tosalnu,

yes, i think i did hit enter. that could be it. it might be entering that as another char in the name. i'll try again.

i did take those maps i made and ran them into the full game and they worked perfectly, but of course you dont have to alter a .bdf for that. still, i see no extra chars in my file names so i'm not sure quite what's going on.

btw, one extra discovery: if you alter the map edges to lower the terrain along the edges, the game puts the edges back up somewhat. seems they dont want folks seeing the lack of a coastline or something.

K.