My mod wont load maps!

[Eyaw_Nayr]

I have a problem. I have been trying to tool around with the modding tools but have yet to get the game to work; whenever I "packaged" the mod, ran it, and started one of the maps I copied over from the bf2 directory, it would load the game and show the "Join Game" button. But once I hit the button, it would breifly show the map (1/2 a second) then crash to desktop with 0 error messages.

Now I thought this might of been some of the changes I had been making, but apparently not. As a test, I made a mod named BFtest, told it to load all parent resources and did not touch anything else. After packaging the mod, coping over the maps and "activating" it, I started the map again and had the exact crash problem.

I essentially followed the tutorial found here and ran it. Am I missing somthing?

[Frosty289]

Re: My mod wont load maps!

check the controls to make sure they are set, I had that problem once and it was because somehow the controls in the game got erased, it left them all blank, so when the map finished loading it would crash right after you see the in game menu real quick. Just make sure..

[Eyaw_Nayr]

Re: My mod wont load maps!

I went in and checked that, and as you said the controlls were gone. I then copied over all the controll files and tried to load again, but to no avail. I then just copied over the entire "Settings" folder, same problem.

I went and looked at the PRMM folder, and I saw that it only has 5 files in it: maplist.con, ScoreManagerSetup.con, ServerSettings.con, ServerSettingsDesc.dat & Usersettings.con. How does PRMM work with the complete absence of controll files, and could this have to do with any of the problems that I am having?

[Eyaw_Nayr]

Re: My mod wont load maps!

Figured it out (That search function comes in handy :shock:). Turns out that I need to copy over the AI folder as well. Now wether the AI folder was the solution, or copying over both was I do not know.

I still would like the PRMM question from above answered, I am curious how they did that.

[NoB33r4u]

Re: My mod wont load maps!

I can't say for sure but it's most likely they just include the files they changed.
If files are missing (especially in the main zip files) bf2 looks in the main bf2 directory.