Hello, i'm new to the whole mapping scene I put out a map recently but it dealt with all textures because I have an EXTREMELY hard time dealing with Entitiys. And I have a few questions...

*NOTE* I use GTK-Radiant 1.4.0

1.) My entitys are turning black when I load my map although fully colored in my 3D View Window in GTK Radiant. I have checked the Forums FAQ, and took the advise from related topics on this issue. And still to no luck.

2.) Also, I have downloaded some prefabs, how exactlly do I use these?

3.) I can't seem to find out how to have my map name display in the "Create A Server" part of my game. Is there a specific way to do this?

Making to topics that are the same will not get you help any faster. all it does is miss up the forums

Ok, that was a accident due to my browser.. and 2nd please don't post unless you plan on being helpful, again no disrespect but if your gonna say something like that, maybe follow up with something useful?

The 3D View will generally have the lighting full on, therefore showing all entities lit. Be sure to set up lighting in your map if you want to see your entities in-game. That is usually the problem. No lights or mal-adjusted lights. As for the other questions, I'm not sure if you're talking about SoF or SoFII......... however, this site has an abundance of relevant info in the tutorials area. I hope this may have helped.

Yes, thank you Captain.. But the thing is even when giving each entity it's very own light above it with intensity of like 900! It still is a solid black. ( Like a missing texture or something )

edited on Aug. 8, 2005 09:04 am by cyrax88

cyrax88 writes...

So your mapping for SOF2 then (wrong section but MYOB will sort that) anyways look at this topic for a possible fix to the black models. If you want just use model > model_static instead of model > misc_model then you wont have black models.

AcE writes...

to load in a prefab, go up to edit menu and click 'load prefab....' also if the prefabs you have are .pfb files you will need to rename them to .map files, as gtkradiant does not see the others.


to get you map to show in the create server part you need to make an Arena file for it.