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Category:	CoD 4 Level Design CoD 4 mapping and level design.
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Topic: Strange compile problem

Stakex

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008 06:33 pm
Ive been having a rather odd problem trying to compile my newest map, heres the log: A subdirectory or file C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfa re\raw\maps\mp\ already exists. . . ########################################### COMPILE LIGHT ########################################### . . ----- FS_Startup ----- Current search path: C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\bin\CoD4CompileTools /main C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_13.iwd (265 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_12.iwd (33 f iles) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_11.iwd (448 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_10.iwd (230 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_09.iwd (447 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_08.iwd (66 f iles) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_07.iwd (34 f iles) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_06.iwd (416 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_05.iwd (716 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_04.iwd (765 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_03.iwd (670 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_02.iwd (1296 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_01.iwd (1456 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\iw_00.iwd (1054 files) C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//main C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//main_shared C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\bin\CoD4CompileTools /raw C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\bin\CoD4CompileTools /raw_shared C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\bin\CoD4CompileTools /devraw C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\bin\CoD4CompileTools /devraw_shared C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//raw C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//raw_shared C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//devraw C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//devraw_shared C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw06.iwd (7 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw05.iwd (1338 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw04.iwd (1730 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw03.iwd (3705 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw02.iwd (3483 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw01.iwd (3181 files) C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\main\localized_engli sh_iw00.iwd (2903 files) C:/Program Files/Activision/Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare//raw/english File Handles: ---------------------- 24243 files in iwd files Could not load file 'C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare \raw\maps\mp\mp_C-V.d3dbsp' . . ########################################### CONNECTING PATHS ########################################### . . . . ########################################### DONE ########################################### . . Press any key to continue . . . It would seem that for whatever reason the Compiler is skiping right over the "Compile BSP" part, and despite allot of searching the forums and net I have yet to find a solution to the problem... if anyone could help I would be very appreciative. A small sidenote, I do have Compile BSP checked... so thats not the issue. Thanks in advance

LPRay

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008 06:50 pm
it may not like your mapname. Im not sure if you can use the - in the name as you have done ie. mp_C-V. Im not sure on this so someone may say differently. Also, do you have the skybox and spawn points in place at least on a basic early level way for testing?

Stakex

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008 07:02 pm
Thanks for the reply... I just tryed removing the - from the map name with no success. And yea, I have both a skybox and all requiered spawnpoints that I should need to get the map running. Any other ideas that might be worth a shot?

The_Caretaker

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Friday, Jul. 18, 2008 01:50 am
It appears you didn't tick the 'compile BSP" box in your compiler.

Stakex

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Friday, Jul. 18, 2008 10:47 am
Thanks for the post Caretaker but as my original post says, I do in fact have Compile BSP checked... that was the first thing I looked for. I have sorta got around the issue by simply copy and pasteing my map part by part to a new map file and trying to complie after I pasted each section to make sure it was still working... I then rebuilt the skybox and spawns and it compiles just fine in the new file. Still tho, any more suggestions to fix the original problem would be welcomed, just in case it should happen again.

techno2sl

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Friday, Jul. 18, 2008 11:11 am
Didyou do what LPRay suggested? Change the map name to mp_cv instead of mp_c-v Also you dont need g_ocnnect paths ticked, as thats for AI path finding. Other thing would be to double check your .map file is in the mp directory.

Stakex

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Friday, Jul. 18, 2008 08:54 pm
Yea I tryed changing the name of the map and it did not work, and yes the map file is where it should be. Ive compiled several other maps exactlly the same way Im trying to do this one, and never had a problem... so I would have to believe its something inside the map itself, its just what exactlly that is I have no idea.

camo1018

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Friday, Jul. 18, 2008 11:35 pm
If the bsp refuses to be compiled, then I'd wager there is a problem within the map itself, just like you said. Try to select certain parts of the map and delete the rest (Of course, save it as something else!). Compile the selection and see if the compiler skips right over the bsp. If not, then keep doing it until you find the right section. Once you've found it, try to narrow it down until you can precisely find the error. However, I think the error might be extremely hard to find. It might be off by.... 1 unit, but I hope you can find the error. Quote: A subdirectory or file C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\raw\maps\mp\ already exists. I've never seen this message in my log, so I think this might be the root of the problem. Have you ever gotten around this message? If not, you might want to check in the indicated directory. Hope this helps.

Stakex

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Saturday, Jul. 19, 2008 12:29 am
Thanks for the post camo1018, I did in fact give that a try... and basiclly ended up deleating everything inside the map I coud find and was still getting the error. So what I ended up doing is copy and pasteing rather small part of my map into a brand new file, and then compileing to make sure it would work fine each time I pasted a new part. I was rather far along on the map so it was a real pain... but I managed to get the whole map (without any of the models, lights, spawns or skybox) into a new file without any error. So while I was able to work around the issue without loseing the map or anything... I still was un-able to find out what was causeing the issue by removing parts and then compileing again. I guess its possible there are things I can't see that somehow made it a long distance from the skybox... but its unlikely. Is it possible the file itself was just corrupted somehow? As for the Subdirectory error... I always get that when I run the compiler, and never had any problems other then this one map.

camo1018

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Saturday, Jul. 19, 2008 05:40 pm
I'm glad you were able to work around the issue without losing your map. This error really is strange. Could this problematic file have a certain property to it that makes the compile troublesome? The name of your maps, as you already stated, is not the problem, so that is out of question. Do you remember something you did that is unique to this map? It would be good to know how to fix this problem when it surfaces again in the future.