Hello, I'm importing my entire mod to CoD:WaW because I need a lot of materials from CoD:WaW in order for my mod to succeed.

I need some models from CoD4 for my maps, I tried simple copy/pasting but that didn't work.
I talked to h0ly and he told me I had to copy/paste the:

- xmodel
- xmodelparts
- xmodelsurfs

But the first letter of the name of had to be removed (don't know why).
Most models don't work though, they still show up as red boxes in CoD:WaW Radiant.

I noticed only the models that have one xmodelpart and one xmodelsurf work, so a model like the M1A1 (which has more than 10) won't work - I geuss Radiant has problems recognizing the correct files.

Any way of getting around this? If there's no solution I'll have to use the xmodel exporter and put them in the game manually with Maya and the AssMan but that's going to take a lot of time.

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Quite a few people have exported COD4 weapons to WaW, so obviously, there is a "way around" it. If you are getting a red box I highly doubt its because of the number of parts to the model. It is more likely that you arent adding all the assets to your zone file correctly.

I think most modders who have tried this themselves know about having to drop the first letter in the anims, surfs, and modelparts. No one knows "why" though.

http://wiki.modsrepository.com/index.php/Call_of_Duty_5:_COD4_model_import

doesn't make any sense to me to drop the first letter, but well, sounds like a strange bug.

you could try to add a letter at the beginning of the KVP value in the entity editor while leaving the xmodel names shortened, strange idea but it seems to be a weird bug right?

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From the very source you linked to:

Some Xmodel dont need the first letter remove, some do. In any case it simple to find out, create a dummy map using the Launcher, add the xmodel in the Zone File and compile. On compile .ff the Linker_pc will output whats missing or not with the filename it is looking for.

now that's odd. could it have to do with the messed compiler.exe? or is it the name length?

Thanks for the replies, I will check that tutorial.

I followed the tutorial but it didn't work on the M1A1 - so I looked at the compiler and it said these two surfs were missing:

ERROR: xmodelsurf 'm1a1_abrams_lod_10' not found
ERROR: Cannot find 'xmodelsurfs 'm1a1_abrams_lod_10'

I had the first letter removed from these, but I gave them back their original name.
After doing that it still wouldn't work so I compiled again and it said:

ERROR: xmodelsurf 'm1a1_abrams_lod_20' not found
ERROR: Cannot find 'xmodelsurfs 'm1a1_abrams_lod_20'

So I renamed those to their original names as shown above but still it wouldn't work - the compiler continued giving me these errors untill I had renamed about 4 files.

I can't see the structure behind all this, it is obvious though that some of the LOD files must not have their first letter removed.

For the "vehicle_m1a1_abrams_static" model you must NOT rename the following files (Xmodelsurfs):

- m1a1_abrams_lod_10
- m1a1_abrams_lod_20
- m1a1_abrams_lod_31

I'll run a test in-game and post updates.

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And there you have it, fully functional M1A1 Abrams model in CoD:WaW - the specular map seems to work apart from the red on the tank but I didn't compile reflections.



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Yeah just compile the reflections to get rid of the red stuff.

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The other LOD files must not be renamed if you want the other m1a1 models like the destroyed one.

i can think off two reasons for your problem:

1. the cod4 and cod5 files have different data structures
2. bug in the format, like with the physics presets (buggy compiler.exe)