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I am using the files from this website, and I've gotta say the UI is much more user friendly. I'm having an issue though with playing what I've created. I can get the original version of SoM with the translation patch to playtest and everything works fine, but when I attempt to playtest on SoM Ex nothing pops up. It looks like it tries to load something, but I never actually see anything or get to see the map I've created.

I was also able to get my textures onto a model by using the x2mdl tool and that worked flawlessly from what I can tell.

I'll probably try re-downloading and installing SoM Ex to see if that fixes my playtesting issue. I just find it strange that I can run the old jankey vanilla SoM but not Ex.

My interest in this started as a joke where I would make a little meme game for my co-worker because he loves King's Field. I was a huge fan of playing with the Morrowind Construction Set and the old RPG maker games on playstation so this seemed right up my alley. Hopefully I can muster up enough skill and knowledge to make something a little more involved than the joke I'd originally intended.

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Beginner and other Nonsense / Issues Getting Started with Custom Objects
« on: October 30, 2019, 06:56:10 PM »
I'm incredibly new to the Sword of Moonlight tool. I've read through the tutorials, and I've had success creating a small game with the included asset. My issues have been with creating my own objects and assigning them textures.

Using MetaSeqouia I've successfully created a simple cube that I've been able to insert into the game with x2mdo and ObjEdit, but I cannot for the life of me get x2mdo to generate a texture file from any BMP I've thrown at it. The tutorial I read said to just make sure the .x file and the .bmp file have the same name and are in the same folder as x2mdo but I get the error "\cube.bmp could not be read." when I attempt to run it. A .mdo is generated, I'm able to create a .prf with ObjEdit, but when I put it in SoM I have no textures.

I'm probably making a complete noob mistake, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

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