A.Bullet - 7-21-2004 at 03:36 PM
Map Editor for JO released - I was sick of waiting for Nova.. so well I built this one..
Anyhow .. with the help of a lot of others I have released a fairly complete Map editor for Full version Joint Ops.
Some Features include..
-- Ability to use 3d wireframe mode for about 90% of the objects.
-- Ability to see color and heightmaps of ALL terrains - thereby allowig 3d height adjustment.
-- Ability to tile maps.
-- Option added to allow selection of AAS game type
-- Removed need to hexedit maps
-- Option added to adjust distances on LFP spawnpoints for AAS maps.
-- Many other unlocked features.
Special thanks for all the help provided that made this possible.. thanks go out to
Anoshi, DareHacker, DevilsClaw, DV - for without them.. this couldnt have been possible.
The file is located --
http://www.dfbarracks.com/downloads/index.php?action=df&fid=...
Sazza - 7-21-2004 at 05:16 PM
YEEA! i knew it. 
Great work. Im happy.
Thanks all. So now i understand why Dc and Ab didn´t returned my PM´s
:D
Thx alot guys!
Kip_Kilagan - 7-22-2004 at 04:12 AM
To all who worked on the JO MED: Thx alot, now I don't have to bite fingernails anymore for the wait of the MED !
Thx again
PS
I found out that some stuff made with BHD ( custom items ) , can be transported to JO!
I did a test with a bridge I made, moved it in the BHD med to flat terrain, and reopened it again in JO med , and works awesome!
I only removed the railing of my bridge because I didnt knew if those parts would be in JO.
Steptoe - 7-22-2004 at 08:01 AM
Posted link to our forums and OGN
guys are already starting
And passing on there thanks.
HumanTarget - 7-22-2004 at 09:50 AM
Yeah I did the same as Steps to a few other Squads forums, and we have some majorly greatful ppl out there now lol :D
BHD-JO help
Bikou - 7-22-2004 at 12:28 PM
having problems with the trainsfer thingy when i open the BHD the JO Xfer thing i press open and i choose my map,then i stick it in my JO folder,i go
to host i see it but i get an error qhen i host whats up?!?! o yea when i choose it to Xfer and i choose to open it tells me to open the file again
LOL
HumanTarget - 7-22-2004 at 12:31 PM
that's an error in the converter.. the second one is a save... so when that comes up, goto ur JO folder and save it there. then should run... if ur
getting an error.. write down what it is, and post it.
Bikou - 7-22-2004 at 01:56 PM
ok i messed around with it and the sad thing is that when i played it the only thing that poped up was a few tiles and a dune buggy (sigh) not even
the player start was there and i had to run all the way over there to see what was up!!!
HumanTarget - 7-22-2004 at 03:23 PM
yeah i had to play around a bit to get the player start to work, but it does, just don't think it's the player start marker it's self...
what i mean is that since the game is all team based, the player start marker which is primarily for SP missions doesn't ahve any point.. because u
start either red or blue. u need the Blue player start marker and red.........
anoshi - 7-22-2004 at 03:56 PM
Just an FYI - if you're trying to place an item onto the terrain in the med and the program crashes, try renaming the .3di file of that item and then
try placing it again (yes, restart the med before and after fiddling with the name of the 3di file.)
so, an example:
I try to place beach hut 1, med bombs just after popping up a window saying something like "Loading bhut1".
Close off the med, open up your JOMed folder and rename bhut1.3di to bhut1.3di.busted or something, restart the med and now you'll be able to place
the item without it crashing.
You will lose the wireframe (the red 'x' will appear instead of the hut), but you won't lose any more unsaved work due to the med crashing on 3di's
that didn't export neatly (sorry, QA did miss a couple).
Eagle_Eye - 7-22-2004 at 04:58 PM
I have a med fix from Sazza, I just can't get it to upload lol..worked for me
Thanks Sazza..
http://w1.737.telia.com/~u73702030/AB_editor_fix.zip
Fixes for 37 files..just copy contents to your med install folder..
file size about 2 megs..
EE
Updated with more objects
Sazza - 7-22-2004 at 06:14 PM
I have made an update. Please DL again.
Includes a few more buildings.
Sazza
Eagle_Eye - 7-22-2004 at 07:51 PM
OK, Thanks Sazza, I'm gonna try and upload it again later (to our download section), I only have 56k here ..and the upload keeps timing out...
Are you going to host the file for a while? If so, I can put it in the Download setion, but link it to your site, otherwise, I'll have to go to a
freinds place and try it with her 512/128 adsl..
Thanks for the update..coming down now..
EE
Sazza - 7-22-2004 at 10:46 PM
no problemos EE. I can host it. :D
Eagle_Eye - 7-23-2004 at 12:48 AM
Excellent Sazza..I have put an Link into the JO download section, it links to your download, so, if you update it again, our link will be up to date
as well..if you do, let me know, and I'll edit the description again..
