Men of War - How to make your own battles with GEM Editor

[@lockbody1236]

Thanks man, i never used the Editor in MoW, because it seemed too complicated. But now i started making some small Battles thanks to your Tutorial.

[@skepticmonkey6923]

Jesus it takes 20 minutes to make 10 people fight each other

[@masterblaster7782]

Then how long should it take to make two nations fight each other? ;)

[@CobraCommander2009]

@@masterblaster7782 two entier armys or divisons ?

[@TheGuyWithABatsuit]

Hardest part is finding the perfect map

[@stripanimation7056]

@@TheGuyWithABatsuit yes lol😂

[@SnafuWT]

yeah. in arma 3 editor it would take 5 minutes to make an entire scenario of a huge battle.

[@MARV0C]

8 years later and I am to begin making videos. Thankyou for making this video. You have truly helped many creators

[@tg4lyoungin685]

Can you open editor on MoW AS1??? I can’t figure it out

[@MARV0C]

@@tg4lyoungin685 should open regularly. If it doesn’t (pressing f3) then the mod might have been corrupted or compromised. Or your game is bugged.(reinstall)

[@michaellaborn7068]

I specifically subscribed because of how honest you were with saying the other guys were better at the advanced stuff. I really respect that. However you made building maps less daunting and hopefully my friends will love my St. Hilaire with even more buildings!

[@DaleyGaming]

Thanks man, I just started men of war on my channel and wanted to know how to

[@frefas4965]

OMG ITS YOU IM A HUGE FAN

[@Audax_Sabre]

love your channel

[@derpykiwi2968]

Ayy love the new channel Daley tactics

[@socksnotgloves1345]

I’m a fan of u

[@funnyandclevername5599]

Bryan Tribuna Indeed

[@Andytlp]

Thanks for the guide. Love watching medium tanks shoot tortoise for a while til it blows up. Bounce bounce.

[@Jacob-bi1oq]

Thank your for making this I've been trying to do this for weeks

[@angels77100]

Lot's of good tips and help provided in this short video that really does do what you want it to do.

[@theShermanator]

[@brandonyuan6542]

+Apple Top Shermanator

[@nightopia2911]

Understand anything???

[@BrumEldar]

@@nightopia2911 i'm sure better than you! hahaha

[@nightopia2911]

@@BrumEldar wow! 5 months i forgot my this comment.

[@Dominique9325]

The biggest hurdle is the troop AI's absolute braindead behavior. My favorite way of conducting these battles is to spawn a certain amount of troops on either team, and then give them free reign over their actions. It can be entertaining to watch, but is also almost always painful. Troops often run out of cover into the open to be gunned down, pretty much all of them save for the sniper have pisspoor accuracy and take about 100+ SMG or 15+ rifle bullets to hit an enemy, they will often have an enemy in their direct line of sight and just stand there and stare blankly into the enemy without firing, sometimes resulting in them dying, they will slowly walk away from a machinegun firing at them instead of trying to duck and take cover, the troop AI has no perception of cover, they will almost never use it.

[@Zlatirano]

Why did they make it so complicated, like why did they not just add a few buttons that summon different amount of soldiers of all types.

[@madeinmicrosoftpaint]

you have to cough up money for that lol thats why

[@Zlatirano]

@@madeinmicrosoftpaint Oh so its always for some stupid papers thats worth stuff.

[@madeinmicrosoftpaint]

@@Zlatirano yup

[@obeseraccoon843]

Am I the only one who laughed when he was like "Then you want to sele- oh no" I am, oh. 😞

[@KrisH-qz9su]

Very good, many thanks for sharing 10/10.

[@VunderGuy]

How do you make continuous, even endless, waves of enemies but only at certain times and at certain places?

[@AFGuidesHD]

+Banici Catalin you hold c or z or a

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

***** you can push the numpad keys to select a team you want to place down in the editor. just sayin if you didint know AFGuidesHD

[@AFGuidesHD]

Yomamma Ilikepie yeah :)

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

***** i think that was the quickest reply iv gotten. lol

[@AFGuidesHD]

Yomamma Ilikepie express delivery :D

[@TumbleTrashOfficial]

yes

[@tylerweiss8476]

I've been watching your Call of Duty videos for so long that I had no idea you played Men of War too. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@AFGuidesHD]

yup, I did the original faces of war too, red tide, MOW 1, and i think most of AS2 but not quite all of it

[@tylerweiss8476]

@@AFGuidesHD I've played a lot of the original Men of War because of the DCG mod. I've always been a sucker for persistent army management and it provided my fix. But recently my MOW install broke and won't reinstall, so I've been messing around in the AS2 editor.

