In Max I had to shift the sunlight asset up so the station was visible in that software, I wonder if that has had an effect or something? Maybe the light position in the editor has to be shifted up too? Though I thought that light was just directional so only the angle and direction should matter, the position shouldn't matter. A strange one for sure.

There is also the possible issue of needing an additional UV channel for the lightmaps, but this wasn't mentioned in the tutorial. I think that is only needed if an asset uses a tiled texture, which I suspect the station and most of the other assets do.

[EDIT:]

Hmmmm, looks like the Freighter and containers are showing up as expected, it is just the station which is playing up (most likely means the asset needs that second set of UVs for lightmapping due to a tiled texture being used. The lighting direction is okay, but perhaps needs to be raised so more light plays across the top of the assets (or angle of light changed to make it less shallow vertically).

Now done with the 3DS Max side of the lightmapping process, so just have to suss the editor out now. When I load FS I'm still getting a:

[Console] : Couldn't open console script "common/sky/skydome/skydome.con"
[Console] : Couldn't open console script "common/sky/flare/flaresprite.con"

...message, is this normal, or is this something I need to fix?

[EDIT:]

Just loaded Mos Espa without issue, other than the fact it was missing the skybox/skydome which is most likely related to the error highlighted above. So not sure why Parmel isn't loading correctly, unless it is and I just have to figure out which way is up and then trundle upwards until the assets come into view, which is probably most likely the case. Going to be tricky to navigate without the skybox for guidance though.

Will give the file extraction another go and see if I made an error there somehow. Are you supposed to leave the ZIP/RAR files in the directory after you've extracted them or would you need to remove them for the thing to work?

[EDIT:]

Seems to be working this time, I think it was because I extracted all the files rather than just the 5 folders to be focused on the first time.

[EDIT 2:]

Hmmm, spoke too soon. When compiling FS in the editor have got two console errors. 'Couldn't open console script "common/sky/skydome/skydome.con" & "common/sky/flare/flaresprite.con"

Though that said hopefully this has got me far enough in to have a go at trying to get a map imported into 3DS Max.

EDIT: Ich sehe du bist ein Deutscher, so hilft vielleicht diese:
Du musst die "InstallDir" Parameter auf Ihre BF2142 Verzeichnis machen.. wenn du nichts, wird die DLLs nicht gefunden.

Guys, I haven't got BF2 but it's needed to install the map editor.
What should I do? (I won't buy BF2)
Can someone help me?

You just need the BF2 Registry Entry, with the install path pointed to the bf2142 directory.  The following thread shows the registry entry, and gives a file that will add it automatically if you've installed BF2142 to the default path.

http://forums.fsmod.com/viewtopic.php?id=6617

EDIT:Whoops actually took a look at the First Strike folder,and realised it was different from the Project Reality one which I was basing my original question on;)