help needed (map is black)

Dead.Rabit · Post by **Dead.Rabit** » 21 Feb 2006, 00:06

hello ive just made my what, third map.. ive worked out all the other errors that i was getting but a new one has appeared and im stimped... for some reason my texture map is not loading or something like that... anyway heres my screenshot

i need suggestions on how to fix plz =]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97/jo ... emenen.jpg

anyone had this before.. what am i doing wrong this time around?

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 21 Feb 2006, 00:17

Unless your texture is supposed to look like that my guess is that you have renamed your map files after processing.

the name that mapconv spits out is the name you need to use... I've never seen it cause that particular graphical bug before howerver...

So if you havn't renamed your map files I'll let someone else try to guess.

genblood · Post by **genblood** » 21 Feb 2006, 01:30

I've seen this problem, most likely its due to the map size. Is this
map larger then 22x22?

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 21 Feb 2006, 02:49

Proportions?

Belmakor · Post by **Belmakor** » 21 Feb 2006, 03:29

I had *exactly* this problem. After reading the tutorials, I downloaded mother's mapconv because that was what was recommended. However, when I ran it, my test map produced exactly what you were seeing. Then on a hunch (and because I was getting "geovent.bmp not found" and "nvdxt.exe" not found errors) I suspected that maybe I also needed the original mapconv distribution.... So, make sure you have done something like this:

1. Download the original mapconv and unpack it
2. Download mother's mapconv and unpack it over the top of the original

At the end, I think you should have the following files in your mapconv directory:

texconv.exe
nvdxt.exe
geovent.bmp
MapConv.exe
test.bat

Also, I think I read somewhere that it may not work properly if you have space characters in your path to mapconv, so check that too.

That's what I did and the problems disappeared.

Belmakor

Cyberwal · Post by **Cyberwal** » 22 Feb 2006, 16:33

Many thanks Belmakor :)

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 22 Feb 2006, 17:39

Another thing that can happen is if your map is just too large for Spring to process with shadows on. Altored Earth is the only one I know of that has this problem, it was 38x18 (i think?). Anyway try turning shadows off if Belmakor's suggestion doesn't help.

Dead.Rabit · Post by **Dead.Rabit** » 22 Feb 2006, 18:59

thankyou it works great now im gonna redo the textures to look better (coz i only made it with 1 tile to make sure it worked fine) then ill announce it =D

Spring RTS Engine

help needed (map is black)

help needed (map is black)