[@AFGuidesHD]

yeah MOW is an awesome game, too bad its not from an AA developer because it could do with an upgrade, though gates of hell looks good

[@boazcstrike]

Thanks mate! Great tutorial boost!

[@emphazan]

This was the most helpful video ever

[@TwistedSisterHaratiofales]

LOL, I didn't know you could make multiple paths like that. Very cool.

[@DreamShad]

Why AI not attack first when notice your opponent?

[@everythingisbetter1939]

Change the team of the opponent

[@epa901]

Because if they are in the same team, they won't shoot each other, that's why you choose another team for your solders.

[@Tymon02]

When I assign units to diffrent 'player teams' they dissappear. Also is it possible to get like a flat map and use maps/units from workshop?

[@irinarostova7958]

Yes you can

[@dabbya]

alt f

[@xendercraftx9571]

THANKS, great explaination :D

[@warhawk9352]

THANKS MAN.VERY HELPFUL

[@polandball8427]

this was very helpful thank you

[@ethandodd80]

How do you rotate units?!?

[@kramer5772]

+Ethan Dodd press and hold z, and use your mouse to rotate the unit/objects

[@poncopangestu8854]

+KRAMer c

[@kolehere683]

C

[@brothermario5768]

Hey, I know is from 2013 but, my GEM editor don't work, is says map_editor(eng). pdf but is a white file which can't be opend. Wat should I do ?

[@clementineschalchen330]

Reinstall the game

[@StarWarsExpert_]

How can you take control of a unit in the battle? I've seen Videos where you could shot and move the tank without comanding it to for example move with rightclick to that positon

[@Therealshithead]

Its in mowas2

[@wak4315]

Does Men Of War: Assault Squad have this as well?

[@AFGuidesHD]

yes

[@nahh9494]

what is your version

[@quickscoper5837]

Yes

[@xendercraftx9571]

@@quickscoper5837 Yes

[@grubsesgames6946]

Thanks sooo much for this vid it was really helpful to me, +1 Sub!!! :D

[@donald-f2b]

If you turn infantry into a tank or vehicle and then change your team to an enemy, it keeps coming off. Is there a way to turn it into an enemy while still burning?

[@michaeladkins1407]

Does anyone know why the hot keys don't work??? Everytime I change from f1 back to f2 or f3, it just affects with my screen brightening and dimming.. It doesn't do anything, but makes things brighter or darker. How do I take care of this issue??

[@chaoticchr1s269]

Michael Adkins Look in your game settings you might of changed the keys by accident. If you have anymore questions just ask :).

[@chaoticchr1s269]

Legobro46 Feel free to ask anymore questions if need AFguidesHD is a very good Mow player we knows alot about it! Eather me or him or someone else should help! :)

[@yoloswagmc3545]

Michael Adkins I can tell you how to fix it! You have to press the Fn key, which should be toward the left of the space bar.

[@israelgroth1948]

@@yoloswagmc3545 Valeu cara. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@dr.jackkenway3802]

you sound like a young version of frankieonpcin1080p

[@superkamiguru6856]

Honestly, I've heard Brits that sound more like Frankie.

[@jacko3300]

Thanks for the video! :)

[@rougeelite1446]

Im still very Confused ? How do i get them to battle lol im using the 40k mod and ive done Everything you did minus the Waypoints due to the enemy being righr afront of each other

[@Eppykiora]

How do I move the camera? Not camera angle, but just the camera in general. I tried ASWD, arrow keys, and I doesn’t work?

[@usaroblox9336]

Question, those soldiers, is that a mod?

[@dostadam3102]

I can not resist objects I have tried everything [f1,f2,f3 left click right click] but it does not seem to object to putting not working please help me :((( but putting soldier

[@brettcole3222]

Like the video. Need help though. How u get out side music into the gem editor.

[@AFGuidesHD]

you go to C:\Program Files (x86)\1C\Men of War esource then create a folder called music and then put whatever mp3 songs you want to into it

[@brettcole3222]

thank u.

[@TheSlayerFox]

wait, so what your telling me is I cannot use the editor properly cuz i dont have a numpad?

[@joegaskell7584]

yes

[@hm6504]

How do you spin those characters?

[@arielhamm-flores6893]

i got thois game yesterday so far everytime i press start game scrashese also im doing it with warhammer 40k mod i have so meany questions

[@lolopard99]

hi, can you please help me with something, my soldiers that i place at edge of the map are running into the map automaticly, is there any way i can set them STAND in the place i put them, im doing a mission and im stuck with thaat

[@alexisF1031]

LoLo Pardus just set them to ”hold” it's in the same menu where you set their team

[@ethpling165]

If I just create a battle with only minimal programming would that essentially create a battle that I’d have to micromanage but instead of one side I would be in charge of both?

