Ok, so maybe I bit off more than I could chew.

I tried creating my own personalized map after reading the tutorial at the start of this thread. And, well, I can't get past the 'choose faction' portion of the screen. I am a newbie at all this moding stuff and from what I'm reading, this CTD right after choosing a faction is more than likely due to a problem in one of the maps right?

Because I created a short cut as suggested by Myddral early on in this thread. But when it CTD I get now error message. I deleted the map.rwm file and a new one has not been created after any of the crashes.

I have gone through all the Targa maps with a fine tooth comb, looking in all the the different color channels and squinting my eyes two inches from the monitor, and I can't find any stray pixels.

I checked the sizing and that all seems to be correct. I checked and rechecked that the region colors on the map_regions.tga all match up in the descr_regions folder. I double checked all my spelling to make sure the regions names agree every where. I placed a black dot with a true 0,0,0 in each region.

For map_heights, I made the water 0,0,255 and all the land 1,1,1. I just used this same file map_roughness.

For map_climates, I used 237,20,91 Fertile Temperate Grassland - Dark Pink for the land and 236,0,140 Mediterranean - Pink for my water just to have some variety with testing.

For map_ground_types I used 96,160,64 Fertile Medium for all the land and 196,0,0 Shallow sea for all the water.

I used just a black screen for map_trade_routes

Now, I didn't change radar_map1 or radar_map2, do these need to match the new land mass in the other maps? Also, I can't tell if I am exceeding the 24% water limit. Right now I am just too fried to go changing all the maps to test this. But its the only other thing I can think of, so I'll attack that tomorrow and see if it solves my problem.

I'm sort of at the end of my knowledge here and am at a loss. Any suggestions or advice would be well recieved. Thanks.