hsvmann78

Just wondering, why are there '\' and then '/'. It looks as though everything in the path after \config.cpp has the wrong slash.

Does the pbo show up in your addon folder?

Ensure your terrain.pbl has the correct min & maxheight as corresponds to your terrain. I know I forgot to change it once and couldn't figure out why a terrain generated in l3dt had peaks of 3000+ m but in Visitor I might as well be walking in the plains of Saskatchewan.

Make sure your path is correct; if the path is as you posted then visitor does not like the double p:\. Come to think of it, visitor doesn't like a lot of things...

Oh Man, you just took ALL the fun out of trying to make a map!!:D This by far the most comprehensive source of useful information I have ever seen in any modding forum. I don't think there's much more any beginner could ask for. I agree with the FAQ sticky. Although I must admit, it's not that hard to find the info by searching the forums. But, it would be nice to have it all in one easy to scan location (although it will get full pretty fast, to be sure).

I apologize for posting if this issue has been addressed in a previous thread. Basically, I've followed the excellent Simple Arma2 Terrain Tutorial virtually to the end. There have been many issues that I have successfully resolved primarily using this forum. Unfortunately, I have one issue for which I'm not able to find a solution. I cannot view the Island in Buldozer: All I get is "sky": http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9411/vis2h.gif Buldozer converted all png to paa successfully but I cant see anything.

Under file > Options > External Viewer Is your path to P:\ Buldozer or to C:\ or wherever your arma2.exe resides. I also found copying unpbo bin files from one location to another may corrupt them. I copied bin.pbo from Arma 2\Dta then paste in P:\ and unpack there.

I just spent the better part of the day (speaking from a time perspective) trying to convert my island to .pbo in my Arma addons with an extreme amount of exasperrated unsuccesses. I must have re-written the pathes in BinPBO in every which way. The only thing I hadn't changed was the destination folder. I kept it always at C:/ Arma 2/@TUT/Addons. But every time I would PBO my stuff on the P:/ drive nothing shows up in the @TUT/Addons folder. I did a massive search of my computer, hunting for TUT_SampleMap.pbo. Nothing. Nowhere. But then, what is this "Compatibility Files" button in Vista in my Addons folder toolbar. Oh yeah, says microsoft: "In Vista the rules are that if you don't have explicit (by requesting) elevated permissions to write to C:\Program Files, the system lets you think you are writing there but actually redirects (virtualizes) your writes elsewhere". So I clicked the button, and there are my "lost" files. Is there a bang your head against the wall smilie somewhere.

Just wondering, but why did you unpack and copy product.bin?

I don't believe it! issue was caused by -window in the Command path to launch realtime viewer. After removing -window, buldozer runs perfectly! I must have uninstalled and re-installed about 20 times today... ..now I just want to sleep. Glad its working. Like you said, I can already feel a whole new level of headache coming on. At least there seems to be a continuous amount of help in amongst the forums, so I don't feel too scared :)

@Gnat Running as admin doesn't work. It doesn't show or I can't acces the P:\drive from that program. @phaeden You're probably right in starting over. Sad thing: this is my third attempt already! I ran into this using Arma1 as well. I didn't get quite as far and I just gave up. The reason I'm hanging around is that I was pretty stoked when I got RTE 3D editor to work for me finally in Arma2, so I am very excited (aka determined) to get visitor working. Incidentally, did you follow the Simple Arma2 Terrain Tutorial and create that island?

OS! I didn't read the part in the Tutorial about it being only for XP Users. I am using Vista! No wonder I can't get it to work.

No I haven't been able to see anything. The Tutorial Island (Sgt Ace's) is the only island I have used in Visitor and is the one I'm having problems with, viewing in Buldozer. Aside from being unable to view the landscape in Buldozer, everything up to that point appears to have been done as per the Tutorial. As a side note, I created a simple object in O2. The buldozer has the same issue there as well. ( I can't see the object) Just out of curiosity, I notice there is a p:\config.cpp file. Do the values in this file configure the buldozer at all.

Yes, I set-up and tried the path both ways (replacing with the corresponding bin folder): "C:\Program files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2.exe" -window -buldozer and also "P:\buldozer.exe" -buldozer -window Buldozer starts, DOS window converts .png to .paa, then "blank" buldozer.

I'm going to attempt building a simple model in Oxygen to see if the buldozer will work there. But I'm really more focused on Visitor and Map making.

@Hotsauce AWC, Good call, updating drivers to 186.18 did the job. Multi-colour flora and smoke/dust is normal coloured texture now. For Vista 32-bit users download and install: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_186.18_whql.html might be time to upgrade the vid card though, fps is almost bare minimum with 7950gt :j: