Mapping: Close Support Bridges (CSB) Placement

[Amok@ndy]

its a really good tutorial

you need:
-some practise
-some pictures of reallife CSBs to make the ingame ones look real

well done Rhino

[sylent/shooter]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Rhino

Was more so the other devs/cons can place them so I didn't have to do them all and posting it here so when .95 dose come out this tutorial is already here for you guys

good ol' rhino always one step ahead

[TeRR0R]

Very nice tutorial. And I learned some more Editor secrets!

Any chance to get the CSB objects so mappers can already find good CSB locations and layouts?

[Rhino]

No sorry, you have the dimensions of the CSBs in the tut so you can work off them for now but you dont really need them until .95

[SirCommandant]

Thanks, Rhino!

Really good Tutorial. Can't wait for the new version


btw,
really cool trick with the vehicle cam :P
(but it never worked in my editor? God only knows )

[Rhino]

Updated OP with the shader + instructions on how to stop the CSBs and deployables from being black in the editor.

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Rhino

Setting up the Editor

Before going anywhere you should setup the editor so that the CSBs and other deployable objects are not black in the editor which is due to making them not glow on our thermals.

For starters download this .rar: http://realitymodfiles.com/rhino/edi...s_28-11-10.rar

Navigate to your "\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\bf2editor\Shaders\" folder and backup your old "RaShaderBM.fx" file.

Then open up the .rar you just downloaded above using winrar and extract the "RaShaderBM.fx" file into your "\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\bf2editor\Shaders\" folder.

After doing that you need to go into your "\Documents\Battlefield 2\cache\" folder and delete all the folders in there.

Now after restarting the editor your CSBs and deployables should no longer be black making it easier to place them on your maps

[AFsoccer]

Thanks Rhino. This was always a subtle pain and no matter how many times I reset my shaders, it never worked. Now I can see why. LOL

[3===SPECTER===3]

Rhino somebody needs to take all your tuts that are scattered throughout these forums and compile them into a Rhino's tuts website or something they're so comprehensive and useful and I always find myself stumbling across another one