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Hey again!

I'm having technical difficulties. I decided to test running my Alderaan map and Tatooine map from the same folder and I've created a non-functional monstrosity. I tried following the only two tutorials I found on Gametoast with working links, and they contradicted each other in how to edit the addme.lua, so I tried (or think I tried) both methods.

I've got both maps showing up in the list now, but now either both Alderaan and Tatooine show up twice in the list or just Tatooine shows up twice with Alderaan showing up as expected. If I try to put one of the maps that shows up twice in the playlist, it appears twice on the list. In any case, if I attempt to play Alderaan, I get the map loaded fine, but the sounds, the effects from my ingame.lvl, and so on, all don't show up, and my textures are replaced with black boxes flying out of the guns at high speeds. If I attempt to play Tatooine, I can get into the unit selection screen, but it appears not even the map has loaded, with no CPs and an empty void of darkness comprising the entire visible game world.

I'm not sure if it has to do with my addme or something else, so here's the addme:

addme.lua: mission.req: AD1c_con.req: AD1g_con.req: TT3c_con.req: TT3g_con.req: AD1c_con.lua: AD1g_con.lua: TT3c_con.lua: TT3g_con.lua: I think this is a multifaceted issue, though all I did to get here was change the addme.lua, move the AD1 folder in the AD1\data\_LVL_PC\ to TT3\data\_LVL_PC\ , edit the .reqs and play a little with the LUA for the Alderaan map because I hadn't touched it in a while and I wanted to make sure it called for the most recent versions of my sides, and called for the new sounds and custom ingame.lvl correctly (I basically just looked at what I did that worked for Tatooine and put it in for Alderaan). Any guidance will be greatly appreciated!

You addme is not quite correct:

Hm. Put in what you put. Now I have Alderaan back (I destroyed it briefly trying to revert to the old addme), but now there are two of them and two Tatooines. Also, when I reverted to my old addme (the default addme.lua), I still had two Tatooines in the map list, and when I go into the game, the map doesn't load in, just an empty black void. This is horrifying. I just tried to change one thing and destroyed everything haha

Eaol wrote:I tried following the only two tutorials I found on Gametoast with working links, and they contradicted each other in how to edit the addme.lua, so I tried (or think I tried) both methods.

I fixed the download links for Tean's tutorial in this thread:
http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9231
I'll probably just insert the tutorial into the first post so no one has to download anything. -done

These are the other 2 tutorials about the same thing:
http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=17173
http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15809

Commander_Fett's is more complete, but RED51's has a more streamlined addme.lua. If you combine these 2 things you would have the ultimate tutorial.

I tried the one from Tean. I still have two AD1s and two TT3s when I go into the instant action screen (I haven't touched the localization yet). Could something other than the addme.lua affect the appearance of multiple copies of the same map on the screen?

Here's my addme.lua per Tean's tutorial:

addme.lua: Again, only some tutorials suggest the whole sp_n+1, then 2, then 3, etc. thing. Why is this?

If you've gotten far enough that you can select your game mode and run it, you probably don't have a problem with your addme. The issue lies in your individual mission scripts.

What does your folder structure look like? Do you have multiple copies of missions with the same prefix running?

You need to do two things - one, remove everything from your addon folder except for the one mission you're working on, and verify where your issues lie. Two, check to make sure the paths you're calling in your scripts are pointing to the correct folder locations. "ReadDataFile("ingame.lvl")" says to look in "GameData\DATA\_LVL_PC" for "ingame.lvl" while "ReadDataFile("dc:ingame.lvl")" says to look in "addon\*\data\_LVL_PC" (where * is the folder the loading addme.script is located). If you rearranged things so that you've got an ingame.lvl in "*\data\_LVL_PC\AD1", you'll need to say "ReadDataFile("dc:AD1\\ingame.lvl")".

Yeah, I'm aware that I forgot to put AD1 in there. shhhh

Anyway, that's my folder structure. The files in question are all available in the thread, and the scripts for missions are located within /data_EOL/Common/scripts/AD1 and /data_EOL/Common/scripts/TT3.


EDIT: Fix'd in the weirdest way. I had copied a TT3 folder to the game's directory (the battlefront 2 folder under LucasArts) and when I deleted that, it all worked perfectly. I have no idea how anything in that folder could affect whether or not my map loads, shows up twice in the list, or is subjected to a host of errors. I just deleted my backup TT3 folder from LucasArts/Star Wars Battlefront II. I also added the AD1 file, which shouldn't have changed anything anyway, it's just the map itself, and I removed AD1 from the compatibility files folder, where it's been forever without issue. Welp. Thanks for the help.