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Preadator Kallata'n - Student  |
There are a few people around here that wanna try out mapping or wateva, but can't always get through the tutorials. People that already map mite get stuck with something too. You could get forwarded to Dom, but he's never got the time to reply to that kinda mail for sum reason...
So, here looks like a nice place to set up for a community mapping discussion  Better go grab those tent poles..._______________ ««¤¤¤{{PREÅÐÅT¤R ka¦¦ata'n}}¤¤¤»» Founder of RSPCT (The Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Toasters) |
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Kytor - Student |
Kalheka, I've never tried this, but i think it might be possible.
There is no 'toggle' selection in the entity window for a door in multiplayer, but try giving the door a wait value of -1. Then make a trigger_multiple and connect them. I'm thinking that this might work because if you start to open a door with a button and then press it again, it goes back the way it came. A -1 wait value will make the door never go back to its starting position on its own. The only problem that might occur is that a -1 wait value might not let ANYTHING trigger the door back. But I think it will. _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Kalheka - Student 
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I'm onto my own new problem here. In MP, is there a way to set a door so it toggles on a switch, and stays open or closed until toggled again?
I can't seem to get it to work in MP, only in SP. _______________ Death is only the beginning. |
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Kytor - Student |
Now I just discovered something interesting.
I wondered what would happen if i opened radiant and the map at the same time by double clicking on a map file. I ended up getting the same error message you get, Vaughn. It said the stuff about wanting to edit preferences and all that stuff. (sorry if im not very clear... )
Anyway, could it be that your just doulbe clicking on the map files to open radiant and therefor creating the problem? or is it too much to hope for that that is the only problem... If it is the problem, then all you ahve to do is double ckick on the radiant icon to open it, then load the map seperatly. _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Vaughn - Student 
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If i can get to that screen, I will do, thanks _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Kytor - Student |
I think its asking you to change the preferences because the current ones MIGHT be creating a problem. The only thing That I can think of that might be creating a problem would be the graphics information for the 3d view. experiment between the 3 choiced under views/rendering and see if that helps. _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Vaughn - Student
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um... try this one
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/lst that should work _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Kytor - Student |
uh, i cant see the image..... But if it brings you to the preferance screen then some preferences might not be agreeing with your computer _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Vaughn - Student
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again, im here to hog the thread with my problem.
this is what it says when i click on the JKRad "Couldn't Creat font dlists GetLastError() = 183.0 An unrecoverable error has occured. Would you like to edit preferances before exiting QERadiant?" When i click yes, it shows this screen: http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/lst/JKRad.JPG What do i do? _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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ioshee - Student 
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Is it possible to put a camera and monitor pair in a MP map? I got it working in a SP map. I know it's not done the same way for MP (I tested it hehe.) Any help would be wonderful. _______________ One of the Belouve boys |
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Vaughn - Student
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maybe... _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Kytor - Student |
No, the upgrade is working fine for me, so I don't think thats it. Unfortuanly, I can't think of anything else that might be causing that problem . Maybe the people at lucas forums will be of more help. _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Vaughn - Student
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gah, im sorry to go back to my map problem, but i tried uninstalling/reinstalling it, that didnt work, i unzipped the SP scripts zip, that didnt work, i got the file(s) from that location... im lost.
In that location, i got the upgrade (tools v2), was that my fatal mistake? _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Jello` - Student 
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Kalheka, To change the amount of health from a med pack, youd have to find the file that has it and change something, it has to do with scripting, and im not to good at that. _______________ Brady Brothers: Orion-Greg, Furi0us-Peter, Me-Bobby. Long lost cousin to Flash. Midbie Council #007. Ex-JAK. |
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Kytor - Student |
Alright Kalheka, heres some advice:
Fast compile rules state that you make everything not touching the void detail. Sometimes, however, you must sacrifice a quick compile for better frame rates. Any major room should have its outermost walls structural. Anything inside the room can still be detail. Then, cover a doorway (with a func_door in it) completly with an area_portal brush (in system textures) Then, go to top view (for a normal door standing up vertically) and resize and move the area_portal brush so that the brush still covers the entire lenght of the door, but is in the exact middle width wise. This will effectivly close off the room from the rest of the map technically, so the game doesnt draw the rest of the map when your in the room. This will improve framerates greatly in a large map, and is still good to do in a small map. Do this for all major rooms. You're gonna have to decide what "major rooms" are yourself, based on how long it starts to take to compile. Some other things that slow framerates are glass, fog, and curves. For glass, dont use excessive amounts in one place. For example, dont make a room where everything is made of glass. For curves, the same applies. Fog is okay in most cases, except when its in a big area. Dont cover a huge room or a big outside area in fog, because framerates will drasticly drop. Also, keep the above three things in mind and putting all of them together in the same room isnt allways a great idea. For single player maps, where you can do dynamic lighting, try not to do tons of flashy lightwork, because then framerates will suffer greatly. Thats all I can think of now... _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Kalheka - Student 
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Ah ok, well that's not a problem I can work around that.
