Playing custom maps?

[Taboen]

You can already find 3 new custom maps in this forum for UT3:)
The problem seems to be, how do you play them offline, where to put them?

EDIT:
Right! I figured out a different, easier way.
It really is this folder:
C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSLOGINNAME\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps

But it doesn't actually automatically make this folder, only if you've made your own map once in the editor. If you simply make this folder yourself it works :)

[karmatized]

actually you put the maps here

C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSLOGINNAME\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps

[Taboen]

actually you put the maps here

C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSLOGINNAME\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps

Hmm, I will try but there is no folder called Published in UTgame, do I have to make it myself? And do they appear in the maplist without .ini then?

[karmatized]

yes the ini file is made by the game when you run the map the first time

[Taboen]

So what do I do, make a new folder and sub-folder and sub-folder till I have Published\CookedPC\Maps and put them all there?

[karmatized]

oh wait let me ask a question, u running vista or xp, cus that link i have you is the vista way, i dont know the xp way

[Taboen]

I run XP lol. :D

[Caravaggio]

One of the things I loved about ut2004 is that in he ut2004.ini there's a part that lists all the paths: paths .../maps, music, textures, etc. Isn't there still a way to add new paths? I'll be kind of upset if there's not because in 2004 I liked to make new folders and keep all custom models in one directory, the default stuff in it's own directory and custom maps in a third for each. It just made it a lot easier to uninstall something when I needed the space or didn't want it anymore.

[lem06]

well i have vista and i don't have this dir either :

C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSLOGINNAME\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps

[Taboen]

well i have vista and i don't have this dir either :

C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSLOGINNAME\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps

Yes, I figured it out now, see topic.

[Taboen]

One of the things I loved about ut2004 is that in he ut2004.ini there's a part that lists all the paths: paths .../maps, music, textures, etc. Isn't there still a way to add new paths? I'll be kind of upset if there's not because in 2004 I liked to make new folders and keep all custom models in one directory, the default stuff in it's own directory and custom maps in a third for each. It just made it a lot easier to uninstall something when I needed the space or didn't want it anymore.

In UT3 this is automatically 2 different folders. C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\CookedPC\Maps for all standard maps and C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSLOGINNAME\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps for all custom maps. Now all I want is a way to change the custom map folder to a place I really want them, and that might be possible in a .ini

[lem06]

ok i did all that and still no go, so i did some investagating on my pc and found this:

Warning: Failed to load 'C:\Users\Lem\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3 Demo\UTGame\published\CookedPC\Maps\DM-Sky-Arena.ut3': Unable to load package (C:\Users\Lem\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3 Demo\UTGame\published\CookedPC\Maps\DM-Sky-Arena.ut3) as it was saved with an engine version newer than the current one. CurrEngineVersion: 3464 VersionSavedWith: 3487

what that all about? i thought all the demo's was the same version... :confused:

[Jasiek]

Thanks for the tip, my level works in the game:cool:

[VladTheInhaler]

EDIT: too much inhaling on my part, I gots it now.

[Taboen]

ok i did all that and still no go, so i did some investagating on my pc and found this:

Warning: Failed to load 'C:\Users\Lem\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3 Demo\UTGame\published\CookedPC\Maps\DM-Sky-Arena.ut3': Unable to load package (C:\Users\Lem\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3 Demo\UTGame\published\CookedPC\Maps\DM-Sky-Arena.ut3) as it was saved with an engine version newer than the current one. CurrEngineVersion: 3464 VersionSavedWith: 3487

what that all about? i thought all the demo's was the same version... :confused:

This map is made for the full version not demo ^^

[ut2004t100]

i made and saved a custom map but cannot play it in the game, only the editor preview.
Any suggestions?

[VACkillers]

im having some real trouble with this aswell.... i dont have the "'C:\Users\Lem\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3 Demo\UTGame\published\CookedPC\Maps.

Whats there instead is CustomMaps folder.... for which i've extracted the custome map files too, and still doesn't show up in the retail game. I've also tried creating a folder just called "Maps" and still doesn't show up in game. I extracted just the files and copied them to both dir. still didn't show up, and i tried extracting the custom map folders aswell into the maps and customMaps folder and STILL doesn't show up in game. Any help would be apreciated and im running WinXP.

[SkrU]

did you try opening the map in the command line?

[VACkillers]

how do you do that?