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Map maker broken/glitch?
« on: August 10, 2011, 05:51:12 pm »
I've been having some problems with my map maker before when making maps, but i had previously assumed it was becasue i was experimanting with making rather large maps. But just now i have made a new heightmap and put it into the mapmaker, and it instantly glitched how it has been on the larger maps.
Things that have been happening include:
A Boundary-ish area going around the edge of the whole map, maybe about 5-10 % areound the edges of then where if i walk over there when testing it, i will fall into the ground. I'll usualy be able to see this area beacuse there will be an extremely faint line on the ground.
Large "Walls" Appearing around the map edges" They dont affect the map much, but they definately shouldnt be there.
Random floating chunks of land, these are irritating and hard to explain, but you will see in the image i've uploaded. sometimes these are stuck partly inside the map, messing it up, and sometimes they are simply floating next to it.
And Finaly, something that has just appeared with my new map, chunks of the map itself are being cut off around the edges.

Screenshots:
The first 2 show how some of the map edges have been cut off.
The second 2 show a "Wall".
The next 2 show Part of the wall and the floating land.
The last 2 show some "Walls" that are on my larger map.

I am mainly wondering if anyone else has encountered this, and if so, is there anything i can do to correct it other than reinstalling the game.
As a final note, i'm pretty sure I haven't edited any of the game files other than downloading and making maps and presets.

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2011, 07:21:41 pm »
I had this problem too. Make sure that when you make a height map that you start by filling the entire thing grey(50) I think the problem with the walls is that the background is black when it should be grey. If you added an ocean it may cover the black parts in the map. Hope this helps! :)

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2011, 07:55:59 pm »
Well with the larger map, I had used a Height map generator to make it, so i cant really comment for that. But with the map in the forst 6 screenshots here, I did have it so the whole things was grey first and made places darker and/or lighter.

And a random extra note. I reinstalled the whole game and transferred over the maps and presets i had, But it is still glitching. So the problem must be either because of one of the maps i have downloaded or something my laptop doesnt like with Feral Heart. I'm considering deleting all the other maps I have to see if that helps.

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2011, 08:37:28 pm »

Try changing the rendering system. Go to "Options", "Video", and change the rendering system to the one that it isn't on {Ex: FROM Direct3D9 TO OpenGL. Or OpenGL TO Direct3D9}

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2011, 01:44:15 am »
I've just tried that, and nope, still not working. I even then tried switching it back, but still not working.
I have noticed now, when i upen up that newer height map on it, It has stopped having the edges cut off and there is no floating land, but the 'boundary' things and the Wall still appear. I was able to add water to it, but then when i tried adjusting the size to make it twice as big, FH crashed. Sometimes even when i try changing the Height map from the defualt to this one, it crashes then(I havent changed the map width or height, and have not used multiple layers, and it is a PNG). I tried this multiple times on both rendering systems.

I really am confused at what is happening now. Because previously I have had no problems at all when making maps and had made at least 2 without any problems. And i know it isnt caused by any of the maps I have downloaded, as i tested moving them elsewhere on my computer while going on the Map maker, and I have Reinstalled FH too, but the problem is still the same.

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2011, 01:51:55 am »

This seems really weird. Can you upload the heightmap and have me try it out?

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2011, 02:28:24 am »
I'm very sure it's not the map itself, as i have just created one more heightmap, set it to greyscale and the right size and had the background at 50 grey, then i just added random other shades of gray on it and opened it on the map maker and it also had the same problems.

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2011, 12:29:47 pm »
i havent been having these problems but i have been having others. every time i finish testing my maps in map maker, all the objects from my other maps appear on the map im working on. It is really irritating because then i either have to delete them all, or i have to reload the map from where i last saved it which means losing all my work. Whats going on? also why in cape, do i have more than one portal for each of the maps i have in exports?

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Re: Map maker broken/glitch?
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2011, 03:15:36 pm »

This is called the "version 1.09 glitch". There are many ways to fix it... http://feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=10069.0