel like a complete idiot XD Thanks Red.