Hi guys , im havin a real frustrating problem, my map is almost complete but now when i go into COD4 to test it, i just wont load , i get the load bar and then it just rolls to a stock map.

Theres no errors or nothing , i just drop the console and type /map mp_mymapname and hit enter , it looks like its going to load and the a stock map loads.

Any ideas ???

Thanks

PS - I have built loads of maps before and ive tried all the obvious stuff , reinstalled, bulit ff , updtae zone file etc etc...

Thanks again

did you move your ff and ff_load to your usermaps folder ?
and checked Use Custom Command Line Opions
and put "+set fs_game mods/ your_mod_name
to make mod just make a folder any name ,and put it in mods folder then call it in fs_game mods ,your map should run ,unless it did not compile or if you have iwi for loadscreen and minimap which you would need to make a iwd and add images folder to it, then put your iwi in the images folder.iwd
and put the iwd in your new mod

Not sure i follow you m8 , the map is not a iwd file yet , its still not complete , i just want to test what ive done so far.

If tested it before but now it just wont load for testing. Im not trying to run it on a server.

You need to add three spawn points. tdm_spawn tdm_axis_start and tdm_allies_start

i ment that the iwd was for images only , that would need to be ran in a mod to get the loadscreen to work if you have one.
when you build a ff file after making one and you added the csv for it ,it wont run the map with out it
you add the {b}+set fs_game mods you_mod{/b] in the compiler, check the custom command line box and it runs your map though the compiler "run selected map" in your mod so you can see you minimap and loadscreen

if you only have a ff file ,some of my maps did that for awhile and they worked fine if it wont load try this remove the old dsb from your raw/maps/mp and recompile if the maps not right it will not create one and it will go to select player when you compile reflections "means bad model,model needs origin"most common to fix these i open my map in notebox and check every entity all models shoul have this

// entity ##
"angles" "0 0 0"
"model" "fan_shrub_a"
"classname" "misc_prefab"
"origin" "### ### ###"

or spawn points

//entity ##
"angles" "0 0 0"
"origin" "### ### ###"
"classname" "mp_dm_spawn"

or reflection probes
// entity ##
"origin" "### ### ###"
"classname" "reflection_probe"

note that the probe is one of the few things that "dont need " angles as wel as minimap_courners
every thing else must have angles or your map will not compile your bsp

Hey Zesty i added the tdm_spawn tdm_axis_start and tdm_allies_start spawn point and now its loading , i cant thank you guys enough , all i had in there was the tdm_axis_start and tdm_allies_start , did'nt know you needed the tdm_spawn aswell.

Thanks a bunch guys , now i can finally get this shiz nizz finished.

Peace

great new glad it works

i am having the same problem, i have added the spawn points to it tho and it is still not working its going to stock map i dont know what else to do. im new to mapping please help

If you havent already tried, after it goes to the stock map (after it loads) type /map mp_mapname in the console..

Be sure to be updating your zone file and then building your fast file for your map.