Getting CTD's after tiling

[Guest]

I'm half way on my tiling work and I just wanted to see how everything is going. So I made the thr file, then went to Tacedit and add an Airbase and made the wch idx and tac files then copied them all to their respective folders. Made the map files with the perl scripts. Copied them to their respective folders, edited the files that had to be edited. When I started Flacon everything was OK but when I whent to Tactical Engagement and tried to make a new mission it CTD'd on me. I then try to start an already made mission and it CTD'd on the loading page when it was supposed to start.

What's wrong??

I of course switched to my terrain using terrain switcher.

Falcon out

[Guest]

1.you use a new folder for your theater, or replace one of koera/balkans/..etc?
2.did you make a new_tac.tac?
3.check all related filenames.

if not work, suggest you send a copy of your theater to experienced theater-makers. Perhaps Snake man could do you a favor.

[Guest]

please check out the te_new file there is a chance you have changed him. this thing may cuase a ctd i know i had this problem. all you need to do if its really the problem is to find a new and fresh copy of this file thats all.

[Guest]

Clicking Tactical Engangement menus NEW icon which result to CTD... it usually means you have wrong ID numbers in the te_new.tac file. check out that they are 4-4004 range.

PMC TFW
Snake Man

[Guest]

Ok I changed the ID's on the objectives and I got to the new Mission menu. I made my Tac mission but when I tray to fly it I get a CTD on the Loading screen. I only made one objective, an airbase, nad the ID i put was:
ID:4
ID2:4

What could be wrong??

[Guest]

its your te_new its must have been changed. i know that i used to have the same problem. just find a fresh copy of that file.

[Guest]

> I only made one objective, an airbase, nad
> the ID i put was:
> ID:4
> ID2:4

Those are correct. CTD on loading screen... Hmm.

Did you try follow our Tacedit tutorial excatly? That is not too hot tutorial but all the necessary stuff to make .tac file working is included.

I dont think I've ever seen that CTD on loading screen yet, so... its quite difficult to find a solution for you.

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Snake Man

[Guest]

I was thinking it could be a problem with the terrain files. I accidently loaded the mission with the Korea terrain and it loaded allright. The airbase was placed in the water but that was ok in my terrain it would be on land. The problem is loading with my Terrain.

Falcon out

[Guest]

Ok reread the Terrain tutorial and did a couple of things and I got it working. It loaded. Now I get another problem. My terrain disappears as I pass over it. It turns into water then behind me they turn back to land and way in front of me it starts turning to land. It only turns to water when I'm passing over it.

FalconPR

Sorry for taking so much of your time, and thanks a lot for your help.

[Guest]

Have you created new textures for your theater?

Usually the landscape changes textures when there is new H tiles made and they dont match for M, L and T tiles.

Umm what was your theater again? (countries etc).

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Snake Man

[Guest]

No I have not made any new textures. I'm using the textures from the Balkans terrain.
This is what I did.
I unziped all the H*.pcx files from thetexture.zip of the balkans to a directory.
I configured TerrainView to use this textures
I configured the Texture Zip Directory to the Balkans\texture\texture.zip
And the Texture.bin directory to the Balkans\texture\texture.bin

When I made a directory for my theater in the falcon4\terrdata
I copied Korea and pasted it to get Copy of Korea then I renamed it to Caribean.
I then copied all my theater files to their respective directory, and then I copied the texture.zip and texture.bin from the balkans to my theater directory (because those are the textures I used to tile)

And now when I'm using my terrain it disappears.

Hope this is a little more specific.

FalconPR

[Guest]

> No I have not made any new textures. I'm using the textures from the Balkans terrain.

Still sounds like there is wrongly named textures or something. Hmm is that balkans texture.zip complete, dont it need those default korean tiles too? check that out.

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Snake Man

[Guest]

OK, at last I got it working. I got to some thinking and remembered somthing about rebuilding the terrain. so I used TInstall and rebuiled my terrain. And voilá, they didn't disapear anymore.

Thanks a lot for your time and effort, really apreciate it. And Snake Man thanks a lot for your time, I know you are buildings someterrains yourself and to take some of your time to help us newbies is great. We need the help.

Well of to see my half tiled terrain. Maybe in a week I'll have it completely tiled and maybe some Tac's, and ready for download.

Again thanks,

Falcon out