My problem is exactly as the title reads. For whatever the game won't read my custom heightmaps. Everything else about race's custom planets loads just fine. The PlanetArtDefs, PlanetDefs_Shaikan, StarSystemDefs_Shaikan, and the StarSystemDefs I created all load up just fine, but for whatever reason the ContinentDefs and my heightmaps aren't loading at all. When I start a new game, my planets are there, but they' don't have continents. It's like the game bypassing my maps.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can solve this?
Please, help. I know there's a post of me commenting on heightmaps before, but that was when I had different PC to what I have now. I switched to a new back in late September. So I'm not trying to troll, I would REALLY like some help here, because get my maps to load on my current PC. So you can, PLEASE HELP!
Can you submit a ticket (https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit) can you put your images and XML files somewhere that I could take a look? Be sure to include information on what directories you are putting the files into?
Just did, I hope you guys can help.
Same thing is happening to me. If I try to use the game's default custom heightmaps, such as Earth's, the continents will load fine. However, the heightmaps I had made for my custom race are now broken and result in totally blank planets -- though, interestingly, it doesn't result in Class 0 planets. The planets will still have their starting class set correctly, but you will be unable to terraform because there's no land. I have been gone a long time, since before 1.3, so somewhere in between then and now, custom heightmaps broke.
I even tried copying the Earth heightmap and just naming it something different, and even that caused the planet to draw a blank. Literally identical files, except for the name. Hilariously, if I rename my custom heightmap to the same as Earth's and remove the Earth heightmap from the Galactic Civilizations III\Gfx\planets\custom_heightmaps folder (which is where my custom heightmaps had been), the game doesn't seem to notice, and STILL loads the default Earth heightmap successfully, even though it is gone. It is as if the heightmaps all became hard-coded into the exe for some reason.
I'll try to get a bug report going in the morning.
Also I did delete these two directories and re-verified, because the 1.4 patch notes said to:
My Games/GalCiv3/gfxMy Games/GalCiv3/Screens
Just bumping to make sure no one forgets about this. Everyone just came back from vacation, so I'm not expecting a hotfix or anything, but I don't like playing without my custom race's custom planets.
My problem in a nut shall, exactly. I take it all your planets are loading like this.
100% exactly the problem.
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