(NEW!!!) Can´t see my uploaded maps in game menu...

[Hanzimann]

I am just learning about making maps. I uploaded the the map "UEF - Cities V4" and some others and i think they work. I can see they are downloaded and played by others, but i cant see my own created maps, downloaded from the vault, in the game menu. They are placed in : c:\Users\my name\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps\ and in the steam fa map folder. It have the script.lua and this is the scenario.lua:
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version = 3
ScenarioInfo = {
name = 'UEF-Cities V4',
description = '<LOC UEF-Cities_Description>4v4 - Take control of the cities in the UEF territory. Going with FA markers. This is still a testmap, this time with two map preview PNG images in the map folder, a small one on 100 pixels and a large on 256. Didnt know about that before yesterday. I am still new in map making. Hope it will work now. Please let me know. Map by Hanzimann',
type = 'skirmish',
starts = true,
preview = '',
size = {2048, 1024},
map = '/maps/UEF-Cities.v0004/UEF-Cities.scmap',
map_version = 4,
save = '/maps/UEF-Cities.v0004/UEF-Cities_save.lua',
script = '/maps/UEF-Cities.v0004/UEF-Cities_script.lua',
norushradius = 83,
Configurations = {
['standard'] = {
teams = {
{
name = 'FFA',
armies = {'ARMY_1', 'ARMY_2', 'ARMY_3', 'ARMY_4', 'ARMY_5', 'ARMY_6', 'ARMY_7', 'ARMY_8'},
},
},
customprops = {},
},
},
norushoffsetX_ARMY_1 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_1 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_2 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_2 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_3 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_3 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_4 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_4 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_5 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_5 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_6 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_6 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_7 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_7 = 0,
norushoffsetX_ARMY_8 = 0,
norushoffsetY_ARMY_8 = 0,
}

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I made two png images, one on 100 pixels and one on 256pixels and put in the map folder.
The dds file and the small png file are coming by itself or what?
Please help me !!! Wanna play my maps with my friends and hope others also think they are funny.

Thanks !

Hanzimann

[speed2]

save and scenario are missing _v4 in the name

[Hanzimann]

Okey! Shouldn't have changed the name with the new version !

Thanks again !!!

[Hanzimann]

Okey, i understand that now...made space between the words in the lua files instead of _ ! No so good for mapping when tired and stoned...

Thanks !

[speed2]

The point is not to make spaces but to get the path correctly, maybe try to look at it again when you're not high

[CookieNoob]

yea you shouldnt have changed the name for the new version since your map appears 12 times (at least) in the vault now... use the same name for the map and just change the map_version number when you upload a new version.

[Hanzimann]

I had to upload all those versions to test and understand what was wrong. It works now and i will be better not to disturb the vaults in the future with bad versions.

[CookieNoob]

my comment was not about uploading broken maps... (you should really test them locally though!)

I was talking about your incorrect use of the map version system. By renaming the map for each version, the map vault thinks that its a new map and thus it will show up as a separate map and not just a new version.

[Hanzimann]

I know i dont have to change any names for a new version, but the first version you upload in the vault should have a different name than the original map from the SC map folder to keep that for future mapping. An maybe you have made some changes in a new version with more players that you will have in the name like :"Mapname" to "Mapname 3v3". And if you change name like that, the luafiles should change names like "mapname_3v3_script.lua", "mapname_3v3_scenario.lua" and "mapname_3v3_save.lua". I dont know, but it works now when i do it like this. I could not test them locally, i had to use the vault. But its not a problem any more my noobie friend !!!

[CookieNoob]

you can test the maps locally by moving them into the map folder:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\Maps
and then just hosting a game on the map.

You can also start FAF offline for that by launching C:\ProgramData\bin\forgedalliance.exe

but yea, what you describe in your post is how the naming/versioning should be done.