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Okay, I know a lot of people probly didnt even know UOAM (UO Auto Map) can work with a custom map, but the fact is, UOAM generates its map directly from the Map and statics files in the UO folder. It does not care whats on them, or verify that map to an OSI map, or anything likt that.
Anyway, Im sure many of you have used UOAM before on your custom map, and noticed that there is always some little bits and pieces of the OSI map still showing. This is because UOAM also reads the "dif" files. These files hold small patched areas that OSI has made. When they change somthing in the map, they use the dif files to patch the client folder. They are smaller, so when players patch, they dont have to download an entire new Map file.. I have a Blank set of these files, that will allow you to generate a clean Image of your custom map on UOAM.
** Also, this will solve any trouble with the EMU's that read these files, and place these bits of map and statics on your map, in game**

You can get these files here

Replace the ones currently in the UO folder with these..
There are 8 total files in all, so It might not be somthing you would want to make all your Players change, But it will allow you to work on your map (if your EMU shows these map areas of OSI) without these areas interfearing

Hope they help someone out.

*Addition*

For anyone using the RunUO EMU, you can simply disable the server from reading the diff files, rather than making players patch these files. This will keep the map from using these patched map areas of the OSI map's, although anyone trying to use UOAM will still get these areas showing on there.
You can search the forum here for "TileMatrixPatch" for the simple code script I have posted for this disabling.

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Not sure if this helps or not, but I have a tool that merge the dif files into the mul files (so you can use standard editing tools, and get map1 for instance).
I also have tools that will take your mul files, compare them to the standard mul files (assuming you still have them), and generate dif files.

The below link will take you there.

http://games.gimbo.org/~punt/

Link doesnt work.

sorry, during a move accross the country I had to take my server with me (go figure ) I will have these things back up and running very soon. Should have it going again later today ( Fri, aug 8 )

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Anyone else have these files that is willing to post a link for downloading them?

you can just move or remove the dif files, you don't need to have blank ones.

mapdif*.mul and stadif*.mul (there's a bunch of them)

From my stand point this would be fine but I'm looking at it from my players stand point. If these files aren't included with the UOGateway patch they will still see parts of the OSI map and statics so I still would like to get these files if someone can post a link to them.

Generate your own, seems to me if you took a map and used the DIF creator tool (linked above) on your map and an identical map it would generate a blank dif file. Do the same with statics afterwards.

I have updated the first post, and added the files back into my web server. they are ready for download again for whomever wants them.

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I dont want to nag, but i downloaded your files and it appears that the rar does not extract any files. I used both WinRAR and WinAce but no luck. Maybe you could redo the archive?

Im curious, do the diff files in any way affect the client's side of how the map looks or works. What i mean is, say a person decides to join my shard, will they need to download the diff files, or does the files just affect the server's side of things?

Yes all the diff files, map files, static etc. must be the same as yours or they will run into invisible objects or see things that are not there on your map. The link listed is for the RUNUO forum where they answer this question in detail. In RUNUO the diff files can be switched off with a script that is also listed in the forums there.

http://www.runuo.com/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=10481

but again the blanks are down.. .i neeeeeds them soo baaaad

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I updated link, keep in mind, these are blank files. They are from what I have been able to test, unable to be added to as far as freezing statics to them with any sort of Static freeze program.

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Does anyone have another link to download these ? The link seems to be broken

If you just delete the files, I noticed that the client errors out. I think its becasue its 4.0.0+. You can use MULTOOL to clear the files as well.

mpgram, multool only works with statics though... I don't think you'll be able to get rid of the map diffs that way.

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Anyone else get this problem when trying to run the merge program of the diff one.

this application had failed to start because qt-my311.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

ant help would be useful.

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Never mind i read the rest of the website

You can make blank diff files really easily...

Just make a bunch of .txt files with names that match the diff files, then change the extention to .mul rather then .txt

Dian has fixed the link so that it works now.

Once again a kick ass fix

Theres one problem though, If you use these. UO Gateway will not patch a 0 byte file.

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I dont use gateway so i feel im safe.