Starting Errors

(L4suicide) #1

Im well confused, and i cant seem to search for the right cominations of words to get an answer. I must have read a million forums all about not getting into limbo for noob mappers. Which isnt what i want.

Ive made a few box maps now, and decided to make a map based on BoBs. I found EasyGen and created a nice looking landscape. I had tried using the addon gensurf thing b4 i got the new GTK - didnt look as good, but it worked fine.

1> Then suddenly i can only get into my homemade maps straight from the title page - i have to start up a host of some map i already have, and once in i can /devmap my map.

2> With just the map i have a landscape in it wont load up at all from anywhere. I think its to do with the shader and alphamap file. If my map is in etmain/maps where does the .shader file need to be? and where does the alphamap need to be? The folder for my textures has to be in etmain/textures/map_name/ right? is it same with /scripts?

Thanks

(L4suicide) #2

3> Sometimes i play on different mods. And it wont find my map (even if i restart ET) - do i have to change something? Is there like a command to change the directry im in? or the mod im using?

(nUllSkillZ) #3

2.) If you have created you landscape in Easygen you should export the “terrain entity”.
Your shaderfile then is in “/etmain/scripts” and the alphamap is in “/etmain”.
And the map-file is in “/etmain/maps”

Add the shader-file to the “/etmain/scripts/shaderlist.txt”.
You should edit the shader-file:
At the end of this file is a base shader.
Cut this shader and insert it at the start of the shader-file.

Not sure why you are not able to start the map.
Do you have an “info_player_deathmatch”-entity?