I am making a SP map and when I compile it and play the map I spawn in the middle of a floor nowhere near where I put my player start.....

Also if I try to put the following simple gsc file with my map the game freezes while it loads the map.

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

suggestions?

Did you use the "create map" button on the launcher, or did you create your map from scratch in radiant. Creating it via the launcher sets up a default gsc file. If you create your own gsc file manually, the game will crash on start up. And without a gsc when a map has been built from scratch, you spawn as a multiplayer spectator.

edited on Nov. 22, 2008 06:11 am by Smithy

ok where is that gsc that is automaticly created? I cant see it in the maps folder where all the other gsc files are.

Here are a few more screens for reference on what is going on

In editor:



In Game:



As you can see the place I spawn ingame is WAYY different from the player start I put in the editor. Yes I know i havnt put any reflection probs or anything to fix the redness, havnt gotton there.

edited on Nov. 22, 2008 07:28 pm by starkk

This is probably because you're not using the correct spawn point.

So basically the game is probably ignoring 'your' spawn point.

Marshall2006 writes...

nope a SP spawn point is info_player_start...thats what im using

You're obviously not doing something right.

C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty - World at War\raw\maps

that's the location.

All the files are generate once the map has been created in the launcher.

I was getting the exact same problem, till I created a new map through the launcher, and loaded it up in radiant.

so I?
1. start hte launcher and hit create map then start radiant.
2. I copy everything from my old map (one im getting the error on) and bring it to the map i made through the launcher.
3. THen compile?

Ok I did that and got it to make a GSC file, but the compile wont finish. Says this

cod2map -vis -platform pc "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty - World at War\raw\maps\prison" ERROR -1

there are the two errors i get in the compile
ERROR: surface 'atoll_ship_metal_rust1' is partially floating or needs to be aligned

and the IWD denied ones

edited on Nov. 22, 2008 09:20 pm by starkk

I got it thanks for the help

Starkk, can you post what you did so others can learn.
Might help some headaches along the way.

ThisGuy writes...

If you make a copy of your map as I did... created a nazi_zombie_map in launcher and then from Radiant made a copy of the map with a normal name so my PC doesn't crash when I try to compile a zombie map... it doesn't create the gsc's. Yes, plural, as in 4 gsc files.

The FOUR .gsc files that launcher creates:
yourmapname.gsc
yourmapname_amb.gsc
yourmapname_anim.gsc
yourmapname_fx.gsc

edited on Nov. 26, 2008 10:28 pm by MastaKwaa