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Category:	CoD 4 Level Design CoD 4 mapping and level design.
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P.C.Invasion

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 12:29 pm
So I got the itch again lately and reinstalled cod4. I rebuilt all of my test map game files from scratch, and everything was working except, of course, the minimap. It didn't show up at all. I do have the up-to-date patch installed. After struggling and wonder why I even bothered to reinstall, the only way I got my minimap to show up was to put my 24 bit, uncompressed .TGA file in [root]\raw\materials. I was under the impression that files converted in the asset manager could be anywhere under the [root] folder, so long as their .GDT file was in [root]\source_data. Afterall, my loadscreen source image is in [root]\source_data\custom_images, and it worked just fine. Anyhow, from the asset manager, the minimap was converted and saved with its own .GDT file in [root]\source_data. (BTW, my test minimap was made from screen shots from the editor. I haven't been able to get the minimap script to do anything but float around on the X Y. But I can deal with that. Still trying different configurations for my minimap_corner script_origins. My setup before updating to the latest patch doesn't work now. >??<) To summarize... [root]\raw\materials --> .tga (Source TGA image) [root]\source_data --> .gdt (Its own GDT file) ** Not really sure if having its own .GDT file actually made a difference. But that's the way I had it set up when the minimap finally showed up, so I left it that way.

illram

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 01:58 pm
I never had an issue putting my .tgas in texture_assets, like it says in the wiki.

P.C.Invasion

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 02:16 pm
illram writes... Quote: I never had an issue putting my .tgas in texture_assets, like it says in the wiki. Where in the wiki? Creating a custom minimap image http://www.infinityward.com/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_a_custom_minimap_image There's nothing on that page about using texture_assets directory. But it does mention saving in the materials directory. Are you talking about some other wiki tutorial for other custom images?

kmabigtime

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 02:22 pm
Well, my tut does say to save your tga in the materials folder & my gdt is on its own in the texture assets...I was almost convinced to change the places of my files, but now Im glad I didnt...

P.C.Invasion

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 02:26 pm
kmabigtime writes... Quote: Well, my tut does say to save your tga in the materials folder & my gdt is on its own in the texture assets...I was almost convinced to change the places of my files, but now Im glad I didnt... So, maybe having its very own GDT file is the trick? Because I just quick made a texture_assets folder and deleted the old entry from raw\materials and converted from the new [root]\texture_assets folder, and it still worked.

kmabigtime

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 02:32 pm
Well then, u may have figued out the universal question about the minimap..So if mappers follow my tut it should work for them...& if they followed the other tut, they just have to redo there gdt & save it on its own in the texture assets folder...Lets all hope!! edited on Apr. 22, 2008 02:33 pm by kmabigtime

illram

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2008 04:00 pm
P.C.Invasion writes... Quote: There's nothing on that page about using texture_assets directory. But it does mention saving in the materials directory. Are you talking about some other wiki tutorial for other custom images? Oops, meant Col Bilkos tut: http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-460.html

P.C.Invasion

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 01:48 am
illram writes... Quote: P.C.Invasion writes... Quote: There's nothing on that page about using texture_assets directory. But it does mention saving in the materials directory. Are you talking about some other wiki tutorial for other custom images? Oops, meant Col Bilkos tut: http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-460.html

P.C.Invasion

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 02:13 am
Well, I guess it can't hurt to have a unique GDT file for each minimap image. That's no big deal at all. I just made another minimap for a simple map for testing, and it worked for that one too. Just to summarize again. - I have the latest patch installed, v1.5 - Source .TGA minimap image is in a folder under [root] [root] = Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (No spaces in the folder name) Example: C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\texture_assets - Convert and save a unique GDT file for each of your minimaps. (Save the GDT file in [root]\source_data.) I did get the actual minimap script to work, so I don't have to just use a modified screen shot from the editor. I ran my test maps from the customMaps mod and the minimap script thing finally worked. +set fs_game "Mods\customMaps"