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]

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

 

you dont have the dependecy, thats why you are having huge problems

Updated as of 8/25.

Changes

7/2/12 - published
8/22/12 - added part about xmodel finding
8/25/12 - added minimap info

Updated as of 8/25.

Changes

7/2/12 - published
8/22/12 - added part about xmodel finding
8/25/12 - added minimap info

thx for the new update

Hey, awesome tut but I got a question...

I created a preview image for my map but when i go in private match it won't show up. Any ideas how i could fix this?

you need a modded dll to load the image. its in patchmw2materialism.cpp

Hey, awesome tut but I got a question...

I created a preview image for my map but when i go in private match it won't show up. Any ideas how i could fix this?

You can use the dll i provide in my posts. It loads every preview image for each new map.

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7843&p=53821#p53821

Added xmodel list... see first post.

Added xmodel list... see first post.

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would you mind adding them for invasion and other maps too?

If you are interrested. I coded a little entity generator tool in C# that let's you generate a text file of a desired amount of entities that can be added to the ents file of your map to display the brushmodels in a 3D line! Can be useful if you search a specified brushmodel, then you can just spawn some 400 entities and flyby

Generator.exe

Could be useful.

/offtopic: Momo5502, go steam plawks. :c

Does somebody have ffViewer 2.62? Download link is down.

Does somebody have ffViewer 2.62? Download link is down.

Links should be fixed. See the first post.