Author Topic: FeralHeart.exe crash when trying to upload height map (Solved)  (Read 2295 times)

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Alright, now I don't remember how I managed to get this working before when I made a map. I looked up videos on YouTube on how to make a terrain height map. It is 513x513 and greyscaled, I did it on photoshop. I saved it where I hope I was supposed too, unless things changed since I played last like a year or so ago.

Anyways, when I go to get the height map on Feral Heart it just crashes me every single time. Now the crashing ONLY happens when I am trying to get this height map on.

I saved it on my computer under
FeralHeart>media>terrians
Is that not where I am supposed to put it? I mean it is where my old map was too.

Did anything change since I last played? I am up for a redownload in case updates happened since I last played. Also it can't be my computer cause this is the same computer I made my previous map on that worked. Now every time I try things, it crashes.

I tried looking up other topics on the matter and nothing helped. Everything I try doesn't work, it still just crashes when I try to upload the height map.
« Last Edit: May 18, 2015, 09:37:44 pm by Red »

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Re: FeralHeart.exe crash when trying to upload height map
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2015, 08:34:14 pm »
Might sound a bit blunt, but I'm very confident it crashes only because you didn't make/save it correctly or at some point modified it.

The game hasn't changed in years, and when map maker/game crashes from loading a heightmap, it's most if not all the times from faulty made heightmap. I'd advice trying to use other heightmap images you know works, whenever you start a map in map maker it loads a picture called "default.png" from the terrains folder, so if map maker loads, so should anything else that's made correctly.

You should most likely re-make your heightmap or watch a video from start to end following what they're doing, like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTO8tyhSQPU
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Re: FeralHeart.exe crash when trying to upload height map
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2015, 09:26:30 pm »
Your video was really helpful, Red. The only thing I changed that may have helped was keeping the image as background and locked. I didn't do that before when trying to work on the new image.

Also, you earned  yourself a subscriber on YouTube. I want to be able to go back to your videos if I mess up again. Thanks for the help!!

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Re: FeralHeart.exe crash when trying to upload height map
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2015, 09:37:34 pm »
No worries, it's those tiny details that make it or break it when getting the heightmap into your map maker.

Locking this thread as solved.
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