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arrrgh. took mi ages to figure out how to start up studio. now i have a new problem. i can edit the map now but i cant seem to be able to save the changes.

i ran exult.exe and then selected "black gate" then "journey onwards"
then i typed ctrl-alt-m. exult studio started up. i am able to do stuff like drag chunks onto the map and edit the terrain, but i cant save the changes.

i tried going to "file" option in studio, then "save all". this closed my exult program. i started it up again and "journey onwards". but i found my changes to terrain have not been saved. next i tried saving a game in exult after editing the terrain. then i closed exult and started it up again. i loaded the savegame and it threw mi out.

can someone please teach mi how to save changes to the map. thnx.

Ahh its very simple! The map file is saved in your /patch directory, just so you won't have your actual map file re-written.
Or atleast its that way for me

its not that simple for mi. =( actually a patch directory was created by studio. but its totally empty. in any case how do you load the game that has the changes?

I lost it myself Its not so simple anymore, well if the patch directory had the map file in it, you'd copy the map file to your static directory.

i got a feeling maybe i didnt set some path correctly or something. ERrrrrr. i spent like 2 hours reading through the doc to try and figure wat i did wrong but still cant get it to work. thnx for your help anyhow. anyway like i said, my patch directory is empty though i tried to save countless times.

some things are just not meant to be

I think if you have a patch directory, you put that directory into the exult.cfg file under the branch, and it takes over from there. No need to overwrite any files

yes, see the Studio documentation for some mention of the patch dir and the necessary settings for it.

Who on earth reads documention;)

Those who want to know how to do things?

All the *real* Exult fans do! ;P

Correction: all the Exult fans who get bored and can't be arsed to post a message on this forum for help

Nonono, don't go correcting my posts there, hehe.

I still love you!!!

That's all well and good. But still, don't go correcting my posts!

Consider it a addition instead of a correction
Now back on topic...I put a map from the patch directory to the serpent isle static directory and it was fudged up, all different chunks...why?