[Help] BF2 Editor

[Omega-[1TF]]

hey guys, I have a couple things that i need help with. Also just an FYI, i did use the search function and used google. Also checked the BFEditor forums.

Anyways here are the issues.

1.) My friends map has textures that destroy vehicles. His ground is all textured, but when he drives vehicles on them he periodically takes damage, and the vehicle is destroyed in about 1-2 minutes of constant driving.

2.) My friends map has issues with kits. We would like to be able to request ANY number of ANY kits, regardless of people on the team or in the server. (It is a training map). How would we go about this? Also he tried placing kits with the editor, but when we get ingame we cant actually see the kit bags. Although when we walk to where they are, we run into them, but they are just invisible.

3.) Somewhat linked to Q #2, i seen a forum here with a small tut on how to change what is inside of a kit, although when searching i cannot find it. Basically like how to remove smoke grenades and put in NVG as an example.

4.) On my map i am having a little bit of overgrowth problem. I've seen this one on here too, but i cant find it either. My overgrowth (trees) when on the side of a hill, will not stand straight up, but rather at about a 45 degree angle. Anybody know how to fix?

Thank you in advance for your responses.

[Amok@ndy]

1) you need to assign materials to your texture layers
2) you need to spawn the kits as ObjectSpawners
3) google
4) set NormalScale to 0 on your Overgrowth materials

[AFsoccer]

;1413399']
1.) My friends map has textures that destroy vehicles. His ground is all textured, but when he drives vehicles on them he periodically takes damage, and the vehicle is destroyed in about 1-2 minutes of constant driving.

Try picking a material for each of your six terrain types.

4.) On my map i am having a little bit of overgrowth problem. I've seen this one on here too, but i cant find it either. My overgrowth (trees) when on the side of a hill, will not stand straight up, but rather at about a 45 degree angle. Anybody know how to fix?

Check this out: Overgrowth And Perpindiculer Trees? - Official BF Editor Forums

[Omega-[1TF]]

Thanks much guys. tried a new texture because the one I was using was glitched. Changed the value just as it said and it worked. Thank you very much.


And for the question 3, i tried google. Check this out.

hey guys, I have a couple things that i need help with. Also just an FYI, i did use the search function and used google. Also checked the BFEditor forums.

When i searched it though it came up with kits that are being used in different mods and such. I'll have to try askin on the BFEditor site.

Also, the objectspawners doesnt work for that. Aw well.
Anybody got a link to the thread or know how to set as many of any kits? Its for a training map. Tnx in advance

Thanks again Amok@ndy and AFSoccer

[Sniperdog]

;1413399']3.) Somewhat linked to Q #2, i seen a forum here with a small tut on how to change what is inside of a kit, although when searching i cannot find it. Basically like how to remove smoke grenades and put in NVG as an example.

To do this first you need to understand something. Every weapon that goes into a kit is a handheld weapon, and every handheld weapon can only exist in one weapon slot, which is defined by the code.

In the standard smoke grenade weapon (hgr_smoke) you will see in the tweak file that it will always be in the 6th weapon slot because it has the line:

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ObjectTemplate.itemIndex 6

While the night vision goggles (nvg) will be in weapon slot 7:

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ObjectTemplate.itemIndex 7

All these hand held weapons are in the weapons server archive in the handheld folder.

You can see kit layouts in the kits server archive the code for all the kits in the game. As an example take a look at the mec_rifleman kit, in the mec directory.

This code halfway down, is what defines the handheld weapons to be accessible in the kit:

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rem -------------------------------------
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate kni_knife
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate klappspaten
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate mecrif_g3scope
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate f1grenade
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate hgr_smoke
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate ammokit
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate binocular
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate medikit_dressing_arab
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate hgr_incendiary
rem -------------------------------------

Each handheld weapon in the kit has the index it needs in its separate tweak file so it is in the right weapon slot.

So kni_knife has the index 1 in its file, klappspaten (the shovel) has the index 2, and so on until you get to 9.

