Spring RTS Engine

In the CVS it says that we can d/l a map in the new format from http://taspring.clan-sy.com/temp/smalldivide.sdz

But when I compile Spring from CVS and put this file in the maps/ directory, Spring complains that it can't find any maps. It seems that it searches for .smf files, but when I rename smalldivide.sdz to smalldivide.smf it still doesn't work.

Am I missing something here?

I didn't have tested, but if you open smalldivide with winzip, you can see that all the files are in a maps folder within the archive.
So perhaps you must have it in the main directory.

.sdz is the extension Fnordia choose for packed files in zip format so you have to place it in the root spring directory, although we will fix so packed files in the maps directory is added to the virtual file system later.

But why?

[K.B.] Napalm Cobra wrote:But why?

presumably because the .sdz file (like all zip files) contains path information, so that inside the .sdz file the .smd and .sm2 files are already inside the Maps directory. If you put that file inside the Maps folder the actual .smd and .sm2 files would effectively be in the Maps/Maps folder. Howver, I think it would make more sense to have them at the top level inside the zip archive and then stick the zipped file in the Maps folder.

I think it would be even better if we used 7z instead of zip!

Just my tuppence - I'm probaby completely wrong.

Munch

Correct, and 7zip is already supported. Just don't compile archives "solid" and rename them to .sd7

Neuralize wrote:Correct, and 7zip is already supported. Just don't compile archives "solid" and rename them to .sd7

Great! Thanks guys =)

Where to download maps in *new* file format?

The onyl map in the *new* format thats available for public download is small divide from SJ which has a link at the top of this page.

I really am a big fan of just "zip" archives myself. If the almighty Quake3 engine uses them, it HAS to be good. =)

(On a sidenote, anyone here going to Quakecon?)