Feral Heart

My situation with Feralheart on my home computer at the moment is frustrating me to the point of breaking the keyboard.

During December our computer [home] was attacked by a nasty virus known as CryptoLocker, that basically locks every single file you own for a certain number of days and ransoms them for an unholy amount of money. If you do not pay, your files will be deleted. Our ransom was $300 dollars. R 3000 to me. Enough to buy a new tower.

My mother [and god knows what she's done] managed to fix the problem by downloading a series of different virus software and such. The computer works perfectly now. However. Feralheart refuses.

I have completely deleted all the files present to do with Feralheart that were around before the virus hit. I redownloaded the torrents and installed Feralheart. All files downloaded well but when it came to actually being on the game there was a highly irritating issue. I could only scroll through 5 of my characters. The first one I see, 2 left and 2 right. Not 4 left or else the game would shut down. This is after reinstalling the game completely!

I got over it. Using my laptop but now there is a new issue. Map making. I need my home computer to do this because it is easier for me. So again today I decided to try Feralheart. Yet again I could only scroll through 5 of my characters, however if I logged onto one of those 5 characters I could go into the game itself and be there for a maximum of 3 minutes before the entire computer crashed!

Annoyed beyond belief I cleared my harddrive and reinstalled the game again. It will not allow me to install DirectX. As well as AVG popping up telling me that Feralheart is a threat to my computer. I removed the threat, redownloaded Feralheart [still won't download DirectX] and logged on. FINALLY I am capable of scrolling through all of my characters and logging on without a problem. However. Yet again I lasted 3 minutes and the computer restarted.

This ONLY occurs when Feralheart is used. The computer never restarts unless I try use Feralheart and every single game I have [other than Guild Wars 2 which frankly did the same thing even before the virus] never acts up.

I'm beyond peeved and want to know how I can fix this problem without having to take my harddrive in for fixing which I frankly do not have the money for. Or having it wiped [meaning deleting EVERYTHING].

Please, if you can help me...

I'd really appreciate it.

PS: If you recommend I redownload the game. I will be waiting under your bed with a machete. IT DOES NOT WORK.

Just as a general question I want to know how many people do this, you're not a bad person if you don't consider it, well in my mind you're not because it's also about personal preferance and I understand that totally but it will be interesting to see who really does this.

Not sure if it does belong under this section of the forum, it might not and if it doesn't please lock it, or move it, or direct me to where it actually does belong. ^.^

Okai.

First off, if this is in the wrong section of the forums I apologize and could the MODs please move it to the appropriate section.

Secondly. RETEXTURING!

Yes, I need a little help with regards to the limitations to retexturing starting with this.

- I want to create an hourglass mesh that looks as though it has vines growing on the glass. The glass texture must be transparent so that people who see this mesh can see the contents of it flowing through. Is this a possible retexture, a tainted transparency that is?

And apparently ending with that too.

That's all I need to know. c:

Thanks.

~ C  R  O  S  S  W  O  R  K (Atlas - Squee)

I understand that the forum has a 'competition and events' board. And every so often there are contests presented like the recent Art contest etc.. And the preset contest is there most of the time.

I know that this is more in the hands of judges etc...

My idea for the forum is a little something called 'The Challenge'

The Challenge is basically when all forms of medium related to Feralheart (Map maker, preset maker, object maker) are able to be chosen. Like with the Preset Contest a theme is chosen or this is what would be called the challenge.

For Example:

Sea

Now all the users who feel like they need a challenge or just need a map idea can come and challenge themselves according to this theme. They can chose to create a map or preset or object etc.. relevant to the theme.

These challenges not only provide something fun for members but also an oppurtunity to learn more about their abilities!

The voting system can be like that of MOTS. Users suggest a limit of their more favoured inventions and a poll is created where the winner is determined from the amount of votes.

Prizes for winning can be donated Arts or something if people really actually think prizes are needed.

The idea is vague. Very fuzzy. But somehow had to be explained in a way. Like I've said. I suck at explaining.

Anywho that's my forum idea. xD

I'm not sure if this is in the right topic or anything. So really sorry if it isn't. ;n;

C  R  O  S  S  W  O  R  K

I think it counts as a game problem?

I use GIMP to make my heightmaps. And recently my heightmaps haven't been working in game? I make them in grayscale, 513x513, save them as a .png image in my Feralheart > Media > Terrains > FHmaps folder. Everything I'm meant to do! When I attempt to test the heightmap out ingame, my Feralheart window closes the second I type in the name of the file.

Please help!

~B.Squee