I noticed that darkening effect as well, although mine isn't as bad as what you're showing.. I could atleast make out buildings and villagers. Strange. Besides that, though, this really does work. You can make whatever crazy custom maps you want.
Also, this is the sort of processing that is needed to turn these fractals into an actual, semi-sane landscape:
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I also forgot to mention that if you use fractal explorer, it actually has a 3d landscape view built in. Yes, you can see your fractal landscape inside the fractal maker in a...
It's a six player map, something that seems to be rather lacking in the public map selection. 24 villages lol
Raw heightmap
Map in action
What the coast problem looks like, in case you are curious
I think it is rather unobtrusive, although I just noticed that some villages don't appear. ...
I'd say the easiest way to have good coasts is to use your favorite image editor (not paint) that supports the border effect, which is rather simple and should be included in the gimp, for instance. Just make your terrain in a 8-bit black and white 512x512 bmp with a black background and no...
hahahaha, I figured it out.. This is just hilarious
After using process monitor to go through eeeevery single reg/file operation that damn editor does, I noticed that it tried to access "readme.txt" and it failed. Intrigued, I renamed the given "readme1.txt" to "readme.txt", and NOW IT WORKS! lol
After thinking about this a bit, it has to be some stupid registry setting. Can anyone with worldmod installed and working open regedit (start -> run -> "regedit" then hit enter) and check under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software or HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software for a worldmod "folder"? If there is one...
I've gotten the dreaded "corrupt install" error on worldmod, and I'm not sure what it needs. I've installed BW express, and while everyone says that should work, it isn't. Anyone else had this problem or know a solution?
Edit: I've tried installing the VB6 runtime files, but that isn't...