Map is black in areas

[Hatione]

Okay, so I am new and I am pretty sure it isn't supposed to be like this but lots of the map is just pure black, and I do not know why. When entering a forest near Hyldaa and in between the Kran starting point, the first part is all black, trees and all. The entry way to the city from the forest is also all black. Then within the city there is lots of issues. If I am not in the middle of the city, it is pretty much assured that I will not be able to see, because everything is black. The npc's I can see, but any objects are all black. At first I thought it might just be shadows, but turning the brightness up to the max still did not help.

So, what do I do?

[neko kyouran]

can you list what graphics card you're currently using and the driver version its utilizing?

it may be not displaying the game correctly due to not supporting OpenGL properly, and a newer version of the driver may fix that.

[Lanarel]

Many maps (mainly the road ones) show up black on several graphics cards. New maps should be better, but these will not help you until a next release.

[Andoryn Thaakor]

This is maybe due to the faulty lightmap information, xmltag Basecolor, contained in the maps. Even after the latest update, this has not been fxed.

I've updated the latest versions of hydlaa_plaza and hydlaa_jayose. These new mapfiles can be found on http://planeshift.alphasys.nl Please take heed of the backupnotice. Please try these updated mapfiles. If these work for you (for these areas), and still have problems with other maps, then list those as reply here. I'll then fix/tweak them asap and make them available on mentioned site.

[josepp]

Hello Everyone

i have the same problem on my Thinkpad T40 with a Mobility Radeon 7500.
It seems to me as if there was no "indirect light". I've tried different Antistropy Filtering, Vertex Buffer and Multisampling settings but couldn't notice any improvement.

hope this helps and thanks.
josepp

[Kratoze]

I've experienced the same problem, but not in masses.  Mainly in the Death Realm where the spiral thing is black and also in other places.

[Nykolai Raskaniov]

Re-read the thread folks In case you missed it, Andoryn gave us some map fixes - http://planeshift.alphasys.nl