[cod] Problem with map pack and custom maps

Benedikt Schmidt boomel at lhwclan.de
Sun Jun 8 03:12:29 EDT 2008


good morning,

have you already tried to simply rename the custom map carentan into 
mp_carentan1 for example?

Chris Salsberry schrieb:
> I have numerous custom maps. In my usermaps folder is a map that was
> ported over from COD2.  It is called carentan and it happens to be one
> of our favorites.  The new map pack that was included contains a new
> map called china town.  However, the map is really called carentan in
> the zone folder of the new release.  This has nothing to to with Joker
> or Ryan or anybody in the community to my knowledge.  I am under the
> impression that the map pack is the one indeed sponsored by nvidia and
> ported over from the one released to the console gamers.  What IW or
> whomever made the map pack did was basically take carentan from cod2
> and put a china town theme to it. This is not a problem, but they did
> not change the name of the .iwd or the .ff files.  so they are still
> called carentan.iwd and carenatn.ff etc.
>
> If you run a custom mapped called carentan then you have a confilct
> and the custom map (COD2 ported map) will not play now.  COD4 china
> town will only load thus not allowing for the custom map to load.  If
> you changed the name of the custom map it kills the server when you
> try to rcon it to start.  Again there is nothing wrong with the server
> and it is running strong.  It is the fact that the new map pack has a
> new map called china town, but they did not change the name to china
> town.  They kept it carentan and now if you have a map called carentan
> in your usermaps folder it will not load.  I hope that clears it up
> for you, and if you have a solution please let me and about three
> other admins I know solve this isse :--)
>
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:01 PM, River Hosting - Info
> <info at riverhosting.nl> wrote:
>   
>> I don't get what is causing the problem, I used the latest release of Joker
>> and that worked perfectly.
>> Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,
>>
>> Julian Maartens
>> River Hosting - Support
>> http://www.riverhosting.nl
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Chris Salsberry
>> To: cod at icculus.org
>> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [cod] Problem with map pack and custom maps
>> I tried that and no dice.  It just crashes the server.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jordy van Wolferen <jordzz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Maybe you can try to rename the custom map?
>>> Like rename all files and the directory to something else?
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Chris Salsberry <csalsb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Alright looking at this I have found to be one problem I believe.  The
>>>> map pack in the zone folder has china town as the mp_carentan.ff.  I
>>>> run several custom maps and one of our favorites we have is the old
>>>> caretan map from cod2.  This is an issue as now when I load carentan I
>>>> get only china town and not my beloved cod2 map.  Is there a work
>>>> around or did Inactivision and infinity ward screw the pooch on this
>>>> one?
>>>>
>>>> Elkslayer
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