So I had my first crack at the TE

[8thJinx]

It's actually kind of intuitive, once you get the nomenclature down and understand the scaling involved.

Question: when I tried converting an AH2 map, the folders were created, but nothing else happened.  Does this feature work yet?

[Easyscor]

It did the last time I tried it.

[ghostdancer]

Yes last time I did it (patch 14) it worked and I was able to convert an AH2 map to AH3. Haven't done it with Patch 15 or Patch 16 though. Just in case after you convert save, close the editor, and then reopen the editor to see if you have a CBM map or not.

[8thJinx]

I just tried it again, all I get is a blank ocean.

[ghostdancer]

Send me the AH2 terrain and I will take a look (dgideon@dgideon.org).

[Easyscor]

I just tried it again, all I get is a blank ocean.

Are you trying to convert a .res file instead of an .oba file?

[8thJinx]

No, I'm converting the .oba file.  Like I said, I get all the folders set up, and the file name appears at the top, but all I get is an empty ocean on screen when it's done.

[ghostdancer]

Couple of questions.

• Was this a finished map in AH2? If you still have the AH2 Editor does the map open in that and you see land, etc.?
• Was the AH2 mostly land or mostly water?
• Did the AH2 have a clip board map for the terrain?

When you convert a map it starts your view in the center of the map. If that is ocean you will see ocean in the editor and have to move around to find land. Without a clipboard map that can take a bit of time if you have a mostly water map with island.

On a AH2 terrain map with a saved land elevations and clip board map:

• Click convert V2.0 Terrain
• Select the OBA file of the map you want to convert (must be an AH2 not an AH1 or AH3 map). Also make sure that this map file / directory is not in the ah3terr directory. The AH2 map should be somewhere else since the convert basically makes a converts AND makes a copy of the map in a new directory under ah3terr directory. If the map already exists there funky things might happen so best to have in somewhere else .
• Once done your editor screen should update but you may still be over water until you move around your point of view. To tell if actually updated:
  - Did the name of the terrain change at the top of the screen. It should now say "Aces High Terrain Editor [yourmapname]
  - Did the map window update and show you the clipboard map that was with your terrain or is still blank (see below). The tiny red square on the map window represents your point of view, on the map.
  

If your map window looks like below you don't have a clip board map. To make one now click on File > Make Map. In the dialog that comes up choose the bitmap size (1024x1024). Hit okay and then exit the terrain editor. In your terrain directory (ah3terr >yourmapname) you will see a map.bmp. Double click it to view it and see if there is any land at all or if it is all blue (all ocean). If there is land then rename it to the exact name of your terrain and move it into the ah3terr >yourmapname > texsrc directory. Reopen the terrain in your editor and in the map window you should now see your clip board map.

[hitech]

Where did you put the AH2 terrain folder you were trying to convert? If you put it in the ah3terr folder, things would not work well.

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