Zone viewer questions - Custom Zones

[Windcatcher]

I'm confused. You're trying to preview them in OpenZone? If you're making XWA files, you should be using ZoneExplorer to preview them.

[OrisonSeven]

Windcatcher,
We did infact use zoneexplorer, though it just seems to crash... or stall out... or something like that.

The zone is exported from Openzone to xwa format, with all textures as well. Textures are in the proper .bmp format and are scaled to the correct zone (multiple of 2, i.e. 512x512) and are in 24bit.

[Richardo]

I wish more servers did completely custom stuff like this. I miss working on modeling projects.

[Windcatcher]

Without access to the zone, it's hard for me to say what's wrong.

[BassPlayerr8P]

Well, weve tried opening some of the zones that came with zone explorer and those did not work either. The program opens fine, but as soon as you try to load in any of the zones the program acts like its loading and no longer responds. Im not sure if I should wait and let it stay in this state or if its not working properly. I've tried compatability mode and that had the same result. I will try re-installing but any thoughts on why this would be happening?

[BassPlayerr8P]

[Windcatcher]

Might be a Vista thing. Vista has always been problematic for my software (and I don't have it, I run Win2k). What happens if you try it on an XP box?