Releasing a map, setting player number

[Odedge]

it may also help to give it different names, depending on what version it is... e.g. DM-Obelisk_AlphaX, BetaX, RCX, whatever. don't give it a proper final name until you know your map is totally complete. not only will this be less confusing for you and anyone who downloads the map, you may not run into as many problems.

Good advice. This is what I normally do anyways. Plus it gives you multiple copies of your map to "fall back on". Publishing your map more than once per file name shouldn't cause any issues though.

[[GOW] K1lla]

it may also help to give it different names, depending on what version it is... e.g. DM-Obelisk_AlphaX, BetaX, RCX, whatever. don't give it a proper final name until you know your map is totally complete. not only will this be less confusing for you and anyone who downloads the map, you may not run into as many problems.

[mudcrab]

It crashes before the map is published, that's a bit odd (my editor will "crash" when I close it, most of the time).

Did you try deleting the original published file? Normally, it will overwrite it.

Are you trying to publish the published version?

Nah I removed everything and when I try to publish it in the custom maps it still closes. I'm going to try it on a different computer though. I think next time I'll going to leave my maps without the extra touches and use only a single publish... Thanks for the help guys, it really means a lot!

[[GOW] K1lla]

If I try to republish my map, the entire editor stops working.

yeah, make sure you delete the old .ut3 and LOC_int.upk from the published folder first. also if you've changed anything in the map (like adding a screenshot) you'll need to rebuild all again before you cook it.

[Cr4zy]

After it crashes, check your log file

X:\Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Logs

Launch.log or Launch_2.log (it'll be the one updated last)

Usually info will sit near the end but so does a lot of useless info. If you can't understand or find anything, copy and paste the log into something like http://pastebin.com and I or maybe someone else will take a look and see if there is an obvious issue.

[Odedge]

It crashes before the map is published, that's a bit odd (my editor will "crash" when I close it, most of the time).

Did you try deleting the original published file? Normally, it will overwrite it.

Are you trying to publish the published version?

[mudcrab]

One problem after the next! If I try to republish my map, the entire editor stops working.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57057925@N08/5449806218/


I tried creating a new room and could publish that map just fine...but If I try to republish DM-Obelisk it crashes.

[[GOW] K1lla]

yes, it works.

http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/ini

[mudcrab]

anyway... if you can't find it you can create your own using notepad. just save it as DM-Obelisk.ini

Does that work? It looks like I have no choice but to try that.

[Odedge]

One last problem that I think I'll solve eventually.

After saving it into the custom maps folder I get this message:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57057925@N08/5446170168/


It can be played in UT3 but I can't open up it's LOD file because of this. Anyone know how to fix it?

It means you have 2 of the same file (that's published) in the Published folder?

The game ignores the unpublished version of your map. But this message will happen when you have more than 1 of the published map in your folders.

[[GOW] K1lla]

the .ini file should be in your published maps folder when you go to my games> unreal tournament 3> utgame > published. I may be missing one level of hierarchy here.

it looks like there are only 2 files in the Published\CookedPC\CustomMaps folder:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57057925@N08/5446868376/


anyway... if you can't find it you can create your own using notepad. just save it as DM-Obelisk.ini

[xViperAKx]

the .ini file should be in your published maps folder when you go to my games> unreal tournament 3> utgame > published. I may be missing one level of hierarchy here.

[[GOW] K1lla]

I've played the map but there's still no ini file. The reason I need to find it is so I can do the final preparations for the map such as player limits.

thats odd are you sure it's not hiding somewhere?

[mudcrab]

I've played the map but there's still no ini file. The reason I need to find it is so I can do the final preparations for the map such as player limits.

[[GOW] K1lla]

the ini will be created when the game is loaded (or you can copy and edit an existing one)