[@StarWarsExpert_]

11:33 how did you rotate it?

[@AFGuidesHD]

hold down z or c i think

[@StarWarsExpert_]

​@@AFGuidesHD Hey. I was trying to make a battle and started with a tiger with some crew members and I couldn't set a way point. If I press F3 I see the "menu" from the F1 key and F3 key. it overlapped. First it cinda worked. I saw the red white thingy and then tried to place it, but it didn't placed it.

[@gavinkidulas8648]

My num pad isn't changing the team on the top left corner so i'm kinda stuck

[@gavinkidulas8648]

I figured it out make sure ur numlock is on

[@fosterhoffmann4604]

HA thanks man

[@budimuhammad3531]

Can we using multiplayer maps on the level editor ?. Or just single player campaign maps ?

[@MrStrielok]

Thank you !

[@warsadgame5252]

I would like to ask, what do you do when creating a memo to create and play?

[@ivoferin8176]

Is this the same editor than Call to Arms?

[@chosenprogaming1152]

what did you said around 12:53-12:57 i didnt understand what you said around that part

[@AFGuidesHD]

NUM LOCK ON

[@chosenprogaming1152]

sorry im an idiot but how do i NUM LOCK?

[@AFGuidesHD]

Chosenpro Gaming press the num lock key on the keyboard near the number pad

[@chosenprogaming1152]

oh i seee thx

[@tuckmanstudios]

Can you sometimes control both armies, like switch teams whenever you want?

[@AFGuidesHD]

yeah you can use the number pad to switch teams

[@tuckmanstudios]

@@AFGuidesHDhey I got another question, When I’ve tried the gem editor on my dads laptop and selected the teams. They can’t seem to do anything. Was there something else I was supposed to do after putting them in teams?

[@AFGuidesHD]

@@tuckmanstudios you can program them to do all sorts, there are guides on youtube by someone else who has done many

[@tuckmanstudios]

@ especially on laptops? because after trying to watch videos while doing the editor, I’ve noticed that the laptop makes it a lot different from a regular computer.

[@carfanatic1827]

How do you scroll around the map? I'm stuck viewing this tiny spot and I can't move the camera anywhere.

[@carfanatic1827]

Never mind, you have to hold space bar to move the camera lol.

[@aktiont4161]

Can you remove the draw/shadow distance without having to alternate between teams

[@ppplll000999]

help ! Need some help on 0.mi , what is difference of player 0 & player 4 in diplomacy (with 1 as user side & 2 as enemy side. Also what is { Extender enumerator } , how to use it ???

[@lukapaic7560]

I have no colors Only two players no matter what player number i select,blue(wich is me) and yello(ai) bit when i fire at them they dont fire back even tough i found a setting for firing and it said open so o tried return bit it didnt work I have men of war : assault squad ( the first)

[@ShabririChirugh]

Hey,got one simple problem,an that is IF it is possible to control both sides in the battle,as for say both the brits and the germans,just that you jump between them ingame?

[@AFGuidesHD]

well you can switch team by pressing numbers on the number pad if thats what you mean

[@RevoTheGoverment]

Tag with "W" and "6" doesnt work for me -.- !

[@SasaAsas24]

Select units, and press CTRL+T.

[@LeMenace1]

Saša Savić you might be dead but thanks for your help

[@duck_ironbuffalo4439]

Or u

[@Metroxide]

Which game is this for? I'm using Assault Squad 2 and I can't do a lot of this stuff, and when I click start the units just sit there

[@TheVortexKey]

Something must be wrong if it doesn't work and you do it correctly, even on MOWAS2. It works for my AS2

[@seanvillaflor6030]

me too.

[@everythingisbetter1939]

Change the team

[@PancakesForRent]

I dunno which is harder to make, A battle in arma 3 or a battle in MOWAS 2.

[@jacketz6785]

AFGuidesHD Im Having A Problem If You Think you Can Help Me. When I Make a New Map (I Make it With the Terrain and Hills and Stuff Not Loaded) And I Add all the Stuff In And Click "Start" It Comes up Saying Something Load Try it Yourself Go To ESC > New > Make your Terrain > Then Click Start It Should Say there is an Error

[@684avatar]

im trying to find info on how to make the map delete dead on the battlefield with unwanted vehicles and rifles and other objects carried by infantry...would you know how to do that???

