Importing Problem (Probably Simple)

[firedrake2222]

[UNSOLVED] [MOVED]
I have a small problem when I try to use a certain model. I am new to using models, and have been searching for the answer for a while. Its probably simple... :/

Error: 'Could not load file: Garfish.mdl' (Incase its simple, so you don't need to read below)

Whats happened:
Recently, I downloaded a model called the Garfish from Garfish Light Cruiser - The Hive Workshop - A Warcraft III Modding Site. Now. I've imported it all into a map, and renamed the imports to the right names (names in link). Now all I get is the error.

- Error

- Import Manager

- War3Viewer
There are some textures that the viewer shows that do not come with the model zip, but it says they are not required on the linked page of the model.

I'd be thankful for any help to shed light on my problem. As said above I am new, and this could very simple, and all this text and these pictures could be pointless. But, I thought I would show everything to be safe. Cheers

PS: Sorry for V.Large pics. Didn't think they would turn out like that D

 

[skrab]

That model would never be approved if it doesn't work so keep trying...

 

[firedrake2222]

I have been all night It must be a newbish problem on my behalve, but I need to find out what...

 

[xXm0RpH3usXx]

hmm...dunno whats happening there, i checked the textures and texturepathes and they seem to be okay!

you did restart your map inbetween hopefully?

 

[firedrake2222]

hmm...dunno whats happening there, i checked the textures and texturepathes and they seem to be okay!

you did restart your map inbetween hopefully?

I restarted it many many times. Too many. I've been trying again this morn, but to no avail...

NOTE: See the Zap1b.blp? Apparently it takes 0 KB. Maybe it hasn't downloaded right?

 

[firedrake2222]

Update: I re-downloaded the model zip, deleated the old one, and retried. But it still dosn't work, so it MUST be something wrong that im doing. If anyone could find what im doing wrong in the pics, please tell me.

 

[chilla_killa]

Is there a _ at garfish_hangar?

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Sometimes you don't need all textures.

But i am seriously annoyed by some of these model dudes that upload things like this and then you end up having problems like this which probably aint your fault.

 

[firedrake2222]

Is there a _ at garfish_hangar?

Yep, tried it with an underscroll several times. Still dosn't work.

@The_wand_mirror: If I use all the textures (even uneeded ones), would that stop the model from working? Personally I wouldn't think so, but may as well try it.

{EDIT}
Is there anyone about that are adept with using models, that can see/know the problem, or should I give up? xD

 

[Vizel]

You really shouldn't double post. Just as a precaution, you read the readme, right? If one came with it, that is. Sometimes the readme's in the folder state something that isn't stated on the site. I've seen it once.

If you have read it, just ignore me. Either way, hope you figure it out.

 

[sadvisor]

why not trying to replace backslash with slash?!
I think that's the reason your models are not working.
So, try replacing "\" with "/" in the custom path.
If this ain't solve your problem it's bad.

 

[Vizel]

Good idea, sadvisor. I didn't even think of that

But yeah, that's a great idea. If that doesn't work, let me know, I'll look at it myself and try and see what's wrong.

 

[firedrake2222]

why not trying to replace backslash with slash?!
I think that's the reason your models are not working.
So, try replacing "\" with "/" in the custom path.
If this ain't solve your problem it's bad.

You made me hopeful for a minute xD
But it didn't work. I have other models working with the '\' anyways. It was a good idea though...

 

[Vizel]

DRAT! And I thought it could work too. I even rep'd him for the idea, lol.

Well, it was a good attempt. I'll look at it myself tomorrow probably and check out whats up with it with my own eyes.

Seeing is believing.

Then I may be able to help further.

 

[firedrake2222]

Thanks for trying to help Vizel. For your persistence, im giving you some rep I hope we can come up with a solution soon...

 

[Vizel]

Oh, I had a hell of a time with imports when I was trying to make my campaign. Only later did I find out (200 imports later) that they have to be imported directly into the Campaign Editor's Import Manager. Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it was to go 1 by 1 and remove over 200 imports from a map, then upload them again and fix all the pathing over again?

