I got an error for lightmaps which I didn't know could happen.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool lightmaps levels
\f10\f10 f10 0 0.9
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
i'm going to render debug lightmaps for f10 of levels\f10\f10, and i'll stop whe
n red+blue+green = 0.900000.
Hit control-c now if this isn't right.
the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap grou
p.
the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.

WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\f10\f10 have no background sound or
sound environment.
start levels\f10\f10
EAX: 0x000000E4
EBX: 0x07A4E4B8
ECX: 0x01490000
EDX: 0x00100003
EDI: 0x01490000
ESI: 0x0000EEA4
EBP: 0x000930E8
ESP: 0x00092FF4
EIP: 0x770CDD3E, 53 56 57 A1 ?????
00436F84 ?????
757335BD ?????
770E23BF ?????
unknown exception C00000FD

EXCEPTION (that's all I know!)

What's that all about?

The Cause: you used the HEK+ and recursively ripped a bunch of tags... or if you didnt I dont know how it happened, but it happened.

The Fix: you need to find your halo CE installation disk or open the halo custom edition installer with a program like 7zip or winrar(do this by right clicking and selecting open archive). the contents of the disk/installer has all the default tags for the game. the easy way is brows to the ui/hud folder in the disk/installer, copy that whole folder into the ui folder in your halo ce directory and tell it to over write everything. nice and simple

unless you have made or downloaded custom hud stuff then its gonna take longer. you need to browse to the ui/hud folder on the disk/installer and find the tag that its talking about and replace the one in your own halo ce directory with the un broken one.
Edited by Dr Jaul on Oct 3, 2010 at 05:51 PM

Ok then, if you saw my other topic, about the effects flying into the sky, I fixed that by replacing all of my tags with bloodgulch's. (I used the replace old tags button in hek+) So do you think it was that?

yeah if you recursively extract all the tags from a map, especially from the ui folder, it will mess with stuff and you wil lget errors like that

its also not a lightmapping-specific error. if you tried to open the map in sapien, sapien would crash and that same error would appearin the debug file
Edited by Dr Jaul on Oct 3, 2010 at 09:47 PM

Will just reinstalling hek work?

Are you sure it's not my map, because I don't get this error with other maps.
Edited by Halocombatevolved on Oct 4, 2010 at 06:46 PM

the debug thing says

the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg shield does not specify a stencil bitmap group.
the meter definition ui\hud\cyborg body does not specify a stencil bitmap group.

these are important hud files for the player and they are in every map... if the weird memory addresses arent coming up in other maps, then there may be a problem with your map. try removing all the smoothing groups from your map then rerunning lightmaps.

but to answer your question, yes reinstalling the hek should fix it. but the way I described is a bit more surgical.

What are smoothing groups? I have only been a modeler for about 1 year.

they are what make the faces of your map look smooth. right click on your map and click convert to editable mesh. when you do face editing (as opposed to edge or virtex editing) there is a box with like 30+ buttons in the window to the left of your viewports. those are the smoothing groups. there should be a button that says clear all. hit that. you will be able to see all the polygons, but it will make lightmaps run faster, look better, and you can use a tool like aether to make shinier looking shadowmaps.

Ok, I was wondering why it was so smooth. I'm not used to smooth maps.

BUT I DID THAT AND LOOK HERE!

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition>tool lightmaps levels
\f10\f10 f10 0 0.9
Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
i'm going to render debug lightmaps for f10 of levels\f10\f10, and i'll stop whe
n red+blue+green = 0.900000.
Hit control-c now if this isn't right.
WARNING: 1 clusters in structure_bsp levels\f10\f10 have no background sound or
sound environment.
start levels\f10\f10
radiosity error: out of memory
EAX: 0x00000000
EBX: 0x00613701
ECX: 0x00000000
EDX: 0x00000000
EDI: 0x0018F9A0
ESI: 0x00000000
EBP: 0x0018F878
ESP: 0x0018F868
EIP: 0x77C60BD2, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\cseries\debug_memory.c,#183: Invalid poi
nter: header: 0x8a12578 signature: 0x3c424144 line: 103 file: 0x613748 size: 0x1
0dcc reason: Pointer has been disposed. (\halopc\haloce\source\memory\array.c:80
)

>:(

:O ... uhh... thats very interesting... try opening your map in sapien. and see if it crashes... if it does, try using a different skybox... if that doesnt work, your map may be too big, have too many faces, ... or it may be a problem with your HEK in general and you may need to reinstall. just make sure you back everything up before reinstalling

I may have made it too big.

It opens in sapien.
Edited by Halocombatevolved on Oct 5, 2010 at 06:27 PM

try running lightmaps in sapien.

Crashes, but I remodeled the map and it works.

No, never run lightmaps in sapien until the final build!
Especially on a big map. Run it in tool on 0.9.