[cod] Custom Maps

[John Konings]

Yes.

I use now the FKMod in combination with AWE and 3 mappacks. Those mappacks are
+- 20MB. Works great. If I found a new custom map then I modify one of the
custom mappacks. And so you can go on. till the new patch arive ofcource :)

Rgds

Trigg3r

http://www.sz-clan.nl




Quoting "Evans, James C (N-HiTec Associates)" <james.c.evans at lmco.com>:

>
> You are actually both correct.  It doesn't have anything to do with the
> number of maps you are running.  It has to do with the length of the
> filenames.  COD2 creates an info string of all the .iwd's running on the
> server.  If this string exceeds 1024 characters in length, it will crash
> the server, or cause a iwd/sum mismatch error because the info string is
> truncated instead of being a complete listing of the files running on
> the server.  Having multiple mods and/or maps  and using the fs_game
> function compounds the problem.  I have played with this many times.
> And everytime the same thing.  When the info string exceeds 1024
> characters, bam....nothing but problems.
>
> My suggestion....combine all your custom maps and mods into 1 or 2
> .iwd's (if possible) with minumum filename lengths.  It will make your
> download a lot larger, but will remove the iwd/sum mismatch error due to
> filename lengths.
>
> Until we get a patch that will allow dvars to contain more that 1024
> characters, we will continue to see this problem.  It has been
> extensively discussed at iwnation.  So this isn't a linux only problem.
> It is a problem with the game engine itself.
>
> Regards....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Konings [mailto:trigg3r at sz-clan.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:52 AM
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Cc: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [cod] Custom Maps
>
>
> No thats not true
>
> Running 8,9 custom levels now.
>
> Have made several mappacks max.4 but works like a sharm
>
> check it out 80.69.78.163:28963
>
> :)
>
> Rgds
>
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>> There are several that will run, however you cannot run more than 4 at
>
>> a time, otherwise it will crash the server.
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>> I have running on our server:
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>> mp_industry
>> mp_borisovka
>> mp_newvillers
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>> and the two new maps released by IW. mp_rhine & mp_harbor.
>>
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>>>
>>> From: "Michelle E" <michelle_s4f at hotmail.co.uk>
>>> Date: 2006/05/02 Tue AM 08:20:10 EDT
>>> To: cod at icculus.org
>>> Subject: [cod] Custom Maps
>>>
>>> Has anyone found any custom maps that run on Linux servers...the ones
>
>>> i have tried keep crashing the servers and giving script errors...any
>
>>> help would be appricated..
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>> Michelle
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