Problem with adding weather

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:31 am

Hey,

First things first, i'm a little rusty to modding since I quit a year ago. But now with the released (great) weather app (as well as the others:)) im am eager to complete at least one mod, for release.

Genereal problem: I tried to add weater to Ascension to see if I could.

So I extracted my ascension.sbsp, used the weather application to add snow, and the injected asension.sbsp into gemeni, and signed. Then I transfered gemeni.map to the dlc folder.
I didn't change spawns, and didn't rename it to Ascension, because i just wanted too see if it worked.

When the countdown reaches 0 the game freezes.

Also, i'm not able to open the map in Entity anymore, and I get this message:

I believe it is a possibility that I may have done something wrong, or maybe it's something I haven't done.

Then I thought I would like to play a mod with weather in it, to see if that was possible. So I download the sppf from this mod: Snowy Coag
And patched Gemeni.

After beeing patched, the map can still be opened in Entity, but when I try to view it's sbsp I get this message:

Instead of renaming to Coagulation, I just transfered Gemeni to it's DLC location (I did re-resign it, in the not-to-be-talked-about way).

All maps (Ascension, Coagulation and Gemeni) where clean.

I don't know if these two problems are related. But to begin with, I hoped someone could help me, by telling me why the game freezes, and if my adding-weather-to-map tryout was correctly performed.

After that, I might need some help with fixing the players spawns, and help with transfering the decals, obstacles and machs along with their reflexives in the scrn(decal pallete, placement, etc.).
But to begin with, i think the best thing will be to focus on the main problem, unless the other stuff is easy.

This thread could contribute to help other people like myself, and i hope it will.
I Hope I have managed to describe my problem in a proper way, and my english is to be understod. I'm from Denmark, so English is my secondary language.

Thanks in advance.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:38 am

If you would like I can add weather to the map for you. I have already done it for a couple people that had this problem. You don't have to add snow it can be rain as well or even the flood spore weather in the last level of campaign. So you chooose.

You couldn't view the bsp with the snowy coagulation because the user that made it said he couldn't as well. I don't think you would be able to see the weather anyways.

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:03 am

I would really appreciate that, thank you very much :)
Although it would also be great if i could learn to do it myself.

But if you still insist, i would be thankful, for snow weather on Headlong. But how do you choose between the different weather types? Weather drag and drop from another map?

I haven't heart from StalkingGrunt, so i bet he is busy.

If anyone else can help me with this problem, please do so :)

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:26 pm

Oh yes, I'm very sorry about that I have been very busy looking for a job and going to football practice, once my friend goes home I will do this for you.

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:49 pm

Hey, it's no problem really. I assumed you where busy with something important : )
It's no rush, although i liked to get started

Just take the time you need.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:29 am

I did it for you just tell me when you would like me to send it to you, I guess over MSN messager? I fixed all the spawns as well.

CptnNsan0 · Post by **CptnNsan0** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:32 pm

I think people should make patches for all the maps. I see a lot of people have problems trying to add weather, although i dont find it hard myself.

snakejknight · Post by **snakejknight** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:29 pm

i might just do that... but only if i decide not to be lazy

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:26 am

Yeah sure StalkingGrunt, just add me up :)

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:55 am

I'm going to bump my topic, because i still need help, Stalkinggrunt is obviously very busy, i'm not blaming him

But i am very eager to get starting with my mod.

I still can't get it to work by myself.
So what i need, is a "clean map" Headlong.map, where only snow is added.

If someone could make a .ppf (or something like that), and send it to my mail i will be grateful.

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:24 am

*bump*

Help is still very much appreciated.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:18 am

Oh, man I'm very sorry about that I forgot all about it. I remember trying to reach you on MSN and never saw you on. Then you asked me a while ago but I was moving and now I haven't talk to you since. I probably deleted the patches will all my other ones so I will redo it for you after school.

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:26 am

I never did see you on msn as well, it's probaly the different time zones, i live in gmt +1 ;)
Denmark, more precise.

But hey, no hard feelings, i knew you where a busy man and some things just come first :)

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:27 am

if you have AIM I'll help you out. That is, if Stalking hasn't wored this out with you. I don't want to interfere, just trying to help

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:05 am

Don't have aim, i hate it

But i just started working as an electrician, so i don't have much time on my hands.

I still wan't to do a mod with snow for that level, but stalkinggrunt may help me if he please

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:43 pm

I have been trying to send you the patch but I haven't seen you on yet. I guess it's because the time zones, anyways if I can't get a hold of you tommorrow I will just send you a patch over the private message feature.

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:02 am

Sounds good to me

And thank you very much

Playkid · Post by **Playkid** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:28 am

To StalkingGrunt - Just want to let you know i tried writing an offline message on msn to you, so you should retrive it.

But i come to think of the time i accepted you msn request. You where online, and 1-3 sec. you went offline, never saw you online since, so i was thinking maybe messenger made some odd glitch.

But anyways

I would love to start modding soon, so whenever you have the time feel free to send the patch via private message feature

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:44 am

Playkid wrote:To StalkingGrunt - Just want to let you know i tried writing an offline message on msn to you, so you should retrive it.

But i come to think of the time i accepted you msn request. You where online, and 1-3 sec. you went offline, never saw you online since, so i was thinking maybe messenger made some odd glitch.

But anyways I would love to start modding soon, so whenever you have the time feel free to send the patch via private message feature

Keep messages like this to PM's.

DarkMetal · Post by **DarkMetal** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:27 am

I'll assume you made obvious mistakes when injecting the weather. Here's a checklist, make sure the answer to every question is yes:

1. Did you transfer the "lockout" weather over to the new map? (gemini works best)
2. Did you recursively extract the sbsp tag? You will need to in order to build it into the new map.
3. Did you use the weather tool to add weather to the sbsp?
4. Did you build the sbsp into a different map? (gemini obviously)

That should be about it. If the answer to each question is yes, then you should have weather.