[@kiwimid1887]

Hi there, where do you get the maps from?

[@Fight4uTube]

stupid question :D how do you rotate units?

[@Sonaint]

please awnser... i cant move my camera around and stuff is it a option im not in?

[@nordicpawsproductions465]

I'm using gem editors in cta goh and mow they all seem like the same editor i made and endless waves, script but i dont want it to keep spawning to many because it will cause lag or evrn a game crash if too many troops spawn would be cool to have a way to toggle waves on or off. I'm not sure if i can do that.

[@durkburk4801]

it doesnt work wen i press "w 6" it just brings me to the triggers tab. and the commands tab isnt even there... im starting to give up.....

[@jasonrtn1930]

Do we need waypoints for the AI to roam, and attacks units who are in border (like zombies or things like this), and does teams are obliged for it ? (bc i tested the vanilla game at a moment in editor, and when at least found themselves they attacked)

[@domothehomo6234]

damn man i always wondered what you sounded like.

[@yeshee_cosmic]

its posible download the gem editor and no download the men of war?

[@AFGuidesHD]

no

[@yeshee_cosmic]

***** ok

[@codyedeling874]

witch red rising mod are you using

[@naninasudesuu4659]

What if the F1-F12 is broken?? Or maybe using call to arms is it the same or different??

[@FinestFellaz]

im having trouble with the editor. when i put a squad of 10 soldiers for example then assign them to team 1, they disappear! almost like there is a fog of war. how can i sort this???

[@ralfriedel7779]

Finest Fellaz go into F1 mode Press ESC > options > Graphics > disable fog of war

[@BrickEmpireSimulator]

I always had an issue with mow/mowas2 because whenever I try to save any projects in game editor, error pops up with a message "Error: Missing files"

[@PolishPleb]

Sorry for my stupidity, but is this MOWAS 1 or 2? And which one is worth getting, because im looking to buy one. thanks.

[@AFGuidesHD]

+Polish Pleb its mow 1 not MOWAS1 just MOW, and MOWAS2 if you don't already have MOWAS1

[@PolishPleb]

I bought MOWAS 2.

[@poncopangestu8854]

+Polish Pleb you can use all of 1c mow series

[@Savage1-0-7]

k i have the second gme and just got the red rising mod and i want to make my own scenarios, could i grab help with that

[@PSNGamer]

Awesome video!

[@sheepna2591]

I don't even know if you still look at comments at this video but I'll ask it anyway. How to disable prone? I'm just making a fun battle where it's a attacker vs defender, the defending team keeps loosing even with the amount of firepower they have like mgs and mortars they just can't win because their normal infantry just go prone and doesn't shoot cause they can't see the enemy ex. The bazooker can't disable the tank cause he just prones under a sandbag. I would be thankful if you reply and help me

[@yognut72]

also if you add this or whatever can you call in reinforcements? Or is that exclusive to the assault squad games

[@AFGuidesHD]

Nev v the engine is the same for all MOWs

[@AnonymousPlayer202]

For some reason everytime I press w then 6 nothing pops up, when I press 6 it's takes me to the trigger section and that's it... is there a way to fix it or???

[@nickp1999]

I've just bought Battle of Empires, but it's not letting me download the GEM editor for it :/ it says it's DLC but on the steam page there is no button to download it and it's not already installed

[@AFGuidesHD]

Nnokt deathstep i dont know how the editor works for BoE its weird.

[@nickp1999]

***** yeah haha

[@maxvitek1764]

Right click it in the library there's an option for Editor.

[@nickp1999]

Max Vitek i got it working ages ago, but thanks lol

[@omliber4850]

Hey so the map is all grey until i spawn guys and then it gets color how to fix that and when i spawn guys and they are on different teams they dont attack each other help please.

[@kynaxicrowd7066]

i don't find mod edit,there is tree files in the big files mow,or i buy it on steam is that normal

[@bethhewitt4093]

Hey. so i got the app started and it was working good, but i made a desktop shortcut for it and it said it was having problems. so then i deleted the shortcut and tried to do it the first way. but when i did it was gone. i couldnt find it anywhere. please help

[@GCho733]

Hello, excuse me, GEM Editor noob here. I was wondering why when I load up maps. My soldiers, as well as most guns and tanks, even some aircraft, are always glowing white. They get their colours when I distance the camera from them. Is this a problem of the GEM Editor, or my computer can't seem to handle loading them?

[@AFGuidesHD]

o_o no idea sorry. Might be something to do with your hardware

[@landonfrazier5161]

What do you do if you say for instance are on a laptop and don't have a numpad/numlock keys?

