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Pepperoni pool is now operational. Thank you for the help! Now to see about some of those other toppings...

Get a pool .xsi from the xsi pack (on bz2scrap)

Done.

Open the xsi  (in notepad) and edit the texture name to the name of your texture.

Which texture part? I see:

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SI_Texture2D  {
                  "Z:/modelsdirectory/BANE/PICTURES/bane2.pic";


and later in the file I see this:

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SI_Texture2D  {
                     "Z:/modelsdirectory/DarkPlanet/PICTURES/reflection3.pic";


And later still, I see this:

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SI_Texture2D  {
                     "Z:/modelsdirectory/BANE/PICTURES/bane2.pic";



Do I need to edit one of these, some of these, or all of these?



Chili might be difficult to do well, but I'll see what sort of pineapple I can whip up...

Hey all, so I've been working on an idea I had: A map that is a pizza. I get how to put custom textures on the terrain, but the pools pose a problem. I need a pool with a texture that I made, but I can't seem to get the texture to paint over that of the pool in the editor. Is there a good way to make such a custom pool? Thanks!

P.S. Any particular toppings I should include?

What I did in the beginning was I installed a fresh CD copy to C:\Games\Battlezone 2 CD, and copied that folder before doing each install test. So, in my Games directory, I have \Battlezone 2, \Battlezone 2 CD, \Battlezone 2 CD Newkeys, and \Battlezone 2 CD 1.3 TA5. Well, had. Now that TA5 gave me back my tilde key, I deleted the Newkeys one, as it was useless. The plain Battlezone 2 one was where I originally had FE, G66, and I think Newkeys.

I installed TA5, and started it. The first thing that I noticed was that my profile that I made after the CD install had changed its name from "Fractangle" to some large string of gibberish. That's easily remedied, especially since I had simply created that profile to test the key with, so I proceeded in.

Now, my standardized test for the "workingness" of the tilde key was to start Alien Dunes with settings of Easy Small Large (so that I had a squad of 3 warriors to test individual selection from squad), so I started it. Lo and behold, I now have full functionality of the tilde key!

For scientific thoroughness, I may test public beta 4 at some point, but for now, I'm going to take a break from beating my computer over the head with a stick and instead have the computer AI beat me over the head (or hedoux? ) with a stick.

I'm running Vista, and believe me, blech doesn't cover the half of it. I remember the good ol' days, when file systems didn't explicitly lie to you about where you were saving things... </offtopic>

As to the test, I'll start with TA5, since I've already downloaded its installer, and bigger numbers are fun. 

I'm still having trouble, so my inner geek has decided to be scientific about this. Here's what I've done so far:



I've installed plain old fresh-off-the-cd BZ2, and it doesn't let me recycle units or select individuals from a squad.

I've made a copy of the fresh-off-the-cd folder, and installed newkeys to the copy. Still no success.

I've made another copy of the fresh-off-the-cd folder, and will try installing some version of 1.3; should I go with Public Beta 4, Public Beta 3, or Tech Alpha 5? I'll also try the 1.3 with and without Newkeys.

Check out the end of Gameprefs.ini.  In order to change things, you have to copy entries to Localprefs.ini.

I can't find it in my FE install folder or any subfolders. I was able to find it in a different install of BZII, but that hardly helps.

Ooh interesting. I managed to fix the ~ key problem with all versions of BZ2 on my vista laptop.

I tried using the guide found here

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_console_commands#Other_bugs

Which pointed out the faulty driver, but when I uninstalled the driver it would reinstall -- and give me no option to disable. Some digging through my google searches eventually led me to a more permanent fix

The more permanent fix isn't working for me. It just keeps reinstalling the driver. I don't mind uninstalling it manually every time if that's what I need to do though. But as I said, this only fixes the console, it still doesn't let me recycle units or select individuals from a squad.

this problem is fixed by installing newkeys, i had the same problem.
here is where u can download newkeys92700:
http://www.bz2maps.com/files.html
read the instructions because i think u have to move a file manualy

I didn't see any instructions. I downloaded the executable, which I then ran and installed to my Battlezone 2 folder, and it looks like it doesn't really address the problem.

UPDATE: It works to open the console, which was what I tested. Since the console opened, I assumed that it works for the rest of the things. It doesn't. I can open the console, but I can't tell things to recycle and I can't select specific units from a squad.

I'm running Vista Home Premium (32 bit). The bug described there seems very likely the cause, and I'll test its advice and edit this post when the results are in.

EDIT: The key works now! Thank you so much!

Well, I'll be more precise. It's obviously working, as I can type it. I did so in the subject line of this thread. However, it DOES NOT work in BZII (I've tried in stock 1.2 and in FE). This means that I cannot:

• Open the console.
• Recycle any units.
• Select specific units from a squad.

