Stupid Map Question

[Cthulu13]

This might seem to be a stupid question, but how do you get the maps on the sight to work with the game? What would I have to type in under LOAD MAP? What happens afterwards?

Thanx for replying!

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Cthulu13:
This might seem to be a stupid question, but how do you get the maps on the sight to work with the game? What would I have to type in under LOAD MAP? What happens afterwards?

Thanx for replying! <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm... assuming you're talking about the maps at Illwinter.com, the 3rd-party maps (by Tiltowait, under his real-world pseudonym) will work. But the official Illwinter-made maps will have to wait until patch 2.05 comes out - any day now, I presume.

-Cherry

[Cthulu13]

Yes, but how do you make them work? I know you have to download the map and go to the map editor, but nothing beyond that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Cthulu13:
Yes, but how do you make them work? I know you have to download the map and go to the map editor, but nothing beyond that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">To make the maps on the site work in a game does not require any use of the map editor, but instead requires that both the *.map and *.tga files be located in the "maps" directory. You can then select the map when you create a new game.

[Cthulu13]

ahhh, thanx. How do you put them in the map directory? Do they go there automatically when you download them?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Cthulu13:
ahhh, thanx. How do you put them in the map directory? Do they go there automatically when you download them? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That depends on how the zip file was created. Since they are made by Users it will be different everytime.

Do you have a particular one, or a particular site, that you are getting them from?

[Cthulu13]

At http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/maps.html

the worldwar map
valhalla
land of milk and iron, the underworld, and stygian abyss

Please reffer to my sig when giving instructions http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Thanx

[Cthulu13]

I'm still waiting.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[licker]

Well assuming you have winzip (or winrar or some other extractor) you just double click on the downloaded .zip file and you can specify the path (directoy) to which you want the compressed files (should be a .tga and a .map file) to go to.

So if you're lazy like me and installed dominions2 directly to your C: drive the path you'd want is:
C:\dominions2\maps

If that's not clear enough, or not the right answer ask again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

PS: if you don't have a compressor utility you can download them from places like www.winzip.com... (http://www.winzip.com...) (I think anyway, havn't checked there in a while)

Make sure that you have the

MAPNAME.tga
MAPNAME.map

in your Dominions2/maps directory (if you unzipped or unpacked them somewhere else)

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Cthulu13:
Yes, but how do you make them work? I know you have to download the map and go to the map editor, but nothing beyond that... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You do not need to edit the maps. They are already edited and ready. Just unzip it in the right directory and create a game.

[ January 14, 2004, 21:01: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ]

[Cthulu13]

It works!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Thx all for help!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif