Map Missing

VictoryFirst

I am creating a map with someone and even though it is in its development stage, I wanted to load the map to see how it looks. However I get this message every time

I checked the map.yml file and the XML file and made sure the spelling of the names are correct. I searched through the forums and found that I had to add this:

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

But that still didn't solve the issue. Does anyone know what is going on?

Panther

@victoryfirst
Usually you get this message when you try to load a savegame (*.tsvg) that has been created with a map that isn't installed inside your downloadedMaps folder.

Alternatively you might get this message when you use the "Choose Game" dialogue and the map appears to be present in the installed games list but is not installed as required.

I see that this map is not part of the TripleA-maps repository. So how did you install it manually?

VictoryFirst

@panther

It is a new game we are creating from scratch so perhaps something went wrong with the map-making process. The game is still in its development stage so it does not have a centers.txt, polygons.txt or place.txt yet but it does have a working XML, map.yml file and a bunch of other stuff.

Panther

@victoryfirst There are some minimum requirements for a map to load. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly which. But I think additionally at least these files are required:
map.properties
polygons.txt
and of course all the baseTiles

Maybe look here for further information:
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/blob/master/docs/map-making/tutorial/map-and-map-skin-making.md
and
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/blob/master/docs/map-making/tutorial/creating-custom-map-xml.md

VictoryFirst

Ah I see. So the maps needs some of the .txt files to load. I didn't know about the minimum requirements, thanks!