I'm made some new content just to refresh if I still remember doing it plus I finally managed to make proper material blending on meshes 10 years to late

1. This one I called El Passo. Closed landscape with tunnels. With Nowhere vibe for sure, quick small map meant to be played on tdm and dm.

more screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/vynS9Mh

2. This one just lame port of de_dust and de_dust2 textures, just to have some fun with it. So its Counter Strike 1.6 vibe, small map meant to be played on tdm or dm whatever

more screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/F7mYxeW

Cheers,

WinteR5

trying to edit a map

will work well in all areas except

ANYTHING to do with humans

crashes  when trying to access AI.humans

Editing the same data file will work on other machines.

Error below

everything the same except for the Out of memory bytes
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Crash in application version: 30899.3048

Out of memory allocating 11198608 bytes

SCRIPT STACK:
    data\lib\units\extensions\groupunit.dsf(0)
    data\lib\utils\dev\editor\humanlayer.dsf(0)
    data\lib\utils\dev\editor\editor.dsf(0)
    data\lib\managers\genericstatemanager.dsf(0)
    data\lib\setups\setup.dsf(0)
    data\levels\editor\editor.dsf(0)

Renderer: normal
Physics : normal

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any help would be gratefully welcome

thanks

Thank you.

=LT=Vitoto Out.

Is there any way to pick the 3D files of objects,maps,etc...  ? Maybe using a bundle extractor?

Thank you!

PS : Same for Graw1 ^^ 

Why he does not like tiling?

No job.

Some of us are working on new missions for GRAW2 and it can be very challenging to keep missions interesting for players.

One way of making maps more interesting for people is to make new props. Either to 'beautify' the map or linking them to objectives (for example: Proximity Laser by JohnTC02). Eventhough we already came up with several ideas, we would like to ask players (= you ) to post some ideas!

If you have any thoughts on this, just post them here (if an explanation is needed, just send that in a PM to keep the list nice and tidy)

Please copy/paste the previous ideas in your reply, so we end up with one list of ideas.

The mission is the stock mission from GRIN. (Credit given where due) bundling the map was done by MexicanBob (thanks MexicanBob)

I couldn't get into the quarry area because I sucked. I added trees and other items from the static and dynamic layers within the editor. I basically did cosmetics to the map (watch out for the snipers!) the trees hide the snipers well. Although none were added by me, they are tough to see through the trees . I added a gate to the opening to the greater quarry area. the enemy placements stayed the same. Tanks: stayed the same. I added two resupply mules (one pictured below). the other is in the open greater quarry area. I added fencing and walls for cover and concealment and some for cosmetics. Enjoy!

Calavera with a new environment and rain effect.

It's only an example and can be expanded by add lightning and custom sound.

Bye

After the crap called GRFS hit the market for PC I really wanted to get back into the mod game and it had to be GRAW2.

With this map I have some few goals I really want to achive to bring back the true OGR feeling:

- Create an open map with long viewrange.

- Create new and good looking vegetation.

- Increase the draw distance on props, characthers and dynamic shadows.

- Improve my knowledge in 3ds Max, Mudbox and Photoshop.

- Bring the some inspiration back into GR modding to keep the community alive.

- Continue to support and upgrade the mod with new content.

I have no idea when this map will be done as I'm still learing new things as I go along, but I feel it's time to show off some teasers and create some inspiration here on the forum.

All geometry except some few props from GRAW2 have been created from scratch in 3dmax, only using the geometry from the original GR as a template.

I will write up a small and basic tutorial for how I have remade the terrain, so maybe we'll see another nice remake.

Enjoy!

Biro

Open woodlands, just like OGR!

Garage and Farmhouse - Still need some more details.

The Barn - Sniper, second floor!

Programs used in this tutorial:

Autodesk 3d Studio Max 8 (http://usa.autodesk.com/)

Autodesk Mudbox (http://usa.autodesk.com/)

Photoshop (http://www.adobe.com/)

3d RipperDX (http://www.deep-shad.../3DRipperDX.htm)

Polyboost (http://www.polyboost.com/)

World Machine 2 (http://www.world-machine.com/)

XML Marker (http://xml-marker.en.softonic.com/)

Backdrop

The backdrop or the horizon is used to simulate a bigger world then what's the actual case. A program that's really good for creating such backdrops is WorldMachine 2. Dice @Battlefield 3 for example uses this for their terrain layout. (http://blogs.battlef...de-dice-alborz/)

I'm not gonna go too deep into WM2, but my basic workflow was to sculpt up some very basic shapes in Mudbox where I wanted the mountains to be, then extract a displacement map. I then used this in WM2 and set up the different nodes and such to give me some better looking mountains with erosion effects. Check the screenshots below to see how I set it up and the result. It's possible to extract both a mesh and a displacement map from WM2 and it can be taken directly into 3d max from here or you can bring it into mudbox to give it further details. It's alot of possibilities here and it's just to start playing around with the different nodes and settings to see the results.

