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]

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

broke... Java's built in "point inside rectangle" function sucks ass.

But, how to launch d3dbsp.ents Editor?

I think that I can made a good port of sp map, I am not totaly green at gsc and other things

Noob question, (sry for bumping) How do you run those .class files in your .ent editor tool download?

Sigh... I hate some browsers... rename the zip file to .jar and double click it. Otherwise you need to do command line shit which gets annoying.

Is MW2 modding more difficult than COD4 modding?

Is MW2 modding more difficult than COD4 modding?

HELL YES. FU** FAST FILES. Im all over dem .bsp files.

Is MW2 modding more difficult than COD4 modding?

HELL YES. FU** FAST FILES. Im all over dem .bsp files.

Are you alright, BoxOfTools?

What is ltOrigin?

I believe he was being sarcastic.

I wish I have enough time to know this Apadayo

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 :/

 

Hey, where can i get the dll for 102? mine doesnt seem to be working on 104 either..

Check out revision 102 from svn and then update JUST PatchMW2SPMaps.cpp to rev 104 (in TortiseSVN its right click->TortiseSVN->update to revision->Head Revision). Then just compile and run.

Run the game with the command line option "--dump"

What does that mean?

Run the game with the command line option "--dump"

What does that mean?

 

Make a shortcut to the game's executable file (IW4M.EXE), right click the shortcut you've made and press properties. Add "--dump" to the end of the target 'box'.

Run the game with the command line option "--dump"

What does that mean?

 

Make a shortcut to the game's executable file (IW4M.EXE), right click the shortcut you've made and press properties. Add "--dump" to the end of the target 'box'.

 

THANKS MAN!!!

When my ported map loads on 100% it stucks on awaiting challenge..1. and the game doesnt respond.

When my ported map loads on 100% it stucks on awaiting challenge..1. and the game doesnt respond.

Just wait, this happens sometimes, the game must load two fastfiles now.

Either that or you just fail a properly porting maps. lol

I wonder why the NTA didn't just add the dependency map to the call to load the original fastfile as it can take more than one fastfile. That way it gets included in the loading bar.

When my ported map loads on 100% it stucks on awaiting challenge..1. and the game doesnt respond.

it loaded i got some script compile errors...but now when it loads i'm back on the main menu...

Post your gsc files and we can look at them for errors. Also, what was the error? Syntax error? (look at the console output)

I've fixed my syntax errors gonna post my gsc's later

So i wanna port favela_escape(the hornest's nest)

here are my gsc's

http://www.mediafire.com/?58ge430i56oa6vd

So i wanna port favela_escape(the hornest's nest)

here are my gsc's

http://www.mediafire.com/?58ge430i56oa6vd

You have a few extra entities that you didn't need (vehicles and nodes and shit). Also, the entities that you added all looked like this

{

"classname" "mp_dm_spawn"

"origin" "0 0 0"

"angles" "0 0 0"

{

it needs to end with a } (closing brace) not { (opening brace)

also your basemaps.arena is wrong... try copying the entry from mp_favela because that is what the dependency map is.

 

Here is your fixed d3dbsp.ents: http://pastebin.com/qgggnmZa

So i wanna port favela_escape(the hornest's nest)

here are my gsc's

http://www.mediafire.com/?58ge430i56oa6vd

You have a few extra entities that you didn't need (vehicles and nodes and shit). Also, the entities that you added all looked like this

{

"classname" "mp_dm_spawn"

"origin" "0 0 0"

"angles" "0 0 0"

{

it needs to end with a } (closing brace) not { (opening brace)

also your basemaps.arena is wrong... try copying the entry from mp_favela because that is what the dependency map is.

 

Here is your fixed d3dbsp.ents: http://pastebin.com/qgggnmZa

Thanks!

What was wrong with my base maps.arena?

Sorry to post here but I have the same problems on every server, and on every map.