FH2 Modding Q&A

[Kwiot]

Well, I want snow on my nap, so I need snow texture - in bf2 editor there are grass, rock, desert textures, but no snow...

Edit: I mean color texture

Edit2: I see that I must use tpaint...

[azreal]

I honestly would recommend that you learn how to make a simple map for FH2 before trying to modify anything.

[McCloskey]

Editing kitmeshes probably isn't that easy after all, am I right? (Thought I'd add a walkie talkie to scout kits - but having the model of radio positioned in the UW_kits seems not to be quite enough)

[kummitus]

What causes minimap to disappear after renaming the map?

Nvm, got it working with hazzling with gameplay area thingy

[Zero]

Editing kitmeshes probably isn't that easy after all, am I right? (Thought I'd add a walkie talkie to scout kits - but having the model of radio positioned in the UW_kits seems not to be quite enough)

if you're just adding a mesh to a kit all you need to do is add it to a special kit export 3ds max file to the proper kits and whatnot. rebuilding this file from from scratch on your own is really not plausible, so... may want get kneepads. also you would need to put it's texture/normalmap onto the existing kit texture. iirc bf2 gets really pissy if 2 different kit parts are on 2 different textures. i would target a coder as they would know the details better. i'm a bit of a "blbecek" with this stuff.

[McCloskey]

well, I've already come to terms with this most likely not going to work out anyway (at least I discovered you have driver/tanker kitmeshes on top of the "classic" ones so that made my day - I could finally have SMG class with teh gogglez but with a different helmet skin than the engineer class

but...

i'm a bit of a "blbecek" with this stuff.

this made me go like "what the f..." heh

[Kwiot]

What is low-res size & scale? It's when I create new terrain.

[Fenring]

Its the size of the surrounding terrain (not playable). Use the default values or lowest possible size, raising the surr terrain scale can severly decrease performance.

[Kwiot]

Ok, thx.

[Nissi]

Hello

Last week I reinstalled the editor on my new computer and finally I got it starting. I've done some tutorials and a lot of wrap-up reading. Afterwards I made a little workplan, thought alot about gameplay and the basic layout while trying to not get stuck with that part. I'm currently working on the terrain & ground but I faced some problems with the texturing:

1) Is there a way to see which detail & color styles were used for the layers 1-6 in the texturing mode on an existing fh2 map?

While I got somewhat used to the editor I couldn't figure that out. I see of course the layers which I defined by myself but I wish to find out the following layers:

- PDH
- Port en Bessain

2) How intense should be texturing done? I noticed that I can paint the area quit differently with the same layer. The more paint I apply the darker it gets, but even with only I little portion of paint I see the texture from the near distance. Is there a optimum which will affect the ressource intensity or can I paint always to the maximum?

Thank you in advance. I really love to be able to work now with the editor as already the last time it was a great portion of fun for me. As it's now working without crahsing all 5minutes it's just wonderful. 

[Wilhelm]

1) Is there a way to see which detail & color styles were used for the layers 1-6 in the texturing mode on an existing fh2 map?

While I got somewhat used to the editor I couldn't figure that out. I see of course the layers which I defined by myself but I wish to find out the following layers:

- PDH
- Port en Bessain

The detail and color styles can be found in the GroundProperties.con of the map: Here is the location of the file for pointe du hoc:

[...]\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\fh2\levels\pointe_du_hoc\server.zip\Editor\

[Nissi]

Thank you very much. You helped me alot with that. 

[Nissi]

[Geom] : tl: Error: StaticMesh village_house_014_des lod: 3 mat: 2 is a per-pixel material. Per-pixel materials are only allowed on lod 0 and lod 1.
To fix this, change material in maya, and re-import the fixed mesh in Bf2Editor.

Hi. When loading the map with the editor it tells me for various objects the above posted warning message. Can this lead to a future mapcrash while loading or is it a debug that can be ignored?

I can load the map in FH2 without any troubles or longer loadingperiod so this warning is confusing me quite a bit.

Sometimes it's pretty tough with that nasty editor but nonetheless it's still a great portion of fun. 

[Natty]

ignore the asserts, they have nothing to do with your map. 

[Nissi]

Thank you Natty!