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Category:	CoD 4 Scripting Scripting and coding with Call of Duty 4.
Moderators:	foyleman, rEdrUmMDK, Foxhound, Rasta, StrYdeR, The_Caretaker, batistablr, playername

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Topic: The IWD Explained

Shimm

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Saturday, Mar. 1, 2008 12:17 am
Hi All, Any chance that someone could give us all the structure and contents of the .iwd file. mp_mapname.iwd contains: mp_warzone.ff mp_Warzone_load.ff mp_warzone.iwd where mp_warzone.iwd contains: maps folder images folder maps folder contains: mp_warzone.arena mp_warzone.gsc mp_warzone_fx.gsc images folder contains: iw_loadscreen_mp_warzone.iwi or is it structured like this.... mp_warzone contains: mp_warzone.ff mp_Warzone_load.ff maps folder images folder Please Please someone take the time to draw up a nice easy little table that names the common things were all using like ambient sounds, weather sounds and effects, come on.....you know you can do it......... ;-)

COLMAC

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2008 01:16 pm
i was wondering if you could just put everything in one iwd ,would save time and make map packs as well ill try it thanks

.KiLL3R.

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2008 01:25 pm
the iwd should only have images/compass_map_mapname.iwi images/loadscreen_mapname.iwi maps/mapname.csv mp/mapname.arena if you have extra mp3 sounds (wav goes in ff file) it would be sound/blah/blah.mp3 sounds can be anywhere in the sound folder

NovemberDobby

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2008 01:25 pm
You can't put everything in one iwd. Cod4\usermaps\mapname folder contains: mp_mapname.ff mp_mapname_load.ff mp_mapname.iwd mp_mapname.ff contains the map itself, wav sounds, models, fx, scripts, etc. mp_mapname_load is auto-generated, you don't need to worry about it but you do need it. mp_mapname.iwd contains mp3's, textures, and any weapon files.

Shimm

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008 09:36 pm
thanks everybody, so what we have so far then is .... once your map is finished, and youve gone through the 5 options on the level compiling menu of radiant 4, you then copy your 2 .ff files from c:\progfiles\activision\cod4\zone\english and paste them into the folder c:\progfiles\activision\cod4\usermaps\yourmapname (folder) and then inside that folder, you make an iwd that contains these folders and their respective files... images/compass_map_mapname.iwi images/loadscreen_mapname.iwi sound/blah/blah.mp3 maps/mapname.csv mp/mapname.arena so in all you end up with 3 files in the same folder mp_mapname.ff mp_mapname_load.ff mp_mapname.iwd These 3 files are then highlighted, zipped up, and renamed into yourmap.iwd If this is correct so far, do you leave the yourmap.iwd in the folder \usermaps or does it go somewhere else? Another question, is where does yourmap.gsc go? And of course, the same for .fx? cheers

Shimm

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008 09:38 pm
oops.. and i thought i was doing so well...... images/compass_map_mapname.iwi images/loadscreen_mapname.iwi sound/blah/blah.mp3 maps/mapname.csv maps/mapname.gsc <-- oops mp/mapname.arena

SpeedHighway

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Thursday, Mar. 27, 2008 01:41 am
OI!! Okay.... The IWD may ONLY have .iwi files in it. (At least until arena files do something in this game.) Anything else will crash most servers. (Server admins are having to take many of the maps people are releasing and RE-DOING their IWD files so that they don't crash the server) Sound files do not go in the .iwd. If you have a soundalias file (which is REQUIRED to use sounds) then they will be included in the fastfile. Map CSV is included in the fastfile. Map GSC is included in the fastfile. Materials are included in the fastfile. Arena Files don't do anything currently. Image files (.iwi) go in the .iwd. (in the images folder) To answer your last question, Shimm... mp_mapname.ff mp_mapname_load.ff mp_mapname.iwd Put those three into any type of archive. Usually a zip. It doesn't matter. The game can't read it. The server admin has to open up your archive and put the .ff and .iwd files in the correct location. Zipping it up is simply to save people the hassle of downloading many files. (You should also put a readme.txt in the .zip file to help) I understand that there is a lot of conflicting information everywhere, but there's no reason to include files in the .iwd when they are already built into your fastfile. Anything included on your zone file will be added to the fastfile. That's what that file does. The only strange one is soundaliases. When the fast file packer reads the soundalias file it will automatically go find the sounds and add them to the fastfile from the location declared in the soundalias file.

NovemberDobby

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Thursday, Mar. 27, 2008 06:58 am
And the iwd also has to have any mp3's in it, and there's no problem with storing gsc's in it. (that's handy for serverside mods)

SpeedHighway

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Thursday, Mar. 27, 2008 08:41 am
The IWD file may only have .iwi files in it. This isn't an opinion, simply the way the game is coded currently to allow server admins to put all the files in the usermaps folder where they are supposed to be. I'm not sure why you would want mp3 files in the .ff because they are already in the FF, but GSC files are definitely being duplicated (and not being read) if they are put into both the IWD and the FF. The IWD will not be allowed to be in the usermaps folder if this is done. Mods may have different rules, but for maps, this is the limitation. More information can be found on the IW forums here... http://www.infinityward.com/community/forum/index.php?topic=19540.30 If this changes in 1.6, okay, but for now this is the way it must be done. edited on Mar. 27, 2008 08:45 am by SpeedHighway

NovemberDobby

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Category: CoD 4 Scripting Posted: Thursday, Mar. 27, 2008 09:01 am
Your post is confusing. >I'm not sure why you would want mp3 files in the .ff because they are already in the FF MP3 files don't and can't go in the FF, so they go in the iwd. The soundaliases for them go in the FF. Oh, and custom weapons which for some reason someone would add to their map That tutorial thingy you linked says they can have readme's too, so unless you want to turn your readme into an iwi... edited on Mar. 27, 2008 09:04 am by NovemberDobby