It quite literally almost brought me to tears. So I have some sympathy with import issues, xD

Also, tyvm, ^^

 

[firedrake2222]

Oh, I had a hell of a time with imports when I was trying to make my campaign. Only later did I find out (200 imports later) that they have to be imported directly into the Campaign Editor's Import Manager. Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it was to go 1 by 1 and remove over 200 imports from a map, then upload them again and fix all the pathing over again?

It quite literally almost brought me to tears. So I have some sympathy with import issues, xD

Also, tyvm, ^^

Jeez, the problem im having is annoying me quite a bit. But that one sounds like a trip to hell and back Lol

 

[sadvisor]

ok look at this picture. Thats what "Warcraft 3 Viewer" says.

Since i don't see any "star5tga.blp" or "Clouds8x8Fire.blp" in your import manager, i have another (maybe useless again) guess:

You do not have the required textures, and that's the reason the model is not working...i think.

 

[Vizel]

Another good idea by Sadvisor. I'll wait for you to try that before I look at it myself (Since I'm assuming thats what he did, and I will find the same results).

 

[carlos17acc]

Try to put a prefix Textures/ on .blp files

 

[Vizel]

Try to put a prefix Textures/ on .blp files

Way to get your post count up.

If you had looked at the picture in the first post, you'd notice that every .blp in there had "Textures\" at the start of it. And previously we mentioned changing the "\" to "/" and it did not work.

 

[firedrake2222]

ok look at this picture. Thats what "Warcraft 3 Viewer" says.

Since i don't see any "star5tga.blp" or "Clouds8x8Fire.blp" in your import manager, i have another (maybe useless again) guess:

You do not have the required textures, and that's the reason the model is not working...i think.

(Found in the advanced options)
Path

Required

Included

Textures\Garfish.blp

Yes

Yes

Textures\Garfish_Hangar.blp

Yes

Yes

Textures\Zap1b.blp

No

Yes

Textures\EnergyGlow_Red.blp

Yes

Yes

Textures\star5tga.blp

No

No

Textures\Clouds8x8Fire.blp

No

No

Textures\EnergyGlow_Blue.blp

Yes

Yes

Textures\Explosion_Blue.blp

Yes

No

Textures\Explosion_Red.blp

Yes

Yes

Thanks for the suggestion, but it says it isn't required. Still, I used war3 Viewer and got the files, and tried them. But it still dosn't work.

 

[Vizel]

Sorry, but I cannot look at it tonight, lol.

But my suggestion is now to get rid of all the unnecessary textures as one may be causing the issue.

EDIT

(Off-Topic): It's hard to go from a chat where you mingle multiple languages together to talk with people to a site where you cannot have any language but English and not make a mistake, lol. Especially when you mingle the languages together when you speak as well. Just glad I caught it before the mods did. o.o

 

[firedrake2222]

Sorry, but I cannot look at it tonight, lol.

But my suggestion is now to get rid of all the unnecessary textures as one may be causing the issue.

Will do. If it dosn't work, I won't relpy...

Dx

 

[pflasti]

i have an idea too, maybe totally useless, but:

on the two pics u have loaded up, the editor says "couldnt load up garfish.mdl", but at the import-manager theres not a file with this name, its "garfish.mdx", maybe the problem lies with the wrong ending?

 

[sadvisor]

firedrake2222, could you tell me where i can find "star5tga.blp" and "Clouds8x8Fire.blp", because i want to try something.
Maybe you can attach them in a post.

 

[gundragons]

maybe u have not import it ride look at youtube for a turtioal about importing...
(srry for my bad english) XD

 

[firedrake2222]

star5tga.blp & Clouds8x8Fire.blp were found by extracting them from Garfish.mdx. The textures are attached, so you don't have to do that .

@pflasti: Thanks for the idea, but I've already tried that. I think the 'mdl' just stands for model, so its pretty much saying "couldn't load: Garfish model".

