ic now it makes perfect sense, do you have it at 50% alpha to tone down the effects or is there some other reason?

Alpha of what?

your normal map, unless I'm mistaken

Dont know if that has effect, but normals can be toned down regardless.

Currently, this map fails to load with
mod: ZK
lobby: ZKL
Something to do with units.

I went into the units folder and replaced the alltreeunits.lua file with individual unit files for the trees and it now works.
- Although the trees cause Chilli Cursortip to crash, which I am not qualified to fix

Link to units lua files:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10120644/magicforestunits.7z

Maybe fix it somehow? I like the heightmap, would make for an interesting decision/tradeoff in a 1v1 (hill or sides?), at least theoretically

Anyone know where I can get jk's unitshader framework?

ZK & S44 have both the latest revision (S44 has some changes to the default normaltexture finding code)

Yar, don't use one file for multiple featuredefs. It causes issues.

Why/how?

it is not that. is not even featuredef but unitdef.

it works with spring.exe (though the trees did not wiggle then like with ba.)
It fails when trying in lobby:

[f=0000000] Failed to load unitDefs
[f=0000000] Error: 2, gamedata/defs.lua, [string "gamedata/defs.lua"]:37: [string "gamedata/defs.lua"]:25: error = 2, gamedata/unitDefs.lua, error = 2, gamedata/unitdefs_post.lua, [string "gamedata/unitdefs_post.lua"]:351: attempt to index field 'unitname' (a nil value)


[f=0000000] Game::LoadDefs (GameData): 458 ms
[f=0000000] Warning: UnsyncedGameCommands singleton was not initialized or is already destroyed
[f=0000000] Warning: SyncedGameCommands singleton was not initialized or is already destroyed
[f=0000000] Warning: CWordCompletion singleton was not initialized or is already destroyed
[f=0000000] Statistics for local connection:
Received: 727 bytes
Sent: 8 bytes

Error: Spring: Incorrect/Missing content: Error in main(): Defs-Parser: [string "gamedata/defs.lua"]:37: [string "gamedata/defs.lua"]:25: error = 2, gamedata/unitDefs.lua, error = 2, gamedata/unitdefs_post.lua, [string "gamedata/unitdefs_post.lua"]:351: attempt to index field 'unitname' (a nil value)

from zk's unitdefs_post.lua:
removing that made it load. (with spring.exe there are no modoptions that it works there)


Error in Update(): [string "LuaUI/Widgets/gui_chili_selections_and_curs..."]:1394: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
[f=0000059] Removed widget: Chili Selections & CursorTip
[f=0000868] Error in MousePress(): [string "LuaUI/Widgets/gui_contextmenu.lua"]:425: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

and unit has no icon assigned?

tl;dr
There are some ways to make working units/features but zK will fail to load with them.
zK assumes some tags for units to be present and when maps add extra units, sometimes those are missing. (the unit is perfectly fine, just some luas in zK try to read stuff that does not necessarily exist)
At least it seems so.

iirc this line 123 in unitdefs_post.lua

crashed with this unit: http://pastebin.com/492yNaUp
(didnt bother with it because was old file. not sure if crash because maxvelocity, customparams or .fbi)