making a map

[thekiller]

well when there was that test sd-rotation i needed something else to do ^^ so ive started to learn some cod4 modding. Atm i can only make buildings and edit terrains, im learning lots of more (like adding models ^^).
Only thing i miss is a good idea for a new map, well i have some but not sure if they're good:
- one big hotel (3 or 4 floors) in the middle of the map(defenders) and attackers spawn all around it
- trying to find the map of the last sp mission and use the plane as basic, place it on a airport or somewhere else

any other idea's?

also any help is welcome, such as helping to make it or posting tuts...


edit: i had error with adding models, but its fixed now ^^ so i can add models also.. one less thing to learn

[mr_m]

wow, so many replies, u wont have time to read em. lol

i think. if you take a really good map on cod4, like overgrown or crash or anyother that people like, and try to make it simillar to that, it&#39;ll be the best. and make sure it&#39;s in day light and not at night http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

[Eus]

to my understanding in order to run custom made maps on a server the server must be running some sort of mod or something, is not like Snake could just add the map to the rotation once u r done with it or am i wrong?

[taliban]

Snakey said the main server wont be modded, its being kept clean, mods cause problems and errors.

[Profaz]

- one big hotel (3 or 4 floors) in the middle of the map(defenders) and attackers spawn all around it

any other idea&#39;s?[/b]

That would be a nice map.

Picture this .... a hotel, filled with terrorist defending it with their lives.
Other team have to rescue a bunch of citizens on the top floor.
And sometimes you have to use your nightvision thingy.

[SnakeDoctor]

yes i can not add it to the main server but the PAM server is a mod so i can add maps there. I would see if you can take a standard maps and change it around a bit I have looked a few of them and if you just add a ladder here and a ladder there you can change the whole map up.

[thekiller]

yes i can not add it to the main server but the PAM server is a mod so i can add maps there. I would see if you can take a standard maps and change it around a bit I have looked a few of them and if you just add a ladder here and a ladder there you can change the whole map up.[/b] well atm ive problems models not previewing so cant make a whole new map now, but editing old onces seems good idea, ill try some things right ahead!

[vice]

to my understanding in order to run custom made maps on a server the server must be running some sort of mod or something, is not like Snake could just add the map to the rotation once u r done with it or am i wrong?[/b]

Your right Eus however ther is a map you can add to a clean server and is called "village" is a nice map about the size of pipeline but the only drawback is your radar appears checkered, no map on it http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

You should know it if you played "Blackout" form the single player campign.

[Eus]

ummmm yeah that part is sickkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, i would love to have that map on the rotation

[SnakeDoctor]

actaully vice you can not add maps to standard none modded server they are only released in patches like crash snow was. All standard maps are in the patches sorry to say that, and if the map has a ckeckered radar that mean&#39;s who ever build it did not build something right. In the old custom maps for COD2 when I installed them if the map was not build right it would not show up just checkered. I think FriedCoD could explane it better being he build a few maps.

So just so you now standard server dont run off a mod folder or custom mod folder they pull right from the main folder of cod4. So really you have no way of installing a custom map on a none modded server. Well unless you wanted to open a IWD file and custom put that in but it would never download being the redirect for a player&#39;s download from a server come&#39;s from the mod command&#39;s and from how the server is build.

[vice]

I see Snake. I have no mods installed in my computer except warfare of course and what i did was put the "mp_village.ff" file in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\zone\english folder where the standards maps are.

Me and my buddies play it LAN with no mods and at all.

[Eus]

yeah exactly, but they must have the map, u must have given them a copy of the map, or maybe the game transfer them over the lan but as snake pointed out over the net is a little more complicated as player will not be able to simply get the map directly from the server, in other words, is possible but is not practical enough to be implemented on our server.

[SnakeDoctor]

yes but when you connect to it with another machine did it download from the host pc or did you have to put it in yourself?

[SnakeDoctor]

because if it did down load from the host pc then everything i have read is wroug and i should be able to add custom maps to the main server that is not modded. See the map has to come to the client some how.

[SnakeDoctor]

nevermind i see what you did the warfare folder is the mod folder you just dont have a mod in it. You have your main cfg config in your warfare folder and not the main folder like a true standard server. the designer&#39;s added the warfare folder for people to be able to make custom server&#39;s. On your server when you play do you have rank or does every one start out at rank 1 every time

[vice]

We played it as a normal server with ar ranks lvl 55 http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif but your right I handed the file to them, in other words it was transferred manually. Looks like were out of luck as it cannot be transferred via autodownload from the server to the client http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

That sux cuz your able to climb to the top of the church (something you cannot do in sp campaign). Its a nice custom map.

edit: You were right about the config file, its in the warfare folder. You think if copy paste it to the main folder the can be transferred via server?

[Eus]

We played it as a normal server with ar ranks lvl 55 http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif but your right I handed the file to them, in other words it was transferred manually. Looks like were out of luck as it cannot be transferred via autodownload from the server to the client http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

That sux cuz your able to climb to the top of the church (something you cannot do in sp campaign). Its a nice custom map.[/b]
yep it sucks balls

[mad]

well when there was that test sd-rotation i needed something else to do ^^ so ive started to learn some cod4 modding. Atm i can only make buildings and edit terrains, im learning lots of more (like adding models ^^).
Only thing i miss is a good idea for a new map, well i have some but not sure if they&#39;re good:
- one big hotel (3 or 4 floors) in the middle of the map(defenders) and attackers spawn all around it
- trying to find the map of the last sp mission and use the plane as basic, place it on a airport or somewhere else

any other idea&#39;s?

also any help is welcome, such as helping to make it or posting tuts...


edit: i had error with adding models, but its fixed now ^^ so i can add models also.. one less thing to learn[/b]

u should make a map where shoping mall is in the middle and make models to look like zombies and inside the mall are defenders and outside are zombies lol and u should add the flame weapon to defenders http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif jokin
its called zombie mod http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

[thekiller]

im trying to make a map, not a mod...

[Eus]

u should make a map where shoping mall is in the middle and make models to look like zombies and inside the mall are defenders and outside are zombies lol and u should add the flame weapon to defenders http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif jokin
its called zombie mod http://www.flyingright.net/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/b]
i joined a server the other day and was something just like u r describing, it was so stupid, they had Let the Boddies hit the floor song on the background and the objective was to survive, the zombies would just walk around and they are so dumbbbbbbb i was killed right away cuz i did not know what the fuck was going on and u r force to watch the rest of the players and after watching some guy camp on a certain sport forcing the zombies to come from one location and just shooting them for like 15 mins i just got off the server, so stupidddddddddddddddd.

[thekiller]

its fun for some time, its called zombie mod. This is a good server tough:
Servername|RA| BeforeTheDawn | RedArmyClan.com | XGServers.co.uk
Server-IP 217.146.84.204:28929

[Eus]

i did play on one that had the old cod waepons, but it was empty at the time

[thekiller]

ive tried many times now to edit/create a map with no results, when i open a map i see all models as big pink cubes ==> walls with big cubes in and around it ==> impossible to have visual on it. And when i import prefabs it gives me an error and closes the whole program.