Demise: Rise of the Ku'tan: Map errors

Map errors

RaNDom
posted 04-13-2001 08:09 PM
I'm getting a lot of null-magic squares (the lightning bolt) appearing on my map, and some of my annotations are appearing as lightning bolts now. When I go to the spot where they appear on the map, there is an axe sticking out of the ground! Any ideas how to fix without deleting the @#$$%^^^ map yet again?

Dogg of Demise
posted 04-13-2001 09:22 PM
I think someone said something about the anotations file but wait till some one else can confirm it.

PowerOf4
posted 04-24-2001 05:10 AM
No solution but more observations and a product suggestion. The extinguish square icon plauges me as well. What I have noticed is that they appear (probably after playing for some time anf getting a bit of memory corruption) where items have been found on the ground. I have occacionally seen them clear up, and re-appear at later stages. I have even tried Map-Area spell to see if it would clean up the map. Many times instead of a fait mist that indicates an extinguish square, the spot is marked by an image (ie axe) of one of the last items I found. I think there is a bug in the items placement and/or retreival routines. A common theme but I'm sure if it's always true, but it appears to be when items are found in areas like anti-magic, stud or quicksand. What would be good is if the map-area spell or just re-visiting an square coud clean up the map, even if the bug can't be fixed quickly.

Frostbite2.0
posted 04-24-2001 05:40 AM
I'm also getting false extinguish squares on my map. I've noticed that this often happens when i enter the dungeon with different party leader than before. i.e normally my giant is leader but when i enter with my dwarf as leader there is 2 wrong ex. squares for example at level 4. They cannot be removed by moving into them and trying to change leader while in dungeon...

RainDancer
posted 04-27-2001 08:39 PM
I've found the map errors occur after a crash, or game exit that didnt exit properly for whatever reason. After applying the last Patch which helped game stability issues I wasn't crashing so often, and the map seemed to be staying stable with only a few errors. I just recently started MP again after a long break, and when my ISP dumped me while in the dungeon, my map corrupted again with a lot more of those pink lightning bolt icons...ARRRGGHH... To get rid of the "measles" of Annotation icons - you can delete the Annotations.DED file in your Demise directory - this has worked for me when annotations went bananas...it wipes all annotations, and I found afterwards that any more annotations just started the whole *measles* thing over again, so I dont annotate at all now. Deleting the MazeItems.ded file, (I think thats the right file) resets all the Items on dungeon floors, which I had to do once when a Quest item I knew had been handed in by a previous SP character, and hence should have been reset in its laired position, hadn't shown up where it should have been. So I deleted the MazeItem.ded file and this not only reset the dungeon items, but also helped remove a lot (tho' not all) of the pink lightening bolt icons. Hope this info helps

RaNDom
posted 05-06-2001 04:48 PM
Thanks for the info guys. I tried deleting the files mentioned, but Demise had a fit on startup and said that I had manually removed files (well, duh!) and would replace them from backup, so I am back to square one again. Any techies out there got a solution for me?