First off I must say THANK YOU to Foyleman! Because of your tutorials I am no longer sitting here scratching my head and wondering how the heck to use the map editor. Now on to the question.

This may be an extreme noob question but, I have not mapped since Doom2.

I have made a deathmatch map that I would like to compile and play online with a friend. It compiles just fine no errors etc. However it doesn't show up under the list of maps to create a server with. I have noticed that the DM maps I have downloaded were in Pk4 format, which is pretty much just a zip file. I cannot find anywhere in the editor to export the map to Pk4. I zipped up the map files and renamed it to a pk4 but that didn't work. How do I get this map to work as a DM map? It has DM spawn points etc. what do I do?

thanks for the kudos.

I wasn't ignoring your post, I was actually trying to figure it out your answer. I have most of it, but not all....

to get your map to show up you need to do a bunch of things. Let's say your map is named yourmap.map. my folder reference will be out of the base directory for the game...

- put yourmap.map and the compiled parts in the game/mp folder
- create the directory def.
- place in it a new file (created in notepad) called yourmap.def
- add to yourmap.def the following:
mapDef game/mp/yourmap {
"name" "yourmap"
"devname" "Your Map"
"Deathmatch" "1"
"Team DM" "1"
"Last Man" "1"
"Tourney" "1"
"singleplayer" "1"
"size0" "241381796"
"size1" "241381796"
"size2" "360373649"
"size3" "509824838"
}
I don't know what the sizes refer to so just leave them the same. The map types, including singleplayer, are equal to 1 if the map is made for that gametype. you should just delete the gametype if it is not equal to 1.

- create the folder guis/assets/splash
- place in it a 24 bit tga file of your map for viewing in the map selection screen. size the tga to 640 x 480
- create the folder guis/map
- place in it a text file named yourmap.gui
the file should look something like this:

windowDef Desktop
{
menugui 1
nocursor 1
rect 0,0,640,480
windowDef BackgroundImage
{
rect 0,0,640,480
visible 1
background "guis/loading/yourmap"
matcolor 1,1,1,1
}
}

Now all this seems to work, except that the loading screen doesn't show up for me. I am trying to figure that one out still.

Cool thanks man, I'll give that a try in a lil bit. Unfortunatley, I just ran into what it probably a big problem. I was doing some optimizations with the visportals following the tutorial. When I started to compile it the compiler crashed and killed the editor and Doom 3 completley. When I restarted the editor and tried to redo the visportals I got this.

"WARNING: Couldn't load image: textures/editor/visportal"

Any suggestions?

that doesn't look good. I don't know what to look for with that. Is that what you get when you load the map in the editor?

Anyway, I found out why my screen wasn't loading. Now, if you want to use a basic loading screen (just a loading image) then enter this into yourmap.gui

windowDef Desktop
{
menugui 1
nocursor 1
rect 0,0,640,480
windowDef BackgroundImage
{
rect 0,0,640,480
visible 1
background "guis/assets/splash/yourmap"
matcolor 1,1,1,1
}
}

You will see that what I was getting wrong was the path to that loading screen.

However, if you want your loading screen to look the same as the other deathmatch levels, then use this: (kinda long)

windowDef Desktop
{
menugui 1
nocursor 1
rect 0,0,640,480
windowDef BackgroundImage
{
rect 0,0,640,480
visible 1
background "guis/assets/splash/yourmap"
matcolor 1,1,1,1
}
windowDef Scanlines2
{
rect 0,0,640,480
matcolor 0.02,0.02,0.02,1
background "gui/test/gui_scanlines4"
matscaley 3.75
noevents 1
visible 1
}
windowDef bgBlackTop
{
rect 0,0,640,200
visible 1
windowDef bgBlackTop1
{
rect 0,-21,170,-64
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg1"
matcolor 1 ,1 ,1 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
windowDef bgBlackTop2
{
rect 170,-21,32,-64
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg2"
matcolor 1 ,1 ,1 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
windowDef bgBlackTop3
{
rect 202,-21,458,-64
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg3"
matcolor 1 ,1 ,1 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
}
windowDef bgBlackBottom
{
rect 0,435,640,75
noevents 1
visible 1
windowDef bgBlackBottomFill
{
rect 0,64,640,75
backcolor 0 ,0 ,0 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
windowDef bgBlackBottom1
{
rect 0,0,367,64
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg1"
matcolor 1 ,1 ,1 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
windowDef bgBlackBottom2
{
rect 367,0,32,64
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg2"
matcolor 1 ,1 ,1 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
windowDef bgBlackBottom3
{
rect 399,0,261,64
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg3"
matcolor 1 ,1 ,1 ,0.6
visible 1
noevents 1
}
windowDef bgBlackBottomFade
{
rect 0,30,642,128
background "guis/assets/mainmenu/bg4"
matcolor 0,0,0,1
visible 1
noevents 1
}
}
windowDef LoadingFillClip
{
rect 2,18,( "gui::map_loading" * 175 ),16
visible 1
windowDef LoadingFill
{
rect 0,0,256,16
visible 1
background "guis/assets/splash/load"
matcolor 1,1,1,0.8
}
}
windowDef LoadingLine
{
rect 2,18,256,16
visible 1
background "guis/assets/splash/loadborder"
matcolor 1,1,1,0
}
windowDef TextLoading
{
rect 16,-6,123,30
visible 1
text ""
font "fonts/micro"
textscale 0.4
forecolor 0.2,0.6,0.7,1
}
windowDef FlareBox
{
rect 0,0,48,21
background "gui/mainmenu/textflare"
matcolor 0.4 ,0.6, 0.6, 0
visible 1
}
windowDef TextTitle
{
rect 16,447,610,30
visible 1
text "This Text 1"
font "fonts/micro"
textscale 0.4
forecolor 1,1,1,0
}
windowDef BlackFade
{
rect 0,0,640,480
backcolor 0, 0, 0, 1
visible 1
}
windowDef Anim
{
rect 0,0,0,0
visible 1

onTime 0 {
transition "BlackFade::backcolor" "0 0 0 1" "0 0 0 0" "400" ;
set "TextLoading::text" "L" ;
transition "FlareBox::matcolor" "0.4 0.6 0.6 0" "0.4 0.6 0.6 0.5" "200"

;

transition "bgBlackTop1::rect" "0 -21 150 -64" "0 -21 170 -64" "400"

"0.2" "0.8" ;
transition "bgBlackTop2::rect" "150 -21 32 -64" "170 -21 32 -64" "400"

"0.2" "0.8" ;
transition "bgBlackTop3::rect" "182 -21 498 -64" "202 -21 458 -64" "400"

"0.2" "0.8" ;
transition "bgBlackBottom1::rect" "0 0 397 64" "0 0 367 64" "400" "0.2"

"0.8" ;
transition "bgBlackBottom2::rect" "397 0 32 64" "367 0 32 64" "400"

"0.2" "0.8" ;
transition "bgBlackBottom3::rect" "429 0 261 64" "399 0 261 64" "400"

"0.2" "0.8" ;
}

onTime 50 {
set "TextLoading::text" "This Text 2" ;
set "FlareBox::rect" "17 0 54 21" ;
}

onTime 100 {
set "TextLoading::text" "This Text 3" ;
set "FlareBox::rect" "37 0 54 21" ;
}

onTime 150 {
set "TextLoading::text" "This Text 4" ;
set "FlareBox::rect" "57 0 54 21" ;

}

onTime 200 {
set "TextLoading::text" "This Text 5" ;
set "FlareBox::rect" "67 0 54 21" ;
transition "TextTitle::forecolor" "0 0 0 0" "1 1 1 0.9" "400" "0.2" ".8"

;
}

onTime 250 {
set "TextLoading::text" "This Text 6" ;
set "FlareBox::rect" "81 0 54 21" ;
}

onTime 300 {
set "TextLoading::text" "This Text 7" ;
set "FlareBox::rect" "100 0 54 21" ;
transition "FlareBox::matcolor" "0.4 0.6 0.6 0.5" "0 0 0 0" "200" ;
transition "LoadingLine::matcolor" "1 1 1 0" "1 1 1 0.8" "600" ;
}

}
}

The top portion looks the same, but the rest of it is build to look pretty cool. Now I overwrote the default text to be inserted with the following that you can fill in for yourmap:

This Text 1: Loading
This Text 2: ?
This Text 3: ?
This Text 4: ?
This Text 5: ?
This Text 6: ?
This Text 7: your map name

I can't figure out where they are defining the text for the game.

No I don't get that error when I load the map. I get it whenever I try to use the visportal texture. When I apply it it gives that error and instead of showing the gridlike texture it just goes to black. I do also get an error when I load the map.


WARNING: Couldn't load image: _emptyname

I dunno what this is, I have a feeling I may have to reinstall Doom 3 if I want to use visportal again. It seems as if somehow when it crashed the visportal texture got deleted from the main pk4 file.

Oh yeah I figured out teh loading screen thing. i was cutting and pasting the script you gave me and I noticed the location of the image wasn't right. The map loads fine for deathmatch now.

I got that visportal error a few times too. All my testing still worked fine so I ignored that error.

I still sometimes can see teh grid texture and sometimes I can't.

It might be having a tough time reading it from the pk file and might go away if you extract the textures. Although, that could just end up being a waste of harddrive space.

For now, I am living with that error. MY map still runs correctly.