Map Problems

([rD]MrPink) #1

I know I’ll sound like a n00b for these two things, but they are problems I am having with my first ET custom map (I am using GTK Radiant 1.3.11).

Problem 1:
One of my custom textures is just coming up black with a yellow border.

Problem 2:
When you attempt to open the limbo menu ET freezes

(Mr. Repair) #2

For the second one, the game freezes because you need to put in the mapcoordsmins and mapcoordsmaxs keys and values. To do this, press “N” to bring up something which I can’t remember what it’s called, and then make sure it’s on ‘worldspawn’, and enter in the key named mapcoordsmins and for a value, put the top-left corner of your map in, like -1024 1024 just like that, without commas or anything. Then you need to enter in a mapcoordsmaxs and put the opposite square corner, which for this example would be 1024 -1024. To get a perfect square, you can also create a square brush, and then use those coordinates. I’m not very experienced, but I’m just trying to get across a rudimenty solution. Maybe someone more experienced can put across a simpler quicker way.

([DeaD]-SLOTH-) #3

make sure the texture is in 2x2 format (ie 256x256, 512x512 etc)

(Storm) #4

problem 1:
drag-out a brush (solid) the size of your map from corner to corner, then
hit the “n” key to bring up enitiy menu select worldspawn from the list at top. now zoom in and hold your mouse over the upper left corner and look for the coordnates at the bottom of your gtkradiant screen copy both the x and z coords and type those under mapcoordsmins. now zoom in to your lower right corner and copy those coords into your mapcoordsmaxs value.

mapcoordsmins (upper left corner)
mapcoordsmaxs (lower right)

this is the info that et needs to spawn a player or use command map,
hope that helps

([rD]MrPink) #5

OK, I had commas in my map coordinants, so that fixes that. I am not sure if my texture is in a proper multiple like that, however you describe it lol. I’ll check.

([rD]MrPink) #6

Sure enough it wasn’t in a multiple of two :banghead: I’m about to test it now. Thanks a lot for the help guys!

([rD]MrPink) #7

It still freezes, but the texture shows now. Can anything else cause this? Arg, no one else will anser… I’ll just create another thread :stuck_out_tongue: