CoD UO Modding Tutorial - Part 1 : Setting up the Toolset

It is advisable to play CoD or UO online for a while first and see the maps other people have made so that you know what can be done in the toolsets and get some ideas for yourself. By playing other people's maps, you will also have their textures automatically imported into your toolset to give you some more options in how you wish to make your maps.

When you are ready to begin you will need

the CoD Radiant or CoD UO Radiant toolset, depending on whether you have UO or not (If you have both it is always best to use UO because of the increased number of features and the larger texture selection). Below are the links for both downloads.

CoD Radiant

CoD UO Radiant

Once installed you should have a shortcut placed on your desktop. If not then goto your game directory and drag a shortcut to the application onto the desktop. It will be in [game directory]/Tools/Bin or [game directory]/UOTools/Bin, where [game directory] is the location of CoD, most likely C:/Program Files/Call Of Duty/ or C:/Program Files/Call Of Duty United Offensive/

The next step is to open the toolset (obvious really) so click on the desktop shortcut.

Note : I will be using the United Offesive Toolset but if you are using normal Radiant then the screenshots and some of what I am saying will not correspond. However, the two toolsets are very similar.

This is the screen that should appear when you open UO Radiant for the first time.

Before we begin getting stuck in and exploding with creativity we need to check some features of the toolset. To begin, go to File > Game Settings > Edit... and you should see something like this.

Make sure that your game settings look mine, as are shown below, but replace [game dir] with your game directory.

Basepath [game dir]

SP Map Source [game dir]\UOTools\map_source

MP Map Source [game dir]\UOTools\map_source

rshcmd [game dir]\UOTools\bin\

remotebasepath [game dir]\uo

entitypath [game dir]\UOTools\bin\coduo.def

texture dir textures

game dir uo

base game dir main

Autosave Directory [game dir]\Call of Duty\map_source\autosave

SP Map Path [game dir]\uo\maps

MP Map Path [game dir]\uo\maps\mp

Note: CoD Radiant will have less and those that include "UOTools" should be replaced with "Tools", and those that include "uo" should be replaced with "main" (e.g. SP Map Path - [game dir]\main\maps).

Once these settings are correct you should be able to start building.

CoD UO Modding Tutorial - Part 2 : Making a Simple Room, Texturing and Using the Camera