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Game Help / Tried everything for Height Map help...
« on: July 06, 2020, 05:53:40 pm »
Alrighty, so I've been making height maps for several years now and usually don't run into a problem. It's finally happened though and I need some assistance from the lovely FH community so I don't lose the last of my brain cells trying to figure out what's wrong. Maybe a fresh set of eyes will notice something I didn't.
These are private maps so please ;; do not copy/trace/steal them as I've spent literal days on them but:
This is the original height map that works and we use it for the group now. It's 513x513, grayscale, one layer, and .png
Members started commenting on the big black ocean spot that could be used to expand the islands and so I went back in to edit the height-map under a different name:
So finished this and adjusted the masks and hopped into Feral Heart. Now it might be important to note that I use two computers for maps because I don't have room for an art program on my PC so I use Photoshop Elements on my Mac. Hasn't been a problem until now.
Anyways- after attempting to just load in the terrain on its own it crashed. Okay, that happens. I double checked the size, mode, and layers and it was 513x513, grayscale, and one layer. Crashed again.
Okay well lets see if its just a this map problem or something in FH broke and I need a fresh install. I installed several free height maps from the community and they all loaded in fine [might be important to note I can still open the previous version in Map-maker just peachy].
Since that all worked out dandy I started checking the height masks and those load in perfectly fine too.
So as you can see the mask works perfectly and I loaded in the old terrain just to make sure [once again] that it wasn't all my heightmaps that were broken. I'm at a total loss and read somewhere:
https://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=58877.0
This thread fixed its issue by putting the image into gimp. Well I don't have gimp and I hope this isn't the only solution to this problem.
All help is appreciated ;;
These are private maps so please ;; do not copy/trace/steal them as I've spent literal days on them but:
This is the original height map that works and we use it for the group now. It's 513x513, grayscale, one layer, and .png
Members started commenting on the big black ocean spot that could be used to expand the islands and so I went back in to edit the height-map under a different name:
So finished this and adjusted the masks and hopped into Feral Heart. Now it might be important to note that I use two computers for maps because I don't have room for an art program on my PC so I use Photoshop Elements on my Mac. Hasn't been a problem until now.
Anyways- after attempting to just load in the terrain on its own it crashed. Okay, that happens. I double checked the size, mode, and layers and it was 513x513, grayscale, and one layer. Crashed again.
Okay well lets see if its just a this map problem or something in FH broke and I need a fresh install. I installed several free height maps from the community and they all loaded in fine [might be important to note I can still open the previous version in Map-maker just peachy].
Since that all worked out dandy I started checking the height masks and those load in perfectly fine too.
So as you can see the mask works perfectly and I loaded in the old terrain just to make sure [once again] that it wasn't all my heightmaps that were broken. I'm at a total loss and read somewhere:
https://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=58877.0
This thread fixed its issue by putting the image into gimp. Well I don't have gimp and I hope this isn't the only solution to this problem.
All help is appreciated ;;