Questions about BO3 Mod Tools

[LudwigVan]

Why is it 100 GB? Shouldn't it just be using the assests from BO3 why does it need that much space?

[Niknokinater]

The assets in the mod tools are uncompressed or something along those lines I believe as opposed to the stuff that's already in their places.

[Xero]

Bo3 Mod Tools or Radiant Black comes with additional assets which is like 90 something gigs. The current installation of Bo3 only has the needed assets that were created for that specific map and doesn't have ALL assets. These include FX, Entities, Map Models and so on. Downloading all updates and assets are a must have when you want to create a wide range of things with tons of selections to choose from. Yes it's worth downloading and creating anything your imagination desires.

Just keep in mind Radiant Black uses a lot of resources from you pc/laptop and 16 gigs of ram is the bare recommended minimum. If you have lower it'd be more aggrivating to create for it'd take forever and might even crash when trying to cull/build lighting.
My download restarted a few times as well not sure what was up with that but it'll download fully eventually.

To help a little google and youtube is your friend for how to's. This page also shares a bit of info. Or you can always ask a question here of course.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CODZombies/comments/58nbvq/black_ops_3_mod_tools_super_guide/

Here's a post I did for someone else to improve some performance.
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You should never try clicking anywhere while it's Composing / Calculating Lights / Loading or anything. Even when it seems like it's not doing anything. Don't click or you will get the faded white screen with the not responding asking you do you want to wait or close it out. Once you clicked on something let it do it's thing till you see a difference or you see in the bottom left corner your frames per second go to normal. The lightning bolt icon will show back up when calculating or composing lights is done.

I'm not sure what setup you have but try these steps below to speed up Radiant :

- Closing everything out that you don't need running. This includes any usb hook ups that are connected that aren't necessary. Only thing that should be running is your Antivirus but if editing offline you can disable this as well for it will shut down certain services. Just make sure to enable it before going online.

- If you are using the admin account which isn't good (Because people can easily hack your account when online) then click Control + Alt + Delete to open task manager and right click "Radiant" under the Processes tab and click Set Priority to preferably Realtime. If not High. If you are not the admin. You want to click windows button type in taskmgr and right click to run as admin and ask for password then proceed to steps above. (This even on my setup makes the Textures / Models / Fx load up right away. I do this step each time I load up Radiant. It will boost your speed for Radiant quite a bit.

- Also when you go to search for Models or Textures and try to do something else at the same time. This can cause Radiant to slow down. Always best to close the loading Textures / Models window or tab out before trying to do something else.

Just remember to always let Radiant do it's thing even when it seems like it's not loading. It's loading trust me. And save your work frequently. I have to manually click Save As and over write my map for I'm under a non admin account. The autosave feature doesn't work for me. May be helpful to if this is a long term project to make a copy of your map folder incase you run into a major map error. Let me know if this helped.

[LudwigVan]

Originally posted by Zero:

Bo3 Mod Tools or Radiant Black comes with aditional assets which is like 90 something gigs. The current installation of Bo3 only has the needed assets that were created for that specific map and doesn't have ALL assets. These include FX, Entities, Map Models and so on. Downloading all updates and assets are a must have when you want to create a wide range of things with tons of selections to choose from. Yes it's worth downloading and creating anything your imagination desires.

Just keep in mind Radiant Black uses a lot of resources from you pc/laptop and 16 gigs of ram is the bare recommended minimum. If you have lower it'd be more aggrivating to create for it'd take forever and might even crash when trying to cull/build lighting.
My download restarted a few times as well not sure what was up with that but it'll download fully eventually.

To help a little google and youtube is your friend for how to's. This page also shares a bit of info. Or you can always ask a question here of course.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CODZombies/comments/58nbvq/black_ops_3_mod_tools_super_guide/

Here's a post I did for someone else to improve some performance.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You should never try clicking anywhere while it's Composing / Calculating Lights / Loading or anything. Even when it seems like it's not doing anything. Don't click or you will get the faded white screen with the not responding asking you do you want to wait or close it out. Once you clicked on something let it do it's thing till you see a difference or you see in the bottom left corner your frames per second go to normal. The lightning bolt icon will show back up when calculating or composing lights is done.

I'm not sure what setup you have but try these steps below to speed up Radiant :

- Closing everything out that you don't need running. This includes any usb hook ups that are connected that aren't necessary. Only thing that should be running is your Antivirus but if editing offline you can disable this as well for it will shut down certain services. Just make sure to enable it before going online.

- If you are using the admin account which isn't good (Because people can easily hack your account when online) then click Control + Alt + Delete to open task manager and right click "Radiant" under the Processes tab and click Set Priority to preferably Realtime. If not High. If you are not the admin. You want to click windows button type in taskmgr and right click to run as admin and ask for password then proceed to steps above. (This even on my setup makes the Textures / Models / Fx load up right away. I do this step each time I load up Radiant. It will boost your speed for Radiant quite a bit.

- Also when you go to search for Models or Textures and try to do something else at the same time. This can cause Radiant to slow down. Always best to close the loading Textures / Models window or tab out before trying to do something else.

Just remember to always let Radiant do it's thing even when it seems like it's not loading. It's loading trust me. And save your work frequently. I have to manually click Save As and over write my map for I'm under a non admin account. The autosave feature doesn't work for me. May be helpful to if this is a long term project to make a copy of your map folder incase you run into a major map error. Let me know if this helped.

Thanks for the response, I have 8 gigs of ram but I'm usually optimistic about these things so I'll try to download the tools again when I'll be away from my PC for awhile to just let it do it's thing.

[Niknokinater]

Originally posted by Betonvin:

Thanks for the response, I have 8 gigs of ram but I'm usually optimistic about these things so I'll try to download the tools again when I'll be away from my PC for awhile to just let it do it's thing.

You ought to be fine ^^ I use the tools with 8Gb RAM and 2Gb VRAM ; they work rather fine - but do not that it could be tedious to load models and textures. You want to change view mode to list mode in the Model and Texture windows to get around the lag fests for those.

You may experience complete system lockups as well that can last up to 20 seconds- but I always recover and all goes well :D

[Xero]

I'm not trying to say it won't work on lower systems. Just trying to help. =) And no problem.

[Neon Outkast]

91GB system storage. 19 hours to complete. very large file indeed.

[[ZUCC]Lucar901™]

1 full tb to 300 gb very sad but true story

[[ZUCC]Lucar901™]

bo3 mod tools feels rushed it was probly a last min dissision to make the people happy waw has better modding in my opinion and lets you have more stuff to play with