Jo Med Fix
Thanks Again..
EE
Will someone do a bms2mis prog soon ?
Katanga - 7-26-2004 at 06:00 AM
Will someone will do a BMS to Mis for JO soon ???
Sometimes i really like some maps and i update it for coop ???
And yes i keep the name of the original designer...
Thanks
Ðãrk§hãdõw*MOD* - 7-31-2004 at 10:49 AM
I'm new to all of this. Currently looking for some walkthrough - bs tutorials (on each kind) so that I can expand on the map with own ideas.
Although I have heard through a couple squads that editing some else's map is a major NO NO. Is this true... or is it just squad maps by other
squads?
chungking2399 - 8-1-2004 at 04:12 PM
I too am looking for a tutorial on the map making with this editor
Eagle_Eye - 8-1-2004 at 05:54 PM
AS we have said in many other threads..the Med is basicly the BHD med..if you have a copy, use that manual, or look in the BHD Map Makers section for
hints..and use this forum as well..
Maybe you have a friend with BHD, get a copy of the Med manual from them.
EE
SH*PR* - 8-4-2004 at 07:23 PM
again thank you !...how log did you need to check it out working?
because we are waiting now a couple of month on Novalogic ( like ususal)
and we should expect the inventation of the wheel from them now...right?
This map editor sucks ass
GrimJerr - 8-9-2004 at 01:07 AM
Thanks for the effort guys but a broken map editor is a bout as useful as a bucket with a big hole in the bottom
But I BLAME NOVA-ill-LOGIC
for not releasing a working editor with the JO release
This has been one of the features that has kept me buying Delta Force
Thanks NOVALOGIC you annoying Motherf@ckers !:o
Eagle_Eye - 8-9-2004 at 01:43 AM
GrimJerr, Med works fine for most of us..
If your not happy, then, there's no pleasing some people I suppose....but I'd say your feelings are in the minority..it's not pefect, but it works for
us..and it's 100% on the other hacked Med I've used...
EE
Awesome Thank You
Half Pint - 8-10-2004 at 12:18 AM
Thank you very much for helping to feed our voracious appetite for new missions.
Is the current download version already fixed or do we need to apply the _fix file also?
Many thanks to you, awesome wizards, who make map editing possible!
Eagle_Eye - 8-10-2004 at 12:24 AM
No, you need to add the fix as far as I know...AB hasn't advised me he has updated the Med download with the fix..put it this way..if you run the med,
and it has no pic for the med items, you still need the fix.
EE
yay a map editor for JO!
cinZ - 8-18-2004 at 06:20 PM
This is grate!
A map maker for JO is just what I have been looking for.
-Downloading now!-
I Hope to eventually have some maps up for review.
In the mean time IL try out some maps in here and learn how to work this map engine.
Thanks for the hard work to make this possible.
Best regards cinZ
Is there gonna be a JO:E MED?
Machete - 12-10-2004 at 11:44 PM
i love what u did a bullet thanks... but is there gonna be a jo:e med i jus wanna know cuz i wanna make maps on that soon!!! thanks bro cya
Problem with map editor A.Bullet
djmr - 2-27-2005 at 05:26 AM
I have downloaded and tried to use and I keep getting 2 errors. 1 saying "warning unable to load file game bin file" and the other saying "unable to
load default waypoint bin file." If I click ok to close out the error boxes the map editor opens but when I try to make a map there are no terrains
to pick, so without terrains I've got nothing. Ive downloaded three times. When i install I installed to the novalogic directory and another time I
installed to the joint ops directory. Any suggestions
chrislew200 - 2-27-2005 at 05:38 AM
have you followed the instructions fully for example copy the game pff's into the editors folder or dont install the editor directly into the game
folder
djmr - 2-27-2005 at 07:12 AM
Appreciate the response, I got it working
Jonathan - 4-16-2005 at 06:48 AM
First thanks to you and the rest of the people for taking the time and effort to build this program. It's been awhile since I've done missions
(BHD), and this will give me something to do while I set on my fat @ss.
What's the System Requirements for this program? I'm running WinME with AMD 2800 and 512mb Ram. And I have JO and the Addon. The reason I ask is
that the NL editor requires WinXP & I ran into a error with this program.
I installed the program to a dir (Mydocs/JO/MED) and then copied the two pff files per the Readme file. But when I ran JOMED.exe, I got the following
error: "Unable to load file game bin file". The program still loaded, and I was able to create a bms file after adding some trees, player start,
buildings, ... and I was able to play the new mission after converting it.
tia
Jonathan
bthv - 8-8-2005 at 03:14 PM
I looooooovvvveeeee the editor (basically the same as for BHD), BUT (yes there's a "but") Unfortunately, i can't seem to get the
thing working correct next to NILE (got them both running).
