Black Maps

Ok, another post - whether I connect to my PC over LAN or internet, my custom maps are showing up black for players. Included maps are OK, but the custom ones are just big black squares.

Just to avoid the questions, fog of war is off, I've tried several different reboots, etc. Connections are OK (ports are fine, everyone can connect and to absolutely everything else OK, just not see the maps).

Any idea what's going on? Or what I should try next?

 

Yes, players can see creatures and control them, on a black background.

The map is all black, no squares, no grey. Or rather, nothing but black where the map is, but if you zoom out you can see the 'bounds' of the black map.

I'm using Windows 7 64bit, and various clients, the client I've been testing on is Linux 32 bit. The software version is v2.2.0 full installer.

If I browse the directories where maps are stored on the client machine, I see a map image file that's all black pixels, btw.

Any info I should grab from the computers that would be helpful for diagnosing?

 

No, like I said Fog of war is off. Doing anything with FOW changes nothing, and anyway FOW doesn't behave this way, where players can see themselves and everything else fine, but not the map.

 

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. I'd attach one of my maps but the board max is 3.0 mb. So I've dropped it into here: http://drop.io/slab1map

Its clean of items and stuff, but you can add them and they'll show up for the player, just not the map itself.

This may just be affecting my Linux clients, in which case I don't know what to do. Running the client on my own machine and my friends Win 7 64bit computer seems to work OK, but Linux clients don't.

 

Nope, it's any and all custom maps. It's only affecting linux clients. It looks like a bona-fide bug with linux clients trying to view custom (aka imported) maps. I'm going to see if the problem exists using WINe on the linux client, then again but using linux as the server (right now the judge is Win 7 64, and the clients are various kinds of linux, but all linux clients are affected).

Please look into this, as it prevents me from using the product as I purchased it. You can reproduce it by trying to connect a linux client to a windows judge and using any imported map.

 

OK, so I've uncovered a few other things.

The linux client is seriously not working on our linux machines.

We're all pretty much using Ubuntu 10.04 with openjdk 6.

In linux, I can't create custom maps. I can't import maps already created. I'm getting various error messages. Please let me know any specific information you need from me or the linux machines we're using. Thanks.

 

Ok, another update. I figured out something important: the Linux client can't handle jpegs. This seems to be the root of the problem. On any linux machine I've used, I can't save jpeg maps, characters, etc, or see them as a client. However, pngs work OK. So, I replaced all my jpeg maps with identical pngs, and so its 'working' for me. This should give you a direction to look into things with, to figure out what's going on. Since I've got a 'workaround' I'm good though.