[General] Terrain bug, how to fix?

[stan0033]

hi all, do you know how do fix this terrain bug?

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[TriggerHappy]

Try resizing your map to remove that area, under Scenario -> Map size and camera bounds. Then resize your map back.

I'm not sure if it will work though.

 

[stan0033]

It does not work.

 

[deathismyfriend]

What exactly is supposed to be there or not supposed to be there ?

 

[stan0033]

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[pOke]

Don't face palm, that's an equivalent of rolling your eyes at someone, especially when this person is trying to spend their precious time assisting you.

As for the answer to your question.. what does it look like in the editor ? Does it show the two bodies of water connecting?

And I still think it is a fair question, what do you want it to be doing? And what is happening instead?

 

[DysfunctionaI]

Are the camera bounds the same as the game bounds? And honestly, whenever I see weird stuff like that (the water being squared too), just erase it and do it again. It might help to use wireframe terrain view too, so you know exactly what's going on. That's in View -> Terrain -> Wireframe.

 

[stan0033]

here

I tried t erase it with deep water, same level, lower level... but on the edges appear cliffs that i cannot erase.
With boundaries does not work because even if i edit bounds and then resize back all is the same.

 

[deathismyfriend]

If you are talking about the sudden drop off when looking at the black area then you can't change that.
It is simply how the game was made that that happens.

Also no reason for the facepalm. I can't read your mind on what you are expecting / not expecting.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Your problem is that you probably changed the basic cliff type there by raising and lowering the cliff once. This will cause the water levels to bug up if the water hasn't been properly "initialized" for that tile cell, for example because the basic cliff height wasn't "shallow water" initially.

In the editor, there's an option called "enforce water height limits" (or something similar), that will reset the water planes as soon as you change the cliff level on that area. Try that out, but make sure to have a safety copy of your map, as it might bug some popular water-exploits.

 

[stan0033]

Nope, Resetting optons do not work. This bugged edgy "platform" keeps staying there

 

[Zwiebelchen]

There is a file containing the cliff type and level inside the map MPQ (based on a value of 0-15; 1 pixel = 1 cell). You can extract it and edit it with any image editor to manually fix the water in that region.

 

[WaterKnight]

Iirc, you can place water there, then de-enforce the water heights and fill the spot with a cliff again. Well yes, or do it outside of the editor in the .w3e (environment file) http://www.wc3c.net/tools/specs/index.html.

 

[stan0033]

Thanks you I'll try it soon.

 

[stan0033]

Hi,WaterKnight , how do i deal with this environment file? how do I edit it? It's too much to read all this yo ugave me and basiccally not saying anything...

 

[WaterKnight]

It says everything. Search for w3e/environment, scroll a bit below to check if there is a newer version for Frozen Throne. The w3e is a binary file that is structured according to what is written there, in that order. On the left side you can always see the expected data type, on the right side a description of what it does and maybe possible values. The data types are explained almost at the top of the page, because multiple files use them. The w3e even uses bitflags meaning some bytes are split up to assign functionalities to single bits within them.

If you are able to write some lua code, you may also try my tool for reading/writing wc3's binary files https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59549334/wc3binary2.rar

 

[Dr Super Good]

Paint water over that area. Its not that difficult as this example shows.