MP: a lEArning experience (Newbie EA CBM1.92) [in progress]

[megawidget]

Originally Posted by jotwebe

Nice, I like wraparounds.

There's a slight issue with this map on linux: the .tga file is named LandofEtherealSquirrels.tga, but the .map file has the name in lowercase. Since linux is case-sensitive I had to rename the .tga file - hopefully this won't mess with compability or something.

Where'd you get the map? Mine has both in the same camel case, and I got it here:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=713239

[jotwebe]

Originally Posted by megawidget

Where'd you get the map? Mine has both in the same camel case, and I got it here:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=713239

That's where I got it from, too (the "even more final" zip). And both the .map and the .tga are in camel-case - that's the problem, I think.
The .map file is a text file with all the data about its provinces and so on.

At the start it tells dominions where to get the image - and here's a quote from it. As you can see in the #imagefile line, it specifies it in lowercase.

-- Title and image file
#dom2title The Land of Ethereal Squirrels
#imagefile landofetherealsquirrels.tga
#domversion 175
#wraparound
#defaultmapzoom 1.00
#description "An infinite world full of ethereal beings, but primarily known of 
ethereal squirrels. This is the fixed version of 22.2.2010."

That's no problem in windows, windows ignores case. On linux however there's a difference between landofetherealsquirrels.tga and LandofEtherealSquirrels.tga, and so dominions gets told "there's no such file here, sucka". Then dominions crashes

One fix would be to change the #imagefile line in the .map file to CamelCase, but I'm a bit worried that there'd be problems when the .map files aren't exactly the same, even if there's no difference for the actual map. Maybe someone with more MP experience knows?

The fix I went for is to rename the .tga file to lowercase, which leaves the .map file completely unchanged. I don't expect the server to care about the map images, so I hope it'll be ok.

I'm a bit surprised it hasn't come up in all the time the map has been in use.

[megawidget]

Originally Posted by jotwebe

The fix I went for is to rename the .tga file to lowercase, which leaves the .map file completely unchanged. I don't expect the server to care about the map images, so I hope it'll be ok.

Good catch!
I've actually went ahead and uploaded a fixed map to llamaserver:
http://www.llamaserver.net/mapModBrowser.cgi
It's the last one there. I also removed the lake start. Will create a game in a few minutes and people will be able to upload pretenders!

[megawidget]

Game's up! Get your pretenders in and we'll start.

[jotwebe]

Sweet!

Charles Darwin is ready to lead Pangaea to victory... or extinction...

[samoht]

Dane Cook is ready to spread his frozen dominion across the world.

[megawidget]

All shout glory hallelujah! A Maizing Grace will spread his warmth across the lands.

Disclaimer: blood sacrifice may be involved.

[ulius]

[quote=megawidget;798214]

Originally Posted by jotwebe

I also removed the lake start. Will create a game in a few minutes and people will be able to upload pretenders!

Thank you good Sir, we couldn't stand being called "The Oh Not Half as Deep as I Thought Ones".

Now we're ready to really rise under the lead of the glorious ... (drumroll) ... Morda.

[Adam J]

All shall kneel before the mighty Long Wang, god of T'ien Chi!

[samoht]

I keep telling myself that one of these days I'm going to have a serious name for one of my pretenders...