I was following Fierfek's guide on skinning, and after I munged I got a lot of warnings and errors:
I have no clue what they mean because this is my first time skinning (I used GIMP to skin)

I already did a manual clean and a normal clean but got the same thing

Poor, poor, mapper. I am not 100% on this answer but likely you made the same mistake I did.

1. Copy the side you want to skin (I'll use rep) and "common" from bf2modtools/assets/sides and paste them in ABC_data/sides

2. GO open gimp and skin the rep trooper found in ABC_data/side/rep/msh, then click save as, save it as an .xcf (gimp file) with the same name (THIS will help with the skinning)

3. Close Gimp and reopen it, open your trooper saved as an xcf and resave as a tga, a message will come up asking you to replace the file, click yes. Another winow will pop up with 2 optoins one will say RLE compression and the other will say origin: bottom left, leave origin alone but TURN OFF RLE and save (THIS will help with skin veiwing)

4. Go to your ABCc_con LUA, add dc: before rep//rep.lvl part so it looks sorta like this "dc:rep//rep.lvl" save and you're done with the LUA


5. Munge with only common checked on and with rep selected on side, If it works you should have few or no munge errors



Fierfek has a good giude but he left out some important info

0Anonymous0 wrote:Poor, poor, mapper. I am not 100% on this answer but likely you made the same mistake I did.

1. Copy the side you want to skin (I'll use rep) and "common" from bf2modtools/assets/sides and paste them in ABC_data/sides

2. GO open gimp and skin the rep trooper found in ABC_data/side/rep/msh, then click save as, save it as an .xcf (gimp file) with the same name (THIS will help with the skinning)

3. Close Gimp and reopen it, open your trooper saved as an xcf and resave as a tga, a message will come up asking you to replace the file, click yes. Another winow will pop up with 2 optoins one will say RLE compression and the other will say origin: bottom left, leave origin alone but TURN OFF RLE and save (THIS will help with skin veiwing)

4. Go to your ABCc_con LUA, add dc: before rep//rep.lvl part so it looks sorta like this "dc:rep//rep.lvl" save and you're done with the LUA


5. Munge with only common checked on and with rep selected on side, If it works you should have few or no munge errors



Fierfek has a good giude but he left out some important info

While that is slightly useful, there are a lot of useless steps there, and Fierfek didn't leave out important info...

For skins, just make sure you save your skin with RLE compression off (note that GIMP only displays a box with that option if you click 'save as').

Also, don't munge things like sound unless you actually have something in that category to munge. If all you want to do is get a new skin in-game, you only need to munge the sides and common if you've made changes to your .lua to load the new sides.

yo thanks guys

EDIT
uhh, here's my error log... 35 warnings
yup, map crashes.

Ok, first, do not double-post, use the edit button (not to be a junior moderator or so, just a tipp to avoid any problems with the staff )

second, I have the same problem with GIMP. I can't help ya there, sorry. But I would be happy if someone could solve this, 'cause now there are two guys with one problem

agentfallenangel wrote:uhh, here's my error log... 35 warnings

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ERROR[levelpack shell.req]:Input file shell.req does not exist. [continuing]
1 Errors 0 Warnings

WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_jettrooper.msh]:rep_inf_jettrooper has 2379 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_atte.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: out of space in splitting catalog!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_atte.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: resorting to brute force, this may take a while...
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_atte.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: out of space in splitting catalog!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_atte.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: resorting to brute force, this may take a while...
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\all_inf_luke.msh]:all_inf_luke has 1171 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_aaylasecura.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: out of space in splitting catalog!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_aaylasecura.msh]:Mesh rep_inf_aaylasecura segment sv_aaylasecura vertex 6 has invalid weight[0]=1.000169.
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_aaylasecura.msh]:rep_inf_aaylasecura has 1597 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_aaylasecura.msh]:Mesh rep_inf_aaylasecura segment sv_aaylasecura vertex 6 has invalid weight[0]=1.000169.
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_arctrooper.msh]:rep_inf_arctrooper has 2031 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_clonecommander.msh]:rep_inf_clonecommander has 1560 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3anakin.msh]:rep_inf_ep3anakin has 2900 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3armoredpilot.msh]:rep_inf_ep3armoredpilot has 2193 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3cloakedanakin.msh]:rep_inf_ep3cloakedanakin has 3896 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3heavytrooper.msh]:rep_inf_ep3heavytrooper has 2280 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3jettrooper.msh]:rep_inf_ep3jettrooper has 2368 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3obiwan.msh]:rep_inf_ep3obiwan has 2936 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3sniper.msh]:rep_inf_ep3sniper has 4737 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3spacepilot.msh]:rep_inf_ep3spacepilot has 1797 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_ep3trooper.msh]:rep_inf_ep3trooper has 1963 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_feluciatrooper.msh]:rep_inf_feluciatrooper has 1364 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_kiadimundi.msh]:rep_inf_kiadimundi has 1713 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_luke.msh]:rep_inf_luke has 1171 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_macewindu.msh]:rep_inf_macewindu has 2866 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_pilot.msh]:rep_inf_pilot has 2418 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_pilot_low1.msh]:rep_inf_pilot_low1 has 1060 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_trooper.msh]:rep_inf_trooper has 1807 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_inf_yoda.msh]:rep_inf_yoda has 2283 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_oneman_atst.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: out of space in splitting catalog!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_oneman_atst.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: resorting to brute force, this may take a while...
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_oneman_atst.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: out of space in splitting catalog!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_oneman_atst.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: out of space in splitting catalog!
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_walk_oneman_atst.msh]:SplitSkinnedSegments: WARNING: resorting to brute force, this may take a while...
WARNING[PC_modelmunge msh\rep_weap_inf_chaingun.msh]:rep_weap_inf_chaingun has 1178 vertices and NO COLLISION GEOMETRY (WILL BE SLOW)!
0 Errors 35 Warnings

yup, map crashes.

Why are you still trying to munge shell?

I don't see any real problems in there. Post an error log from bf2_modtools.exe.

yeah haha. I made these cool skins and I was so eager to use them lol

Is this it?
looks like I got a severity 2 thingy.... is that bad? I backed up my data_*** folder before I changed the skin, so worst comes to worst, I can always replace it (im learning from my past mistakes )

What I had to do to get around this was I copied all my modded files to another location, then i deleted my map, then i re-made my map how you usually do using Visual Munge. I had to paste all the modded files back to where they were before but in the new level. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT, dont munge shell or sound unless your using them. Then you shouldnt get any errors or warnings.

You may also be able to do this with a manual clean, and leave shell and sound unchecked when you munge but ill leave that up to you to find out. Hope I helped

@ SpiderPig - I never use GIMP because it had so many error for me, so i switched to Paint.NET and i havent had an error since.

yeah, what you did is a manual clean the most laborious way

lol

oh crap, I could have saved tonnes od time

BTW, that is the only way it works for me atm???