hmmmm.....
Ok, here's a question then a coupla suggestions based on guessed assumptions
Probably a dumb Question (on my part), but how do you know its the blank terrain? I think the blank terrain should be all water, right? If so, and you are using your Hawaii terrain, could it be you just haven't found the islands yet? I've found that with island terrains, I really have to hunt around to find them. If you haven't gone through the process of creating a map, the map will most likely be all water even though the terrain isn't. Also, if you haven't done so already set your terrain size in the AH editor to 512x512 so you can see just how big the area is (rescales the map so you don't have to fly off the edges to reach the boundary of the terrain).
Edit: Suggestion 0.5. The editor produces a .bmp when you enter/exit the editor. Find that bmp (should have the date and time you entered/exited). Is that bmp all blank?
Suggestion 1. Try deleting all files in your testpac folder *except* the typ, elv, and oba, and then try again.
Suggestion 2. Try making a terrain that is all land and see if that works.
I'm sure you've tried some of these already, but with the inherent turn-around time using the Internet I figured I'd better just dump as much info and questions as possible
[This message has been edited by Ogre (edited 08-23-2000).]