Say you wanted to add the night vision goggles (slot 7) to the above kit. The quickest way to do it would be to take out the binoculars (also slot 7 if you look at its code) and replace it with the nvg's like this:

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rem -------------------------------------
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate kni_knife
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate klappspaten
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate mecrif_g3scope
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate f1grenade
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate hgr_smoke
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate ammokit
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate nvg
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate medikit_dressing_arab
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate hgr_incendiary
rem -------------------------------------

The slightly more challenging way would be if you want to replace a weapon in a different index number, lets say the smoke, which is weapon slot 6.

To do that you would have to first duplicate the nvg's into an indentical handheld weapon but which resides in weapon slot 7. You can't just change the number in the original nvg's because there might be other kits which use the nvg's and it would mess up the weapons load out for those kits.

To duplicate you simply drag nvg.con and nvg.tweak to your desktop, rename them to nvg_slot6.con and nvg_slot6.tweak respectively and bring them back into the archive in the same place. Then you would want to go into these two files themselves and use the replace function in notepad to replace every instance of nvg with nvg_slot6. After you replace you want to then go back into the tweak and change the following instances of nvg_slot6 back to nvg:

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ObjectTemplate.animationSystem1P Objects/Weapons/Handheld/nvg_slot6/AnimationSystem1p.inc
ObjectTemplate.animationSystem3P Objects/Weapons/Handheld/nvg_slot6/AnimationSystem3p.inc

->

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ObjectTemplate.animationSystem1P Objects/Weapons/Handheld/nvg/AnimationSystem1p.inc
ObjectTemplate.animationSystem3P Objects/Weapons/Handheld/nvg/AnimationSystem3p.inc

In the case of the nvg's there are a few things missing that are normally in handheld weapons, so I will show you a few things you would need to change back besides animations in other situations where you might do a replace like this.

The big three you should always need to check for are:

(In examples imagine you are replacing TANK with AWESOME_TANK)

-Geometries

eg:

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ObjectTemplate.geometry TANK

-Collision Meshes

eg:

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ObjectTemplate.setCollisionMesh TANK

-File Addresses (found in sounds, texture paths or animations like above)

eg:

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ObjectTemplate.vehicleHud.miniMapIcon        "Ingame\Vehicles\Icons\Hud\land\TANK\crosshair.tga"

or:

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ObjectTemplate.soundFilename "objects/vehicles/land/TANK/sounds/boom.wav"

In these cases it will either define a new mesh that doesn't exist or define an incorrect file address if you don't keep the old name in those places.

You ofcourse also need to change the kit index

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ObjectTemplate.itemIndex 7

->

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ObjectTemplate.itemIndex 6

Finally you add your newly duplicated handheld firearm (in this case nvg_slot6) to the kit you want it to be the 6th slot for.

Hopefully that helped you and any others who may need to do something like that in the future.

[Omega-[1TF]]

Thank you VERY much Sniperdog. This really helps me, and i am positive it will help more. In detail and makes sense.

More questions,
I know you can edit skins of vehicles, weapons, and statics using photoshop, and i've seen how to do them, but here is the question. If i edit a billboard lets say, and add it to my map, it also has to be installed to the clients objects folder right? And if so, would this possibly make their copy of PR incompatible with the rest of the servers due to modified content? (punkbuster i should say)

We also have been working on a V-22 (Found one and been trying to bring it to USMC detail levels). If this is added to the map, and the clients files, same thing with compatibility issues? I believe i found something saying this the other day on the BFEditor forums.

And as per our training map, we are trying to be able to set it, so that you may request any kit at any time, no matter how many people are in the server or squad, I've seen the post here before, but i cannot find even using search feature. Can anybody point me in the right direction please?

[Sniperdog]

;1415010']I know you can edit skins of vehicles, weapons, and statics using photoshop, and i've seen how to do them, but here is the question. If i edit a billboard lets say, and add it to my map, it also has to be installed to the clients objects folder right? And if so, would this possibly make their copy of PR incompatible with the rest of the servers due to modified content? (punkbuster i should say)

You can actually set your custom skin in a objects_client.zip in your maps folder. This is done in al basrah, look there for an example. You need to make sure you add the file to the clientarchives.con file within the server.zip of that level (again look at al basrah for reference).

