How To Add Your Map To TripleA In-Game Downloads

Frostion

@CrazyG I have never read official documentation for GitGUI or any other upload program. And I am not sure that I would understand it, if it was too technical. I have just noticed that the upload can fail (with a notification) if the force overwrite option isn't used. I hope someone here can explain what the force overwrite option actually does

RoiEX

@CrazyG Force overwrite is normally not what you want to use. What it does is taking the latest local commit and forcing the remote (Github in this case) to be exactly that commit.
So if your commit is for example a year old, it will reset the repo to this state with no way to undo (thus 'force').
What you want to do is get the up-to-date version of the remote branch, make local changes, commit those changes and push normally

CrazyG

Thanks for the replies.

LaFayette

Steps (2) and (7) are out of date in the doc are out of date.

(2) "Join github org" is no longer needed. Github has updated their team model that makes per-map teams no longer necessary.

(7) "Transfer ownership", this has proven problematic for some and instead we can fork uploaded maps into the triplea-maps organization. To do this we just need an issue created with a link to the uploaded map. If all looks good we can create the fork and add the map maker to the new repo that is created within triplea-maps.

I think it would make sense to get the very excellent word doc migrated to a '.md' file and added to the map maker documentation: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/tree/master/docs/map-making

LaFayette

I was able to update the doc. The screenshot for asking to be added to the triplea-maps org is still slightly out of date.

Xander Dorn

I tried to follow the guide to the letter, but I get this error message when I get to "Sign off". Can anyone help me? Is there a way to upload a map without the Git GUI?

TheDog

I use GitHub Desktop
https://desktop.github.com/

IFAIK you need permission to write/upload to https://github.com/triplea-maps
Someone has to grant you access to it, but not me.

Xander Dorn

@thedog Thank you! I think it worked with GitHub Desktop, but this is still very confusing to me. I would certainly have preferred a simple ftp but I guess that's not hip anymore. I did make a request for the map to be included in the downloadable maps. Or at least I think I did so. That or I accidentally ordered a new vacuum cleaner.

ebbe

@xander-dorn

Are new games downloadable ingame again?
I noticed they don't seem to and heard there was an issue with that so latest new games are not appearing in the list?

Xander Dorn

@ebbe I just tried and it worked.

TheDog

@xander-dorn
Was that download test with TripleA 2.5 or 2.6 as they have different requirements?

In https://github.com/triplea-maps

I dont see any new maps?

Xander Dorn

@thedog 2.5.22294

TheDog

@xander-dorn
In https://github.com/triplea-maps

I dont see any new maps?

What is the name of your map?

Xander Dorn

@thedog xd_tiberium - I haven't gotten a respond yet.

TheDog

@ebbe
TripleA 2.6 is still broke and cannot download new maps.

RogerCooper

@xander-dorn If you send me a link to your map, I can post it on Github. However, at the moment the maps on Github are not downloading in game.

Xander Dorn

@rogercooper https://github.com/XanderDorn/xd_tiberium If that works. Otherwise I can zip it and put it on my google drive.

RogerCooper

@xander-dorn That link does not work.

Xander Dorn

@rogercooper https://drive.google.com/file/d/10IuuN-exiaW8cArORBUg0j9i07VTf31b/view?usp=sharing

And Thank You!

TheDog

@xander-dorn
To play your map with TripleA 2.6 you need a new file called map.yml
This is stored under your xd_tiberium directory and should look something like this;

map_name: xd_tiberium
games:
- {game_name: XD_TIBERIUM, file_name: XD_TIBERIUM.xml}

2.6 is faster than 2.5 and Im hoping will be release later this year.

Also you might want to create a new topic here
https://forums.triplea-game.org/category/5/maps-mods

Something like
Tiberium Dawn - Official Thread

Then players can easily comment on your map.