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Offline SimplySmashing

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Can't Create A Map
« on: October 29, 2011, 09:27:57 pm »
It's not that I don't know how to it's that uninstalling completely and what not doesn't work for me. I can not create maps, when I type in the name of my map and press load, the game closes and has an error, it does this every time... What do I do?  Is there something here I can fix before trying to uninstall it again?

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Re: Can't Create A Map
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2011, 01:04:43 am »
The most common issues with the Map Maker are addressed here, as well as FAQ:
http://feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=1391.0

If you're still having trouble, what does the error say? [if it says anything?]

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Re: Can't Create A Map
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2011, 07:24:35 pm »
I had the same exact problem! I go in the game, click tools, then map maker. when I go to world, I type ing the name of the terrain, i even made sure PNG was capitalized, and the terrain i made was a test, so it was solid white, the exact right size, and when I press enter the game closes and i says in a window called FeralHeart.exe, "FeralHeart.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost. Please tell Microsoft about this problem.
We have created an error report that you can send to us. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous. To see what date this report contains, click here." then it has buttons that say Debug, Send error Report, or Don't send. the first time i clicked debug and it didn't work, and so far I haven't found anything out other than Debug does not fix the problem. is that the same window that appears? and has anyone else had this same problem but fixed it? thanks.

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Re: Can't Create A Map
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2011, 08:26:25 am »
PNG should not be capitalized.

The name of the heightmap image should just be the name "Mapname". But once inside the game you need to write "mapname.png" to tell the game what kind of image it is.

Here's the things that makes it crash
-It's not grayscale
-It's not same size on both sides like 513x513
-It's not a png image
-It's not one layer only

If you make sure all the fields are required, you just need to write the imagename.png into the heightmap field in mapmaker.
If that fails, load the png image in GIMP or PS, save it as a jpeg, load the jpeg, save it as a png again.
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Re: Can't Create A Map
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2011, 11:51:11 pm »
maybe that's what's wrong, I edit in gimp/paint shop pro and save in paint, which automatically makes png capitallized. I'm not sure what was wrong with SimplySmashing's heightmap, but I will try that and see if it works xD