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

[ulius]

Originally Posted by megawidget

Now that we're filled we have to pick a map.
I propose we use the Land of Ethereal Squirrels:

I like the look of the map but I just tested it and I was placed in the lake province in the middle as Atlantis. That wouldn't be very ... convenient for me if it happened in our game. Any suggestions?

[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.

[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 ulius

I like the look of the map but I just tested it and I was placed in the lake province in the middle as Atlantis. That wouldn't be very ... convenient for me if it happened in our game. Any suggestions?

Haha!
Complain here if that happens and we'll restart.

[ulius]

Atlantis, Emergence of The Deep Ones, it is.
They ... will ... emerge.

[ulius]

As it turned out I won't have the time this night to create a new pretender. So I'll just resubmit and go with Atlantis. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Procyon Lotor]

Eek! I'm loading I'm loading!

[shard]

Did you manage to load your pretender properly?

Its pretty straightforward, just follow the instructions in the link provided below....
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=35160

Oops - Megawidget already posted the link on the first page so nvm...

[megawidget]

Originally Posted by Procyon Lotor

Eek! I'm loading I'm loading!

Are you having technical issues? Note that both CBM1.92 and Streamers & Standards are required, even though I don't see what effective difference the latter would make as it's cosmetic flag changes only.