wats up with my textures?

[azreal]

i had this problem before, and ferning willingly helped me. but that was on a 1024x4 map.
FH 2 mapping q&a
(post 29-34)

i did wat ferning suggested but i sitll have a black texture area that follows me around. the textures off in the distance how ever look fine. then i decided to re tpaint my textures and i still have the same problem. then i thought i might have forgotten to set a LowDetailTexture.dds and i did that but it still didn't wokr. any ideas? it can't be a lightmap thing can it?

[Lobo]

Check the format of your terrain textures, the Editor folder ones (the textures used in the editor and the source of the ingame ones) must be in this format: 32bits 8:8:8:8, to know the format of your dds's download a handy tool called WTV in the NVIDIA developer tools page

[azreal]

lolz turns out that while i was checking my texture format, i noticed that for some reason my editor/lowdetailmaps was missing all the textures except the tx_s0-7

but thanx anyways lobo. now i have a new mapping tool. its like x-mas all over again. one more question, how do you set up the mapdata.py file for custom maps so that for stuff like changing the name of the CPs (ex: adelat_64 to just Adelat) like in the localization files

[Fenring]

DDS settings:
colormaps: 8888 ARGB 32bit, no mip maps (as lobo said)
detailtextures: dxt5, 10 mip maps
lowdetailtextures: 5.6.5, 5 mip maps

im not quite sure what you mean, for a standard map simply copy mapdata.py from example alamein to maproot and server.zip.

[Lobo]

The localization goes in the .desc file (INFO)

[azreal]

ferning, im talking about doing this for custom FH2 maps.

CP_64_AlamHalfa_AxisBasePanzerarmee Afrika
CP_64_AlamHalfa_8th_Armd_Brigade8th Armd Brigade
CP_64_AlamHalfa_4th_Light_Armd_Brigade4th Light Armd Brigade
CP_64_AlamHalfa_22d_Armd_Brigade22d Armd Brigade
CP_64_AlamHalfa_23d_Armd_Brigade23d Armd Brigade
CP_64_AlamHalfa_Deir_el_MuhafidDeir el Muhafid
CP_64_AlamHalfa_Samaket_GabalaSamaket Gabala
CP_64_AlamHalfa_7th_Motor_Brigade7th Motor Brigade

so that all goes in the .desc file right then? not the mapdata.py?