Map QuickRef

Zylithan · #1 September 28th, 2007, 08:39 PM

Hrm. Gandalf - your suggestion was good, but it wasn't the problem. When I added kill features it didnt help. But, when i call

#knownfeature "Name of Feature"

it seems more reliable than calling the number. Don't ask me why. I'm just saying this is what I see.

Also, City of the Damned in Edi's excellent db is actually "The City of the Damned" or else it won't show up.

well, rock on forum members.

Some day we really need to put together a more useful how to make a mpa document than comes with the game, using our knolwegde, and various mods/utilities people have made. I'd love to help with this, but am not nearly experienced enough to do it myself.

Frostmourne27 · #2 September 28th, 2007, 10:29 PM

Well, I just finsihed a version of Orania Nasty Edition, and I got #knownfeature to work just fine. Note that known feature does not work very well if used by number. Half the time it goes nuts, and half the time nothing happens. Even using site names, there were one or two sites I couldn't get to wrok no matter how hard I tried, but most worked ok. Auger Elder Place isn't a valid site, according to the DB, so that shouldn't work. AFAIK, you can't add new sites to a map, you need to do that in a mod. City of the Damned is unique, but that a shouldn't matter if you place them yourslef.

Zylithan · #3 September 28th, 2007, 10:43 PM

Frost - yeah, because it was a comment, the misspelling was not a problem. i spelled it correctly when i called the sites by name. but yeah, i found what you just said... that calling by names works better than numbers. City of the damned isnt unique based on Edi's db, but i dont know. But it wont show up at all unless you call it THE City of the damned, which isnt in the db. (i found this out by calling it by number)

calling by name, i have had no problems.

so i guess thats the solution.
bummer about not adding sites without a mod, but oh well.

Edi · #4 September 29th, 2007, 04:34 AM

I have never had any problems calling specific sites by number, either with #knownfeature or #feature. However, if you have a lot of #knownfeature commands (as in if you try to put all sites into a map using #knownfeature) it craps out somewhere after 500 sites, but I don't remember exactly where. A little bit before Merman village, I think. If you change half the #knownfeature commands to #feature, there will be no problem.

Gandalf Parker · #5 September 29th, 2007, 04:13 PM

If I remember, the DOS versions of a .map file can have problems if you have a space after the end of the last item?