Map testing

[Maek]

I’m tried to test my first map. It has spawns for deathmatch (or whatever it is) and for both teams. I typed to console:

/sv pure 0
/g_gametype 2
/devmap <mapname>

It starts the map as spectator, and when i press L for limbo menu, ET crashes. What I did wrong? :?

[S14Y3R]

You forgot to put mapcoordsmins/maxs in your worldspawn.

[Maek]

How do I know what is my map’s mapcoordsmins/maxs?

[Chris2]

http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17009

Check out my last post.

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[S14Y3R]

It has to do with your command map, you have to define your top-left and bottom-right corner of your map.

Have a look at your Level Designers Reference(LDR) that came with Radiant. The Command Map section is what you want. The LDR can be found in \Program Files\Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory\Radiant-1.4\docs\Level Designers Reference\index.html

The command map is a critical element of the game offering players the chance to keep track of objectives, other team players and where health/ammo requests are coming from. The command map is usually a 512 x 512 pixel image on which all other information is displayed.

The command map can be 256 pixels square up to 1024 in size, the game will resize the image regardless. The command map picture (stored as a .tga) has to be created externally by a paint program of your choice. The grid size and co-ordinates are worked out from the min/max keys in the worldspawn entity for the map.

Key mapcoordsmins represent the top left corner (x / y map editor values).
Key mapcoordsmaxs represent the bottom right corner (x / y map editor values).

One of the easiest ways to do that is to create a square brush under your map. (Make sure it’s square!) Also make sure that everything that has to be on the command map is within the bounds of the square brush. Then move the cursor over the top left corner of the brush and you will get the x / y mapcoordsmins (first two values) from the little coordinate line in Radiant (bottom right). Repeat for the x / y mapcoordsmaxs with the bottom right corner of the brush and you’re done.

You don’t have to have a command map/shaders to test your map. But you do need the min/max coords.

gl.

[edit]yea, if you’re using 1.5, do what chr1s said 8)

[broloi]

Its funny that everyone says that you need the mapcoords, when I can run all my maps without them

[kamikazee]

Its funny that everyone says that you need the mapcoords, when I can run all my maps without them

This only works in W:ET 2.60.

[Maek]

Thanks It works now.

[Tyrlop]

if u dont have a command map then just remove the command map in the view, i do that often if i just want to test something