Entity help

smokey · Post by **smokey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:53 am

Over the years, entity's BSP viewer has never worked for me. ALl I do is set things laces, and then save, but every time I load the map, it goes to a black screen and freezes. Recently I was doing a SP>MP map conversion, and I needed to set the spawnsinside the map. All I did was move them, but once again, for some reason, the map froze at the black screen. Obviously I am doing something wrong, but I dont know what. If there is something more I am supposed to do, please tell me. ANY help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Crazy_Colombiano · Post by **Crazy_Colombiano** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:08 am

what entity are u using?

smokey · Post by **smokey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:11 am

Ive tried them all

Crazy_Colombiano · Post by **Crazy_Colombiano** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:17 am

you directed the settings to ur spshared, shared, and mainmenu right?
if u did that try downloading the latest direct x

Madman340 · Post by **Madman340** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:18 am

to begin with dont keep changing entity versions, stick with a stable one like 1.6 beta
does your computer have enough ram to keep the sbsp viewer up?
when you get the 'black screen' do you see your char holding a weapon, or does it not load? if you correctly changed the spawns then you shouldnt be getting a black screen, the black screen could be from something that you changed earlier on

smokey · Post by **smokey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:20 am

It doesnt load. The black screen is not from something earlier, because I saved and made a working backup before I used the BSP viewer. How could I have incorrectly set the spawns?

Madman340 · Post by **Madman340** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:53 am

i have no clue

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:15 pm

http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=56825

Use that version of entity to move spawns around. If the map works before editing in this version of entity, then you will have no problems afterwords.

smokey · Post by **smokey** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:27 pm

Im sorry to say that I JUST tried it with that, and it did not work.

Thi is a SP>MP conversion, so I wonder if it has anything to do with it...Before I did it, it loaded a black screen with my character and everything. It was black because I hadnt set player spawns yet. Then I moved all the spawns with entity BETA 1.3, and it frooze while loading the map on my xbox.

Also, if this means anything, when I try to open the BSP viewer in entity US 1.6, it say "Internal-Map not found, set map paths".

fergie4000 · Post by **fergie4000** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:36 pm

thats because you haven't set the map paths. it can't find single_player_shared.map shared.map and mainmenu.map