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Need help exporting map!
« on: August 26, 2012, 07:08:55 pm »
I am making an awesome map for feral heart for a group. I dot know how to let other people in it though. I've tried before on another map but their characters got stuck in the map. So how do I make a map downloadable for other players?

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Re: Need help exporting map!
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2012, 07:13:00 pm »
Wait a minute, just slow down. What exactly is the problem for your map? Is it that it doesn't export? Are people getting the "feralheart.exe has stopped working"? Bad tokens? Unable to connect to map server?

Or do you just need help with the exporting itself?


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Re: Need help exporting map!
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2012, 07:15:58 pm »
I pretty much just need the steps for it.

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Re: Need help exporting map!
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2012, 07:18:16 pm »
Exporting it is simple, if thats what you're asking. Once you've prepared everything you just need to click the export button and find the exported 'files', its best to create a folder containing all of them.
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Re: Need help exporting map!
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2012, 07:26:33 pm »
Any other steps?

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Re: Need help exporting map!
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2012, 07:27:18 pm »
Okay.

So you have your map all finished. Do you have all of your objects in a custom folder?
All of your objects that are in your map need to be in a custom folder so that people don't have to edit their own default folders. You can put them all into a custom folder by going into object maker, loading each item and type in the name of the folder (Let's call it MelanieStuff) and click "save".
Go into your terrain file in your feralheart folder for your map. There will be a .objects file. In the file, there will be tons of numbers, don't worry about those. Just go in and change the second part of the words [in these brackets]

So if you have a section of redwood trees and they are in the MyTrees folder, you go into your objects file and see

[Redwood Tree/Mytrees] and change it to
[Redwood Tree/MelanieStuff]

Be sure to do that for all items.



Next, what you have to do is export it. Click the export button, accept the pop up and wait.
When it is done exporting, go into your Exports folder in  your feralheart folder. Find the name of your map in there? It'll have custom cycle, custom weather, your objects file (.FHO) and the map file itself.

Take those, copy them. Place them into a brand new folder on your desktop.
Create a ReadMe file (text document) and explain that these files go into their exports folder. Save.

Now, if you have custom music, be sure to add that in. As well as custom water used, and sounds.

Right-click the icon of your new folder. Click "send to... zipped (compressed) folder".
Take that new zipped file, upload it to mediafire and distribute.