let's help each other topic...(BF2 library)

[maranello]

i see a lot of people asking various questions. i think it'd be better if we gathered all the known questions about the BF2 editor under one topic. why don't we just do this...instead of everybody asking questions, why dont we just tell here "what we actually do know" about the editor...so if we see someone who knows how to do something particular which we are trying to figure out, we'll just ask our question.

what i know:

1. minimap
2. commander's map
3. loading page map
4. loading page background image
5. map description
6. roads
7. spilines
8. lightmaps
9. heightmaps
10. surrounding terrain (how to activate it, how to paint it etc)
11. how to make water transparent
12. various day and night tweaking settings under lightsettings (in other words how to have fog, dawn, night maps)
13. how to fix the problem with texture blocks (textures look good when you are close, they look bad when you are far away)
14. how to fix 15% and 62% crash problems
15. how to make combat area
16. undergrowth
17. overgrowth
18. how to pack the map
19. how to fix the problem with the flags when you change your map to have a MEC vs US battle (MEC flags remain chinese).
20. how to get UAV, Artillery, Satellite Trailer working
21. how to assemble USS Wasp (aircraft carrier)

what i don't know

1. how to fix the issue with the particles (when you shoot the ground, there is no dust coming out-->http://forums.totalbf2.com/showthread.php?t=24055)
2. the error message "some polygrones are not clipt correctly"
3. how to get stationary guns working (automatic machine guns that are usually in the bunkers or on the sandbags.


consider this topic as a library. in school, when you need information, when you need to do research, you go to library and look it up. same here. keep this topic updated all the times so everything goes faster and smoother.

[Deesies]

lightmaps! I set sun and flare direction, generate lightmaps but I still don't get any shadows cast from my objects and stuff. I've asked various places but they just tell me the same thing that I've already done so I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing =/

The stationary guns - you have to create as an object spawner and position them manually. However; I've had them working in the game but couldn't dismount. Perhaps one could look into it?

[smegger]

3. how to get stationary guns working (automatic machine guns that are usually in the bunkers or on the sandbags.


i can get stationary guns to work, just create and object spawn and go to the appropriate object, position it making sure that the blue box is visible and viola.

[-R|F-Glitch]

Post your answers in the Faq post.

http://forums.totalbf2.com/showthread.php?t=24324