Unwise: That's not it, thanks for the suggestion though.
I already tried that, making the map very dark, but it still wouldn't work. That gave me an idea though...which I'm going to test right now. I suspect Gandalf is closer to the truth...brb, will edit with the results. Meanwhile I'm sending the map to JK to look at.
Edit:
OK, I copied the dots to a pure black map and it still locks up, so it's a problem with the placement of the dots. It's not a problem with the edges (like being too close), as I just erased all capitals within about 100 or more pixels of the edges...
Edit+
Alright, it appears to be a coding bug related to where the dots are. Here's what I did: Took the black map with the dots on it and copied only the top half to a new file. That locked up the game. I copied half of the half to a new file, game loaded it fine, so I figure "Aha! The problem is in that other 1/4 of the map...right?" Went back to Photoshop and selected inverse, to copy the opposite half....and Dom loaded it fine! So it took both halves, but not the whole. Looking at the division between the halves reveals that there are not dots even remotely close to the border.
And just to be thorough, I went thru the pic and deleted any capitals that were on the same horizontal or vertical lines, which doesn't help.
On the brighter side: I can now get away from Photoshop and actually
play the game!
[ February 06, 2004, 16:13: Message edited by: Targa ]