MP Game - Yarnspinners

Tuidjy · #1 August 23rd, 2004, 04:27 AM

It may be a good idea to make the time between hosting a
factor of 168 hours. That way, the hosting would happen
at the same time of the week.

Zapmeister · #2 August 23rd, 2004, 08:40 PM

The game is about to start. I've settled on a turnaround time of 84 hours, which is exactly 2 turns per week. Yarns should be posted here, and are due at the same time as each turn. I'll maintain a running total of yarn points in the first post of this thread.

Note that the map is Zen's modified Cradle map, which may be downloaded from http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip if you don't already have it. The map and tga files must be renamed to cradlez14.map and cradlez14.tga respectively.

Edit: Actually, I think that the link above only gets you the .map file. The .tga is the same file as for the regular Cradle map, which can be copied and renamed cradlez14.tga

Good luck everybody.

YellowCactus · #3 August 23rd, 2004, 09:35 PM

Um....
What's a file? That's something chicks do they're finger-tips with....right?
Okay, I'm not all that computer illeritit. But I'm going to need some help with this one. I have the zen_cradle map downloaded. Now, should I move it into the yarnspinner game folder? (and change it's name to cradlez14.map) And then move the regular Cradle map to Yarnspinners and change it's name to cradlez14.tga)
Because if that's what I need to do....it's not working...

Please Help....Simple is good!
-Yc

Zapmeister · #4 August 23rd, 2004, 09:48 PM

No. Firstly, you need to get the original Cradle package (2 files, zipped in cradle.zip) from http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/maps.html and unpack it into the maps subfolder in your dom2 folder. Rename the .tga file to cradlez14.tga. Then replace the .map file with the Version you got from Zen's site, and rename it to cradlez14.map

Get back to me if you still can't make it work.

Cainehill · #5 August 23rd, 2004, 10:09 PM

Cradle is for ... 8-12, I believe? Would an eleventh be too many, in which case, I'll offer to share the fifth.

YellowCactus · #6 August 23rd, 2004, 10:17 PM

Can't....make ....file thingie do that thingie.....
Must stop trying to get tga file thingie to load...
-Yc
I can sit this one out if the files don't load.
I downloaded cradle (original into map and changed it's name.
I downloaded Zen and changed the mapfile name.
They're both in the maps folder
I took all the porn off my computer....
And the dang thing still doesn't go!

Zapmeister · #7 August 23rd, 2004, 11:03 PM

Quote:

YellowCactus said:
Can't....make ....file thingie do that thingie.....
Must stop trying to get tga file thingie to load...
-Yc
I can sit this one out if the files don't load.
I downloaded cradle (original into map and changed it's name.
I downloaded Zen and changed the mapfile name.
They're both in the maps folder
I took all the porn off my computer....
And the dang thing still doesn't go!

Hmmm. When you unpacked the .zip from Illwinter, you had a cradle.map file and a cradle.tga, right? The cradle.tga became cradlez14.tga, and the cradle.map was overwritten with Zen's file, and became cradlez14.map, right?

When you try to open your turnfile, do you get an error saying something like "Can't open cradlez14.tga" or "Can't open cradlez14.map" ? Or something else (like just "Nagot Gick Fel") ?

Cainehill · #8 August 23rd, 2004, 11:13 PM

Quote:

YellowCactus said:
Can't....make ....file thingie do that thingie.....
Must stop trying to get tga file thingie to load...
-Yc
I can sit this one out if the files don't load.
I downloaded cradle (original into map and changed it's name.
I downloaded Zen and changed the mapfile name.
They're both in the maps folder
I took all the porn off my computer....
And the dang thing still doesn't go!

You took the porn off??? That's your problem! After all the months of Online time, the millions of lira, it brings very bad fortune to simply delete it.

Do you now have a cradlez14.map and cradlez14.tga file in your (hypothetical) "C:\program files\dominions2\maps" directory? And check the contents of the cradlez14.map to make sure the "#imagefile" entry line also says cradlez14.tga

Hope this helps.

Zapmeister · #9 August 23rd, 2004, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Cainehill said:

Quote:

YellowCactus said:
Can't....make ....file thingie do that thingie.....
Must stop trying to get tga file thingie to load...
-Yc
I can sit this one out if the files don't load.
I downloaded cradle (original into map and changed it's name.
I downloaded Zen and changed the mapfile name.
They're both in the maps folder
I took all the porn off my computer....
And the dang thing still doesn't go!

And check the contents of the cradlez14.map to make sure the "#imagefile" entry line also says cradlez14.tga

Aha, of course! That will be the problem. Thanks, Cainehill!

Tuidjy · #10 August 23rd, 2004, 11:26 PM

Yellowcactus, you are uncompressing the files first, right?

Hey, I just realized something! Even if you follow Zapmeister's instructions to
the letter, you will still not be able to create new games with the cradle map
on your PC. Do not worry about that. The point is to be able to play the
Yarnspinners game on Mosehansen, right? Do this:

1. Download cradle.zip from http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/maps.html
2. Download http://www.techno-mage.com/~zen/zencradle.zip
3. Extract cradle.map from cradle.zip into [your dom2 dir]\maps
4. Rename cradle.tga to cradlez14.tga
5. Extract zencradlev14.map from zencradle.zip into [your dom2 dir]\maps
6. Rename zencradlev14.map to cradlez14.map
7. Change the line "#imagefile cradle.tga" to "#imagefile cradlez14.tga"
8. Connect to mosehansen.dk, port 2292.
9. If you get booted, come here and tell me I don't know what I am talking about