Landscape

To recreate the terrain of farm_day I used 3dRipperDX. This program lets you capture the visible geometry on the map and import it into 3dMax. One important thing here is that I used a fogless version of the farm to capture the whole map at once. It's a mod floating around here somewhere that atleast has the DS/IT maps made fogless and this is also possible to setup in IGOR.

Now I have all the geometry from our OGR map in 3d Max and I delete all unnecessary objects so I'm only left with the terrain. It's ofc possible to just use this terrain in GRAW2, but it will lack details and vertex paiting will be hard aswell. Running a meshsmooth on it will give some weird results aswell so I figured it was better to recreate a new terrain over the old one.

Now the trick is to have Polyboost installed. This is a small addon with some really great tools for max 8. (I think maybe some of the tools here have been included in newer versions of max, but as I only use max 8/9 I can't say for sure yet.) Polyboost lets you create a new mesh on another surface, check the screenshot below from 3d Max and you can see I have the terrain from OGR selected as a surface I'm drawing on. Try to use quads only when modelling shapes like this. Now it's just to lay out the basic shapes of the terrain. Use more quads where needed and take into consideration that you will apply atleast 1 meshsmooth modifier when it's all laid out.

Next I did was to bring the terrain into mudbox and I started sculpting more details into it. Not gonna go too deep into how I did this, but looking at the screenshots I'm sure you will get the idea. More details is better, but think about the polycount!

When I was satisfied with the terrain I brought it back into max for texturing and vertex painting. When working on steep mountains or curves it can be a good idea to use pelt mapping in 3dmax 8, but try to hide the seams as good as possible.

Because I had a high polycount after I was done with the landscape I had to break it up into 4 parts as the GRAW2 engine only allows for 65k vertices if I'm not wrong.

Importing into GRAW2

I think this is where people imagine GRAW2 is soooo difficult to mod for. It's not!

There probably has been tutorials on this earlier, but I gonna repeat it for the sake of how easy it actually is. Use XML Marker 1.1 for the xml files. This will help you avoid the basic mistakes as forgetting an " for example.

Then we need three XML files for the terrain.

1. Unit file

2. Model file

3. Material file

In addition we need to to setup the textures in "tdb_texture_set" files. 1 for diffuse and 1 for bumpmaps.

1. Unit file

The important thing here is where it's pointing to the model file. This need to be the correct path, if not the engine ain't going to find the model file.

<unit type="static" name="farm_day_terrain" slot="35">

<model file="world\landscapes\farm_day\farm_day.xml"/>

<script_class name="base" class="Base"/>

<script_class name="editor" class="Editor"/>

<stats block="base_data">

<var name="lightmap" value="true"/>

<var name="no_silhouette" value="true"/>

<var name="ambient_points" value="150"/>

</stats>

</unit>

2. Model file

The important thing here is again where it points to the material and the diesel engine file we extract from 3d max. You can see I have split my terrain up in 4 and the backdrop is called farm_day_05. These names needs to be identical in the model file and in 3d max.

<dynamic_object xmlns:xi="x">

<diesel file="Data\objects\world\landscapes\farm_day\farm_day.diesel" orientation_object="root_point" materials="Data\objects\world\landscapes\farm_day\materials.xml" viewports="default|crosscom"/>

