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    Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file

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    • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
      Jason Green-Lowe
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      All right. I appreciate that you have strong feelings about how this map should have been packaged, but I don't have any opinion about that, and I'm staying neutral on that topic.

      What I would like to do is release my map to the public in a form that allows players to see the objectives in real-time. That's my goal. So, given my goal and the way everything is set up right now, what is the exact text string that I should use for mapName?

      Should mapName be:

      World_War_II_v3_1941_Balanced_Mod
      1941balancedmod
      something else?

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      • PantherP Offline
        Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
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        @Jason-Green-Lowe

        The mapName in your xml (Line 2195) at the moment is:

        <property name="mapName" value="world_war_ii_v3" editable="false"/>
        

        It should instead be

        <property name="mapName" value="1941balancedmod" editable="false"/>
        

        It must match the mapfolder-name.

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        • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
          Jason Green-Lowe
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          @Panther said in Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file:

          1941balancedmod

          OK, that's not entirely the correct answer, because I changed the mapName to "1941balancedmod" and now the game won't load -- I get an error saying "Map missing: 1941balancedmod, could not join game. Would you like to download the map now?" And then if I try to download the map, it can't find it.

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            ff03k64
            last edited by

            Don't you also need the map name on line 4 to be the same as well?

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            • PantherP Offline
              Panther Admin Moderators @ff03k64
              last edited by Panther

              @ff03k64 No. Line 4 sets the name that appears in the "Select Map" list within TripleA, here it is

              <info name="World War II v3 1941 Balanced Mod" version="1.0"/>
              

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              • PantherP Offline
                Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
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                @Jason-Green-Lowe
                Interesting. I was able to load your map after I had applied the change.
                I did that locally, of course.

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                  Panther Admin Moderators
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                  balmod.png

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                  • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
                    Jason Green-Lowe
                    last edited by Jason Green-Lowe

                    Excellent! I'm glad it's working for you, at least.

                    I took your advice and edited github so that the string is "1941balancedmod" everywhere. So now that's the string I'm using for the info name, the mapName, and the repo folder name.

                    Unfortunately, it's still not working on my downloaded version. What was the exact change you made locally?

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                    • PantherP Offline
                      Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
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                      @Jason-Green-Lowe said in Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file:

                      Excellent! That is exactly the intended effect. I took your advice and edited the name everywhere to be "1941balancedmod." So now that's the string I'm using for the info name, the mapName, and the repo folder name. It's a little ugly in that now it shows up as "1941balancedmod" on the select map screen, but at least it works.

                      Here it appears like this:

                      appear.PNG

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                      • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
                        Jason Green-Lowe
                        last edited by

                        Well, it appears as World War II v3 1941 Balanced Mod in the "Download Maps" dialog, but not in the "Select Maps" dialog.

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                        • PantherP Offline
                          Panther Admin Moderators
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                          Line 4 should be

                          <info name="World War II v3 1941 Balanced Mod" version="1.0"/>
                          

                          (as it was)

                          and line 2195 should be

                          <property name="mapName" value="1941balancedmod" editable="false"/>
                          

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                          • PantherP Offline
                            Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
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                            @Jason-Green-Lowe said in Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file:

                            Well, it appears as World War II v3 1941 Balanced Mod in the "Download Maps" dialog, but not in the "Select Maps" dialog.

                            @Panther said in Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file:

                            @Jason-Green-Lowe said in Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file:

                            Excellent! That is exactly the intended effect. I took your advice and edited the name everywhere to be "1941balancedmod." So now that's the string I'm using for the info name, the mapName, and the repo folder name. It's a little ugly in that now it shows up as "1941balancedmod" on the select map screen, but at least it works.

                            Here it appears like this:

                            appear.PNG

                            This is from my Select Map dialog.

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                            • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
                              Jason Green-Lowe
                              last edited by

                              What string are you using in the objectives.properties file? My understanding is that objectives.properties has to match the info name from line 4.

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                              • PantherP Offline
                                Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
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                                @Jason-Green-Lowe I did not touch it at all.

                                What I did was:

                                • I moved to your Github repo and downloaded the map-zip manually from there.
                                • I edited line 2195 of the xml as noted above
                                • I moved the complete zip-file into my downloadedMaps folder

                                That's all. Works perfectly fine.

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                                • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
                                  Jason Green-Lowe
                                  last edited by

                                  OK, that's great! I'm glad it's working. What I need to find out is whether your objectives.properties file is using "1941balancedmod" or "World_War_II_v3_1941_Balanced_Mod" as the prefix. I made that change in github just a few minutes ago, and I don't know which version you downloaded.

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                                  • PantherP Offline
                                    Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
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                                    @Jason-Green-Lowe I downloaded the version before the changes you applied.
                                    I assume you shouldn't have touched the objectives.properties file.

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                                    • Jason Green-LoweJ Offline
                                      Jason Green-Lowe
                                      last edited by

                                      OK, thanks. I'll revert the objectives.properties changes, and try it with:

                                      Line 4 - World War II v3 1941 Balanced Mod
                                      Line 2195 - 1941balancedmod
                                      objectives.properties - World_War_II_v3_1941_Balanced_Mod

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                                      • PantherP Offline
                                        Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
                                        last edited by Panther

                                        @Jason-Green-Lowe Yes. I think Line 2195 was the only change needed, nothing else.

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                                          Jason Green-Lowe
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                                          @Jason-Green-Lowe said in Help: National Objectives are removed when editing name of map file:

                                          World_War_II_v3_1941_Balanced_Mod

                                          Well, I have made exactly the changes you suggested on github, but I am still getting the "MapNotFoundException" error. For some reason, your local copy of TripleA is able to search for and find a map called "1941balancedmod" and mine is not. I do not understand what is going wrong, and I am feeling frustrated.

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                                          • PantherP Offline
                                            Panther Admin Moderators @Jason Green-Lowe
                                            last edited by Panther

                                            @Jason-Green-Lowe
                                            I have already downloaded the new map-zip from your Github repo - and it works fine.

                                            Please try that.

                                            Before delete the map zip and the map-properties file from your downloadedMaps folder.

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