ok, I fire up GG, go to File-> Open "Middle Eastern Map - MEA.fpm" (I made sure the .dat file is also in the mapbank directory)
GG says: "Loading Level", then "Loading Entities" (about 60, with "Rock 08" at the top), hen "Loading terrain".
Up comes the "Error 118 at Line 11922" Popup.
Clicking "ok" the 1st time makes GG display "resuming from previous session", then go through the same phases up to the "Error 118 at Line 11922" Popup".
Clicking "ok" anew makes it go through those phases once more,
but ends with a level rendered in the editor window which is 90% under water and the landscape cursor maxed out (larger than the edit window at 1920x1080). Way to the north west seems to be what looks like a city map with streets and crossings,
but WELL down underwater. Yet, no buidings seem to be present.
From here on, I can edit the map/landscape as usual, but to no avail due to the massively abundant water level.
The map editor log ends like this
656903 : gun 15:modern\Magnum357\gunspec.txt S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
656911 : gun 16:modern\RPG\gunspec.txt S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
656918 : gun 17:modern\Shotgun\gunspec.txt S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
656926 : gun 18:modern\SniperM700\gunspec.txt S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
656933 : gun 19:modern\Uzi\gunspec.txt S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
656941 : total guns=19 S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
657080 : _terrain_skyspec_init S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
657088 : _terrain_setupedit S:0MB V:0MB (313,0)
661408 : _editor_init S:389MB V:0MB (703,0)
661538 : loadresource S:10MB V:0MB (714,0)
661561 : Prepare editor fonts S:0MB V:0MB (714,0)
661690 : Guru Map Editor Loop Starts S:9MB V:0MB (723,0)
with no obvious error message or diagnostic to be found in the file.
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