How to share new maps

BeorntheBold

I have a completed map that I would like to share with the community, but I don't know how to do that. Is there a step by step guide to uploading custom maps?

beelee

Frostion has a step by step post but I can't find it right now. You can try asking him using the @Frostion

alkexr

https://github.com/triplea-maps/Project/wiki if you are willing to risk your sanity. I'm not sure if it's even up to date, but even when it was, it wasn't too smooth. As for Frostion, I haven't seen him online in a while.

General_Zod

@beornthebold

Here's Frostions manual.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FfF7N0srp9QG0_if5D-c1d1Aa1QTttdhxgm1GBh3pI4/edit?usp=sharing

RogerCooper

@beornthebold I maintain my own site in parallel with the GitHub site. Please send me the file or a link. I have many files that not available elsewhere. I have been converting mods from the old version of the game. Check out my scenario list.

General_Zod

@rogercooper

Nice list you maintain.

LaFayette

https://github.com/triplea-maps/Project/wiki is up to date - but perhaps not easy to follow. Anyone can create a github repo, once you have that you can push files there and they can be downloaded (instructions at: https://github.com/triplea-maps/Project/wiki/Map-Makers:-Create-a-new-map)

BeorntheBold

I am trying to follow Frostion's guide, but at certain points I am lost. For example, the guide states:

"Note that all of your specific map’s files must be located in a folder called map, and that this folder is located in a folder with the map’s name."

However, that is not the case either for my map nor any others I have downloaded. The folders within my map's name are baseTiles, dice, flags, games, temp, territoryEffects, and units. The xml file is in the games folder.

Do I just ignore the statement that they MUST be located in a folder called map, or move them there, or what?

@LaFayette, those links you provided all go to a 404 error.

prastle

@beornthebold you also might find this program easier to use once the map is finished.

https://www.gitkraken.com/

redrum

@beornthebold It should look like the POS2 folder structure: https://github.com/triplea-maps/the_pact_of_steel

Example: <YOUR_MAP_NAME>/map/games/*.xml

Frostion

@BeorntheBold
It is possible for you, on your local PC, to play your own map even if it is not located in a “map” directory within your “map name” directory. You can play something like this:
C:\Users\FunnyGuy\triplea\downloadedMaps\iron_war\games\ iron_war.xml

But because you want to upload your map to github, you should have your files like this (and you can still play it locally):
C:\Users\FunnyGuy\triplea\downloadedMaps\iron_war\map\games\iron_war.xml

This is because the place where you upload needs the “map” directory before the files. You can see this “map” directory in the link @redrum posted, and also you can see it within the zip files of your local PC’s downloadedMaps directory.

EDIT: And it is not ALL your map's single files that must be under the map directory, it is the whole file structure. I might have to rephrase this in the guide

(Please somebody stop me if I am telling something that is not true )

LaFayette

@BeorntheBold if you can get the map repo: https://github.com/BeornTheBold/another_world, to have all needed files (looking something like: https://github.com/triplea-maps/the_pact_of_steel), then map admins can take it from there.

Let us know how it goes @BeorntheBold