Stupid Map Question
 

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!

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

<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

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

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

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

<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.

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

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

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

<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?

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

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

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

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

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

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... (I think anyway, havn't checked there in a while)

Re: Stupid Map Question
 

Make sure that you have the

MAPNAME.tga
MAPNAME.map

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