People have been asking a lot about how to port SP maps to MP and I decided instead of just telling individual people how to do it I would write an in depth tutorial describing the whole process.

Available in PDF format and online view here: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?k9727vxr3nq1c6m

 

Intro

This tutorial is meant for teaching people how to port sp maps to mp. It is also useful if you are attempting to do entity editing on mp maps. I am assuming you have basic knowledge of how mw2 works when loading raw files as well as gsc coding and how to use a command line and FFViewer. I'm not going to baby people through this and if you don't understand it without being spoon fed then this sort of stuff isn't for you.

 

Referenced tools:

ffViewer: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?c178y893pmh2cyf

Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

d3dbsp.ents Editor v1.04: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?sun801u8sc62j9n *NOTE* if you get a zip file with a bunch of .class files in it then change the .zip to .jar and double click.

Rendflex's Entity Mod: http://fourdeltaone.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3284

IWIConverter: http://fourdeltaone.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4945

 

Thanks to Rendflex and FlaCCidCookie for proofreading.

All feedback is appreciated.

 

old version: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?qiihrs292dhrj82

Changes

7/2/12 - published
8/22/12 - added part about xmodel finding
8/25/12 - added minimap info
1/2/13 - updated d3dbsp.ents Editor and fixed FFViewer link

 

XModel List by fastfile.. This is a list of all xmodels (and xmodelsurfs which are irreverent but of useful if you want to dump them) for use.

[attachment=0]xmodels.zip[/attachment]

Nice, you really improved it!

d3dbsp.ents Editor v1.02: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1k63h6r3x433h5d

finally with "DEL" support ?

I still don't know how to use "Remove Entities not in Box", for me it's always grayed out, or is it just disabled?

People have been asking a lot about how to port SP maps to MP and I decided instead of just telling individual people how to do it I would write an in depth tutorial describing the whole process.

Available in PDF format and online view here: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?qiihrs292dhrj82

 

Intro

This tutorial is meant for teaching people how to port sp maps to mp. It is also useful if you are attempting to do entity editing on mp maps. I am assuming you have basic knowledge of how mw2 works when loading raw files as well as gsc coding and how to use a command line and FFViewer. I'm not going to baby people through this and if you don't understand it without being spoon fed then this sort of stuff isn't for you.

 

Referenced tools:

ffViewer: http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads ... on.218674/

Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

d3dbsp.ents Editor v1.02: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1k63h6r3x433h5d

Rendflex's Entity Mod: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3284

IWIConverter: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4945

 

Thanks to Rendflex and FlaCCidCookie for proofreading.

All feedback is appreciated.

With this.. I will bring Team Player*! I love you Apadayo, Rendflex, and Cookie no homo.

lol... little tidbit I just found out: you need a script_model called care_package and model com_plasticcase_friendly with the target set to a brushmodel for the crate collision or it wont work.

@Apadayo related to "Remove Entities out of Box" o_O?

@DidUknowiPwn good luck with that, the only area which suites for mp is full of unremoveable collisions, tryed it way back in aIW times..

lol... little tidbit I just found out: you need a script_model called care_package and model com_plasticcase_friendly with the target set to a brushmodel for the crate collision or it wont work.

Hmm any idea why I can't get my d3dbsp.ents to be "created"? You're supposed to use a shortcut of launchIW4M.exe with --dump at the end of the target correct?

@Apadayo related to "Remove Entities out of Box" o_O?

@DidUknowiPwn good luck with that, the only area which suites for mp is full of unremoveable collisions, tryed it way back in aIW times..

It's actually perfect what I need *cough* Rush *cough*.

It creates the d3dbsp.ents in your actual game folder (gamefolder/raw/maps). Check there.

It creates the d3dbsp.ents in your actual game folder (gamefolder/raw/maps). Check there.

Nope it doesn't I'm PM-ing you with a video.

As you know I know 99% of what I am doing already... it's just my dependencies do not work! As was stated in my Crossfire thread... I really need help, this problem keeping me from play testing with other players.

 

Also, you should just use FF Viewer to get the .d3dbsp.ents...

Nice tutorial, It will help in avoiding useless topics.

It creates the d3dbsp.ents in your actual game folder (gamefolder/raw/maps). Check there.

Nope it doesn't I'm PM-ing you with a video.

 

1. Make a shortcut to iw4m.exe. (If you don't have a folder called "raw" in your game directory, create it)

2. Right click it and press properties

3. Add "--dump" at the end of the target

4. Launch the game through this newly made shortcut

5. Open up the console and type "devmap mapname"

6. Close game

7. Check your raw folder

8. ???

9. Profit!

Sounds easy.

Free Entities 4 Everyone.

Thanks Apa, Rendflex I really did that twice. One with --dump and -dump both "crashed" on loading the map but both were trying to load the map, it crashed both on something like col_something_mp or so. A quick question for both of you does your dumps go into raw or m2demo? M2demo didn't show for me :/

They go into raw. Also devmap seems to be broken in r104. Try r102 with a modified dependency list (copy PatchMW2SPMaps.cpp from 104 to 102).

They go into raw. Also devmap seems to be broken in r104. Try r102 with a modified dependency list (copy PatchMW2SPMaps.cpp from 104 to 102).

Same here buddy! I a minidump error every time I try to load any map with devmap, but I can still join and play on servers?!

I have no troubles playing devmaps? I am testing a mod at the moment, so I think I have started a devmap quite some times now ;p

They go into raw. Also devmap seems to be broken in r104. Try r102 with a modified dependency list (copy PatchMW2SPMaps.cpp from 104 to 102).

Same here buddy! I a minidump error every time I try to load any map with devmap, but I can still join and play on servers?!

 

Even normal private match seems to be half broken. I it crashes for me on loading screen with minidump error 50% of the times...

Yeah I get random dumps that I've never gotten before.

Inb4 10000 Versionen of every Map

Anyway, I keep on being oldschool and do everything manually

Inb4 10000 Versionen of every Map

Anyway, I keep on being oldschool and do everything manually

Haha xD I liek

They go into raw. Also devmap seems to be broken in r104. Try r102 with a modified dependency list (copy PatchMW2SPMaps.cpp from 104 to 102).

Same here buddy! I a minidump error every time I try to load any map with devmap, but I can still join and play on servers?!

 

Even normal private match seems to be half broken. I it crashes for me on loading screen with minidump error 50% of the times...

Thats weird /devmap and Private Match works fine for me :?

They go into raw. Also devmap seems to be broken in r104. Try r102 with a modified dependency list (copy PatchMW2SPMaps.cpp from 104 to 102).

Same here buddy! I a minidump error every time I try to load any map with devmap, but I can still join and play on servers?!

 

Even normal private match seems to be half broken. I it crashes for me on loading screen with minidump error 50% of the times...

Thats weird /devmap and Private Match works fine for me :?

Mine work after I changed my dll to 102 :/

3rd time i'm asking this question: Apadayo, is this "Remove Entities out of Box"-option working or did you disable it?