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Nortantis is a fantasy map generator. It uses a simple tectonic plate simulation to create islands and continents with trees, rivers, and mountains. The result has the appearance of an old-fashioned hand-drawn map.
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Export Heightmap #2

Closed MalachiteDrake closed 5 years ago

MalachiteDrake commented 5 years ago

I'm probably just being obtuse, but I can't get the map to export to anything. I click the 'Export Heightmap' button and...nothing happens. I'm running on Windows 10 and have Java completely updated. Everything else on the program works fine, I just can't actually do anything with map once I have it completed. I checked the folder that Nortantis is stored in to make sure it wasn't creating a file there and just not telling me or something, but I can't find anything. I tried digging around on the website to see if there was anything telling you where to find the final file....I'm just completely lost at this point. Where does the final map get sent once you export it? Is it supposed to ask you to export it to somewhere specific? That's what I expected, but no other menu pops up or anything. It's like I haven't actually chosen something on the menu.

jeheydorn commented 5 years ago

The map gets stored as a temporary file and automatically opens in your system's default image viewer. Perhaps your system's default image viewer failed to open the file. One of the last messages logged by the generator will give you the file name it get stored in, so you can try opening it in another program.

If you don't see that file path in the generator's output, then please copy paste the generator's output into this email and I'll take a look at it.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 6:32 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm probably just being obtuse, but I can't get the map to export to anything. I click the 'Export Heightmap' button and...nothing happens. I'm running on Windows 10 and have Java completely updated. Everything else on the program works fine, I just can't actually do anything with map once I have it completed. I checked the folder that Nortantis is stored in to make sure it wasn't creating a file there and just not telling me or something, but I can't find anything. I tried digging around on the website to see if there was anything telling you where to find the final file....I'm just completely lost at this point. Where does the final map get sent once you export it? Is it supposed to ask you to export it to somewhere specific? That's what I expected, but no other menu pops up or anything. It's like I haven't actually chosen something on the menu.

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MalachiteDrake commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the reply!

I don't get any output. I click on 'Export Heightmap' and the only thing that happens is the box under the Generate/Preview buttons goes blank if there was anything in it.

Khris

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:55 PM jeheydorn notifications@github.com wrote:

The map gets stored as a temporary file and automatically opens in your system's default image viewer. Perhaps your system's default image viewer failed to open the file. One of the last messages logged by the generator will give you the file name it get stored in, so you can try opening it in another program.

If you don't see that file path in the generator's output, then please copy paste the generator's output into this email and I'll take a look at it.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 6:32 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm probably just being obtuse, but I can't get the map to export to anything. I click the 'Export Heightmap' button and...nothing happens. I'm running on Windows 10 and have Java completely updated. Everything else on the program works fine, I just can't actually do anything with map once I have it completed. I checked the folder that Nortantis is stored in to make sure it wasn't creating a file there and just not telling me or something, but I can't find anything. I tried digging around on the website to see if there was anything telling you where to find the final file....I'm just completely lost at this point. Where does the final map get sent once you export it? Is it supposed to ask you to export it to somewhere specific? That's what I expected, but no other menu pops up or anything. It's like I haven't actually chosen something on the menu.

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jeheydorn commented 5 years ago

Well, that sounds bad. I've never seen that happen. Do you have the same problem when generating regular maps? Or is it only height maps?

Try turning down the resolution on the background tab to the minimum of 25% to see if this is an out of memory error, although I would be very surprised if that was the issue because heightmaps take less memory to generate than regular maps. If that doesn't work, you could try redownloading and re-extracting the zip file in case it was corrupted in transit.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 7:35 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

I don't get any output. I click on 'Export Heightmap' and the only thing that happens is the box under the Generate/Preview buttons goes blank if there was anything in it.

Khris

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:55 PM jeheydorn notifications@github.com wrote:

The map gets stored as a temporary file and automatically opens in your system's default image viewer. Perhaps your system's default image viewer failed to open the file. One of the last messages logged by the generator will give you the file name it get stored in, so you can try opening it in another program.