I want to interchange maps, got a tool for that, but somehow, the landscapes in NILE are different then the ones i load in A.bullet...?
If i select G11 in Nile, the terrain is not existing in A.Bullet's editor...? Could it be because i'm running JOE too?
And yes, i've copied the most recent files to the map of A.bullet, so there shouldn't be a problem...
Anyone got an idea?
And compliments to A.Bullet for making it work as effective as it does...
Eagle_Eye - 8-8-2005 at 05:46 PM
Bullets med doesn't recogines JOE stuff..including terrrains..
Your better off running the DFX med, it's a fully functioning BHD style med, that supports JO and JOE, it's available in the download section..
EE
Narg - 8-22-2005 at 03:46 AM
Would love to try this editor out but...
I installed it in the JO directory under a new directory "MED", copied the 2 .pff files but still get the bin file error.
I rebooted tried again and the jomed editor would not even come up after giving the bin file errors.
I copied all the pff files from JO and JOE and get even more bin file errors.
Any thoughts on the cause for this?
wahh
lman 1994 - 9-26-2005 at 11:50 AM
i cant get it to work!!! it says i needa differrent mod or asset
lman 1994 - 9-27-2005 at 07:11 AM
:o no offense a.bullet but your med totally waked out my computer it runs realy slow and all the terrain files are gone i got 3di back but no
treraain
chrislew200 - 9-27-2005 at 07:20 AM
Please download the DFX med its in the joint ops download section as EE said the A.Bullet med does not support escalation.
Oh and while i remember when joint ops was released A.Bullets med was the best med available for it (As nova didnt provide one).
Oh and if i remember correctly the editor worked up until the last update.
thanks
chrislew200
JO:R
KENNYJENSEN - 10-18-2005 at 10:18 AM
Will this MED work with JO:R? If it will, how do I get it to? And if it won't, then what would?
Eagle_Eye - 10-18-2005 at 02:07 PM
This med doesn't work with Jo:E
But..I uploaded the DFX Med to the JO download section..it does work..in fact, nobody should be using the AB med anymore, cos the DFX Med is the
"Real" thing..
EE
obi1-wasp - 10-19-2005 at 05:40 AM
i hav got problem with this download
i have got error unable to load file game bin file
and unable to load default waypoint bin file
if you can help me
i m french so use no expression please
argula - 11-6-2005 at 08:24 AM
Hi this is all great stuff but i am getting the error"
Unable to load file game bin file
I followed all the directions. What should I do??
Thanks
Eagle_Eye - 11-6-2005 at 08:28 AM
The error is only there cos there is no custom bin file for the map you loaded..no big deal..
But, your wasting your time with this Med..
AB has dropped support for it now, cos you can use the DFX med with JO, and JOE.
I have a download for the DFX med in the JO download section..
The DFX med supports JOE whereas the AB med does not.
You also need to convert bms files made with the AB med to the correct format, with the DFX med, you don't, cos the JO format is the same as the DFX
format.
I use the DFX for Jo/E med now..
EE
Looks cool and works great
argula - 11-6-2005 at 09:27 AM
Great tool. Much better than N.I.L.E.. I can create maps, but how do I import MAPS in to JO Typhoo Rising. Is there a converter for the bmf or mis
file. I thought JOTR required a *.npj or *.npz file??
Great stuff,
Argula
Eagle_Eye - 11-6-2005 at 09:30 AM
At present, there is no bmstomis converter available..
EE
argula - 11-6-2005 at 11:19 AM
I guess I cannot use your MAP tool to rplace N.I.L.E to create maps for JOTR?? If I can use, how do I import the map to JOTR if it looks for a npj or
npz file extension?
Thanks again,
Argula
Sorry for the dumb questions. New to map making I just want to make maps using the right stuff.
PROBLEM
Danger - 1-8-2006 at 07:41 AM
I just Got JO and i used to amke BHD maps BUT... The localres.pff and the recourse(or wateva it is).pff when moved make the MED work but the game
doenst. There is no Tet for the menu. O w8 a min is it JUST for JO:TR ot can it be used for Escalation
ROCK ON Danger
chrislew200 - 1-8-2006 at 07:51 AM
Read the instructions that came with the editor it doesnt say to move them it says to copy them to the new directory
chrislew200
ICE_PIC_JAPAN - 2-1-2006 at 11:48 PM
Thank you for ur nice job n
I dl n use ur med after a long time.
Verson is 2.00i , trobble occured.
I dl it n made "MED" folder in JO folder.
extract them to MED folder.
I launch med .
When I do Single AI , map editor freeze
n cant do nothing.
I could correct after I update before,
so I installed MedPics_Update_for_A_Bullets_Map_Editor_Incremental_Update_.
but still cant do nothing.
So please teach me where can I find new version?
thx
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Eagle_Eye - 2-2-2006 at 04:57 PM
See the answer in your other post Ice_Pic..
EE