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Map Deployment Wizard
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Deleted User
June 26, 2005, 11:28 am
Attention Map Makers!
PREPARING YOUR MAPS FOR RELEASE IS NOW AS EASY AS 1, 2, 3!

(sorry for the crummy jungle of words above ^_^)

What It Does:
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The Map Deployment Wizard is a tool for easily including custom textures
and sceneries in a zip file with your map, for easy distribution. If any
files are missing, the Wizard will inform you.

How To Use:
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Run the program. You will be asked to select a map, and clicking "Next >>"
NOTE: The map must be in your soldat MAPS folder! (To find scenery)
will start scanning the map for all included textures and sceneries, which
are compared to a list of defaults to determine if they are custom or not.

Next, a list of all custom scenery will appear. Here, you can choose which
scenery to include in the zip file and which you want to exclude. If you
add a scenery to the map but never actually use it, the information still
exists in the map file, so the scenery is still added to the ZIP.
Click "Next >>"

NOTE: (!) in front of a scenery means that scenery was not found.

Finally, you will see a list of zip options. You can choose the level of
compression used, set a password, include comments, and for those of you
that know what you are doing, some expert options are included. If you
don't know what you are doing, leave them alone. Click "Make Zip", choose
where to save it to, and you are done! Your map is now ready to be
distributed, without worrying about missing textures.

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Select map source screen (Stage 1)

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Choose which scenery to exclude and add (Stage 2)

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Final preparations for the ZIP archive. (Final Stage)

Download URL: Click Here

If you get any missing DLL/OCX Errors, please read the file called 'README.txt' or use GOOGLE!

Comments & Suggestions are welcome.

-EnEsCe

Deleted User
June 26, 2005, 12:23 pm
Wow...awesome. Good job both of you. (Added to FAps list)

mickle89
June 26, 2005, 2:52 pm
COOL! One problem I had - when the zip is saved it has no file extension, but when i rename it with .zip at the end all is good and i can open it.

???

Deleted User
June 26, 2005, 3:21 pm
quote:Originally posted by mickle89COOL! One problem I had - when the zip is saved it has no file extension, but when i rename it with .zip at the end all is good and i can open it.

Argh silly me, redownload and it is fixed. Sorry :P

Deleted User
June 26, 2005, 3:22 pm
Dunno if its just me or what, but the link seems to be down.

Deleted User
June 26, 2005, 3:53 pm
works for mee.. yeah I just saw this app on ur site EnEsCe. good job.

Goofy_92
June 26, 2005, 5:35 pm
Good job EnEsCe! Luv it.

AWH_ReApEr
June 26, 2005, 9:37 pm
Another great release. This makes a tedius and annoying task an easy one. Way to go.

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One thing. Instead of putting the readme as a file included in the zip, why not make it a comment or something? I, like most people, simply extract the whole thing to my Soldat directory, and I'd rather not have tons of readme's in my maps folder.
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Vijchtidoodah
June 26, 2005, 10:50 pm
Thank you enesce, you just made my life a whole lot easier!

grand_diablo
June 26, 2005, 11:12 pm
me likes! good job :D

Deleted User
June 27, 2005, 2:25 am
Thanks for the comments ^_^

quote:One thing. Instead of putting the readme as a file included in the zip, why not make it a comment or something? I, like most people, simply extract the whole thing to my Soldat directory, and I'd rather not have tons of readme's in my maps folder.I actually like to see when people have used my software, makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside...

AWH_ReApEr
June 27, 2005, 3:47 am
So you could make it automatically put a comment in the zip, or something. I have enough files in my maps folder as it is. I don't need a readme to accompany every custom I download. Maybe you could make it have the same readme for each one rather than have the map title in it. That way, it'd just overwrite the old one.

Just a suggestion, I guess. I'll be deleting all the readme's, and it'd just save me the trouble.

bond_james_bond
June 27, 2005, 1:17 pm
Tihs is excellent, good job!

jettlarue
June 6, 2006, 1:17 am
works great. i dont see why people worry about readme's. i rarely look at my maps folder and im sure some lil text documents wont eat your harddrive :) good job enesce, all the best.

chrisgbk
June 6, 2006, 4:01 am
Thank you for reviving a year old dead topic.

Deleted User
June 6, 2006, 7:32 am
11 months actually! lol, thanks anyway Jettlarue... I think its almost time this program got an update.

edak
June 6, 2006, 11:31 am
Update it, while you're at it, bump my mod-mixer aye!

Oosband
June 7, 2006, 3:43 am
WOAH! I was just talking to a friend of mine about something like this, you're a life saver!

jettlarue
June 7, 2006, 7:24 am
oh [CENSORED]. sorry i thought this topic was from 27th of june 06, not 05. anyways, yeah an update would be cool. but what would u change in it...its pretty good already.