Noob Questions

[mathisjr9]

Alright, I'm am new to the Preditor, and everything is so much different than the CryEngine (Sandbox) which is what I am use to. I have a couple of questions.

1. Is it possible to test my map while in the Preditor? If so how? If not, then how do I test it?

2. I downloaded the lost city mod, and I read the read me. It says to bring down the console by pressing Ctrl, Alt, and 6 but that doesn't work.

Thanks

[Zwiffle]

1.) To run the map from within the editor, go to the console and type "testmap <yourmaphere>" without quotes, and with your mapname in place of <yourmaphere>. The console should compile it then run it, but it might not pop up. If not, press F2 after it compiles and a little window should pop up.

2.) Press Ctrl+Alt+~, not Ctrl+Alt+6.

[mathisjr9]

I do that but I keep on getting an error that says

"Can't load map/Demo"

[Altered Reality]

Where do you save your map?
If you installed Prey in "c:\games\prey", you should save it into "c:\games\prey\base\maps". Note that instead, the editor will try to save it into "c:\prey\base\maps" but that is wrong, UNLESS you installed Prey in "c:\prey".

[mathisjr9]

right now it's in

c:/prey/base/maps

and I did install into C: but it keeps on saying that it can not find the map.

[mathisjr9]

when I type it in know, it loads to the prey menu, and then it fades away and the screen goes black. After that nothing happens.

[Altered Reality]

Do you BSP your map, before running it?
If you don't know what I'm talking about: look at the menus, select the one that says "Bsp" and choose the "bsp" option (the first one).

[mathisjr9]

I did the Bsp thing, and when I try to test the map this is what happens.

It goes to the loading screen then it shows a couple of warnings. These are it below

136 flooded leafs
entity reached from outside -- no filling
**********************
WARNING: ******* leaked *******
**********************
--- LeakFile ---
6 point linefile
0 total shadow triangles
0 total shadow verts
-----------------------
3 seconds for dmap
------------- Warnings ---------------
during running dmap...
WARNING: area: 0, nodenumber: 0
WARNING: ******* leaked *******
WARNING: node without a volume
3 warnings
Map: demo uses deathwalk map: maps/game/deathwalk1
--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------
--------------------------------------
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
reloading guis/help.gui.
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/mainmenu/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/mainmenu/guis/mainmenu
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
reloading guis/mainmenu.gui.
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
reloading guis/restart.gui.
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
reloading guis/msg.gui.
reloading guis/takeNotes.gui.
reloading guis/intro.gui.
reloading guis/subtitles.gui.
reloading guis/save.gui.
WARNING: Non-portable: path contains uppercase characters: base/C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\pak000.pk4/guis/guis/mainmenu
reloading guis/netmenu.gui.
reloading guis/profiler.gui.
Map: demo plays music:
--------- Map Initialization ---------
Map: demo
idRenderWorldLocal::InitFromMap: maps/demo.proc not found
--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------
--------------------------------------
********************
ERROR: couldn't load maps/demo
********************

[Altered Reality]

Your map is leaked.
It means that you left one or more holes somewhere in your map, and this is a big no-no. Check your map again, for any area where this/these hole/s may be.
Think of your map as the hull of a submarine, and the space where you are building it as the sea. The outside part of your map must not have any hole (it must be sealed), or else there will not be an "inside" and an "outside", everything will be considered as "outside", but the entities can only be placed inside.

Also, you said that you installed Prey in "C:\Prey", but according to the log you installed it in "C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey". So, you must NOT save your maps in "C:\Prey\base\maps", you must save them in "C:\Program Files\2K Games\Prey\base\maps".

[mathisjr9]

alright, I got it to work. Thanks

Better Question:

How can I get the Preditor? I bought the game. Do I need to download it from somewhere? I'm curious on how it works and I new to modding. Can someone help me?

[Altered Reality]

Preditor is included into the game executable. To run Preditor, you just have to make a shortcut to the Prey.exe and modify its properties, so that the executable will be launched with certain parameters.
So, if you installed Prey in d:\Games\Prey , the command line that the shortcut will have to run is:

D:\Games\Prey\prey.exe +r_fullscreen 0 +vid_restart +r_multisamples 0 +com_allowConsole 1 +editor

If you're new, you may probably want to read some tutorials. The following URL points to a number of Doom 3 editing tutorials, but Prey runs on a modified Doom 3 editor, so you should be fine with them.
http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3017