FH2 Modding Q&A

[pheeph]

Okay, I managed to rename the folder and modified the necessary files to "boot_camp_1" and now the map-packing tool works... now I have to figure out the crash issue...

[Ivancic1941]

Plz,again


Really tried everything till now..

[Ts4EVER]

Be a bit more specific.

[Ivancic1941]

Ok
Im using this tutorial https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1B2A3n19zjS1R4T4FLhr0-Uxfa_quf7DFC-FgCoQXIv0 but as it has some minor faults,I also use some of this tutorial (Photoshop part) http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f189-modding-tutorials/69889-how-make-awesome-maps-dem-geo2-image-heavy-15.html .This thing happened to me last time,but solution was that secondary terrain 8bit and primary terrain 1024(not 2048). Now I started on smaller map to learn faster and in editor made new map: Primary terrain is 512x2 and secondary 256. OK,I took part of terrain in microdem and decided to split it. First I took primary terrain,first cut part,then sized it to 512,put mode to 16bit,saved,opened again,put correcly RAW settings,resized to 513 and saved. Then I went for secondary terrain and cut part,sized to 256, 8bit, saved,reopened,put RAW settings corectly,resized to 257 and saved. Then put this all to map and that thing showed up.
 

Edit:I know Im boring and spamed this tread too much,sorry but Im losing time very day because I cant solve this. Till now I could do lot of things

[GeoPat]

Is there a reason you want to do all that.  Why not just copy a square from the microdem that is 3 times larger than the primary you want and use some simple program like bf2hmt to make the heightmap?

[pheeph]

Okay, my map has been crashing at 14%.  I was reading the "Map Crash Percentages and Easy fixes" thread, but so far the problems are...

-My map doesn't have a mapdata file.
-Gameplay.con file?  Is this file supposed to be in a map or something?  If it is, I don't see it.
-Regenerate overgrowth... All those trees and hedgerows static objects folder and they don't appear in the terrain tool.

[Ivancic1941]

http://www.moddb.com/mods/battleship1/news/battleship-for-bf2-is-released
In this article,in this mod,they mentioned that there are two open sea maps,and one has viewdistance to 3km. How to do that(do I need to change in which .txt)?

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f562-pr-falklands-general-discussion/141068-player-dnesity-8km-x-8km-map.html
This is what is really interesting for me. Falkland 16x16!! How(asked there but no answer)? Maybe he managed to use secondary terrain as primary?

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f562-pr-falklands-general-discussion/139133-ask-pr-f-team-question-3.html
I asked him long time about walking on ships in moving.Will coating with non-hurting material solve walking? Did you tryed that on fh2 ships(lobo's)?

[Ts4EVER]

About the falklands thing, my guess is instead of using the heightmap, they made a 3d model of the island and used that.

[Stubbfan]

Viewdistance. Set it in init.con (and sky.con for the fog range)

Falklads is 8x8km not 16x16? Atleast i thought so. Like Ts4 said, all land is made using models since terrain wont work if you scale your map up like that.

As for ship walking, i tried it.

[Ivancic1941]

Is there way to see what size map is (I didnt made it so)? Cant find it..

[Clay_Tank]

Just a short question: Is the .zip file extraction (as described in the FH2 mapping tutorial, http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/tutorials/) still needed for BF2 Editor with the FH2 current build? Quite a lot of Zip files to extract ...

[Ts4EVER]

Yes still needed.

[Clay_Tank]

Thanks! As said there are quite a lot of files to extract in 2.51 and because I'm lazy I wrote a short PHP script that unpacks the files automatically for you. Maybe I'll re-write it later as an Python script. I guess you devs check FH2 out of source control for work so I guess this is only going to be interesting for custom mappers.

Anyways script may be viewed/downloaded here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9e2615bfcfd7e16386adb568778d6699

[Stubbfan]

Whenever i do this i select all object*.zip files, rightlick and select extract too. And then the same for all common file etc. It's pretty fast and simple.

[MajorMajor]

I've been following the official EA mapping tutorials. They are helpful but they were made for vanilla Battlefield 2... and right now I'm in the stage where my test map has a few statics scattered, the object and soldier spawns and one flag for each side. However, when I want to assign each teamto one of the FH2 factions, I can't save the changes because there are no kits associated with said factions.

Also, my level doesn't show ingame. According to the EA tutorial, I shouldn't need any extra step, but it's not on the list when I try to create a local game.