The Webfrontend of the hosted MapCompiler doesent work

[PicassoCT]

I wanted to do a Version of the ever so popular the Lava Rises and tryied to upload a heightmap, with a selected theme to the Map-Converter/Renderer on the Server when it 404ed all of the sudden. Anyone any advice?

I have no intention of re-setting up the whole tool chain of olden times, and this map needs no feature and no metal, just the standard treatment.
So do it legacy is no valid advice.

[Silentwings]

I'm lost, what web front end? where?

If you attach your heightmap & texmap, I'm happy to compile it for you, using my reliable old toolchain that doesn't care whether or not it gets given metalmaps and feature defs etc etc...

[Beherith]

Pymapconv is also very kind, only requires texture and height.

[PicassoCT]

the files..

[Silentwings]

Your heightmap has the wrong dimensions - it is missing the "+1" on both its X and Y dimensions. I can't easily resize it without losing quality (I have no image editors installed), so please upload a heightmap with the correct dimensions.

[PicassoCT]

Thanks,

its been quite a while since i did a map.

[Silentwings]

It turns out your texmap was also the wrong dimensions - you had 8197x3074 and it should have been 8192x3072, but I can resize that one without trouble. (Heightmap is N*64+1, texmap is N*512, where N is X or Y, in your case X=16 and Y=6.)

The map now compiles and at first glance looks as you'd want it too, but it suffers from "terracing" - see attached. I remember this problem from olden times, and I think its caused by your png heightmap having insufficient bit depth to express what Spring views as a smooth change in height. I personally avoid this issue by using .raw heightmaps, but I do know that some people managed to fix their pngs.

Files, get it while its hot: http://www100.zippyshare.com/v/2S0xPYXh/file.html

[Beherith]

Just a side note, Pymapconv supports 16-bit PNGs, so you no longer have to use weird RAW-s. The best way to convert your 8 bit greyscale to 16bit is with photoshop's 'Smart Blur' filter, using a low threshold (~5) and a small radius (~5).