Been looking at the map making process in the wiki, an d think I have an OK map, but have a problem.
The add map site linked above is just a placeholder with a mailto: lnk to luke. Problem being, I have no idea whether my map will work at all, and a high probability that if it works OK, it wont look quite how I imagined and need some tweaking. Hence a few rapid revisions are likely, and if I am relying on luke manually adding the maps, then this will be a pain for me and him alike!
Is there a way to add the map manually to my cache so that I can play the game locally while getting it looking roughly OK? I tried doing it by putting it where it looked reasonable, got the server to recognise the map file, but then it complains about the non existant dtd file, which I imagine is generated automagically somewhere, but I cannot find any mention of creating one manually.
On the same-ish subject, I notice that the resource directories appear to be replicated between armagetronad and armagetron-dedicated. would it be OK to create a link between the directories so that any revisions made to one are automatically carried over to the other? Or is the information in the two necessarily different?
on local maps
Tank can you split this and gnorty's post off into a new topic?
You dont need to send the map to luke for it to work. As for using a map in a local game i'll redirect you back to the wiki http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php/Playing_Maps post again if you have any trouble after that.The add map site linked above is just a placeholder with a mailto: lnk to luke. Problem being, I have no idea whether my map will work at all, and a high probability that if it works OK, it wont look quite how I imagined and need some tweaking. Hence a few rapid revisions are likely, and if I am relying on luke manually adding the maps, then this will be a pain for me and him alike!
Is there a way to add the map manually to my cache so that I can play the game locally while getting it looking roughly OK? I tried doing it by putting it where it looked reasonable, got the server to recognise the map file, but then it complains about the non existant dtd file, which I imagine is generated automagically somewhere, but I cannot find any mention of creating one manually.