[cod] Problem with map pack and custom maps

[RaBBiT]

Won't work just waste a minute and contact Seven and have him rename his 
carentan map to a new name.
Rabbit
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benedikt Schmidt" <boomel at lhwclan.de>
To: <cod at icculus.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [cod] Problem with map pack and custom maps


> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> Elkslayers realm
>>>>> 206.212.243.37
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