map - river causing mysterious CTD

[SirRethcir]

Hi!

I'm making quite a large map (about 750x1000).


For some time now I'm working on the rivers.
First I did the Italian rivers, all was well.
Then I worked my way up through france, after that south germany.

Then after a test run, occurred CTDs when ones view is above certain areas.
I recursively masked certain rivers and eventually found 3 rivers causing these CTDs.
Then I had a closer look to one of these rivers.
I tracked the CTD down to one section of that river.

Now comes the mysterious part.
The CTD causing section is just a short part from the source of the river southwards. There is no branching or other unusual things.

So I'm puzzled.
At the moment I have no time to do further test, so my question:
Has anyone experiences with this problem?
(Is it some strange hardcoded limit?
Causes the large map this problem?)

Thanks!

[SirRethcir]

So, no one has this problem?

Ok, perhaps as a remark for the 'hardcoded limits' thread.
It seems to me that there is a certain limit of river tiles.
Or a certain limit of map objects!?
So, very huge map will sooner or later hit that limit.

Too bad.

[irishron2004]

What I see in your post is the map_heights.tga. Please correct me if I am wrong. The only one I dealt with for rivers has been the map_featues.tga. Check the wiki for a whole section dealing with mapmaking and their limitations. Remember not only to delete the map.rwm but also map_heights.hgt.

[SirRethcir]

What I see in your post is the map_heights.tga.

Well, what you see is just a picture to show you the outline of the map, that I can use sentence like that: "First I did the Italian rivers, all was well.
Then I worked my way up through france..."
;)

Lets say it is just a warning for people working on very big maps and want to add many rivers.
Perhaps someone can do further test.
E.g. a simple big map with many river tiles -> CTD or no CTD, and so on.

[irishron2004]

I don't know if it has enough rivers for you but have you looked at Spurius' BigMap or any of the mods using it as a basis?

[SirRethcir]

I don't know if it has enough rivers for you but have you looked at Spurius' BigMap or any of the mods using it as a basis?

Link? Dimensions?