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Mapmaking Help?

Postby Tribalbob » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:23 am

So i decided to try and make a custom map. unpacked the .dat, edited all the bmps in data/earth (except the AI nodes one), and then went back to winrar and re-rar'd it, renamed it to main.dat

I tried to run defcon via steam, and it gave me an error

"Text File Contains Line With More Than 65536 Characters"

and

"Runtime Error!
.../steamapps/common/defcon.exe
abnormal program termination"

what did I do wrong?
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Postby LordSturm » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:27 am

Just leave it un rared, the game will default to using the unrared files before resorting to main.dat for replacement.
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Re: Mapmaking Help?

Postby Montyphy » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:28 am

Tribalbob wrote:what did I do wrong?


You tried to rar it all back together. just leave it all in the data folder as is.
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Re: Mapmaking Help?

Postby xander » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:33 am

Tribalbob wrote:So i decided to try and make a custom map. unpacked the .dat, edited all the bmps in data/earth (except the AI nodes one), and then went back to winrar and re-rar'd it, renamed it to main.dat

I tried to run defcon via steam, and it gave me an error

"Text File Contains Line With More Than 65536 Characters"

and

"Runtime Error!
.../steamapps/common/defcon.exe
abnormal program termination"

what did I do wrong?

First off, don't rerar. Just put the files in a directory called data/ . See if that works... Also, you might want to check your line termination character. I am not sure what it should be or what it is, but I do know that I have had a lot of trouble with similar problems in the past. If your lines are not being terminated properly, then the entire document could appear to be on one very long line, at least as far as the Defcon is concerned.

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Postby Tribalbob » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:40 am

ok, now it says "node route size mismatch"

is the node map supposed to be the same pixel size as the others? because when I unrared them, most came out one size, but the node map was 600x400
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Postby Spacemonkey » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:42 am

Tribalbob wrote:ok, now it says "node route size mismatch"


Thats because you didn't edit the AI nodes map, it has to be changed so the nodes are all in water
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Postby Tribalbob » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:03 am

nah, just edited it. no change. also resized the travel node.bmp so it was the same length/width as the rest of the images. no change.
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