How to edit maps in arctic theatre?

AAG · 08-27-2004, 11:14 PM

Well, I asked this question in 'Map Authoring' but no one answered it
(may be this section is not visited so often

)

I use Final Alert 1.02.
I can create desert, lunar and new urbarn maps (so only YR theatres)
But when I create map in Ra2 theatre (snow, urban, temperat). The editor shows nothing.
If I open arctic map it shows such message:

'This map seems to be corrupt. Do you want to try repairing it? '

Could anyone explain what is the problem?

Blade · 08-28-2004, 02:37 PM

It only does that if the map has tiles on it that are in the wrong set or have been renumbered in the theatre.ini files.

AAG · 08-28-2004, 11:28 PM

But I can't create new snow map even if I have terrain XP installed (so, with normal INIs)

Edit: I have no Ra2 only YR and I can't create maps only for ra2 theatres (with desert lunar and other 'only YR' everything is OK). Can this be the reason?

DCoder · 08-29-2004, 12:38 AM

Get rid of that cracked version, dude... no way around it.

AAG · 08-29-2004, 01:50 AM

Have I cracked version of Final Alert??? I've downloaded it from author's sait...

DCoder · 08-29-2004, 03:37 AM

I was talking about YR... legal versions of YR require RA2 to be installed beforehand. But knowing you live in Russia, where piracy is over 90%, it's no surprise that you have such a version (I live very close to Russia, and we get a LOT of CDs from Russia in the unofficial market - any game you want costs 1$ per CD here :P )

I would suggest buying an original one over the 'net or something.

AAG · 08-30-2004, 05:45 AM

Yes about 90% of all CDs are craked versions of soft and games (legal are not popular - they cost too much comparing to cracked). I'm not sure what version I have (I copied CD from my friends) but FA don't reads the exe. And mix files with theatre tiles are not craked anyway.

Blade · 08-30-2004, 02:51 PM

Have you enabled the reading of files like RA2 does so it reads extra mod files and not just the default stuff?

AAG · 08-31-2004, 06:00 AM

Yes.

I opened finalalert2log.txt file. FA opened all mix files successful. But there are also such strings in the file:
IsoTem.pal failed
IsoSno.pal failed
IsoUrb.pal failed
and:
mslop01a.sno not found
mslop02a.sno not found
mslop03a.sno not found
and etc.

AAG · 09-01-2004, 08:03 AM

I solved problem with mslop01a.sno not found and so on.
I added snow.mix and others ro YR dir and renamed them to expandmdXX.mix
Now snow map are opened with no errors. But snow palet can't be loaded still.
What would you advice?