The answer to all your problems.

[[LoRD]RaoulHooD]

It took me 3 hours, but I figured out why most of these problems keep occuring. You HAVE to make all your stuff into a .PK3 for the game to be able to use it. You can load your map without doing this, but if you have any music, custom textures, etc they will not load. I have no idea why but this is true, including the .arena file.

 

I just thought I would share this (seemingly) obvious bit of information with everyone. I scoured these forums looking for answers to all kinds of stuff, and found them, but the simplest things would not work... 3 hours into it and I FINALLY thought to myself "what if you have to PK3 it?" and BLAMO it worked.

 

...so now I can announce that my first map will be out later this week, I just have some testing to do...

 

I'm so happy! :D

[Vorax]

Actually, you can load custom textures and such without putting it into a .pk3, but before you load your map you must type: sv_pure 0 in the console first.

 

- Vorax

[[LoRD]RaoulHooD]

Thank you gentlemen, that is way easier than zipping it all up every time I want to check some minor detail.

 

Now the only thing left is to figure out if button operated doors are possible....

[UniKorn]

Vorax is right, but I do know what you mean, when I started to map I did the same thing, I had batfiles copying my files from 1 dir to another, after which I launched winzip, and after that I launched another batfile to test my map

 

sv_pure 0 is just a little quicker

 

UniKorn

Project Lead / Mapper 4 Wired Lamp Studios

http://www.wiredlampstudios.com

[mattcottrell]

UniKorn,

 

What commands did you put in your batch file to load the map?