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Media => Mapping Center => Topic started by: The Dark Knight on September 18, 2007, 02:23:15 pm

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: The Dark Knight on September 18, 2007, 02:23:15 pm

hello all =)
I recently downloaded the beer garden map pack, and it said to unzip it to the base folder (??) which I assumed was referring to the tremulous folder. anyhow, I have them all in the folder, but i can't make it work. if anyone here can give instructions for how to download tremulous maps properly(for Ubuntu Linux please!) I would be eternally grateful. :D

or if theres already a guide for "How to successfully install tremulous maps" somewhere on the forums, just post the link here please.

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: Caveman on September 18, 2007, 07:19:13 pm

"base" is in the folder you installed Tremulous to.

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: E-Mxp on September 18, 2007, 10:01:27 pm

Just place all the .pk3's in the Tremulous/base folder and you should be ready to go!

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: The Dark Knight on September 20, 2007, 06:52:04 pm

I moved them all into the .tremulous folder, but it's still not working >_<
I know it's asking a lot, but could someone be so kind as to publish "A retards  step by step guide to installing downloaded maps for ubuntu" complete with screenshots? I know I'm making a mistake somewhere..

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: doomagent13 on September 20, 2007, 10:26:28 pm

1.  Start trem.
2.  Open the console.
3.  Type: "cl_allowDownload 1".
4.  Type: "cl_wwwDownload 1".
5.  Connect to a server with custom maps.

NOTE:
Step 4 requires you to have a non-official client.

Title: Ha! finally figured it out!
Post by: The Dark Knight on September 24, 2007, 03:37:59 pm

Thanks doomagent! that worked...slowly. it showed me where the base folder was, so I downloaded the rest of the maps manually. thanks for the help all!

so, for any n00bs like myself who are tired of getting kicked off of servers when they move to nonstandard maps, here are the instructions for making downloaded maps work.

You can use doomagent's method, but it takes FOREVER. I'm serious. the map changed to ATCSZALPHA, and it started an automatic download, but by the time the map downloaded the game had already reached sudden death. so while that method will work, it is...less than optimal. You're better off doing a manual download.

you can download maps manually 1 of 2 ways. You can spend 20 minutes downloading "the beer Garden Map Pack" http://www.beer-garden.org/bg2/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=5&lid=102 which has most of the popular nonstandard maps, and should take you about 15 minutes to download on a DSL connection. or....
you can download ALL of the nonstandard maps. here;

http://trem-maps.beer-garden.org/

just search for "PK3" in the search box, and it will display all 191 nonstandard maps. So if you're planning on downloading all of them, make sure you've got plenty of time on your hands. this will take at LEAST an hour and a half.

anyhow, in windows, you'll want to download to;
My Computer ~ Program Files ~ Tremulous ~ Base

in Ubuntu, open the "Home Folder" and press "Ctrl  H" to show the hidden files. scroll down and look for the ".Tremulous" folder. Click on it, and go to the base folder.

If you download the beer garden map pack, the beer garden map pack is a bunch of .zip files inside a another .zip file. what I did was I downloaded it to my desktop, and I unzipped the file there. only unzip the main zip file. once you do that you should have 20 map files that are still zipped. leave all the maps zipped, and drag and drop them as is into the Base Folder, and you're ready to go!

If you don't have time to download all of the maps, and have a "favorite" server, or the beer garden pack doesn't have all the maps that your favorite server uses, I would suggest joining your server, picking a team, hitting "esc" selecting "Vote" clicking on "call Vote" and then select the "map" button. and you will see a listing of ALL the maps that server uses. write them all down, and then go download the ones you don't have manually. still not short, but it won't take nearly as long as downloading every single map.

If you're planning on downloading ALL the maps individually, I would suggest changing the folder you download to, instead of downloading to desktop, download directly to the base folder. it saves a step.

hopefully this was helpful.

~ The Dark Knight

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: blood2.0 on October 01, 2007, 07:20:12 am

oh i think i know what you are doing wrong! you are

putting it here (http://www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/windows-xp-tutorial/start-menu.gif)
instead of in the base folder here is an easy step by step guild to find the base folder http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=94827#94827

Title: how do you make Downoaded maps work?
Post by: The Dark Knight on October 03, 2007, 03:48:16 am

YES! thats EXACTLY what I did! but I figured it out :nods:

I love your picture btw  :D