Level Design How do I .....? The Thread for all questions more than general.

[[=KAS=]doomed]

Am I a terrible person for working in the 8-1 grid all of the time?


Heaven forbid, I've even gone off the grid before to move a poster next to a wall without the nasty texture ripping.



Can I be saved?

 

[Capt.Marion]

If you stay on 8 most of the time....

 

[[=KAS=]doomed]

Well, I see all these people talking about staying on grid or the heavens will crash down upon us - I mostly work on 2.

 

[Capt.Marion]

I used to only work on 1, but then the boogeymans came out of my 'puter and done eated up all of my cheats and hax.... so now I work on 16-8, and only below 8 for really touchy stuff to integrate SMs like doorframes an all.

 

[Rich_Zap]

Theres no problem working off the grid with SM's, just bsp needs to stay on grid, everything else just forget about it.

 

[Drecks]

Is there a secret hidden in the NoSnow volume.

I manage to use it in most of the Zhitomir winter map but for some parts
snow simple peeps through. So are there more settings then the simple
NoSnow line ?

 

[[=KAS=]doomed]

Have you tried just replacing the volume? They can be pretty erratic.

 

[Drecks]

Have you tried just replacing the volume? They can be pretty erratic.

Yeah i had succes with that before so there ain't a secret they are just
a little buggy ???

 

[[=KAS=]doomed]

Right.

On one rebuild, they work fine, the next, eh.

Sometimes they work within the editor preview, but not ingame, and vice versa. Very very annoying.

 

[Sichartshofen]

Only 2 things are holding me back from releasing Minsk 1944.

1. The overhead map objective, radio and ammo cache locations are screwed up.
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/350/shot00117pj6.jpg

2. Artillery used to fall under the terrain, after I moved the zoneinfo actor above the terrain no artillery falls. I have no idea what is causing this.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[[=KAS=]doomed]

I believe the MapBounds have to be 60000 units above the terrain in order for arty to be done correctly.

EDIT -- Oh, you don't have mapbounds. There be your problem.

 

[Drecks]

Did you add your Mapbounds ?

RO Mapbounds NE
RO Mapbounds SW

These will set the grounlevel of the map which
enables the artillery to work.

Article 7.8 in the SDK Manual....

Rewards will be taken in Euros.....

 

[EvilHobo]

I have a vehicle in my map which will be stationary. When it is destroyed, I would like for its mesh to remain there. I know, of course, that destroyed vehicles will eventually despawn, but is there a way which I can subsitute it with a static mesh after it has been destroyed?

 

[worluk]

every vehicle does so per default, just set the destroyed mesh accordingly

 

[Divinehammer]

I thought that there was a setting where you could set the time for how long it sits after exploding. If so you could just set this longer than your map time.

 

[DingBat]

I thought that there was a setting where you could set the time for how long it sits after exploding. If so you could just set this longer than your map time.

I don't believe this is the case.

About the only thing I can think of is to trigger a mover that places a wreck in the right place, assuming you could trigger it with the death of the original tank. The problem there is that the original wreck and the mover wreck will occupy the same space for a while until the original wreck gets cleaned up by the engine. You could put a delay on the mover, I guess.

I think, to do this properly, you need a coder.

 

[Sichartshofen]

Is it possible to remove a static mesh from the mylevel package? There is a mesh in my map I want to get rid of but anytime I try to delete it the damn SDK crashes.

Now I'm really f**ked. Can't even load the map anymore.
Bad export index 138479648/11346

History: IndexToObject <- ULinkerLoad<<UObject <- (LinkerLoad Package.LinkerLoad183 15358459)) <- FPropertyTag::SerializeTaggedProperty <- LoadStream <- (Count 0) <- UStruct::SerializeTaggedProperties <- (KParams[-1]) <- UObject::Serialize <- (StaticMeshActor myLevel.StaticMeshActor3391) <- AActor::Serialize <- LoadObject <- (StaticMeshActor myLevel.StaticMeshActor3391 15358459==15358459/24765302 15358327 133) <- ULinkerLoad:reload <- PreLoadObjects <- UObject::EndLoad <- UObject::LoadPackage <- UEditorEngine::Exec_Map <- UEditorEngine::Exec <- (MAP LOAD FILE="C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\steamapps\common\red orchestra\Map).. <- UUnrealEdEngine::Exec <- WEditorFrame::OnCommand <- WWindow::WndProc <- WWindow::StaticProc <- MessagePump <- MainLoop

 

[Divinehammer]

Is it possible to remove a static mesh from the mylevel package? There is a mesh in my map I want to get rid of but anytime I try to delete it the damn SDK crashes.

Now I'm really f**ked. Can't even load the map anymore.
Bad export index 138479648/11346

History: IndexToObject <- ULinkerLoad<<UObject <- (LinkerLoad Package.LinkerLoad183 15358459)) <- FPropertyTag::SerializeTaggedProperty <- LoadStream <- (Count 0) <- UStruct::SerializeTaggedProperties <- (KParams[-1]) <- UObject::Serialize <- (StaticMeshActor myLevel.StaticMeshActor3391) <- AActor::Serialize <- LoadObject <- (StaticMeshActor myLevel.StaticMeshActor3391 15358459==15358459/24765302 15358327 133) <- ULinkerLoad:reload <- PreLoadObjects <- UObject::EndLoad <- UObject::LoadPackage <- UEditorEngine::Exec_Map <- UEditorEngine::Exec <- (MAP LOAD FILE="C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\steamapps\common\red orchestra\Map).. <- UUnrealEdEngine::Exec <- WEditorFrame::OnCommand <- WWindow::WndProc <- WWindow::StaticProc <- MessagePump <- MainLoop

Doing this from memory of the SDK so you cant delete it directly. Did you use the embed command to put it in the mylevel or did you use import. What happens when you delete all of the statics rebuild save to a new revision and shutdown SDK remove the static package ane restart the SDK? Hope you have a older revision I dont think there is an unembed code. I am having to go back a revision. Or just leave it in unless it is huge and bloats your file size.

 

[ExoCet-NAW]

Is there a way to Spawn Vehicles. only when that spawn area becomes active.
I have set bUseSpawnAreas to true in the ROvehicle properties, the spawns work but no Vehicle spawns.

Do I need to do something else ?.
Or can't it be done.

 

[worluk]

Do I need to do something else ?.

new code? pretty straight forward