Rebuilding Icefields = Erorr > exception AAHH WTF!!!! HEL

[inferno]

Ok, if you have no idea what title means heres a explanation...
If i rebuild Icefields i get error worse than exception.. the erorr being my computer locks up and i cant return to windows...

Why?

I was looking for a map that was cool and was one people dont usually mod and i found icefields. It had no vehicle ceilding and i thought why not put a pelican, wraith, lifepod, fighterbomber, cryotube, some elites in turrets and a couple of chairs off a10 with crewmen working on computers on it to make it fun.

I pmi'ed and it just locked up when i loaded.

I tryed again same result.

I then just rebuilt the map with nothing added and... CRASH!!!!

Now since im pissed someone anwser thx.

(i doubt this is just a user mistake im pretty sure its just a HMT bug Note i have v3.5 which is latest so thats not hte problem)

I wonder what a pelican is like in hang em high.... well ive got a couple of hours before this is anweserd... lets try that..

[arctrooper66]

I just tried somethong similar with blood gulch. I PMId a crapload of things and I got an exception. I think when you PMI too much that happens.

[inferno]

Uhh thats not exactly the problem...

If you had read the post you would have seen that i tryed rebuilding the map without any modifications (via, batch then rebuild) and it still crashed!

[fishface617]

did you get an error saying there is a missing dependency?

[arctrooper66]

Everybody should know that if you rebuild a map that has been modded before it will not work. Is that the problem?

[fishface617]

oh, never mind my question. it sounds like you trtied to rebuild a rebuilt map. like arctrooper said, it wont work

[Phenomena]

Everybody should know that if you rebuild a map that has been modded before it will not work. Is that the problem?

thats not ture you can rebuild a modded map, just not a map that has already been rebuilt.

[inferno]

As fishface said i did actually have one eror while rebuilding saying something like:

error canot find levels\test\icefields\scenery\snowytree tall\snowytreetall
referenced at

levels\test\icefields\scenery\snowytree tall\\snowytreetall

the prob was the xml that referenced the files for snowy tree tall had 2 \\'s in the directory name so it couldnt find the file i went in and fixed this but it still crashed when i loaded in halo

+ i rebuilt the map off of a backup i got from the CAB's on my halo disc not a modded or prevously PMI'd map.

so if someone will try and rebuild icefield on there computer and tell me if it works or not that might help me figure out wats wrong with my HMT or something...

[fishface617]

hmmm, well congrats on figuring out the dependency error, but im stumped if you got that map from the file cabinet.

[arctrooper66]

No you cannot rebuild a rebuilt map. It specificly says un-modded map directory in the rebuild part.

[inferno]

If someone would just test rebuilding icefields for me and tell me what happens it would help me figure out if its my computer, my own mistake or, if hmt is not compat with icefields.

+ i recently tryed to rebuild hang em high with a energy sword and pelican and it crashed! I did a little digging on it and found that the vertices.new and indices.new files from the Model decrapper where exactly 0 kb.... WTF!!!!! There is something f'ing with my .net framework or something cause i was PMI'ing stuff smooth as silk last week!!!! I would greatly aprectiate the help of someone who realy knows what they are doing like... RaVNzCRoFT or the guy who built Hmt (no ofense to anyone who has posted) but this is ridiculous!!

Jesus Christ someone help!!

[babelfish]

oooooooh i know dis!!
ok um i read somewhere in a tutorial by someone on this site (thx whoever u are ) that the snowpinetreetall thing, called in the tut. "missing tree" always gives that error when you rebuild a map such as icefields or sidewinder that has the tree in it, or if u pmi that particular tree in. There isnt a way to avoid this error, but it isnt something u can just overlook.
*whenever you rebuild a map with this tree in it YOU MUST PMI IT AS WELL...even though it technically does have the tree you have to..well pmi it again...*
I remember that it wont except ur rebuild unless u have that tree (it will still give the error but if u put it in thats fine ) so try taht and it should help.
I posted in ur other topic too so read that and hopefuly you will get this all sorted out. Good luck with ur mods...pmi'ing was difficult for me too
oh and btw someone in the last post said the pmiing too many things into a map will give u errors. thats not true ive pmi'd around 50+ things in a map at once without "fatal" errors (like it works but some of the objects came out...the opposite of decrapped :p)
well..hope u like long responses...i have that habit sorry lol

[sharpshot2492]

Wow! So that was the problem, I kept trying to PMI the snowy tree into bloodgulch to make an iceland type mod like in splinter cell DA. See file forums in a few days it should be there, now that I know the problem...

[babelfish]

I'm glad I could help but dude...resize your avatar...its gynormous!
(before the moderators bust u ;D)

[inferno]

Thx for the info bable now i can make my awsome pelican mod for Icefields... unless i can fix that other problem.... (link in above post to it) and its looking pretty bad so far (im still running nortan {and ive so far detected 34 virus's over the 20 scans ive run} which i happened to have cough* torrented cough* cough* but i plan too buy when i get some money casue im a Moral pirate) <---sorry offtopic and alot of paraphrasing--- I hope someone can help me out with that weird model decrapper problems it would put me back in the green from were i was 2 days ago with those trojans attacking me

[babelfish]

hmm nortan *anti*virus right..
im deleting mine its buggy as hell right now
maybe the virus...s? are coming from the programs ur downloading?? mb..lol