I wasn't gonna do another map for WaW, but here I am
With a lot of support from Harry, I have started production of one final map for WaW, The theme is a warehouse, put simply, but there might be more to it than that...

Not much has been done on the mapping side so far, but with Harry at the helm script-side progress has been good.
Many of the features of the BO2 mod will be appearing in this map, such as the Panzer, Dig Sites, HUD, Shield, Perks and many other exciting features.

Pictures:


(3rd pic missing because imgur wont let me upload it for some strange reason)

Obviously the lighting is atrocious at the minute, im still getting my head around decent lighting, it seems everything casts really dark, square shadows that it is impossible to light up behind, I get black brushes despite lights directly on top of them, and lights seem to have no effect unless their intensity is at least 3.

A few specific features:

Perks:

Guns:

Powerups:

Enemies:

A large scale Easter Egg isn't out of the question, but I cant say for sure how likely it is.

I plan to take sweet time with this map, Im aiming for an early August Release, assuming nothing goes wrong, however if it takes longer, it takes longer.

So whenever I start a new map/mod now, I have several issues with HUD and fonts.

I get Alien font unless I add a custom font (Pwns Exo works)
I get default grid image where the HUD should be (left over from JR Imagine's MOTD HUD)
Whenever I add a new HUD I get Alien font on some elements of it, and point counters.

What would be helpful is if someone could tell me which files exactly id need to restore for all the stock stuff.
I have a backup of the waw root folder from a fresh tools install, so I definitely have the right files laying around.

Ok, so my map link on MEGA for "Nacht Der Untoten Reimagined V2.1" Was claimed to be copyright infringing?
Ive no idea why this is, given I have other versions of the map, other maps, and even raw asset packs on my Mega that have been left alone.

What should I do?
Leave it? will they ban me for not taking it down?
Re upload the map again?

So Im using Pwns Tranzit HUD and Exo zombies font, same combo I used in Encampment, that worked.

But this happens:


I tried going into menufile and setting objective font to normal font, didn't help.
I have everything installed correctly.
This is the same font and HUD combo I used without error before, I cant see how this could happen, anyone help?

Basically I want to add custom Thunder sounds, and id need them to randomly play every 30-90 seconds.

The randomly choosing the sound, and everyone being able to hear it I can do all through soundalias, would just need to know how to play a sound randomly throughout the game?
Anyone could help?

This is hard to explain what im after, and im also not sure if its a good idea (haven't asked for opinions on it)

But, would it be possible to stop the number of zombies increasing each round, at a certain round, dependant on the number of players in the game?

For example, round 30 might have 150 zombies in solo, round 40 might have 300, would it be possible to, at round 30, stop the increase so every round has 150 from then on, but the health still increases?

In co op for example, stopping it at round 20 would be a better idea, as co op round 20 has much more zombies.
My idea is to stop the numbers increasing at around:
Solo - round 32
2 player - round 28
3 player - round 26
4 player - round 22

My reasoning behind this is to make higher rounds more achievable on the map, for people who don't have hours and hours at hand to kill hundreds in the higher rounds like 60/70.
The health would still increase, so the "challenge" remains intact, its just the time it takes to complete rounds will be reduced.

For a 3arc map, I would be 100% totally against this idea, but it seems right for a custom map, that people usually play a couple times only, that people who enjoy higher round games can have an easier/quicker time.

If anyone could give thoughts on this idea, and tell me how it would be done, id appreciate it

I cannot find where to set player health, as in the default health the player has upon spawning, before downing. I think its set to 100 default.

best I can do is using Harry's perk script to set it to different health, but then you need to buy jug and die with it once for the effect to take place.

So there are 3 windows on my map that zombies will regularly stand still and derp behind. ive no idea why.

Sometimes they spawn, tear down boards and climb out perfectly
Sometimes they spawn, walk to the window and then derp
Sometimes they spawn, and just derp straight away.
Any idea of possible causes?
Ive messed with the windows, the traverses, the pathnodes, the spawners themselves. there is plenty of room
I tried making all the brushes of the window weaponclip, nothing

So I added my final zone and mapped some more, after the map working fine earlier, and now when I compile and run the game it loads until click to start, then says "call of duty has stopped working" and crashes.

I managed to add T4M and use the external console to see what was going off, this is the result:


MAX_SCENE_SURFS is the last thing being listed. what does this mean? can it cause a crash?

As you can see in the picture, the wall model isn't lighting right, it seems to be either lit or not, the one on the left isn't, Models don't seem to light as if they were brushes, as in light up certain amount at different bits of model in relation to distance from light. This happens with waw AND ported models, and in cases like this, looks plain ugly

Any fixes for it?

So im rigging the Ghosts FAD to the MW3 anims, and they work fine, until I hit reload, I exported all the anims with no issues until reload, but when I drag the reload anim on, the clip doesn't move, this is because tag_clip is used in MW3 anim, and magazine_jnt0 or something is used on the Ghosts model.

So I renamed the magazine tag to tag_clip, all goes well, when I drag ANY anim on now, the clip moves completely out of place, but it still moves in the reload anim. How can I get the clip to stay where it is after renaming its tag?

I even tried renaming the tag in the model and bind files before opening maya, clip still out of place?

What I want, is a door, that needs power, and shows the "you must turn power on first!" hintstring, but after the power turns on, becomes a normal buyable door.

Closest ive come is using script_noteworthy electric_door, which results in it opening on power being turned on.

Anyone know how I can achieve this?

I followed this rain and thunder tut:

http://www.zombiemodding.com/index.php?topic=3497.msg44439

ZM, I know....
But the FX part isn't working in game, I have the sounds working, and the flashes of light, but no rain fx, despite following the tutorial exactly?

Any idea where I could have gone wrong?

Also for some reason even after replacing the thunder sounds in the alias with my own, it plays the stock thunder sounds, and it is worth noting there was NO sounds in the directory the soundalias called for thunder.

This is difficult to explain what my problem is, but here goes:

The game spawns zombies in the zone you are in, and any adjacent zones at the time.

My zones are laid out as follows:

Waterfall_zone
 *adjacent to*
power_building_bottom
   *adjacent to*
power_building_top

Now I want zombies to spawn in waterfall_zone whilst the player is in power_building_top, which is 2 zones away, how can this be achieved?

I tried declaring it as adjacent to waterfall_zone, and using an unused script flag, so just setting adjacency, but it hasn't worked.

mapname.gsc looks like this:

	add_adjacent_zone( "start_zone",		"spawn_building",	"enter_building_from_spawn" );
	add_adjacent_zone( "spawn_building",		"waterfall_zone",	"enter_waterfall_zone_from_building" );
	add_adjacent_zone( "waterfall_zone",		"power_building_bottom",	"enter_power_building_bottom" );
	add_adjacent_zone( "power_building_bottom",		"power_building_top",	"enter_power_building_top" );
	add_adjacent_zone( "waterfall_zone",		"power_building_top",	"unused_script_flag" );

What would I need to change to make zombies spawn in power_building_top,bottom and waterfall_zone, when the player is stood in power_building_top?