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This is weird. I did a test.

First I opened my map, and chose 'generate terrain shadows'. I selected ONE square, low setting. Clicked OK. It generated the shadows in about 30 seconds. Then, I chose merge when it finished. This takes awhile. When its done, the ENTIRE MAP has shadows generated on the low setting...and its all the battlecraft texture (not mine).

Before (as you can see in the screenshot I posted above), I textured the entire map on the highest setting. Shadows were generated on ALL squares, but SOME of them had a crappy texture (most of them).

Tonight I chose generate shadows on ONE square, highest setting...same result. The entire map gets shadow'd, but my nice texture disappears. WTF?!

I'm so lost. If there was another way to generate shadows, I would.

If anyone is actually curious and wants to take a look, I uploaded what I have so far to filefront here:
http://files.filefront.com/LongOddszip/ ... einfo.html
Just unzip and put in your levels dir.


Try generating shadows for one block on high, and then merge...I DARE you, lol.

**Oh, and one note...when I made the texture in Ed42, I was a boob and painted it with terrain shadows. Yes, the hills will be a little darker...I could live with that

Battlecraft will overwrite any cutoms textures you may have done no matter what. Like I said, make some repeating copys of them, and add them to a texture set, so BC doesnt overwrite them.

My battlecraft crashes when opening the map, your best bet is probably to copy over the staticobjects.con, all gameplay con files, and the Heightmap and Materialmap, and start over. Make a new map, extract it, paste the files from the previous map into it, and viola! its fresh, without the taint of the failures.

I seem to have found a solution to this!!
http://battlefieldsingleplayer.planetba ... pid=114357

The tiles I had painted runway tire tracks on in BC had stayed, but the ones I did not edit in BC stayed the same. I'm going to take bommel's idea of painting each tile with a little bit of the darken brush, and that SHOULD make it so my fancy-pants texture stays. Lets hope..!