I now need some advice. My map is getting large, and it's only about 1/3 done. I need some advice on how to help keep the frame rates up on the map, my framerates drop down to under 20 in some areas of the map. _______________ Death is only the beginning. |
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Preadator Kallata'n - Student 
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It doesn't look possible through radiant, and if it is possible its either through a cvar command or a modded version.
btw,fyi: i use GtkRadiant - www.qeradiant.com (in the files section) _______________ ««¤¤¤{{PREÅÐÅT¤R ka¦¦ata'n}}¤¤¤»» Founder of RSPCT (The Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Toasters) |
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Kalheka - Student
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First I'd like to thank all of you for your help with my mapping project.
I want to make a custom sky shader for the Yavin sky, the info that I have found is hard to understand. Is there a shader tutorial somewhere that uses JK2 Radiant? Edited to say: I figured it out on my own
Edited again (lol): How does one change the amounts of some of the supplies. I.E. Change the Med Kit to give 100 instead of 25? _______________ Death is only the beginning. This comment was edited by Kalheka on Jan 10 2003 11:48am. |
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Kytor - Student |
Well, then I dont know what you can do. You can try reinstalling it (simply take the program, move it to the desktop, then move it back. MAke sure you take the program, not a shortcut). You can also try downloading it from another location. Maybe http://richdiesal.jedioutcastmaps.com/tutorials/gc101lsn2.html (richdeisal's tuts website) _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Vaughn - Student 
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radient is in the GameData/tools directory, and I think im the administrator of the computer... but menosure
Edit: I am the computer administrator _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson This comment was edited by Vaughn on Jan 08 2003 03:54pm. |
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Kytor - Student |
Heres what i know about JK2 problems- hope they help:
I do not know what this specific error means, but I do know that almost all problems that occur while loading radiant happen when it is not installed properly. Check that radiant is in the GameData/tools folder. Also, if you are using Windows XP, and your user has a very low security setting, problems may occur as well. _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Vaughn - Student
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i think i hve it. When i load it up, it flashes quickly with something like - unable to load the GF fonts, or some type of fonts... WHATS GOING ON?
Edit: actually its the font dl(l)ist (cant remember how many l's, it goes too quickly) _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson This comment was edited by Vaughn on Jan 06 2003 08:03pm. |
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Undead - Ex-Student 
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You can get JK2 Radiant by Downloading JK2 Tools v1 from www.jediknightii.net under tools. _______________ RIP Vlad |
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Vaughn - Student
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im a too be mapper/skinner, but my problem is, JKRad didnt work on my computer, where can i download it again? _______________ When you become an actor, you become the person, and you dont act anymore. You just are. - Tyler HP, Taught by Mr G Simpson |
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Kytor - Student |
I seem to find that even if you light the "outside areas" the same way you light the "inside areas", as long as you give a reasonable amount of light, just the presance of a bright sky will give the illusion of more light than there really is. This makes it easier to do an outside area without sky lighting than you might think. _______________ The only thing better than playing JA is making JA levels! Shadow Faction- a new JKII competition community center. Check it out at www.ssresources.com/shadow |
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Kalheka - Student
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Ok Corran, thanks. I kinda figured that I was gonna end up finding out that the yavin sky didn't emit light. I'll work around it. _______________ Death is only the beginning. |
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