I have not experienced this on my old Win98 computer that is long since unplugged, nor on a relative's WinXP machine (nor on this same machine back when it had WinME on it). The key works normally in every other program. Please help!

Does it fix the bug in mission 3 where the enemy never sends the big attack wave thing? 'Cause I'm currently going 2 hours with a completely stable base and no sign of the attack that wiped me out the previous attempt. I read back through some threads in another spot here, and apparently it's a bug that comes and goes between attempts, but I'd rather not abandon this attempt if there's a way to fix it.

P.S. Thanks for putting up with all my nooby questions!

Thanks for the help! I'll probably play my old FE install in the meantime, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for that 1.3 FE patch.

Okay, so I'm trying to get a completely-up-to-date install going, and here's what I'm doing:

I install a fresh BZII, CD install, no mods.

I run BZ2_v13TechAlpha5_english-rc3.exe, selecting the proper directories and so forth.

I then run bz2cp_full.exe, selecting the proper directories etc.

Then, I follow the instructions to the letter in the readme of 2005-10-23 RevD Gold.zip, extracting it properly.

Lastly, I extract properly (following the directions contained within) the contents of Complete FE Map Pack Version 4.zip.


All the files were downloaded from http://www.valler.com/bz2/


I'm running a Vista Home Premium box with NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS graphics card, 3 gigs of ram, 640 gigs of harddisk space. If it makes any difference, I've got a Fedora Core 8 partition as well.

All the installer things go just fine, no errors there. When I go to start the game, it plays the "Activision" intro clip, which I press esc to skip. Then, it sort of freezes and I can alt+tab to get to a message box. I press OK, another pops up, and I OK it. Then, I get the error log message box thing:

Here's the error message log thing that I get:

---- Battlezone II Log File ----
//=====================================================
App version: Patch 1.3TechAlpha5 Apr 23 2009 13:36:08
Windows version: Windows Version: 6.0.6001 'Service Pack 1' PlatformID=2

Last few battlezone.log lines (may or may not be relevant):
ERR |               debug:717  |20:53:40|8429   |Unable to execute a required file 'bzshell_multi_warn_badping.cfg'
DIAG|                DXUT:1516 |20:53:44|12768  | DXUT pause on minimize
ERR |                 log:1784 |20:53:48|17014  |abort() requested from '.\debug.cpp':730
DIAG|                 log:1785 |20:53:48|17039  |End of line...
(done)

Exception code: 40000015 {Fatal Application Exit}
%hs

Message :  Unhandled Exception
Error occurred at 6/6/2009 20:53:52.
C:\Games\BZ2\bzone.exe, run by Fractangle.
C:\Games\BZ2\bzone.exe, run by Fractangle.
CPU: 4 processor(s), ?
     ?
Process Memory :   1765 MB free out of   2048 MB total
Physical memory:   2010 MB free out of   3071 MB total
Page(swap) file:   5192 MB free out of   6363 MB total
This exe is using 57 MB, peak use 59 MB

Fault address:  0108AAE0 01:001D9AE0 C:\Games\BZ2\bzone.exe

Registers:
EAX:00000000
EBX:00000001
ECX:00000000
EDX:77039A94
ESI:040A2A24
EDI:0107E670
CS:EIP:7571001B:0108AAE0
SS:ESP:27200023:0058F0E4  EBP:0058F0F0
DS:0023  ES:40A0023  FS:108003B  GS:40A0000
Flags:00200202

Call stack:
Address   Return    Function            SourceFile
0108AAE0  00000000  01088C95  BZ2Abort+0x000000B0
01088C95  00000000  0107E1FA  Debug::Error::Err+0x00000115
0107E1FA  00000000  0107E7AD  Main::Exec+0x0000006A
0107E7AD  00000000  0107E237  Main::ScopeHandler+0x0000013D
0107E237  00000000  0107E7AD  Main::Exec+0x000000A7
0107E7AD  00000000  0107E237  Main::ScopeHandler+0x0000013D
0107E237  00000000  00F07C1A  Main::Exec+0x000000A7
00F07C1A  00000000  0107D47D  ShellHandler::Enter+0x000000BB
0107D47D  00000000  0107D9D4  RunCodes::Process+0x000000FD
0107D9D4  00000000  00EF9644  Main::MessagePump+0x00000064
00EF9644  00000000  00EF9343  HandledMain+0x000003F6
00EF9343  00000000  00EF6BDF  HandledMain+0x000000F5
00EF6BDF  00000000  0102B90F  WinMain+0x00000059
0102B90F  00000000  75CE4911  fabs+0x00000191
75CE4911  00000000  7701E4B6  BaseThreadInitThunk+0x00000012
7701E4B6  00000000  7701E489  RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x00000063
7701E489  00000000  00000000  RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x00000036

It says it is "Unable to execute a required file 'bzshell_multi_warn_badping.cfg". Does this mean I need this file (if so, where to get it?), or is the problem more insidious?