Battlefield 1942 Mods, Modding Tutorials & Forums

Ok im a noob at this whole mod thing for bf1942...and have had alot of ideas come to my head on maps and stuff.But the problem is that their is hardly anything i can find to help me get started...I have followed the video on how to set it up and that worked great ...but other then that I dont know how to use it, i have been playing around with it, and found the most obvious stuf...but can not figure out how to add bots, objects...houses,tanks,etc...flags...spawn points and all that...and most importantly setting the thing up so i can test it...????Please if someon could help or make a video on how to make a map and play it!!and help is welcome at all!!!!!!!!!

Hi assasin, welcome to the site.

I will get a an ed42 vid up again soon.. i started them then got busy.


when you make a new level in ed42 it does not contain any object spawns or control points.. flags, tanks etc..

you need to use winrfa and extract one of the original maps (el alamein for example) and then copy the whole 'conquest' folder from el alamein to your ed42 map folder.. now when you open the map in ed42 you will see all the control points and tanks etc on the map.. they will of course be placed in all the wrong positions but it will at least show you whats going on. then when you save the map it will overwrite the positions.. ed42 can save it all but will not make the folder for you to start with.

perhaps a better starting solution is to make a new map in battlecraft and then just save it, and extract it. that way when you copy over the folder to ed42 you will just have 2 bases and 2 soldier spawns.. so it will be nice and tidy.

keep trying.. plenty of people here with ed42 skills who can help you.

Hey fo0k in the tutorials you will also show how to use all ED42 features? like texturing it i have seen it has a lot of features but i had never tried them.

fo0k wrote:Hi assasin, welcome to the site.

I will get a an ed42 vid up again soon.. i started them then got busy.


when you make a new level in ed42 it does not contain any object spawns or control points.. flags, tanks etc..

you need to use winrfa and extract one of the original maps (el alamein for example) and then copy the whole 'conquest' folder from el alamein to your ed42 map folder.. now when you open the map in ed42 you will see all the control points and tanks etc on the map.. they will of course be placed in all the wrong positions but it will at least show you whats going on. then when you save the map it will overwrite the positions.. ed42 can save it all but will not make the folder for you to start with.

perhaps a better starting solution is to make a new map in battlecraft and then just save it, and extract it. that way when you copy over the folder to ed42 you will just have 2 bases and 2 soldier spawns.. so it will be nice and tidy.

keep trying.. plenty of people here with ed42 skills who can help you.

Ok, thank you for replie cant wait for the vid...and the thing with battle craft, when i try useing it their is always a problem, it would say that I need some gcdd.file thing or something like that and I would have to pay for it, I might try it agin,

it tells me i need this WGL_EXT_swap_control OpenGL?? and says i can continue but then crashes

assasinseye1 wrote:it tells me i need this WGL_EXT_swap_control OpenGL?? and says i can continue but then crashes

looks like graphics card not good enough or something ?

mikex222 wrote:

assasinseye1 wrote:it tells me i need this WGL_EXT_swap_control OpenGL?? and says i can continue but then crashes

looks like graphics card not good enough or something ?

Mobile Intel(r) 4 Series Express Chipset family

yeah pretty sure its a gfx card issue. battlefield will run but battlecrap wont.. :/

you will have to take the manual route with ed42.. which is good really.. you will learn a lot faster about modding generally. (but it will be tougher to understand)..

assasinseye1 wrote:

mikex222 wrote:

assasinseye1 wrote:it tells me i need this WGL_EXT_swap_control OpenGL?? and says i can continue but then crashes

looks like graphics card not good enough or something ?

Mobile Intel(r) 4 Series Express Chipset family

LOL you got the same PC as me

Well that sucks, i even tryed looking for updates but it said their were none because its a custom gfx card? any way, what do i need in a map to play in battlfeild, like you know speacil files and what not>>? I know that your supposed to pack it with winraf and then put in levels folder..but when i do that it crashes and bf1942 wont even start
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