 

[Vizel]

Fixed

I FIGURED OUT WHAT IS WRONG!!!!!

It really was very simple.

What you did wrong was click "Use Custom Path" for "Garfish.mdx"

Unclick that so it reads "war3mapImported\Garfish.mdx" again and you should be fine.

Good Luck, and I'm happy to say that this is your solution.

If it's not, then you need to remove all of the "optional" stuff because I only imported the "Required" parts.

 

[Revolve]

Ahh sorry to say this Vizel, but I don't think that's the solution xD
A model doesn't need custom paths, I've never (as what i can remember) been fixing model paths.

I can't see the solution of this. I will try to import the model later on, see if I can make it work. Gl ^^

 

[Vizel]

Ahh sorry to say this Vizel, but I don't think that's the solution xD
A model doesn't need custom paths, I've never (as what i can remember) been fixing model paths.

I can't see the solution of this. I will try to import the model later on, see if I can make it work. Gl ^^

You completely misunderstand. He already has the model file in a custom path of "Garfish.mdx" He got rid of the "war3mapImported\" at the start. When I put it back (Unchecked the Custom path box), it showed up in the map perfectly.

 

[Revolve]

Ahh okay sorry. Cool you got the solution then =D

 

[firedrake2222]

I FIGURED OUT WHAT IS WRONG!!!!!

It really was very simple.

What you did wrong was click "Use Custom Path" for "Garfish.mdx"

Unclick that so it reads "war3mapImported\Garfish.mdx" again and you should be fine.

Good Luck, and I'm happy to say that this is your solution.

If it's not, then you need to remove all of the "optional" stuff because I only imported the "Required" parts.

I really wish it was the solution. I set it to war3mapImported\Garfish.mdx, and removed the uneeded textures. It didn't work. Hoping, I removed the texutres/ text from all the textures. Still didn't work. I even tried it with war3mapImported text infront of the textures. No cigar. :'(

Prehaps its something wrong with my pc? Although other models work...

Prehaps we should just give up... :/

 

[Rowboat]

Just have one thing to say: NEVER GIVE UP!

And i think the model is bugged, try another but use this one when we get a solution.

 

[Vizel]

I don't know what to tell you. Try removing them and importing them again, perhaps. I just don't know what to tell ya, mate.

Sorry I couldn't help,

 

[Reaper2008]

Checked it out, model works just fine in War3viewer, not tried WE though. The missing textures are not needed, so i can't understand what's going on...

 

[sadvisor]

that's like the most bizzare problem i've ever seen. The model seems not to work whatever you try.

 

[firedrake2222]

I don't know what to tell you. Try removing them and importing them again, perhaps. I just don't know what to tell ya, mate.

Sorry I couldn't help,

I have removed/reimported. Even deleated the zip and redownloaded it. Still nothing Dx

that's like the most bizzare problem i've ever seen. The model seems not to work whatever you try.

It has something against me :'(

 

[pflasti]

@firedrake:

it may sound very simple and kinda silly maybe, but when i was new in importing models, i had a similar problem, because after importing stuff, i closed the map and opened it again, but nothing worked. After a few days i found out, that some of them worked perfect, when i closed the whole editor and opened it again.

you probably did this, but if not, its a try

 

[Rowboat]

Dont you guys completely close the editor and then reopen it when you import? I do that all the time

 

[firedrake2222]

Dont you guys completely close the editor and then reopen it when you import? I do that all the time

Yeah, I do too I thought you had to close WE....

 

[Rowboat]

Yeah, I do too I thought you had to close WE....

Me to xD Oh well... you give up or is this thread still alive? xD

 

[Azndragon]

every approved model i use does that... every single one not 1 model on this website works. (for me) i need help.. I posted help but i cant find my post T_T so help me plz

 

[firedrake2222]

Me to xD Oh well... you give up or is this thread still alive? xD

Give up :/ No one can see the prob, so mods can delete/ignore/what ever.

 

[Vizel]

sorry mate, gl on your map

 

[casper]

help me