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Mar|o - Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:34 pm
Post subject: Need help putting maps in

Whenever i put a map in for a subarena it changes the public map also. I have no clue how to fix this. Plz help if u know how to

Cyan~Fire - Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:18 pm
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The map should be named after the arena. That is, "test.lvl" for ?go test.

Assassin2684 - Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:21 pm
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Ok if you havent already done this and need to create your own server.cfg for your subarena. Lets say its called "test". So you will call it Test.cfg and leave you pub map and server.cfg in the same folder as well. Rememberyou will still need to have your origanal server.cfg and test.cfg so your pub and subarena will work. Ok now in your server.ini under custom there will be a option called: ArenaMode. Change this option to 5 so it will be ArenaMode=5. That should be about it. If this doesent work then you might be doing somthign wroung.

Mar|o - Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:08 pm
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Thats probobly the problem, i didnt make a seperate cfg for the subarena

Cyan~Fire - Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:45 pm
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You don't need a separate cfg to have an arena with a different map.

Purge - Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:48 pm
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Yeah, as long as ArenaMod doesn't =0, I guess.

Mar|o - Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:45 pm
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my arenamode=0 i changed that now it works ty

Purge - Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:12 pm
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So the ArenaMode was the problem? Glad to hear it.

Mar|o - Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:55 pm
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Ok that worked...for a while..now everytime i do a ?setlevel it will always not recieve the correct file e.g.
If i typed ?setlevel Test.lvl
it wud say file recieved warpraceduel.lv and it wouldnt have the last l on the lvl?!?!?!?! i have no clue why it's doing this!!
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Anonymous - Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:19 pm
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i dont understand, but i think your mapname is too long, so why dont you just make it shorter?

Purge - Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:37 pm
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I doubt name length is the case, here.

Assassin2684 - Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:46 pm
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Ya because i have a big map name before and it always worked.

Purge - Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:51 pm
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Mar|o wrote:

You can try and reextract the server files and see if that works. I've never had a problem this complexed.

Muskrat - Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:09 pm
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It happened to me once, then I realised that ?setlevel sucks, and I havent used it since.

Maverick - Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:34 am
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Muskrat wrote:

It happened to me once, then I realised that ?setlevel sucks, and I havent used it since.

Isn't it almost the same as *putfile with extra security measures for arena owners?

50% Packetloss - Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:29 am
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*putfile is a sysop command. ?setlevel is a arena-owner command. So if you are a sysop, then you don't need to use the ?setlevel command. Plus I think the problem might be that you are naming your files either long names or your server is unable to over-write the map file. Make sure it isnt protected in any way by the OS (attrib). The *putfile command can upload all files except executables (dlls, exe, ect). The ?setlevel only uploads lvl files. Make sure, when you use either command, that you have the file you wish to upload in your continuum directory.

Mar|o - Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:48 pm
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OK well, now i can set other maps in for some crazy reason, but I still cant fix the level that it was messing up on. So we just dropped that arena and renamed it. Somehow that problem was fixed.

xrestassuredx - Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:59 pm
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If you use ?setlevel newmapname.lvl in a subarena, the map will automatically be renamed to arenaname.lvl .. that's how the arena maps are found on the server. The arena for main pub will always be renamed to whatever the value of misc:defaultlevelfile is in server.ini.

So, having the map name cut off might be a problem with the length of the arena name, not the map file name.

I just did a test, and uploading to an arena name of more than 12 letters (?setlevel test.lvl in ?go longarenanametest) does cause the name of the received file to be truncated. I also tried creating longarenanametest.lvl locally and uploading it with *putfile, but that was truncated also. Finally, I just put longarenanametest.lvl in the server folder, but it was not found when I went to that subarena. Further, the cfg file created was truncated as well.

An arena with a 12-letter name (such as warpraceduel) works for the cfg file, but not for the map file, again no matter how I tried to make it recognized. I would guess that 11 letters is probably the limit on how long you can make an arena name and still get it to work.