General Tips and Tricks from Danh

[danh]

Ctrl + shift and left click a wall

[Catalavos]

Originally Posted by Viceman

Thanks a lot guys, these tips help me to build my map much faster. One more protip needed anyways

1. Is there a way to select for example AddBrush in 3d view? Its pain in the arse to try select them sometimes in top/side views when there are may of them on top each other.

I'm pretty sure that you can select the brush in 3D view but you need to be in wireframe mode. Also, you can select the brush in top/side/front mode and then switch to 3D mode to move or manipulate the brush. Don't forget to re-build geometry after moving the brush to update its location.

[Viceman]

Whats the best way to test map in the game? I noticed that you cannot easily set up a server in RO2. So do I need to make dedicated server and test the map from there?

[danh]

The best way is to set up a home server. You should follow the instructions in the wiki. Then you should see your server on your lan. In the server bat file, you should put your map name like open te-xxxxx

[PsychoPigeon]

Ok, I just bought a new graphics card and another 8GB ram (total 16GB) and the sdk still won't open stock maps. It doesn't even use anywhere near the 16GB ram you say it requires. It has to be something bugged right? Or do Tripwire have 32GB ram in their level design PCs?

steamapps/common/red orchestra 2/rogame/cookedpc/maps then select the map I want. Correct?

[Drecks]

Originally Posted by PsychoPigeon

Ok, I just bought a new graphics card and another 8GB ram (total 16GB) and the sdk still won't open stock maps. It doesn't even use anywhere near the 16GB ram you say it requires. It has to be something bugged right? Or do Tripwire have 32GB ram in their level design PCs?

Man I never had problems opening stock maps not even when I was on only 4 gig. What do you try to open, I also never had problems with the serverbrowser.
I have all these thumbs. Or your system is bugged or you doing something terribly wrong. Or you just have bad luck.

[PsychoPigeon]

Originally Posted by Drecks

Man I never had problems opening stock maps not even when I was on only 4 gig. What do you try to open, I also never had problems with the serverbrowser.
I have all these thumbs. Or your system is bugged or you doing something terribly wrong. Or you just have bad luck.

lol that goes against what other people are saying in this thread!

I have steam and all steam games installed on a separate hard drive than my windows is on. Would this cause a problem?


the error name is BEX64
Sometimes it just says 'appcrash'.
I found this thread but it hasn't solved the problem for me: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.co...ad.php?t=85191

[Drecks]

Originally Posted by PsychoPigeon

lol that goes against what other people are saying in this thread!

Well I had my share of other worries. So I guess that make it somewhat equal.

[danh]

I also have steam on a separate hdd from windows.

[PsychoPigeon]

How would I go about opening 2 editors at once in Steam?

Also, I'm trying to create some nice buildings and after finally being able to see how tripwire built theirs using the BSP brush, would it be possible to copy and paste their work into my custom map? Blocking volumes and all.

[danh]

Yes. Ctrl + alt and left click drag create a selection box in any 2d viewpoint.

[shakenbake]

This is great information now if there were more video tutorials created for RO2 SDK we would be set. Thanks Danh for all the hard work putting this together.

[PsychoPigeon]

How do go about choosing what types of uniforms teams wear? I've looked throughout worldinfo and the only choice in unit skin are for tanks, green or white. Is the infantry option elsewhere?

[VietViking]

In world info you can set the temperature, which decides the uniform type

[PsychoPigeon]

Some more tips:

Spoiler!

• Set up lighting (including light volume), fog, terrain textures, at the beginning to avoid long light build times for testing.

• Only place cover nodes in a straight line, example one side of a trench then use another for the other side.

• You want to use a Dominant Directional Light. Not a Dominant Directional Light Moveable.

• Test your lighting at the early stages of your map. I made the mistake of building my map then deciding I wanted new lighting which means having 40 minute light build sessions each time I want to test new shadows. Get this sorted at the start it will save you a lot of time.

• When you place down a destructible mesh you have to add it to a RODestructionReplicationInfo then add each destructible to that list.

• If creating a large map or a map with loads of objects but you want a smaller file size, you need to lower the lightmap resolution or turn off shadows on some objects. Click an item, (select all of this class), type 'res' in the properties box and you'll see Override lightmap with numbers and another with a box to tick. Lower the number depending on the item, open up a Tripwire map and see how they've optimized it. Then click the Override box.

• When you delete a covernode that is enabled to 'climb' after you've done a path build, then you must delete the yellow and green icon as well as the entire path node, otherwise you crash when you save.

• To get an object to sit on the ground without any gaps press F4 and in the search bar type 'piv' and adjust the rotations there with better accuracy than dragging.

[JosephBaier]

Originally Posted by PsychoPigeon

Ok, I just bought a new graphics card and another 8GB ram (total 16GB) and the sdk still won't open stock maps. It doesn't even use anywhere near the 16GB ram you say it requires. It has to be something bugged right? Or do Tripwire have 32GB ram in their level design PCs?

steamapps/common/red orchestra 2/rogame/cookedpc/maps then select the map I want. Correct?

I have 4 GBs and I can open stockmaps.
Dev. not a RAM problem.

[PsychoPigeon]

Originally Posted by JosephBaier

I have 4 GBs and I can open stockmaps.
Dev. not a RAM problem.

Yeah it was because I had saved some external packages, it screwed up my editor. When you save your map sometimes it will will come up with another box which you need to untick or this will happen.