Choose Terrain

The Choose Terrain dialog lists the terrains you can load. It shows every terrain on the terrain server plus any terrains that are only on your computer.

Offline, you can load any terrain for practice. Online, the arena's server supplies the terrain; only CMs can change it.

When you create a Player Arena, you select its terrain from the drop down menu in that dialog instead.

The list

Each entry shows the terrain's picture, its description and its file name. On the right it shows the state of your copy:

• (Downloaded) in green: the terrain is on your computer and up to date.
• (Out Of Date) in red, with the date of the server's version: the server has a newer version. Download it again.
• (Needs Uploading): your copy does not match the server's version.
• (Local Only): the terrain is only on your computer, not on the terrain server.

Entries with no state are not on your computer yet.

Finding a terrain

• Search: type part of a terrain's name or description. The list shows only the terrains that match as you type (upper and lower case do not matter). Delete the text to see them all again.
• On this PC: show only the terrains already on your computer.
• HTC only: show only the terrains made by HiTech Creations. It is greyed out when the terrain server does not supply this information.

The search and both check boxes work together. If the selected terrain is hidden by them, the first terrain still in the list is selected.

Buttons

• Download: downloads the selected terrain to your computer. It is only available when the terrain is not on your computer or is out of date.
• OK: loads the selected terrain. Offline, it becomes your offline terrain; if you are already offline, the game restarts on it. Online (CMs only), the server first asks you to confirm, because changing the terrain reboots the arena and resets the map, even when you choose the terrain the arena is already using.
• Cancel: closes the dialog without changing anything.