[@ingloriousjack2131]

Buy an external numpad

[@arandomci5980]

Whenever i change the teams of npcs it bugs out and i cant click them anymore and just sit there why is this happening?

[@mickcarson8504]

Hey AF, how do you make a soldier switch sides (turning into a traitor) with the enemy? I've forgotten how to do it.

[@AFGuidesHD]

not too sure, i haven't used the editor in years, shouldn't be too hard, character properties switch on a certain trigger, depending what you want the trigger to be?

[@mickcarson8504]

Thanks for the instant response. I wanted a US soldier to turn traitor and side with a German squad but only to change after it reached a waypoint. I gave it whatever script I could think of in the waypoint scripting but the US soldier still doesn't respond, instead he shoots the Germans, even though I disabled weapon mode and weapon prepare in the *Properties for "actor_state"* and in *"Properties for "selector"*. Also clicking on the US soldier and in *Properties for "human"* in F3, entity [2]. I click on 'player' to chance to no colors and the soldier will be neutral. When I click START the US soldier goes to the German squad, no shot are fired. But when I click on FINISH and then click START again, the US soldier color turns grey and as he walks towards the Germans, shots are fired between the two. I wonder why it does stay set as no color each time I choose the no color in 'player', marked as (-)'. Do you have any idea?

[@mickcarson8504]

Hey AF, I forgot to add, where have you been, since you said you haven't used the Editor for years? I've watched all your videos early last year and thought you might have a hint what I had asked. What are the character properties and where do I find them, if you don't mind asking?

[@dulceoomelon5488]

is men of war first one

[@joshc1394]

Maybe theres been an update since then but this waypoint tutorial doesnt work on my version

[@schutzegaming9059]

i cant put men into the tank cuz i cant make men mount or move around without using attack and its annoying any way to help?

[@BrickEmpireSimulator]

I have a problem.. when I press "save" error comes up it says "cant open: resource/map/single/ (name of map)" ;/

[@Noe-gj9mw]

how do u change teams? like when u click start, how u do go to control player 1 and 2 etc

[@The666CZARNY666]

It's Num 1, Num 2 and so on.

[@thediomio8253]

hey can you do video about call to arms editor tutorial

[@ScrollOYTC]

I bought the first version, Men At War: Assault Squad, on steam. So how do I access?

[@eveei]

... you go to your files.. like he said. under steam games

[@ScrollOYTC]

Brendi Oh... okay thx ;)

[@horsenuts1063]

@@eveei I cant find it

[@nazirahmed4140]

Which game this is just men of war or asssault aquad 1 or assault squad 2 or which one please tell me I want to buy this vision of game

[@AFGuidesHD]

+Nazir Ahmed original men of war

[@itsjohnny4203]

AFGuidesHD do assault and assault 2 also have it?

[@yognut72]

which game is this I get it's men of war but is it like assault squad 2? assault squad, vietnam

[@AFGuidesHD]

Nev v its MOW 1/ MOW original/ Men of War.... the first MOW.

[@jacobrispoli4351]

I made one group player one and one group player 0, and they won't fight. How can I change the friendliness of teams so the two groups will fight?

[@AFGuidesHD]

im sure i mention it in this video, but you can change the units faction at the top of the bar on the right hand side when you click on them, from yellow to red etc.

[@jacobrispoli4351]

@@AFGuidesHD Yes. I figured out the issue. It was the diplomacy between the factions I was having issues with. Either side showed up as grey to the other. What I get for editing a combat multiplayer mission. I found it in another video, but if anyone else sees this comment while in F3 you can press F9 and change the diplomacy of units.

[@arbitercs]

Men of war assault squad? Or is this? MOWAS2? Or just the normal Mow.

[@AFGuidesHD]

+Ralph Rblx this is normal mow

[@mineshaft12]

but it's working for mowas 2

[@igoralekseyev3347]

For some reason, when I select "Load" for a map it doesn't bring up any options... any advice?

[@AFGuidesHD]

is this on men of war? Im not really sure why that would happen

[@GiraffeFeatures]

I have this same issue. With the battle of empires - there are no maps when I try to load one?

[@AFGuidesHD]

GiraffeFeatures yeah on BoE there are no maps by default for some reason so you need to add them yourself maybe by porting them from other MOW games but heres a thread about it steamcommunity.com/app/316430/discussions/0/626329186886695985/

[@UserName-ju1vd]

Hello there, please can you help me because I dont have a keyboard with a numpad and holding c z or a doesnt do anything.