i know I've seen what i need to do but i cant remember what or were i found it.
so sapien loads up but on the game play screen it only shows the Halo ring background.

i know i need to do something in Dev mode to view the map but i don't know what i need to type in.

can someone help?

im confused. if you are just trying to play you shouldnt be touching anything with sapien.

sorry because of the coordinates i made my level box in it showed up in a completely odd direction.
i wasn't trying to play.
i was following along on a tutorial.
I'm at the point were i can start populating my map with trees and warthogs.

you need to explain your problem all over again, with proper punctuation.

sorry but i figured out the problem.
i was making a map from a video tutorial off of this site.
i finished the level design with gmax but when i uploaded it to sapien it would only show the Halo ring background on the game screen. the problem was that i made my map in an odd placing in gmax so i ended up facing the oppisite direction of the map in sapien.

i didn't completely understand how to use sapien but know i learned from my mistakes.

sooo.. problem solved? or can you still not see your map?

ya problem solved.