Red Screen for 10k map.

[Gunner24]

When testing a new 10k map I get the red screen and I'm unable to get out of it with Task Manager.

The only thing I can think of is that it did contain a lot of woods, too many ??????.

The other 10k maps are working fine, this one not so.  It was only a quick test map so I deleted it and will try again with less woods....has anyone else seen this nasty red screen when loading a new map ?.

[Hook]

It's been reported several times, but usually for a 6k map.

The likely cause is that the game couldn't find deployment positions for the forces specified in the OoB.  This can happen if the map is too cluttered, but light woods usually don't affect it from what I've seen. 

Hook

[Gunner24]

Thanks Hook, that would make sense.....I over did the wooded area's in the South of the map, so that would explain the problem with deployment. 

[Hook]

I know JMM's looking into fixing this, so hang in there.  Not sure when it might happen, but it's in the queue.

Hook

[Gunner24]

I do hope so, I will have to leave this for now as I've found another one of my new maps fails in testing, once it gave a frozen screen, with a large OOB,  and the other time it went back to the menu with a small OOB.

I will keep these maps for now and hope the patch fix's the problem...there's no point in making maps that don't work.

[Gunner24]

Hook, I meant to ask, are there any "known" issues with the Camapign size maps ?.......If not I will make some of them instead, I find the small maps too small anyway......I can try to build the surrending area's of the battle maps I was doing in 10k ones.

[Hook]

I don't know what the current issues might be with campaign maps.  It should be ok to build them.  There may be scale problems if you try to play them, but those should be fixed in the patch.

Hook

[Gunner24]

I'll have a look over the weekend, I'm a bit dis-appointed with this "bug".....some may think it's not a major problem, but as time goes by people will get very fed up with the same few maps.

[Gunner24]

I could not resist another look at this, I have made three 10k maps and two work with many different OOBs, large and small, but the other one refuses to work (red screen) even after taking out many of the forest.

Is this any use to help ID the fault with this map file ?.

Battle save file : http://uploading.com/files/b1m1e6d4/Quatre%2BBras_nbc4-100219-12H14.sav/
Spyboard file : http://uploading.com/files/4cm93144/spyBoard.txt/

Bug board contents :

Pb Cons 16.x
Pb Cons 24.x
Pb Cons 25.x
Pb Cons 26.x
Pb Cons 27.x
Pb Cons 28.x
Pb Cons 29.x
Pb Cons 30.x
Pb Cons 31.x

Testboard contents:

WinMain Init1
WinMain Init2
WinMain Init3
WinMain Init4
WinMain Init5
WinMain Init6
WinMain Init7
WinMain Init8
WinMain Init9

[Gunner24]

Now fixed with patch - map works now.