If you don't see that file path in the generator's output, then please copy paste the generator's output into this email and I'll take a look at it.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 6:32 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm probably just being obtuse, but I can't get the map to export to anything. I click the 'Export Heightmap' button and...nothing happens. I'm running on Windows 10 and have Java completely updated. Everything else on the program works fine, I just can't actually do anything with map once I have it completed. I checked the folder that Nortantis is stored in to make sure it wasn't creating a file there and just not telling me or something, but I can't find anything. I tried digging around on the website to see if there was anything telling you where to find the final file....I'm just completely lost at this point. Where does the final map get sent once you export it? Is it supposed to ask you to export it to somewhere specific? That's what I expected, but no other menu pops up or anything. It's like I haven't actually chosen something on the menu.

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MalachiteDrake commented 5 years ago

Turning the resolution down worked! Thanks!

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 7:49 AM jeheydorn notifications@github.com wrote:

Well, that sounds bad. I've never seen that happen. Do you have the same problem when generating regular maps? Or is it only height maps?

Try turning down the resolution on the background tab to the minimum of 25% to see if this is an out of memory error, although I would be very surprised if that was the issue because heightmaps take less memory to generate than regular maps. If that doesn't work, you could try redownloading and re-extracting the zip file in case it was corrupted in transit.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 7:35 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

I don't get any output. I click on 'Export Heightmap' and the only thing that happens is the box under the Generate/Preview buttons goes blank if there was anything in it.

Khris

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:55 PM jeheydorn notifications@github.com wrote:

The map gets stored as a temporary file and automatically opens in your system's default image viewer. Perhaps your system's default image viewer failed to open the file. One of the last messages logged by the generator will give you the file name it get stored in, so you can try opening it in another program.

If you don't see that file path in the generator's output, then please copy paste the generator's output into this email and I'll take a look at it.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 6:32 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm probably just being obtuse, but I can't get the map to export to anything. I click the 'Export Heightmap' button and...nothing happens. I'm running on Windows 10 and have Java completely updated. Everything else on the program works fine, I just can't actually do anything with map once I have it completed. I checked the folder that Nortantis is stored in to make sure it wasn't creating a file there and just not telling me or something, but I can't find anything. I tried digging around on the website to see if there was anything telling you where to find the final file....I'm just completely lost at this point. Where does the final map get sent once you export it? Is it supposed to ask you to export it to somewhere specific? That's what I expected, but no other menu pops up or anything. It's like I haven't actually chosen something on the menu.

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jeheydorn commented 5 years ago

I'm glad it worked. If you still want to generate at higher resolutions, you can work around this issue by giving the Java virtual machine more memory. I have instructions on my web page for how to do that.

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 6:58 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

Turning the resolution down worked! Thanks!

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 7:49 AM jeheydorn notifications@github.com wrote:

Well, that sounds bad. I've never seen that happen. Do you have the same problem when generating regular maps? Or is it only height maps?

Try turning down the resolution on the background tab to the minimum of 25% to see if this is an out of memory error, although I would be very surprised if that was the issue because heightmaps take less memory to generate than regular maps. If that doesn't work, you could try redownloading and re-extracting the zip file in case it was corrupted in transit.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 7:35 PM MalachiteDrake <notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the reply!

I don't get any output. I click on 'Export Heightmap' and the only thing that happens is the box under the Generate/Preview buttons goes blank if there was anything in it.

Khris

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:55 PM jeheydorn notifications@github.com wrote:

The map gets stored as a temporary file and automatically opens in your system's default image viewer. Perhaps your system's default image viewer failed to open the file. One of the last messages logged by the generator will give you the file name it get stored in, so you can try opening it in another program.

If you don't see that file path in the generator's output, then please copy paste the generator's output into this email and I'll take a look at it.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 6:32 PM MalachiteDrake < notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm probably just being obtuse, but I can't get the map to export to anything. I click the 'Export Heightmap' button and...nothing happens. I'm running on Windows 10 and have Java completely updated. Everything else on the program works fine, I just can't actually do anything with map once I have it completed. I checked the folder that Nortantis is stored in to make sure it wasn't creating a file there and just not telling me or something, but I can't find anything. I tried digging around on the website to see if there was anything telling you where to find the final file....I'm just completely lost at this point. Where does the final map get sent once you export it? Is it supposed to ask you to export it to somewhere specific? That's what I expected, but no other menu pops up or anything. It's like I haven't actually chosen something on the menu.

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jeheydorn commented 5 years ago

I pushed a change a couple days ago which will cause this out of memory error to be less frequent and to give a meaningful error pop-up.