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    uk_apollo

    3 Jun 2016
    Edited 8 years ago by uk_apollo

    This is what the instructions say:
    "ALiVE must be in @ALiVE folder in ArmA3 (Warning: folder name is case sensitive!)"

    I read that as a warning about the case sensitivity of the @ALiVE folder, rather than as explicitly saying to put @ALiVE in a particular ArmA 3 folder. There's no mention about the map folder location that I've seen.

    Perhaps this might help to clarify for other potential contributors:

    "Both the @ALiVE folder (warning: folder name is case sensitive!) and the custom map to be indexed must be placed inside the ArmA3 game folder (which contains Arma3.exe)."

    Was there any thought about the broken link to the .dll or it's unavailability?

  3. Friznit

    3 Jun 2016 Administrator

    It's a bit lower down but I'll rejig it a bit to make it more explicit and clearer. Thanks for the feedback.

    Can't speak for Mikero's tools. I'll check the links but if he's removed his (old) free versions there's nothing we can do about that unfortunately.

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    uk_apollo

    3 Jun 2016

    Here is the link to the free Mikero's Tools:

    https://dev.withsix.com/projects/mikero-pbodll/files

    DeOgg...Installer.exe gives me DeOgg64.dll - maybe it detects what version of Windows you're running?

  5. Friznit

    4 Jun 2016 Administrator

    Fixed the links in the insturctions so they're pointing to the correct tools folder in the ALiVE.OS repo.

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    uk_apollo

    4 Jun 2016

    The link is still broken for me. Am I on the wrong page?

    http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Map_Indexing

    "Acquire a copy of Mikero's Tools, specifically DeWrp.exe and DePbo.dll and DeOgg.dll (the version dated 09/08/2014 seems to work OK)."

    Clicking DeOgg.dll takes me to:
    We need a map.
    Server Error: 404 (Not Found)

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    marceldev89

    4 Jun 2016 Moderator

    @uk_apollo https://github.com/ALiVEOS/ALiVE.OS/wiki/How-to-Index-Maps

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    uk_apollo

    4 Jun 2016

    Thanks marceldev.

    Is the alivemod.com/wiki obsolete now? I guess that's why Friznit didn't understand me saying that there was no mention of where to place the map, although my original post did give the link for the tutorial which I was following (and which is different to this new one on the github).

  9. SpyderBlack723

    4 Jun 2016 Moderator

    It is not obsolete, but if you are doing anything related to development then check GitHub as well.

  10. Friznit

    4 Jun 2016 Administrator
    Edited 8 years ago by Friznit

    Yeah...I didn't know Tup had added the Indexing Guide to the alivemod wiki - I just assumed we were using the one on the github pages....

    I'll make sure that one's updated too. Or remove the github one so we don't get duplicates and confusion.

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    tourist

    4 Apr 2017

    Hi there,

    I really, really want to help with indexing because all the maps from IFA3 and it's new I44 content give me errors and persistence failure whenever I try to setup a mission there.

    So I'd like to try my luck on indexing these - only I don't understand what to do with the DeWRP.exe. Please, give me a more detailed step-by-step set of instructions on how to install the DeWRP.exe - I didn't understand the whole path thingy...

    I'm on Win 7 (64 Bit OS) and would like to know:

    1) Where to put the DeWRP.exe and it's accompanying .dll files

    2) If I need to create an entirely new environment variable just for the DeWRP.exe - and how exactly to do that

    THX in advance for any help,

    tourist

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    marceldev89

    4 Apr 2017 Moderator
    Edited 7 years ago by marceldev89

    The easiest way is to put the files in c:\windows\system32\ I guess

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    tourist

    4 Apr 2017

    Also for a 64 bit system?

  14. tourist

    4 Apr 2017

    And just the files or the files within a folder named DEWRP?

  15. tourist

    4 Apr 2017

    Here comes my .rpt, showing clearly that the dewrp.exe is thr problem:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/oc9e43mltfm7q9c/tourist_dewrp_error.7z?dl=0

    I have put it into c:\windows\system32\ both as individual files and as content of a folder named DEWRP. Also I had tried to set up the path stuff pointing to another location, that is, a folder named DEWRP is located in C:\Program Files (x86), leading to this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\DEWRP. And I made a new entry at the environment variables and entered this path. But I don't understand this at all, so maybe that had zero effect or detrimental effect...

    PLZ be more detailed in the instructions; I really never did messing around in my OS's entrails for any game before ;-)

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    HeroesandvillainsOS

    4 Apr 2017 Moderator
    Edited 7 years ago by HeroesandvillainsOS

    It probably doesn't matter as long as you have the windows environment path defined, but the last I checked I had DEWRP.exe, DePBO.dll and DeOgg.dll in this path:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Mikero\DePboTools\bin

    Those are the only Mikero files which I have DL'd

    It's been awhile since I installed these files, but pretty sure this folder path gets created when installing Mikero's files. I just stuck DEWRP.exe inside there myself and it seems to work ok.

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    tourist

    4 Apr 2017

    I don't have an installer for Mikero's tools since on the ALiVE Map indexing WIKI, it point to a DL that just offers the dewrp.alive.zip. And in there, I only find the three files DeWrp.exe, DePBO64.dll and DeOgg64.dll

  18. tourist

    4 Apr 2017
    Edited 7 years ago by tourist

    Even if I put these in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ it doesn't work. I Tried to setup the path, maybe I did that wrong in the first place. I did it like this:

    1) Open the Tab for changing/creating environment vaiables

    2) Clicked "New" in the User Variables Window

    3) Named it DEWRP x64

    4) Named the value C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DeWrp.exe

    5) clicked ok

    6) added the line C:\Windows\SysWOW64\DeWrp.exe to the path entry in the system variables window below

    7) clicked ok twice; now everything should be saved

    8) still get this error about dewrp when trying to index - SO frustrating!!!

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    marceldev89

    4 Apr 2017 Moderator
    Edited 7 years ago by marceldev89

    Alright, the simplest way I can think of in steps:

    1. Extract the zip file to c:\windows\system32\ (no need to create a subfolder or whatever)
    2. Open the start menu and search for "cmd.exe" (without the quotes) and press Enter
    3. Inside the cmd.exe window type "DeWrp.exe" (without the quotes) and press Enter
    4. It should print some information in the console similar to:
    dewrp x64UnicodeVersion 1.71, Dll 5.24 ""
/*=================*/
Syntax DeWrp [-option] filename[.wrp]
option -I: List locations and model of all island ID's
option -L: List Land classes
option -O: List Objects and their ID's
option -D: List Objects no ID's
option -P: don't pause

Press the ANY key

    If 4 went well then go ahead and try to index the map using the instructions on the wiki. If it didn't then something is seriously wrong with your system and it's beyond what I can (or am willing to) do through a forum. :P

    If the index fails again post the log file from the @ALiVE\indexing\ folder.

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    tourist

    4 Apr 2017

    Ok, time to post the log file since all I get when doing your 4 steps is that DeWrp opens a GUI which looks like this:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/uez63hqp9j8g00u/Screenshot%202017-04-04%2021.04.00.png?dl=0

    And here the logfile:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/tfkil6zgb3fwlhh/log.7z?dl=0

    Any clues? :-(

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    Burdy323

    29 May 2017

    Same exact issue as tourist - get the GUI + DeWrp error in the RPT. Do not get that Command line prompt that you speak of.

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