HELP PLEASE!!!

when ever i try to open Tool it Closes immediatly

help me please!!

Google
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=35726

With your problematic scene loaded in gMax, paste this into a new script (see MAXScript menu) and press Ctr-E

fn facesWithIDs o ids =
(
	fc=o.faces.count
	for i=1 to fc where 0 != (findItem ids (getFaceMatID o i)) collect i
)

fn hideFacesWithGoodIDs o =
(
	select o
	modPanel.setCurrentObject o
	subObjectLevel=3
	
	update o
	facesNotAccountedFor= -(facesWithIDs o o.material.materialIdList) as BitArray
	o.selectedFaces= facesNotAccountedFor
	
	return ((facesNotAccountedFor as array).count>0)
)

fn debugMaterials =
(
	disableSceneRedraw()
	max unhide all
	max modify mode
	selObjs=#()
	for o in objects where isKindOf o editable_mesh do
		if isValidNode o then	--	invalid being post-delete, pre-garbage collection
			if isKindOf o.material MultiMaterial then
				if hideFacesWithGoodIDs o then
					append selObjs o
	
	select selObjs
	max hide inv
	enableSceneRedraw()
)
debugMaterials()

Meshes with good materials will be hidden.
Meshes with faces having IDs not found in their multimaterial will have those faces selected.
Then you just gotta correct the IDs on the faces, correct the IDs in the Multi Material, and/or add materials for those IDs
Edited by bobbysoon on Apr 17, 2011 at 04:55 PM
Edited by bobbysoon on Jun 12, 2011 at 04:18 PM

How do I fix my biped?

Error: animation frame data has incorrect size.

And it repeats that same line in the debug
Edited by darknesssamurai on May 19, 2011 at 03:35 PM

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool structure levels\requiem requiem
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
building intermediate geometry...
### WARNING found #12 degenerate triangles.
building collision geometry...
EAX: 0xFFFFFFFE
EBX: 0x0029D501
ECX: 0x0012F200
EDX: 0x000002CC
EDI: 0x0012F200
ESI: 0x00000000
EBP: 0x0012F0D8
ESP: 0x0012F0C8
EIP: 0x77526344, C3 8D A4 24 ?????
EXCEPTION halt in .\import_collision_bsp\build_collision_geometry.c,#979: bsp3d_plane_test_point(plane, point0, NULL)==_bsp3d_plane_test_on

No clue here. I get this error when compiling my JMS into a scenario_structure file, and when I tried making a scenery item. Seeing a somewhat similar-looking error mentioned issues with portalling....I have no portals in my map right now, simply because I want to run it through tool to see how many errors I have. I know I have open edges, but it doesn't mention any. Perhaps I need to add some degree of portalling for this to work (although my first test map didn't give me this error, and it had no portals)?


Update edge errors: it means more than two faces share the same edge. For example, consider a T-intersection:
___ ___ ___ ___
| Wrong. Right.
| |

Here you have three faces, all intersecting at the same point. Tool does not like this, so to solve the problem, simply delete one of the faces. What you do with that third face is up to you. No more than two faces may share a common point. If more than two share a common point, an update edge error will result.

There is an object that is too big
or there is a overly smooth object
or there is a sphere.

So my map, roughly twice the size of Extinction, could be too big, and causing the error? What about when I was constructing a simple wall segment? I received the same error. I do have some pretty good smoothing, but nothing too severe to my knowledge.

I would make a new bsp which would be a simple box (with no smoothing).
Make sure it ts at least the size of your map, a bit bigger actually.
See if you can compile that.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool structure levels\crudmap crudmap
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
building intermediate geometry...
building collision geometry...
reducing collision geometry...
building collision bsp...
reducing collision bsp...
verifying collision geometry...
### ERROR vertex #0 has a bad point.
### ERROR failed to import collision bsp.

I read somewhere that this error is (or could be) caused by the vertex being too far from the origin. However, the map is centered about the origin.

Hmm.
Maybe try, in vertex selection mode, "delete isolated vertices" and "delete unused map somethings :)"

It has a whopping 8 vertices. There are no isolated members.

Then almost for sure, it is too big.
Try making the box smaller and keep it centred on 0,0,0.
See how much smaller you need to make it before it passes tool.
Edited by Maniac1000 on Jun 12, 2011 at 02:46 PM

The google says it's probably a scale thing. Iirc, +-128000 world units in Max cubed is what I found to be the maximum tool will tolerate.
Or maybe it's too small.

Well, I scaled it down several times, until the map was far smaller than Extinction. It still yields the same error.

Did you scale down the simple box or your level?
Do those things to your level.

Help please

whenever i try to create collision geometry tool says failed to create collision geometry, now normally i would search for geometry errors in the model, but in this model there are no collision errors at all.

Some things work but when i try to edit the Rounds per Second, it give me an error that says:

Error while trying to update and write structure.
I'm using Halo mapping tools version 3.5.

I've tried everything i can think of, someone please help