Quote Originally Posted by Makanyane
Common Causes of Problems

Symptom: Game CTD's with no message when arrow is clicked to start campaign - no map.rwm generated.
  • Landmass Crash - actually caused by having too large an individual sea area.
  • Too large an area of impassable terrain - actually same bug as above (if area doesn't work as sea it won't work as mountain or dense forest either).
  • Rivers incorrectly drawn in map_features.tga. Possibly also river without ford completely dividing a region.
  • Incorrect height or width listed in descr_terrain.txt - dimensions must match map_regions.tga
  • More than 200 total 'regions' - note regions include different colours used for individual seas, so you can have 199 land regions and 1 sea, or 198 land regions and 2 different coloured seas in map_regions.tga etc...
Wonderful guide, Makanyane, it helped my a lot adding the first two regions to the map, but now at the third region I'm stuck and can't find what's wrong.

Symptom: Game CTD's with no message when arrow is clicked to start campaign - no map.rwm generated.

But: [*]Landmass Crash - actually caused by having too large an individual sea area.
- I did not touch sea areas adding the last region[*] Too large an area of impassable terrain - actually same bug as above (if area doesn't work as sea it won't work as mountain or dense forest either).
- I did not add any impassable terrain[*] Rivers incorrectly drawn in map_features.tga. Possibly also river without ford completely dividing a region.
- I did not modify map_features. rivers are not completely dividing the neew region, nor they touch the settlement[*] Incorrect height or width listed in descr_terrain.txt - dimensions must match map_regions.tga
- I didn't touch descr_terrain.txt[*] More than 200 total 'regions' - note regions include different colours used for individual seas, so you can have 199 land regions and 1 sea, or 198 land regions and 2 different coloured seas in map_regions.tga etc...
- number of actual regions is 48, the new one wich causes the crash is number 49.

If i remove the new region from the map_regions.tga and its refs from:
- descr_strat.txt, descr_regions.txt
-**regions_and_settlement_names.txt
-**regions_and_settlement_names_lookup.txt
It all works fine, so its really just the new region making a problem. But again. I already added two of them and they give no troubles.. just this one!

My tries:
- i re-checked all regions in the map to have their precise colors (tolerance0)
- checked the map_heigths.tga : no areas in black (RGB 0,0,0)
- i moved the settlement to different locations, checking each time was not touching the border of the region, not occupied by mountains, rivers, sea, lakes or other map objects, same CTD
- i changed color of the new region ten times, same CTD
- i moved the region to another totally different area of the map, same CTD

So I'm stuck here: any idea what else to try?