Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

[imported_F1NGGY]

Hi..sry if im posting this question in wrong forum or something just a little bit messe up:/
anyway.. i have been working on a map just very simple made a 256 scale1 and so on. took a lawer painted the hole map with grass placed 2 flags a team 1 flag and a team 2 flag some spawn points just as the guide said.. saved the map also made the level compressing thing ( under the button mod) and then i launced the game in window mode loaded the my levle in 16 player all loading worksfine until i press the "join" buttom the game crash to desktop no wornings wrongmesseges or something ..wierd mayby somebody knows what wrong? all my maps endsup like this:/ if you want to test the map heres my msn 69andreas69@walla.com...thnx in advance

[imported_F1NGGY]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

hm i guess i sole the problem... puting the terrain yo medium in settings...well how to make this map gameable in low terrain settings?

[wolfi]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

Generate the low detail texture. To do this, go into the textur paint mode in terrain editor.
Now click "set low detail texture" and "generate low detail texture" in the window on the right, its at the bottom so scroll down :p

Good luck

[imported_F1NGGY]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

Ey thnx wolfi, going to check that out:

[CrimsonBlaze]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

Generate the low detail texture. To do this, go into the textur paint mode in terrain editor.
Now click "set low detail texture" and "generate low detail texture" in the window on the right, its at the bottom so scroll down :p

Good luck

I dont see how that will stop the crashing...

If it's a crash on join game then it's either your Terrain settings is on low (need to change to medium at least via graphics settings) or your clicking on single player to play the map (you have to go multiplayer -> create local)

If it's not either of them then use windowed mode which should generate an error which you copy and paste here and ask for help :)

[[BDFS]Alpha]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

CrimsonBlaze
I dont see how that will stop the crashing...
If it's a crash on join game then it's either your Terrain settings is on low (need to change to medium at least via graphics settings)

Is correct i think , check to see if you video settings are set to low, if so then thats what it is, custom maps crash when loading if video settings are set to low, set them to Medium.and try it again.

[[hun]clayman]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

I have the same problem. Map works flawlessly with at least medium graphics, but crashes when low quality is set.

I've tried to click on 'Generate Low Detailmap' but appearently nothing happened.
Of course after 'Set Low Detail Texture' to default, which copied a lowdetailtexture.dds to the mapdir, according to the console, but didn't solve the problem either.

So it still crashes, when I push 'Join game'.

What else do I need to do to enable people who have low graphics settings (like 50% of all players) to enjoy my map ?

[KillerMcDermott]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

Is there a solution to this other than setting Terrain to Medium? Not everyone can or wants to set their video settings at Medium. I also tried the suggestion about 'Set Low Detail Texture' and 'Generate Low Detailmap'. The first one appeared to do something, at least according to the console. The 'Generate Low Detailmap' didn't seem to do anything. I saved my very basic map and launched again using the Multiplayer option but it still crashed to desktop. I also tried the windowed mode and there is no error message. I changed my video settings to Medium and it did stop my map that I created from crashing.

I just started going through the modding tutorial's on EA's site so I am very new at this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Karate hand]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

Is there a solution to this other than setting Terrain to Medium? Not everyone can or wants to set their video settings at Medium. I also tried the suggestion about 'Set Low Detail Texture' and 'Generate Low Detailmap'. The first one appeared to do something, at least according to the console. The 'Generate Low Detailmap' didn't seem to do anything. I saved my very basic map and launched again using the Multiplayer option but it still crashed to desktop. I also tried the windowed mode and there is no error message. I changed my video settings to Medium and it did stop my map that I created from crashing.

I just started going through the modding tutorial's on EA's site so I am very new at this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

the most common reason why it crashes, is that u have messed around with the outer terrain, check to see if there is any green, on the outer part of the map, if so fix it up, ie if have sloped edges or hills on the edge of the map look around there and you will find the fault most likely, this was my only crashes i had when making, maps,

[KillerMcDermott]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

the most common reason why it crashes, is that u have messed around with the outer terrain, check to see if there is any green, on the outer part of the map, if so fix it up, ie if have sloped edges or hills on the edge of the map look around there and you will find the fault most likely, this was my only crashes i had when making, maps,

Thank you for replying. When I play the map, there are green edges and I do have a few slopes toward the edge. I didn't know what that meant though but now I do. I will take a look to see where I messed up. I just don't understand why when I set my terrain to medium under the video settings in BF2, I can play the map even with green edges. Once I fix my edges, maybe I will answer my own question.

[cpl_42]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

What was your resolve to your issue?

I'm curious as I'm having the EXACT same problem.

I even created a totally new map and made darns sure not to touch the edges of the map.

If I play it on my editing system, it works fine.
If I play it on my system as work it works fine.
If I host it on my server and other people try to join, they crash.

My system at my work is a Dual Core Dual Opteron 280 with 2GB of RAM, my system at home with which I edit maps on is a Dual Core FX60 with 2GB of RAM, the systems connecting to my server which is my destkop, are 3.6GHz P4 Machines with 512MB of RAM and one of them even has a 7800 PCIe 256MB card and he still can't connect where the map will load, but the second he clicks "Join Game" it freezes the game or kicks him off.

Any ideas?

[KillerMcDermott]

Re: Crash when presseing join on myowns maps..

What was your resolve to your issue?

I'm curious as I'm having the EXACT same problem.

I even created a totally new map and made darns sure not to touch the edges of the map.

If I play it on my editing system, it works fine.
If I play it on my system as work it works fine.
If I host it on my server and other people try to join, they crash.

My system at my work is a Dual Core Dual Opteron 280 with 2GB of RAM, my system at home with which I edit maps on is a Dual Core FX60 with 2GB of RAM, the systems connecting to my server which is my destkop, are 3.6GHz P4 Machines with 512MB of RAM and one of them even has a 7800 PCIe 256MB card and he still can't connect where the map will load, but the second he clicks "Join Game" it freezes the game or kicks him off.

Any ideas?

I haven't had a chance to figure out and fix my green edges. Real life has gotten in the way. The crashing stopped when I changed my texture to medium in BF2.