;1415010']
We also have been working on a V-22 (Found one and been trying to bring it to USMC detail levels). If this is added to the map, and the clients files, same thing with compatibility issues? I believe i found something saying this the other day on the BFEditor forums.

I believe you can add a vehicle in the same way I told you to add the texture above. In this case the files will be defined in the serverarchives.con in the server.zip archive.

;1415010']
And as per our training map, we are trying to be able to set it, so that you may request any kit at any time, no matter how many people are in the server or squad, I've seen the post here before, but i cannot find even using search feature. Can anybody point me in the right direction please?

There are python commands that allow this in the uncompiled python of PR which can be found in python/game/realityconfig_nnn.py

Open the file you want and change the settings you need to change, coop for a dedicated coop, local for a local server, and private for a normal dedicated server. Any time you change any public python settings for a dedicated server remember that as per the PR Server License agreement you have to password your server.

[Omega-[1TF]]

Ok few more issues here. On my map, i have no combat area, and it has water (Will water level damage?)
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After i spawn about 3-5 seconds i take continuous damage, its happening on both of my spawnpoints, one is on a russian ship, one is on an air base (see Qinling airbase).

There are also random patches on the map where i take extreme damage (And it is not material as those are set). You guys know anything about this?

Also the terrain size is the largest one, and at distance some of the terrain just disappears (4 Km)

[Amok@ndy]

;1461803']After i spawn about 3-5 seconds i take continuous damage, its happening on both of my spawnpoints, one is on a russian ship, one is on an air base (see Qinling airbase).

you need to add a combat area cause the default CombatArea is 2048/2048 but for a 4km map you need 4096/4096

;1461803']Also the terrain size is the largest one, and at distance some of the terrain just disappears (4 Km)

create a tmp.con in your mapfolder and add this line to it:

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terrainCuller.setUseStitchedLods 0

[Omega-[1TF]]

Thanks Amok@ndy, gonna give it a shot and i'll tell you if it worked. The editor seems to mysteriously find or create more shit for me to jump through ya know? lol

[Omega-[1TF]]

Hey that worked, TYVM.

I have water issues (which i thought was just editor, but it is ingame too)

The water should have waves/ripples and what not, but instead it is a constant solid blue. Also my map will be a night map so i need to get the water realistic looking, then dark.

My overgrowth also does not appear until i am probably 100M ish away. Need to fix that too.

And also, on vBF2:SF there was the green night vision for when you are infantry, and when you are flying helos there was a red grainy looking night vision. How can i make it so the US Team has the green nightvision and the OPFOR has the grainy looking one? I dont just mean in vehicles, but for both factions to have the specific NV.

[Amok@ndy]

for your water you need to generate a Envmap0.dds and put it into /your mapfolder/water/Envmap0.dds

[AFsoccer]

Some of your questions can be answered by looking at this site:
Official BF Editor Forums -> BF2 Community Tutorials

They have more tutorials than found on the PR list and are extremely helpful. I would highly recommend
http://www.bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8729
and
http://www.bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11740

[Unmanned]

why placement (for swimming pool, etc. 30x30) water looks like constant blue solid? default water is ok.

[VapoMan]

why placement (for swimming pool, etc. 30x30) water looks like constant blue solid? default water is ok.

It will look like that in the editor but ingame it should (I have had problems in the past) be fine.

[AFsoccer]

@unmanned: Have you lightmapped the water plane? Click on it to select it then go to "compile" in the tool bar; then select lightmaps --> generate lightmaps. When the window pops up click on "trace selected" and "medium", then generate. Editor will take a minute or so to lightmap it. Then you'll need to go back to compile --> lightmaps --> generate atlas lilghtmaps. After you re-start editor, the water shouldn't look blue anymore.

Hope that helps.

[Unmanned]

thanks!