<body fixed="true" name="farm_day" template="static_ground" max_walk_angle="35">

<object name="root_point"/>

<object name="farm_day_01" collision_type="mesh_mopp" hidden="false"/>

<object name="farm_day_02" collision_type="mesh_mopp" hidden="false"/>

<object name="farm_day_03" collision_type="mesh_mopp" hidden="false"/>

<object name="farm_day_04" collision_type="mesh_mopp" hidden="false"/>

<object name="farm_day_05" collision_type="mesh_mopp" hidden="false"/>

<object name="TheRiver" collision_type="mesh_mopp" hidden="false"/>

</body>

<editor_marker_manager>

<marker name="farm_day">

<offset x="0" y="0"/>

</marker>

</editor_marker_manager>

<decal_surfaces static="true">

<ds_mesh object="farm_day_01"/>

<ds_mesh object="farm_day_02"/>

<ds_mesh object="farm_day_04"/>

<ds_mesh object="farm_day_05"/>

<ds_mesh object="TheRiver"/>

</decal_surfaces>

<lightmap>

<object name="farm_day_01" height="256" width="256"/>

<object name="farm_day_02" height="256" width="256"/>

<object name="farm_day_03" height="256" width="256"/>

<object name="farm_day_04" height="256" width="256"/>

<object name="farm_day_05" height="256" width="256"/>

</lightmap>

</dynamic_object>

3. Material file

I'm not gonna post my whole material file here, but only for 2 materials. The material name needs to be the same in 3d max as it's in the material file. The diffuse and the bump texture will be shown where I have vertex painted on the landscape. It can be a good idea to use the same texture as a blender in several materials as this will make them blend together nicely. In the example below I have an acre texture and a grass texture together with a texture I called fd_blender.

<materials>

<material name="fd_acre" src="landscape" decal_material="grass">

<diffuse_texture file="fd_blender_df"/>

<bump_normal_texture file="fd_blender_bm"/>

<self_illumination_texture file="fd_acre_df"/>

<distorsion_texture file="fd_acre_bm"/>

</material>

<material name="fd_grass01" src="landscape" decal_material="grass">

<diffuse_texture file="fd_blender_df"/>

<bump_normal_texture file="fd_blender_bm"/>

<self_illumination_texture file="fd_grass01_df"/>

<distorsion_texture file="fd_grass01_bm"/>

</material>

</materials>

The "tdb_texture_set" files is done for all textures in GRAW2 so I'm not gonna go into this one.

Now it should only be left to scale the terrain up to the right size in 3d max. I use a command map from OGR for this as I know it's 400*400 meters and scale my terrain up to fit this one. Link the terrain to a helper called root_point, add alot of ambient points for correct lighting and it's all set.

Don't hesitate on asking questions!

Good luck!

Biro

I know you were working on something Spike, but what on earth happened to all those previous map makers that kept it alive too ?

Daro48 has released several also, but where has everyone else gone ?

Have they lost heart with the game.....I hope not as GRFS was a big disappointment.

Until GROUND BRANCH comes out (if it ever does !) then this is the nearest thing to playing a decent game alongside comrades in arms.

Just seems to me that without support it will die and GRAW 2 has had so much fantastic support from the fans that this would be a real shame.

If I could make maps, I would but Im too thick and gave up with it as it looks way too complicated.

Anyway, heres hoping that you were just on holiday and will flood this site with endless decent maps to keep this great game alive for a long time to come.

Hope that someone could help me on this one.

I mean...######!

Now I completed everything, I think, except for the minimap (I will make one later). But I really wanna get this to work. Can anyone help?

After running the lightmaps I press Alt and Backspace to generate the silhouettes but nothing happens.

All of the maps that I have used have got silhouettes but I am unable to generate them again when I have added the extra buildings.

I have almost finished making a map from scratch but I am still unable to make the silhouettes, I would have thought it should work on a new map but no joy.

Just wondered if anyone else has had this problem.

Thanks,

John

maybe it is not something new but i have found a way to create xmb files.

What xmb has inside? Those files have nothing more like just hexadecimal description of xml files, I think the game makers did it to enhance game performance, but i'm not sure.

When I was creating my last map, i created xmb files and removed all xml (well almost all world_info stay where it was). I was really surprised when the map started without any problem

But i didn't noticed any changes in mission speed.

The bad thinkg is that someone, who will have a pressure to look inside map scripts, will see only 00 ad a1 00 bb and that kind of things.

How to gnerate those:

Inside:

C:\Program Files\UBISOFT\Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

is a file called:

context-editor.xml

inside this file is code:

<!-- Set all compile flags to false when running bundled version -->

<compile xml="false" scripts="false" mopps="false" texture_db="false"/>

</context>

do exactly contrary to description (set all on true) and you will have texture_db - which you will have to remove because it will generate filename issue at game start, you will have props xmb files generated automatically - which you will have to remove because of game crashing (at_mine f. ex. after detonate a mine my game crashed)

and all xml files converted to xmb xD

I don't think if someone of you will use it, but i think it is interesting to post here

Cheers,

Daro

One of the landscapes -- the name escapes me at the moment -- includes an industrial plant next to a river. Across the river is a fence which stretches the length of the map.

Is there some way to remove the fence programmatically, or is that feature something I have to work around.

Thanks in advance if you reply.

but the entire surface becomes terrain?