Karpet Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Hey guys, I want to make a mission for myself, how can I get an shp and add it to a mission, JUST that mission? I've seen the Tiberian Alert nurple maps do that, so I want to know how.
Allen508 Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 The shp has to be in a mix file and use of Image=*SHPNAME* key.
Nyerguds Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Correction: the SHP has to be in a mix file THAT'S READ BY THE GAME. Typically, you can make the game read an addon mixfile by making the mixfile's filename start with "sc". And using "Image=XXXX" means you need to add not only an "XXXX.shp", but also, if it's something buildable, an "XXXXicon.shp" for the sidebar, and if it's a building, an "XXXXmake.shp" for the build-up animation. Also, I assume you're talking about RA1? This stuff doesn't work in C&C1.
Karpet Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 Yep, RA1. An expand mix works too, right?
Karpet Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Did not work. My MiG is now textureless, invisible. How exactly do I have to make it look like a Frogfoot I have in an expand.mix?
Nyerguds Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Did not work. My MiG is now textureless, invisible. How exactly do I have to make it look like a Frogfoot I have in an expand.mix? So, did you try what I said? Typically, you can make the game read an addon mixfile by making the mixfile's filename start with "sc".
Allen508 Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 I don't know if the SC logic was full fixed. I know in stock RA1 as SC can't be used for icons.
Nyerguds Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 Ehh? Never heard anything like that. The only thing it didn't work for were the expansion graphics, since the expand mixfiles have priority over the sc ones.
Karpet Posted March 2, 2014 Author Posted March 2, 2014 I pretty much gave up since fuck you RaED, you erased tons of my fucking work. I can still play it, but I cannot edit it, or even find the ini file. It's there in the RaED exe but it's not in my actual folder. Now I can't make new maps and a replace did not help. I'm thinking I should just reinstall PortableRA fully or install Funky's RA and then add all of my shit.
Jacko Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 whats the problem with raed? It has a few minor bugs but I've never heard of this
Karpet Posted March 2, 2014 Author Posted March 2, 2014 Well now you have, it's like the last problem I had when I made a multiplayer map. It didn't show up and it couldn't be edited when it was saved, so it was forever lost.
FunkyFr3sh Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 sometimes it saves the maps as .ini and not mpr, the map is still there but you have to rename it or else it wont list it anymore
Karpet Posted March 4, 2014 Author Posted March 4, 2014 That's the thing, it's not in any folder. I might check the raed1.mix and see if there's anything in there, probably not.
Nyerguds Posted March 4, 2014 Posted March 4, 2014 Uhh, I'd assume any maps it saves will be in the RAED folder. How do you open the map in RAED, then?
Jacko Posted March 4, 2014 Posted March 4, 2014 you might've changed the path to which it saves to, and raed can only load from the folder its located in.
Karpet Posted March 5, 2014 Author Posted March 5, 2014 Oh, there's supposed to be a RAED folder? I just place it in the RA folder.
Jacko Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 no no no you might've changed the save path accidentally, I.e. it might be saving all your new stuff to a random folder If this is not a problem do you get an error every time you try and load up the map selection?
Karpet Posted March 6, 2014 Author Posted March 6, 2014 As of recent, yes, I do get an error when I open RaEd, the only maps that are there are my sc- maps and ant missions.
Jacko Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 ok, this explains why everything magically disappears this means one of your saves/files is bad, got corrupted and crashes raed's map loading system. you will need to search through the map directory and find the bad ini or mpr file. it is usually 0kb size so its not hard to find then. Delete it and your problems should be fixed
FunkyFr3sh Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 i can also be caused by a too long map name (i dont mean the filename)
Nyerguds Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 Oh, there's supposed to be a RAED folder? I just place it in the RA folder. you place what in the RA folder? RAED itself? Or the maps? But yeah, it's generally advised to use a separate folder for RAED.
Echo Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 i can also be caused by a too long map name (i dont mean the filename) Filenames over 8 characters (not including extension) will also cause RAED to twiddle its thumbs and not open said map (while spitting out "File not found" & "Error 1" messages).
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