my homemade map wont work

[hsnow]

i did everything as i was told to but when i try to use it ingame i get an error

[epsy]

well, could you be more precise in your message...like, what was the error message ? without anything we can't help you

[hsnow]

well, could you be more precise in your message...like, what was the error message ? without anything we can't help you

ok then ill get a screenshot of what happens

[philippeqc]

H hsnow and welcome to the forums!

What OS/distribution do you use?
Where did you save your copy of the map?
Did you verify that the name in the config file and the file name are the same?

It seems that the game cannot find your map, and so is attempting to download it from the net, in the form of our ressource repository.

-ph

[hsnow]

Windows Vista Home Premium
recource\included\hsnow\fortress\lmao-1.0.1.aamap.xml
yea they are the exact same

[Z-Man]

Windows Vista Home Premium
recource\included\hsnow\fortress\lmao-1.0.1.aamap.xml
yea they are the exact same

The screenshot suggests you put MAP_FILE to ...pwnage-1.0.0.., you'll need to set it to hsnow\fortress\lmao-1.0.1.aamap.xml.

Side question: don't we have a better place for user-installed resources? Neither automatic nor included sounds right to me.

[wrtlprnft]

Windows Vista Home Premium
recource\included\hsnow\fortress\lmao-1.0.1.aamap.xml
yea they are the exact same

The screenshot suggests you put MAP_FILE to ...pwnage-1.0.0.., you'll need to set it to hsnow\fortress\lmao-1.0.1.aamap.xml.

What about those backslashes? AFAIK they ought to be normal slashes (/) even on windows as they're part of an URI in the resource system.

Side question: don't we have a better place for user-installed resources? Neither automatic nor included sounds right to me.

Have a look at the new About screen on the trunk. It lists ~/.armagetronad/resource as a resource dir, and I think luke once said that you're supposed to put custom resources in there, not in included/ or automatic/.
/me wonders what happens to map authors whose name is “included” or “automatic”.

[philippeqc]

What about those backslashes? AFAIK they ought to be normal slashes (/) even on windows as they're part of an URI in the resource system.

IIRC, the game translate the URI into the local format.

(snip) ~/.armagetronad/resource (...snip...) to put custom resources in there
/me wonders what happens to map authors whose name is “included” or “automatic”.

I'd guess: ~/.armagetronad/resource/[author name]/[the rest]

IIRC, the resource mecanism search 3 locations : included, installed and automatic, in about that order. That included and automatic share the same base path doesn't affect anything.

Of course, this is all info pulled from lost memories of code I did not write. Reality might differ.

/ph

[wrtlprnft]

it checks $userresourcedir/, $resourcedir, $resourcedir/included, $userresourcedir/automatic, in that order.

I was talking about some file path like “$userresourcedir/automatic/blah/map-1.aamap.xml” being ambiguous: either it's “automatic/blah/map-1.aamap.xml” in $userresourcedir or “blah/map-1.aamap.xml” in $userresourcedir/automatic.