Okay so I tried to customize a unit (just the rep_inf_ep3trooper to start with).
When I munge it doesn't even seem to be that which is causing the problem, I get this in the log:
I've tried doing a manual clean and I followed the tutorial I have to the letter, changed Sides from 'NOTHING' to 'rep'. The tutorial says to ignore warnings, but these ones seem to be causing my map to crash to desktop before it's finished loading.

Any advice?

Do you have the common side folder inside your data_***'s side folder? If not you need to, without it a ton of the odfs will be incomplete (referencing to a parent odf that doesn't even exist.).

i cannot see some very important things there. Please post the crash log from BF2

Nedarb7 wrote:Do you have the common side folder inside your data_***'s side folder? If not you need to, without it a ton of the odfs will be incomplete (referencing to a parent odf that doesn't even exist.).

That was the problem. It didn't say that in the tutorial but I guess that's just me lacking common sense (no pun intended), thanks for the help!

thejolf wrote:.. It didn't say that in the tutorial...

Which tutorial were you using? I just checked the ones here on Gametoast and they all say copy the common folder.

It's by someone called 'Fierfek'.
I don't think I got it from this website. It has been really helpful, but there's a few minor things like this missing from it.

Ah ok, i've only seen one version, I don't know what changes he made to the others. The problem with offsite tutorials is that we can't correct them if there is outdated, misleading or incomplete instructions.