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hey every1,
im kinda new (about 2 weeks old) to mapping and it was all going brilliantly until everything stopped doing wot i wanted it to (including my keyboard lol)
first of all when i strted plying my maps almost everything was black squares with yellow outline and it moved about loads, and thn i looked at this website and it said 2 build a box round the whole map so i did, and well when i loaded up the map everything was just black (u couldt even see ur gun) and all u could see was 'Game Saved' and your weapon bar (which had a strting weapon of a Colt 45) i had added a light and a player strt so tht wasnt the problem and i just cant figure it out PLEASE HELP ME
also whenever i add an enemy posed-german-afika corps-officer and add an ai it says it cant find it (i havent tried since i added a .scr file)
PLEASE HELP

Did you check that MoHLight is actually running, you might have an error thats causing no lights to be built.

For the second bit, do you mean you tried to add AI to a posed Arfica Korps model. I might be wrong but I don't think you can do that, try adding an ai -> german -> etc instead.

with the enemy i added right clicked and went to posed german afrika corps officer and thn with tht still selected added a AI 2 it, i read the Creating your First Single Player Map and basically did wot tht said, with MOHLight i havent got a clue how 2 chck
i probbably sound stupid now lol
dont laugh im only 13

Sounds like you have a lot of things to check...

1. Be sure to turn on the 'blocks'. Go to 'View' and click on the item 'Show Blocks'.

2. Try not to have your brushes go over the blue lines/blocks. Try to use them as your guide to build inside of. You can build, for example, one building per block, or two inside that block etc. Just 'butt' your buildings up against each other while not overlapping the blue block lines. Hope that's not confusing.

3. When you built your 'sky box', did you give it the 'worldspawn' property? Do that by highlighting the side of the sky box you see from the ground/top of the sky. Next press 'n' and give it the 'worldspawn' property.

4. With the skybox highlighted AND with the 'entity' (n) menu up, give your map some ambient light. The entity menu gives you the 'key' text "ambientlight" then type a 'value' of say "60 60 60". That will give you good although not realistic light all over the map.

5. Check this site for tutorials on lighting the map and putting in a sun and such. It takes time, don't rush yourself or expect to be a wiz the first time out. I've been toying with this since the day it came out and I'm still learning tricks every day...and many, many maps later!

6. KEEP ASKING questions. Just be descriptive in your subject line and tell as much detail as you can about your problems. LOTS of great help around here.

right m8,
my unproffesionalism is really showing here, wot the hell is a sky box, i just built a big room, is tht wrong, got the blue lines wrking tht aint 2 confusing, when i have the enitity menu up where do i type 60 60 60
itsa good job there r a lot of good helpers around with ppl as thick as me, o well thnks 4 the help, tell me how to build a sky box and ill build one of thm

can sum1 plz tell me how 2 make a sky box

Check out the skybox tutorial

Alright, gr8 help thnks, i now have three main problems which i was wondering if you could help me out with-

1- There is no sound in my levels (this isnt new i just havent thought of it till now)

2- Whenever I build outside boxes the ground turns to shaking black and yellow boxes

3- my maps kinda wont actually load up, i go to MOHAA and type maplist and all tht, thn it says loading thn eventually it just goes back to the MOHAA main menu

man this is confusing

Well I can help you with the first one. You need to do one of two things.


1. Go to the tutarls page and check out the ubersound workaround tutarl(which is very difficult to start with)

2. Or you can just add "test_" to the beginning of you're map name. for example it would be test_youremap.map instead of just youremap.map (youremap being replaced with the name of you're map). This is the much easyer way to do it when you are still making a map. Eventually you will still need to cheack out the ubersound workaround to finish the map and make it pro like.

I hope that I was some help.

2 right u lot were help, b4 i found this site i just about knew how to make a room, doo u know how 2 sort out it shaking with the squares

Shaking squares

when i look at the ground (and places where there should be o ground) it is made out of lots of black squares with yellow outlines tht shake violently, i seem to b able 2 wlk on thm, very strng

o and whn adding a sky texture to my sky box if i choose a small texture how do i stop it looking gay, like lots of littl squares with a rising sun all over my sky

You've got a missing texture artifact .

Did you apply a texture in Radiant? You shouldn't see the black and blue checkerboard pattern in the editor anymore.

Don't worry about the gay wallpaper sky texture. It will look ok in game .

good bout the wllpaper
but, some of the squares r textured and sum of thm rnt even supposed 2 have ground on thm!
ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
its driving me crazy!

ok,
here we r, the dreaded problem

i hav compiled my map but when i tried 2 test it it went weird, it loaded fair enough and thn i saw a small rectangle of my map in the top-left corner of the load screen, i waited 4 about 5mins but nothing happened, so istrted to press w,a,s,d to wlk, more of my map strted appearring, when i looked at the sun there was a flare, but then i moved further right and the sky kinda strted jerking left,right,left right, by now about half of my loading screen was covered in jerking sky WOT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!
please please please help me