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I want to create a map. I know about the pathpoints and all, but where would I have access to a completely blank map to build from? Preferably a medium sized one, like the size of the Dunes map. And once I do acquire a blank map, how do I put in the textures for the terrain?

You make .trn, .odf and .inf files for your map.
You bz2edit.exe /edit Mymap.trn
Paint some textures on it and save to produce a mymap.bzn
The map size parameters etc are all in the .trn.

Sizes must be multiples of 2, and are somewhat limited by Meters Per Grid.

with standard MPG of 8.0, your sizes are limited to: 128x128, 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048, 4096x4096. You could *probably* go smaller, 64x64, or 32x32, or 16x16, or 8x8, but who would want to?

Also, in the .TRN files, you only need to worry about the [Size] and [Texture] sections. The only other sections are [NormalView] which contains only new 1.3 features, and [World] which only contains musictrack and the new 1.3 feature Gravity. There may be some left over [Sky] or [Water] sections, these aren't read by the game at all.

I always spawn as a Sabre zipping around on a white map, and it doesn't let me edit anything in the editor

Vadam wrote:I always spawn as a Sabre zipping around on a white map, and it doesn't let me edit anything in the editor

This occurs when trying to load a BZN (or TRN) that doesn't exist. You have to create the TRN file manually first.

There are a few blank maps.

http://zeroangel.overminddl1.com/featur ... source.php

mts, thanks, i didn't know you have to use a populated .trn file to start a new map. i searched on the /edit parm since i hadn't seen that in 1.3 and saw that it was eliminated in pb1.

Red Devil wrote:mts, thanks, i didn't know you have to use a populated .trn file to start a new map. i searched on the /edit parm since i hadn't seen that in 1.3 and saw that it was eliminated in pb1.

Lack of /edit being co-incident with creation of bz2edit.exe

Alright, so since /edit isn't necessary anymore, whats the exact line that needs to be in the shortcut? So far I have
"C:\Battlezone II\BZ2Edit.exe"

/map mapname.bzn

"C:\Battlezone II\BZ2Edit.exe" /nointro mapname.bzn


/map isnt a thing.

Interesting, but it doesn't hurt

Neither does adding /shibbledibblepoopydoop

doesn't make it "correct"

Hm, I downloaded one of the blank maps and booted it up but I still get the same issue

make sure its in addon? Or if ur loading a mod, make sure the /config whateveritis.cfg is in the command line