I don't know, no one seems to want to take responsability for the current version of map conv... it was supposed to be 255 from what mother said before disapearing, and we don't acctually have an official mapconv from the devs that supports features.
I downloaded the latest build of Spring source and found the mapconv source
files with it. I've tried compile it and a no go ... Can someone post what
compiler I should be using to compile it? I used Open Watcom C/C++...
Well since the features use the red channel theoretically it should support 255 or 256 features in fs.txt.
Mapconv reports how many features it has placed on the map, not how many different entries from the fs.txt. I've seen it write them in the 1000's.
You should probably backtrack and make sure everything is correct, maybe antialiasing in your image software screwed it up.. or something. Make absolutely sure the fs.txt contains no spaces(infront of behind your entries), cuz that can fudge things up as mapconv doesn't seem to do any error checking at all. Maybe it even stops reading them after it finds a space. Example:
pdrock1
pdrock2[space]
pdrock3
will give errors in Spring and probably messes with mapconv somehow too.
Cheesecan wrote:antialiasing in your image software
really i didnt know that MS paint has antialising cuz i swithed to it from GIMP to make sure it doesnt have it, and the length between each pixel is at least 10 pixels in every direction