F.a.q.

[Megaraptor]

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^This tut has helped a lot.

[-R|F-Glitch]

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Don't worry the bridge is still there, this happened to me once.

[Jorrtappen]

Solution to the fire\smoke bug

I found out of the bug. It is not fixed but this is the only way that I have found to make it work without triggering the bug.

OK, the thing about fire is that it shares the same physics as the water ( it assume ). BF2 operates with some logical rules, and among them it seems that there is not supposed to water on terrain.

Therefore do we get the crashes as we approach fire. The soultion is to place the fire above the ground untill you can see no light reflected from the fire on the ground. This is rather high up from the ground. About the height of a window.

The reason is this: We see the fire, but not the 3Dbox it is placed within. This box is larger than the fire, therefore it must be kept above ground, as it is the box that creates the bug becaus it has the physics of water.

Then how to solve this if your map crashes. Delete every fire and smoke from your map, then save all. Then go into bf2\mods\bf2\levels\yourlevel and find the .con file named ambeienteffects.con. Delete it. Start the editor again, load your map and select save all. Then it shouls be OK. Then place fire and smoke as I described

[RoadRunner2006]

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Need help getting USMC to have green uniform not desert, any ideas?

[tf0t]

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how do you make water transparent?

[DaSniper]

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To make water transparent do the lightmaps... You cant make water any more transparent than it is in the normal game.

as for the changing the model's skins. I am still looking into that.

[-R|F-Glitch]

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Need help getting USMC to have green uniform not desert, any ideas?

This should be self explanatory.

[tf0t]

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can anyone please tell me how to do the surrounding terrain, the commander stuff ( UAV, artillary, etc. ), and how to pack the map??

any help would be greatly appreciated...

[Se7eN]

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Do custom maps work on ranked servers?

[DaSniper]

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About the UAV Artillary Etc Glitch can tell you about that.

As for do the custom maps work on ranked servers. If you had access to a ranked server directly and could change the maps manually then yeah. But has EA said you can... not yet.

[-R|F-Glitch]

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can anyone please tell me how to do the surrounding terrain, the commander stuff ( UAV, artillary, etc. ), and how to pack the map??

any help would be greatly appreciated...

1. I don't know how to do surrounding terrain never played with it.

2. Got this from the gotfrag forums:

go to ...\Battlefield 2\bf2editor\mods\bf2\LevelEditor and open up ObjectSpawnerDef.con and add these lines under the MEC/US section:

ObjectSpawnerDef.AddDef ME_US_Radar mobileradar_mech_dest mobileradar_us_dest
ObjectSpawnerDef.AddDef ME_US_Con_Twr aircontroltower_mec aircontroltower

abd these undeer the CHINA/US section:

ObjectSpawnerDef.AddDef CH_US_Radar mobileradar_ch_dest mobileradar_us_dest
ObjectSpawnerDef.AddDef CH_US_Con_Twr aircontroltower_chi aircontroltower

Then you can use them as Object spawner, you won't be able to see them in editor, atleast not for me. The artillery is already in object spawner just look for something like wzz. To place object spawner right click where you want it go to Position object spawner and select which you would like to place. When you placed an object spawner for commander check the box team on vehicle at the bottom and set it to team 1 or 2 depending on which team you want that stuff to belong to.

3. You can package maps by going to mod manager at the top and selecting package mod. When you finished that you can create a new folder on your desktop and then go into your level folder via my computer and copy paste. the groundhemi file, server.zip, client.zip, and info folder into that folder.

Hope this helps.

I'm not quite sure about custom maps on ranked server, but I would say no.

[RoadRunner2006]

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For surrounding terrain:

Go to Render on top > Surrounding Terrain > and there you can pick which you want to see, All, North, West etc, you can then paint so it won't appear green.

[tf0t]

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thanks a bunch...

[MDogger]

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Hey all Iv only just started making a map and Iv followed the tutorials so far and have made a map as far as the editor goes. I don know if this has been asked already but when I load up the level in BF2 it always just crashes and switches to desktop instantly (usually when its loading objects at 15%)
Any idea why its crashing? anything I can do to fix this problem?
Thanks for any advice

[Annihilator]

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i finnished the map but when i am loading it, it just crashes at 15%.
I cant get to play my map, what should i do to make this work?