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Category:	CoD 4 Level Design CoD 4 mapping and level design.
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Topic: HOW TO RUN MAPS ON SERVERS!! AND USE DOWNLOADER

COLMAC

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 11:32 pm
ok if you say so but ....... go to IP 63.211.221.82:28960 this is a ranked mod it run the same as stock in every way the mod is in a usermaps folder in cod4 cod4/usermaps ok now try 8.6.9.172:28960 this is a modded server allweapons has modwarfare.iwd in the mods folder the usermaps are in the main cod4/main/usermaps this is the only way it will work have tryed 50 ways and have 10 hours on it bash me if you want i have owned servers for years i try to make it as simple as poss. maybe you should start beginner tut how to make mods ,you may go to the iw and read the 50 ways to mess up your game or read though here where the older mappers hang out i have been new before and i know how hard it can be read carefully every letter means something in modding caps can kill you if it says Mods you put mods it can go bad from my server co Quote: Custom maps go in the /main directory then you have to setup your map rotate config.

Treckie

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 12:46 am
Ok I had this problem when I went to downoad a test map off the server server. After working through it for 3 hrs I came to this conclusion. 1) You can not have your custom map sitting in cod4/zone/english and the cod4/usermaps/mp_yourmap at the same time. If I did this I could not download the map. 2) For some reason the server would look in the cod4/zone/english folder for the map first and if it finds it, it would not read it in the cod4/usermaps/mp_youmap folder. 3) Make sure you match (have the same structure) as the cod4/usermaps/mp_yourmap on both the www and the gaming server. 4) Make your config setting a. // HTTP / Downloading (For use with Custom Maps and Mods) b. set sv_allowdownload "1" c. seta sv_wwwDownload "1" d. seta sv_wwwBaseURL "http://www.yourwebsite.com/cod4/" e. seta sv_wwwDlDisconnected "0" This worked for me. I did not put my custom map in the cod4/zone/english folder I only put it in my cod4/usermaps/mp_mymap folder I hope this helps some people.

Nemo06c

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 08:14 am
Server side ( online and local ): All maps go in a usermaps folder that you have to create, everyone know that. Where some make errors is that they create the usermaps folder as a subfolder in a folder. The usermaps ffolder goes in the root of the game: Example: CoD4\usermaps What do you add in this folder? another folder named according to the map name and inside this folder, only the .ff files. Example: CoD4\usermaps\mp_mapname\mp_mapname.ff & mp_mapname_load.ff In order to run custom maps, you MUST run a mods. No matter what mods ( modwarfare, ACE, AWE, eXtreme, etc...) So, if a iwd file is provide with the map, the iwd goes in the mods folder. Example: CoD4\Mods\ModWarfare\mp_mapname.iwd <= No subfolder Now, to run the map, in local, to check the map, run the game, click on mods, select ModWarfare, type /map map_name. If a mapper tell you to add the iwd at the same place of the .ff files or the map will not run, its because the iwd is BADLY done. -------------------------------------- HTTP Redirect: If you run custom maps on your server, it is better to setup a http redirection or your players will download the maps at a very low speed, like 5kbs. The http redirect can be create in your own web site hosting ( better speed ). In your web site ftp, create a CoD4 folder; In the CoD4 folder, create 2 subfolders: - mods; - usermaps. Example: http://yoursite.com/CoD4/mods [url=http://yoursite.com/CoD4/usermaps]http://yoursite.com/CoD4/usermaps When done, you add the files you need: http://yoursite.com/CoD4/mods/mod.ff and all the iwd from the maps. http://yoursite.com/CoD4/usermaps/mp_mapname/ mp_mapname.ff and mapname_load.ff ( you create a folder for each map you add ) It must me the exact same name and files as the one you got in your server files ( above ). The config for the redirect is: set sv_allowdownload "1" seta sv_wwwDownload "1" seta sv_wwwBaseURL "http://yoursite.com/CoD4" <= No www. and no / at the end. seta sv_wwwDlDisconnected "0" <= leave it at 0 or players will be disconnected while downloading. ------------------------------------- This is HOW IT WORKS. Now if you run different mods, just adapted the addresses, the folderss, etc... according to your mods.

jackc1990

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 08:51 am
Nemo06c writes... Quote: map, in local, to check the map, run the game, click on mods, select ModWarfare, type /map map_name. As soon as I do this the game crashes with the error "could not load loadscreen_mp_iced Then when I remove that it says the same about the minimap. The images work fine on my computer when running from the raw folders etc, just not when packaged together. Urgh, why won't it load images, it makes no sense. edited on Jan. 30, 2008 08:53 am by jackc1990

Nemo06c

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 08:58 am
Hard to tell because I can't see the files. But one thing for sure, if you got this error its because the iwd was not done correctly.

jackc1990

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008 09:01 am
My .iwd is as follows: images > compass_map_mp_iced.iwi loadscreen_mp_iced.iwi mp > mp_iced.arena I even tried adding the files in MATERIALS folder but with no avail. I must have made the actual images correctly otherwise they would run on mine through the source files, surely. I launch his game, mods, load in modwarfare and then in the console I type "map mp_iced" and then it just crashes. (on the other computer this is, as I said, on mine, it loads in just fine) edited on Jan. 30, 2008 09:03 am by jackc1990

StrYdeR

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008 11:09 pm
colmacs method is the correct way to do it....it works
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pooranimator

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008 11:44 pm
i'm sure this is gonna make some of you pros angry but i'll still ask. As Nemo or COlmac is talking about "yoursite.com/.....", how can i get my website? i mean does that mean i have to get a real website or make a server on my pc? guys whatever i'm saying might not make sense to you at all coz i have no clue about servers and stuff. can i get my custom maps running for free? if not what exactly are the stuff i have to get to get the work done?

COLMAC

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Category: CoD 4 Level Design Posted: Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008 11:54 pm
BTW #1 i have maps running on a stock server ! #2 when we tryed to run iwd from the mod folder it made a folder in are game that caused a unrecoveble error to our cod4 game and may even lose your rank ! 4 people had to reinstall there games (me as well) lost my map maker and everything else. i made this post to help people and to keep this kind of thing from happing to anyone else , if you go to a differnt server that has it running from the cod4 directory( like it should be on modded servers ) ff, load ff, iwd in same usermaps folder ,after going to the mod folder style it will crash your pc game! running in the main is a way to run stock server maps but i beleave the next patch will fix this issue ,so that everyone can run there maps as they should be cod4/usermaps, always try this first before you start putting maps in 2 differnt places ,any mapper thats been around will tell you this , it may be as Nemo06c said you iwd may be done with error's #3 mappers should be able to make and add gsc to there maps in the ff files ! exmp(village has it built in to 1 ff file with rain) there for you would not need iwd! #4 so you know where to find your gsc to build in your maps c/activision/cod4/raw/maps.........just make a gsc for your maps and edit it for your fx,efx, before you compile edited on Jan. 31, 2008 11:58 pm by COLMAC edited on Feb. 1, 2008 12:07 am by COLMAC