Title says it all, can't get tool to do anything while on my Vista machine.

Like, when you set it to run a command, it doesn't do anything?

Yeah I thought it was doing something but apparently it's not even trying.

Does the normal tool work?

I honestly never used the regular one but everytime I try to open it the Cmd window opens then closes immediately.

In the start menu, type in cmd. When cmd.exe appears, right click it, and click "copy". Then, go to your Halo Custom Edition folder, and paste it in there. Run it. To run a tool command, type tool and the name of the command for the syntax. For example, if you want to compile a model, type:

tool model

Tool will return:

Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
usage: tool verb
model source-directory

So it'll say that you need the directory of the model. So you would type tool model and the directory of your jms file.

I just write tool not tool.exe right?

For the directory if I'm already in the HCE directory I would find the file by put

data\levels\mapname\models

Is that right or no?

Yea. Then you would type:

tool model levels\mapname\models

Gamma,

My map's directory and name is 'retention'

Here's exactly what the command was I used;
C:\Program Files \Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool model levels\retention\models

The response was;
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'


As far as I know I am the only user of my computer so I should be Admin and User-Account Controls are shut off. Tool++ runs it just won't work.

Just ran as Admin and it still does the same thing.
Edited by YakZSmelk on Jan 14, 2010 at 09:03 PM

Is this a BSP? BSPs use the command "structure" instead of model. The "Couldn't read map file" string is normal, and appears every time you do any command. Wait for tool to return to the next command line. If nothing happens by the next command line, then you probably typed an incorrect directory.

Alright so the answer is yes standard Tool works, know why Tool++ isn't?

BTW thanks alot Gamma always found cmd confusing as hell.

Yea, it's confusing at first, but once you get used to typing the same things over and over, you don't really think about it. To repeat a command you performed earlier, just hit the up key.

As for tool++, I don't really know. When I used to have Tool++ on my computer when it ran Vista, all it would do was build-cache-file. Bitmaps, HUD messages, and stuff like that wouldn't compile.