Redemption FAQ If your question is not answered below, email us about it, and we'll do our best to help you out. Once we've answered your question, we'll add it to the FAQ.   General Questions: Where can I find the NOD SDK (or the 1.1 SDK patch)? How do I use the cheats?? How do I activate the console? How do I open/extract files from a .NOB file??? How do I put files back into a nob file?? My game crashes! I get a verification error when I log on to play multiplayer. Game Play: How can I identify an object? ST Mode: How do I move props to where I want them once I've placed them? The Embrace: How do I add sky to my level? GenSurf data ends up as sectors when I import GenSurf data is crashing The Embrace! Objects turn out unlit/black when I play my level When I shift+left click to select a brush, nothing happens! I'm getting "Attempted to create in static layer. Object moved to first layer." I get twinkly lines on sector boundaries in multiplayer My objects don't appear when I play my map There's a hole in the wall where my door should be! My textures appear on the outside of brushs and not the inside! How do you add a layer of water that can be walked through? NODview: ERROR: "Problem with command line parameters" Skinning: How do I get started skinning? Q: How do I use the cheats?? -- OR -- Q: How do I activate the console? Help me, I need it step-by-step! A: Step by step: no problem. I'm going to make this very basic, so if I tell you stuff you already know, forgive me. ;) The icon that you click on to start the game is called a "shortcut". It's called this because it "points" to the file that really gets run when you double click on it; all a "shortcut" really is is a file with some information about how to run *another* file. So, find this shortcut. It is either: a) on your desktop, or b) in your start menu. You need to modify one of the pieces of data in this file. The way you do that for each case above (a or b) is different: If it's on your desktop, then right-click on the icon itself, and select "Properties" on the menu that comes up. If it's on your start menu, open Windows Explorer, and browse to the \Windows\Start Menu directory. This is the directory that holds your entire Start Menu; Windows "makes" the Start Menu on the fly based on what is in this directory. So, your icon to start Vampire is probably in a folder like: \Windows\Start Menu\Program Files\Vampire - Redemption In there, you will see the one you click on to play the game. Right click on it, and select "Properties". *whew* Okay. Make sure you are on the "Shortcut" tab in this dialog box. Find a field called "Target". It should have something that ends in "Vampire.exe" in it. That is where you want to append "-console", so that the whole thing looks something like: "C:\Program Files\Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption\Vampire.exe" -console Or something like that, depending on what your folders are named on your hard drive. Once you've done that, click OK. Bingo. Now start the game. To bring up the console, press the '`' key (the one with the tilde (~) on it). You should be good to go after that. Addendum 8/22: Some people are having trouble getting the above to work. If you try this, and get an error like "path is invalid" or "filename does not exist", make sure that: a) there is a space between the "Vampire.exe" and the -console b) the path that you've typed in is valid c) you have quotes around the first part ("C:\...\Vampire.exe") Please send feedback, questions, or bugs to darklord@planetvampire.com.