Next step on Map-Making - how to collect feedback?

Im on windows. Sorry will have to take the bus in 5 min, will be on again this evening. Maybe i just delete my account and start a new one. Basically there is ony 1 upload on it.

TheDog

@tannenbernie
You know we could just forget GitHub for now, if you post a link to your map on say Google Drive/OneDrive/WeTransfer etc then we can download your map and comment.

beelee

@tannenbernie hmm ... yea idk new git you mean ? it seems weird it goes 404 and most are on windows anyway

beelee

@thedog said in Next step on Map-Making - how to collect feedback?:

@tannenbernie
You know we could just forget GitHub for now, if you post a link to your map on say Google Drive/OneDrive/WeTransfer etc then we can download your map and comment.

well yea we could but it should work for triplea/git

beelee

@Tannenbernie

yea you must have some sorta blocker enabled. Triplea doesn't have a lot of hits. So OS may think it's fckd somehow.

Git should work though. Idky your git repo isn't working

beelee

@tannenbernie

well i'd go with the Dog's suggestion for now but your git repo should work.

Will bug on @LaFayette and @Myrd

Edit
@Panther
do you know why the 404 is happening ?

Panther

@beelee

No idea, sorry.

Tannenbernie

Ok guys

I have been busy the last hours and had some success.
In short summary i did the following:

Deleted the Not-working repository "Tannenbernie/battleforcraglorn"
Tried to delete the account "Tannenbernie", but not even that worked on GitHub.
Created new Account "Tannen01gmx".
Created new Account "Tannen02web".
Created new repository "Tannen01gmx/battleforcraglorn"
Created new repository "Tannen02web/02webtest"
Tested from account 01 to account 02 and vice-verca

The result was that my 1st account can see the second account as well as the repository of the 2nd account. Strange enough it can not find it via the search-field. Same with 2nd account, with that one i was able to see 1st account as well as its repository. But the search gave no result.

So i uploaded my map in the repository of the 1st account and downloaded it with the 2nd account as "ZIP". Well, i had to rename the file folder, as the zip-programme added a "-main" to it. That didnt work of course. But after renaming the whole map worked for me.

Would be happy, if you could give it another try on my repository now:
https://github.com/Tannengit01gmx/battle_for_craglorn

Many thx and cheers,
Bernd

TheDog

@Tannenbernie
I will just dive in

You need to make a game folder
Rename the game.xml to battle_for_craglorn.xml
cut the battle_for_craglorn.xml and put it in the game folder
Rename the battle_for_craglorn-main folder to battle_for_craglorn folder

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This file is needed to run in TripleA 2.6
map-yml.zip

To run the game/map.

Tannenbernie

@thedog said in Next step on Map-Making - how to collect feedback?:

@Tannenbernie
I will just dive in

You need to make a game folder
Done

Rename the game.xml to battle_for_craglorn.xml
Done

cut the battle_for_craglorn.xml and put it in the game folder
Done

Rename the battle_for_craglorn-main folder to battle_for_craglorn folder
Here you lost me. Do you mean the other way round and rename the "battle_for_craglorn" to"battle_for_craglorn-main"?
At the moment i do not have a "battle_for_craglorn-main" in my repository.
If i rename "battle_for_craglorn" to "battle_for_craglorn-main" then the map no longer loads in TripleA.

.
This file is needed to run in TripleA 2.6
map-yml.zip

To run the game/map.
Yes i see, I added it in the main path and did not touch the code..

TheDog

@tannenbernie

Rename the battle_for_craglorn-main folder to battle_for_craglorn folder

As above,, I was just detailing the steps I did to make it work on my PC after GitHub download

TripleA 2.6 runs maps unzipped and will produce a map.yml if there is not one, but only if the map is zipped
TripleA 2.5 can run maps zipped or unzipped

You can have the -main as a folder addition, whatever works for you, but a simple convention is the folder name is the same as the xml name, as usually there is only one xml

@tannenbernie
EDIT: Dont forget to add Victory conditions

Cernel

I've only looked at the skin, not attempted to learn the game.

I think that actual unitary visualization, however approximative it may be, is generally preferable to unfamiliar symbolism or weapons-only visualization.

Meaning that, for example, it may be better to have "Goblin Spearman" as
Goblin Spearman.png

rather than as
Goblin Spearman.png

Mostly, I do believe that your units' visualization choices are likely to put off most persons from trying the map.

I don't understand what's the point of those "To Orc Tribes", "To Dwarven Kingdom" and so on signs. They seem to imply that there are some sort of opposite edges connections with the zones where such signs are located (like when maps wrap around or are actually a collection of inter-connected maps like in the case of the "Great War" map).

Literally, the name "ratling" just identifies a young and little rat in English. Maybe "ratman", "wererat", "mysanthrope", "rodentoid" or somesuch would be better for what I suppose you have in mind.

Cernel

Also, you are not supposed to have a no-spaces and all-lowercase format in the game's name. Really, no reasons ever having underscores in there. What I mean is that I'm suggesting you to change info name="battle_for_craglorn" to info name="Battle for Craglorn".