I load up tutorial.scenario in sapien, but after like 12 minutes of it loading, here's what happens:


I tried redoing the lightmaps but it came up with this.

08.14.11 14:14:09 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
08.14.11 14:14:09 reference function: _write_to_error_file
08.14.11 14:14:09 reference address: 42ca20
08.14.11 14:14:09 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
08.14.11 14:14:30 i'm going to render debug lightmaps for tutorial of levels\test\tutorial, and i'll stop when red+blue+green = 0.900000.
Hit control-c now if this isn't right.
08.14.11 14:14:30 file_open('tags\levels\test\tutorial.scenario') error 0x00000002 'The system cannot find the file specified. '
08.14.11 14:14:30 couldn't open scenario tag 'tutorial.scenario'.
08.14.11 14:14:30 need to get the following tags:
08.14.11 14:14:30 levels\test\tutorial.scenario
08.14.11 14:14:30
08.14.11 14:14:30 done

The file is there. Why can't tool find it?

^There is your problem

It looks like you're using the wrong path in your command.

I'm guessing you used:
tool lightmaps levels\test\tutorial tutorial <quality> <stop threshold>

But you should have used:
tool lightmaps levels\test\tutorial\tutorial tutorial <quality> <stop threshold>

The reason this is happening is because you have to specify the scenario AND the bsp.

levels\test\tutorial\tutorial tutorial

This part tells tool where the scenario is located.
This part tells tool which bsp within the scenario to create a lightmap for.
Edited by rerout343 on Aug 14, 2011 at 12:41 AM

I've redone it and it compiled the .bitmap.
When I load it in sapien it still does the same thing...

ir uding the one in the bkup folder :I if so take it out and paste in default folder

It might be because of anti aliasing. If you have it on, turn it off, that's how I got rid of black screens when I first started using sapien.

Do you have a sky face and sky references in your bsp/scenario?

Alrighty guys, after much poking around I finally decided to reset the graphics card to default.

Sapien works, but now Halo CE don't look as good as it did before the reset. Anyway to make it work?

Was already set like that.

set the graphics card to use AA and the other cool eye-candy stuff for haloce.exe. Do not use blanket settings for the entire system, like setting AA for all application.

Check your graphics card control panel for more info.