I tried to compile a timberland variant with lots of weapons, bipeds (dummies), and vehicles using tool++. I don't think it was a missing or corrupt tag.


This is what it said.

11.25.09 15:17:11  tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
11.25.09 15:17:11  reference function: _write_to_error_file
11.25.09 15:17:11  reference address: 42ca20
11.25.09 15:17:11  Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
11.25.09 15:18:15  loc: Tried to add item ui\hud\hud_icon_messages with different size (1184) than expected (1096).


11.25.09 15:22:15  tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
11.25.09 15:22:15  reference function: _write_to_error_file
11.25.09 15:22:15  reference address: 42ca20
11.25.09 15:22:15  Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
11.25.09 15:23:16  EAX: 0x00000000
11.25.09 15:23:16  EBX: 0x000E0000
11.25.09 15:23:16  ECX: 0x000CDE07
11.25.09 15:23:16  EDX: 0x023387DC
11.25.09 15:23:16  EDI: 0x14021000
11.25.09 15:23:16  ESI: 0x12020040
11.25.09 15:23:16  EBP: 0x00084987
11.25.09 15:23:16  ESP: 0x0012A4F0
11.25.09 15:23:16  EIP: 0x00436131, F3 AB 8B CA ?????
11.25.09 15:23:16  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Note: I started learning how to edit only a week ago (a.k.a. a noob).
Edited by Vipervire79 on Dec 1, 2009 at 09:46 PM

the last time you edited the map with sapien/guerrila without any problems, what did you do with it?


Edited by sargejohnson on Nov 25, 2009 at 09:20 PM

I just put vehicles and bipeds on it and played around with the scenery. Accidentally made a new instance in the AI\scripts folder but I deleted the instance.

Vehicles
1 Npelican
2 bulldogs
2 kagotanks
2 c_dropships
1 Tachikoma orange
1 Tachikoma

Bipeds
like 20 sentinels
9 Floodcarriers
2 Elite Special cinematics
2 Elite specials
2 Elites
2 Grunt Specops
2 Grunts
2 Jackel Majors
3 Flood Combat Elites
4 Engineers

I also overwrite tags a lot using HEK plus. I don't know if that would cause a Exception.

try opening any other map, and if it exceptions, put the last paragraph of debug.txt here.
if the other maps do work and open in sapien. then remove each of the vehicles in your map and try opening in sapien to see which vehicle caused the exception. After removing all vehicles and the map still exceptions, take out the bipeds one by one to see which one exceptions too.

note: delete the vehicle instances BEFORE deleting the ones in the vehicle pallete, do it the other way round and exceptions galore.

And . try not to overwrite tags with HEK+ unless really necessary, because overwriting the wrong tags WILL make other maps exception and cause errors.
Edited by sargejohnson on Nov 26, 2009 at 09:44 PM

12.01.09 13:27:40  sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
12.01.09 13:27:40  reference function: _write_to_error_file
12.01.09 13:27:40  reference address: 401b13
12.01.09 13:27:40  Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'

Not one Scenario file will open in Sapien. I'm guessing I need to uninstall and reinstall Halo Custom Edition do I not?

Edited by Vipervire79 on Dec 1, 2009 at 07:04 PM

It must be your overwritten tags. Try to get into the habit of not overwriting tags. I guess the only way is to reinstall Halo Editing Kit NOT Halo Custom Edition

Well, solved that problem. Thanks l283023. My computer was set to 16-bit color.

I can't compile one certain scenario file. I did what he wrote, well in a different way (I put all the vehicles and bipeds in a different map and I can compile that map fine). However in the map that I can't compile I did delete a few vehicles in the palette before deleting the instances.

Edited by Vipervire79 on Dec 1, 2009 at 10:01 PM

i said that you have to delete ALL INSTANCES of the particular vehicle from the map BEFORE deleting the suspect vehicle from the map's vehicle pallete. Looks like you did it the other way round.

now, you have to delete ALL INSTANCES of the vehicle and all other vehicles (not the ones in the vehicle palette). See if the map opens properly in sapien now.

ok then.
but if he cant compile, then tool must have said something about why this is so.
suggest you try compiling the map, then when tool halts, copy and paste whatever it says here. Do not look in the debug.txt though, the error rarely shows up in there.

Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
culling uncompressed model vertices...done
culling uncompressed structure bsp vertices...done
culling uncompressed model animations data...done
building predicted resources for structures...done
structure bsp 'levels\test\timberland\timberland' is 1.95M
tag headers and names are 0.29M
streaming model vertex and index buffers...
EXCEPTION (that's all I know!)

EAX: 0x00000000

EBX: 0x000E0000

ECX: 0x0009E1B1

EDX: 0x02279684

EDI: 0x14021000

ESI: 0x12020040

EBP: 0x00081C91

ESP: 0x0012A4F0

EIP: 0x00436131,F3 AB 8B CA ?????

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

Straight from tool.
Edited by Vipervire79 on Dec 2, 2009 at 02:08 PM

Do you ever post in a coherent manner? :|