Hi its been a while since I have mapped and recently decided to pik up where I left off.I dont know if this error is due to being rusty and not rememberin how to do it correctly or due to my operating system win 7.

I have followed the tutorials and some forum posts on how to make a loading screen.

1.Made a screenshot 1024 x 1024 res 72
2.saved image as dds dxt5,2dtexture ,no mip maps named both 2 ways 1st try loadingscreen_my map name.dds then loadscreen_my map name.dds.This was saved in to c/ program file (x86) /activision/ call of duty 2/ images
3.asset manager in as administrator
4.selected material and clicked new entry as above tried both name versions loading and loadscreen_mp_my map name
5.saved as both named versions loadscreen_mp_my map name.gdt
6.choose to convert asset only then got the error below




this is how the asset manager was set up

P.S anyone using win7 run compile tools as adminsitrator it then works correctly.I found that it wouldnt work properly without running it in this mode

Your DDS file is not the right size. It has to be 1024x1024.

If it is a "powered squared" number, try setting the color map settings to "no tile" and "nomip bilinear", that way the game wont check its its a "powered squared" size.

"power of two" means that the resolution of Your textures should have 64x64 , 128x128, 256x256, 512x512 etc

You can combine resolutions ie. 64x128 or 128x256 etc

In Your case, as Demon said, resolution should have 1024x1024.

There's no need to tiling because loadscreen is a single picture

try to mark "nopicmip" in assman

it should work

my dds is power of 2 1024x1024
also set to no tile as shown in last pic

It cant be - the Asset Manager doesnt lie, and it is saying its a non-power-of-2 image size.

Infern4ll writes...

You might not need no tiling, but setting it to no-tile you can then have a non power-of-2 image size. Its only when you use mipmaps that it has to be a power squared size. Thats why I suggested it.

Here is a tutorial from WaR111

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muX9iPYSnP4

Follow his advices

Thanks for your help I have managed to get it working with several tries.

Only thing now is put it all in to iwd and it wont show up in map list any ideas please??

I have the following folders and files
folders
mp_mymap

inside that files

images >>> loadscreen_mp_mymap.iwi
materials >>> loadscreen_mp_mymap
map mp >>> mp_mymap.csv
mp_mymap.d3dbsp
mp_mymap.d3dprt (also tried without)
mp_mymap.gsc

mp mp_mymap.arena


csv = levelBriefing,loadscreen_mp_mymap

gsc =

main()
{
maps\mp\_load::main();

setExpFog(0.0001, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0);
// setCullFog(0, 16500, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0);
ambientPlay("ambient_france");

game["allies"] = "british";
game["axis"] = "german";
game["attackers"] = "allies";
game["defenders"] = "axis";
game["american_soldiertype"] = "africa";
game["german_soldiertype"] = "africa";

setCvar("r_glowbloomintensity0", ".25");
setCvar("r_glowbloomintensity1", ".25");
setcvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".3");

arena = {
map "mp_mymap"
longname "mp_mymap"
gametype "dm tdm"
}

I took the map structure from an old map of mine that does work set up in same fashion

edited on Mar. 17, 2010 04:40 pm by puncster1

first try the map in a clean cod2-system - you can copy the whole game to another partition if possible.
There you can delete anything whats not needed - like other custom maps or mods.

structure
need a top-folder wich contains:


[maps] -> [mp] -> mp_mymap.gsc, mp_mymap.csv,mp_mymap.d3dbsp , mp_mymap.d3dprt


[mp] -> mp_mymap.arena


[images] -> mp_mymap.iwi


[materials] -> loadscreen_mp_mymap



edited on Mar. 20, 2010 08:43 am by |S!T|
the long_name in the arena file is what you map is called in the list when setting up a new server

here is an example

{
	map		"mp_mymap"
	longname	"^1My ^7first ^5Map"
	gametype	"dm tdm"
}

work without colors also ;)

and in you gsc: (don't fix the "show up in list problem - just tidy up the gsc)


main()
{
maps\mp\_load::main();

setExpFog(0.0001, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0);
// setCullFog(0, 16500, 0.55, 0.6, 0.55, 0);
ambientPlay("ambient_france");

game["allies"] = "british";
game["axis"] = "german";
game["attackers"] = "allies";
game["defenders"] = "axis";
game["american_soldiertype"] = "africa";
game["german_soldiertype"] = "africa";

setCvar("r_glowbloomintensity0", ".25");
setCvar("r_glowbloomintensity1", ".25");
setcvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".3");


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