Now, when you paint, there is that bar to the right, and texture painting options should be open. Select detail texture mode and then select detail mode. Then paint. After that, you select colour texture mode and then select the color mode. You shouldn't have those weird colours showing up anymore.

There is also something about merging, but Benu could help you with that. It's not important for now I believe.

That's how I think I do it, but I need the editor open to be sure. Anyway, try that and see if it works. And I can't help you with the crashing problem. Sorry.

I have followed every tutorial and help thread on the that i can find (including the two STICKY threads on here). I'm on Vista 32-bit with UAC off. I have BF2, BF2142 and First Strike all playable and working perfectly with all the latest patches. BF2 Editor works for the most part. It still crashes every time I exit, and loses data when I reopen things (like what my detail and color textures were the last time I saved). As you can see, I can paint color textures fine, but not detail textures. I don't know what is wrong. I have also tries using tpaint. It doesn't seem to do anything.

Things work fine when I work with the BF2 mod, but, (as here) I cannot paint textures correctly while working with the First Strike mod.

I don't know where textures are in the mods directory (if they are even there), or even where the BF2 Editor looks to get the textures. If someone could tell me where I could find all of the textures in my directory, I may be able to solve this. There is a possibility I missed some critical points while integrating First Strike with the BF2 Editor. What I did do: I copied the mods/FirstStrike folder from 2142 to BF2. Then I unzipped the object, common, staticobjects, etc. correctly. I ran the editor in XP compatibility mode.

Safe-Keeper wrote:

Why is all my layer one terrain suddenly really bright (as if the sun was shining right at it), regardlessly of where on the map it is? This only affects layer one (rocky terrain, not that it matters, I guess), but nothing else.

I don't know if you've solved this problem yet or not Safe-Keeper so I'll just give the most typical solution to this type of problem.

Make sure that you are in "Detail Mode" while painting.  With "Both" selected as the Paint Mode and either the "Texture" or "Color" box selected.  Select "Texture" if you want to paint with the "ColorTexture" from the Tweak bar.  Select "Color" if you want to paint with the "Color" from the Tweak bar.  This is assuming that you are painting using the editor. 

Finally, after you're done laying down your layers make sure to click on Set Low Detail Texture then Generate Low Detailmap in the Texture box on the right side of the editor.  Then save.

OMG, Thank you so much. I spent two hours trying to figure out why I was clicking to paint textures and nothing was happening. I just had to select like two buttons...

*and with possible, I mean of course 'practical without a huge amount of struggle and headache'.

EDIT: Seems there's a couple more steps required, but I found this tutorial and updated Post 1 in this thread based on it.

GL