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I had this issue myself when I was first starting out. Thankfully, a highly respected mapper took pity on me and told me how to fix it. I have to assume you are using BrowEdit Revision 620, which is fine and probably best for everything except saving. You can do all of your texture edits, model placement, and terrain adjustments in r620, but after you've saved it, you should re-open the map in BrowEdit r586 and save it again. Upload the new file to your server and the black tile issue should go away. Hope this helps, ~Azura Skyy

LessGRF What? LessGRF (LGRF) is an extension to the GRF format which adds a new algorithm for file compression. Normally the GRF will compress files using the DEFLATE algorithm which is the compression method typically used in ZIP files, but LessGRF adds the LZMA algorithm as an option. Why? Ragnarok's GRF files can get quite big. Back in the days the game data used to take up a few hundred megabytes, but today the GRF archives are about 2GB and contain tens of thousands of files. Since the data is starting to get pretty big it's possible to save quite a bit of space simply by re-compressing the game files with a more efficient algorithm. In my test on a full data.grf the file was reduced to about 60% of its former size. Maybe someone will find it useful if they want to make a mini client or something? Honestly, this was just a little experiment I did out of curiosity. How? Two simple steps are all that's necessary to use the LGRF format. First, download this file. 1. Installation To upgrade your client, replace the cps.dll in your Ragnarok folder with the one from the download. (Make a backup of the old DLL file first.) 2. Recompression Extract GRFCrush.exe somewhere. Run it from command line or just drag and drop your GRF file onto it. It will generate a new GRF file which you can use instead of the old one. The recompression process will likely take about 20 minutes on a moderately powerful computer. Q&A Q: Since the compression rate is better, will files load slower? A: I've not notice any different in map load times. LZMA is more expensive to decompress, but modern processors are so fast the load time might just as well be reduced since less data has to be read from the hard disk. Q: Can I use both GRF files and LGRF files at the same time? A: Yes. The new cps.dll supports the old GRF compression as well. You can mix LGRF and GRF Q: Can patchers or GRF tools update LGRF archives? A: Very likely, but only if they don't attempt to decode the data in the process. Q: Can current GRF tools extract files from LGRF archives? A: No. Q: ...Does that mean it can also be used for GRF protection? A: I wouldn't recommend it. (That being said I guess this is no less "secure" than GRF protectors like SecureGRF.) Q: Are there any penalties involved with using this format? A: Incompatibility with GRF extractors is currently the only thing I've been able to think of. Let me know if you notice something else.

DEV KURO, ALSO KNOWN AS AARON PATRICK CATULIN, is a scammer. I had made a deal with him for $110AUD for a full project, client side and server side. Partial payment of $70AUD was to be made to him on 4 Sept 14 before he started on work. Having made the payment, be began to start ignoring me and did not want to produce the files. He last replied me on 14 Sep 14. He ignored me for over a month till 11 Oct 14 before I disputed the payment. I had no choice but to dispute the paypal payment, but with the good being intangible, my dispute was declined. Only then did he bother to reply, 12 Oct 14. He assured me that he will produce the goods and that it would be done within 2 weeks. He promised he would reply, but again, he went missing and did not want to reply me till date, 22 Nov 14. I'm now scammed and here's the evidence. To those who want to engage in his services, BEWARE. I know there's no way he's going to give me my files since he's ignored me for so long. As a Christian, I'm going to try to forgive him and let him do whatever he wants. But it's only right for me to inform everyone else, lest they get scammed too. Just feeling quite sad to be this unfortunate. Thanks for reading and be careful!

I had this issue myself when I was first starting out. Thankfully, a highly respected mapper took pity on me and told me how to fix it. I have to assume you are using BrowEdit Revision 620, which is fine and probably best for everything except saving. You can do all of your texture edits, model placement, and terrain adjustments in r620, but after you've saved it, you should re-open the map in BrowEdit r586 and save it again. Upload the new file to your server and the black tile issue should go away. Hope this helps, ~Azura Skyy Thank you i'll try this! EDIT: It works like a charm SUPER THANK YOU my lifesaver lol

This is a great idea; I had no idea GRFs still used DEFLATE. I can see this being very useful, especially for small private servers, since they'll no longer have to find a way to host a 2GB+ file with limited bandwidth or space. It'd be helpful if some users tried testing what tools currently work or don't work with this, to encourage faster adoption of it. Questions, though: do you have a list of the command-line options (are there any?), and can the tool also decompress the GRFs?