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Adding a Hunt mode to your map
By Saitek009
This tutorial explains the basics of getting a hunt mode into your map.
What you need:

• Battlefront 2
• BF2 Modtools
• Text editor(like Notepad) for opening .req and .lua file types

This tut will not teach you how to add command posts, spawn points, vehicles and capture regions to your new gamemode.
For more info on the aforementioned topics please browse through the myriad of Tutorials located on Gametoast
Now, let's begin.

1. *** Represents your map's three letter acronym.
   ^ERA^ Represents your gamemodes's era letter "c" for Clone Wars "g" for galactic conquest.
2. Copy "hot1g_hunt.lua" in "BF2_ModTools\data_***\Common\scripts\***"
3. Open it and change this line:

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   ReadDataFile("HOT\\hot1.lvl", "hoth_hunt")

   to this

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   ReadDataFile("dc:***\\***.lvl", "***_hunt")

4. Navigate to "BF2_ModTools\data_***\Common\mission"
5. Make a new text file called "***^ERA^_hunt.req"
6. Open "***^ERA^_hunt.req" with notepad

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   ucft
   {
   REQN
   {
   "script"
   "***^ERA^_hunt"
   }
   }

7. Now navigate to "BF2_ModTools\data_***\Common"
8. Open Mission.req
9. Add this line:

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   "***^ERA^_hunt" (With quotes)
   

   Next to the other lines that look like this:

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   "***g_con"
   

10. Navigate to "BF2_ModTools\data_***\addme"
11. Open addme.lua
12. Add

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    mode_hunt_^ERA^ = 1,

    right after

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    mapluafile = "***%s_%s", era_g = 1, era_c = 1,

13. Go to the AddDownloadableContent section and a new line:

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    AddDownloadableContent("***","***^ERA^_hunt",4)

14. Open up your map in ZE
15. Click on Active layer Change button
16. Create a new layer and rename it "hunt"
17. Click on game modes configure
18. Remove it from common layers
19. Type in hunt into the mode name box and then click add
20. Click on the add button in Layers Used and add the hunt layer
21. Click on update REQs and MRQs and navigate to your ***.req
22. Add your command posts and layer specific objects
23. Save and Munge, then play away!

This method holds true for all gamemodes so just replace "hunt" with another gamemode name and you're all set.

Thanks to Teancum for the wording on some parts of the tutorial.
Thanks Tean!

Actually I (actually Maveritchell) found you don't need a new layer, you (can) use an existing one, like the Elimination layer.
Thats what I did in the end
.

That works too!
But it all depends on whether or not you want the same CP setup in Hunt as in Elimination.

You can use the conquest layer too. I use it on pre-made maps. Just add this to the ScriptPostLoad() section of your lua:

SetProperty("*****", "CaptureRegion", "")

***** would be whatever you named your CP in ZeroEdit. Add one for each CP.

You need to do that for each CP, just a note.

And did you use SetProperty or SetClassProperty? I didn't know the former would work on that kind of property.

I have completed this tutorial word by word four times, the mode appears and it will start, but no command posts appear, even though I have made them in Zero Editor. Were there any steps not mentioned here that I am forgetting? Or am I messing up someplace else?

my addme.lua:
my mission.req:
my CCCg_hunt.req:
my CCCg_hunt.lua

Try deleting this stuff in red:

Can we see your .req inside data_***\Worlds\***\world1 please?

Ant wrote:... no command posts appear, even though I have made them in Zero Editor...

Which layer in ZE did you add the 'hunt' CPs to?

Added it to the layer "hunt" (without the ")
Can someone please help me with this? Thanks.

How many cp's did you load? If you are using the hoth hunt Lua, I think you have to add the cp's there too.

Two CPS should be loading..and no I have not added my .lua, does anyone know how? (I sure you guys do, lol)

are they capturable?

No they are not capturable.

Please stop deleting your own posts and then reposting the same messages just for the sake of garnering more attention to them. Thanks. -Staff

I never have had a hunt mode in my map, but I suggest going over the tut again, trying to find any previous mistakes.