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I have been wanting to create some caves in the flavor of the Minoc caves.  That is, a mountain, with a mouth opening that someone walks through and is then in a cave for mining, killing, whatever.  I loaded up CentrED today, and tried working it out... So far, have not been very successful.  Every time I try to place a cave floor at say a 0 Z value, the editor things I want to collapse the mountain to 0 level.  So, it creates this monster valley.  I can't seem to get it to put a second layer in at z=0.  Any ideas how to do this?  Theoretically, you should be able to create many layers on top of each other.

Just as an observation, and maybe I just wasn't seeing it on the CentrED web site, but this forum is NOT easy to find. 

So, passwords are formatted in the linux password format?  Just like they would be in an .passwd file?

I thought I would add a bit to the server installation documents.  I struggled for about an hour trying to figure out what was wrong this AM and through some trial and error was able to get it running.

First, you can't have any instances of UO running on the PC you are installing to.  This only applies to the server software.  So, you cannot be connected to your shard on that PC, you can't be playing on someone elses shard, CentrED needs exclusive rights to your data files in the Ultima Online directory.

Second, depending on the Version of the client software that you are running on this PC, that is the version of Ultima Online, not the server software, you have to amend your map size.  I finally ran across this chart on the CentrED Website, but, couldn't find it without doing a yahoo search:

The map sizes for Felucca and Trammel vary between different UO Versions. Before Mondains Legacy these maps were 768x512 in size but were enlarged to 896x512 afterwards.

Map    Size    File    Bytes
Felucca (Pre-ML)    768x512    map0.mul    77,070,336
      staidx0.mul    4,718,592
      statics0.mul    
Trammel (Pre-ML)    768x512    map0.mul    77,070,336
      staidx0.mul    4,718,592
      statics0.mul    
      stadif*1.mul    
Felucca (ML)    896x512    map0.mul    89,915,392
      staidx0.mul    5,505,024
      statics0.mul    
Trammel (ML)    896x512    map1.mul    89,915,392
      staidx1.mul    5,505,024
      statics1.mul    
Ilshenar    288x200    map2.mul    11,289,600
      staidx2.mul    691,200
      statics2.mul    
Malas    320x256    map3.mul    16,056,320
      staidx3.mul    983,040
      statics3.mul    
Tokuno    181x181    map4.mul    6,421,156
      staidx4.mul    393,132
      statics4.mul    

The URL is: http://redmine.aksdb.de/projects/centred/wiki/Map

Obviously looking at this chart, in order to edit different maps you are going to have to edit the cedserver.xml file to open a different set of MUL files AND modify the map sizes accordingly.  PLEASE NOTE: the pdf documentation says that the config file is cedserver.ini.  It appears at some point this has changed, it is cedserver.xml now.  As near as I can figure the only way to change maps is to manually edit this file and restart the server.

If you place your cedserver.exe file IN your main UO directory, you should be able to run and connect.  If you want to place it outside of your main UO directory, you will have to type full pathnames for each of the MUL files that cedserver wants to access.

That link was a really good idea... it just isn't there any longer.  I have client 6.X installed on my server, I am guessing that the map0.mul default dimensions are wrong because the server shuts down every time.