Haegemonia LOI/TSH - Modding

Hiyo.
Found my old CD and installed a game again with modding kit and and wanna make a map for myself.
Having such trouble: game works perfect, but i cannot enter the editor. When I press Shift+F10 it starts loading, but when it finishes game shows error and closes.

Win 7 x64, c++ redistributable 2008 and 2010 installed, .net framework 4.5 too. What may cause such thing?

Well, back in those days I did come across exactly this problem myself as well. I never really managed to solve this though, because I had built my own level editor tool from scratch instead…

However, an intelligent guess from experience is that the error MIGHT be caused by the game’s inf files being compressed/encrypted. If you replace your .inf files with the ones provided in the modding tools (the package contains unencrypted inf files), things just MIGHT work. Never tested, though.

If you want to try, please be careful in the sense that the unencrypted inf files in the modding tools are NOT the same structure as the encrypted ones in the game. The modding tools files use ‘include’ statements, while the ones shipped with the game have everything embededded in every single file. This means you can’t just ‘copy over’ the original files, technically you have to carefully replace each file structure out there, and there is no guarantee it might ever even work.

Consider using Tib’s editor (less powerful but more straightforward and easier to use) or my editor, Haegemonia Level Planner (more powerful, but less straightforward and requires a degree of understanding how levels work in TSH).

It’s been a long time since I’ve worked with Haeg. However, should you need help, I’m happy to answer.

Thanks. Yes, i have an understanding, but I need editor cuz I have no sense of systems coordinates. I don’t like Level Planner cuz it cannot import map file into itself, so it’s possible to create map only from nothing.
Oh, where can I dl Tib’s or your editor to try?

They are available on ModDB, under the Downloads section of Haegemonia Vector Prime. I won’t post a link because it might interfere with forum regulations, but it shouldn’t be hard to find in Google.

However, I have a bit of bad news, too. Just like Level Planner, Tib’s editor is also not capable of loading up level.inf files. In part this is there to protect anything you create and publish using these tools, and in part because neither of us had the time to parse into .inf files directly.
And there is no third editor - the program I made was Level Planner.

However, if that helps, I can give you a base Level Planner system for the TSH map “Firestorm”. I think I haven’t changed the format much, so it should be the correct version; pardon me if something ends up wrong, because it’s been waaay too many years.

• Or, I have just about all Freelancer systems in Level Planner files, if you are interested. They are level-ready, just need a bit of cleaning up here and there. But I’ll only give them away if you ensure me that you’ll give me proper credit and send me an e-mail if you make a level out of them - because I might be interested in playing it.