Quake3World

Hello all !
In first, there are probably a lot of mistake in this topic. I'm french so I speak Frenglish
I post to learn how I can add a map for Quake 3 arena ?
If you want answer me, please speak with simple word...
Cheitan

Drop the downloaded map - the .pk3 file - in your baseq3 folder.

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Thank you ^misantropia^ !!! Nice...
T'es français Peenyuh ou tu sais dire que ca en français ?

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Nice ! So, now my map is in baseq3 folder but I can't play with this map... Where it is ?

In the skirmish menu unless the author didn't add a .arena file. You can load the map manually from the console with `/map mapname` where mapname is the name of the BSP file (you'll find it in the .pk3, it's a .zip file with another extension - `/dir maps/*` might also tell you something).

Ah ok I see... Thank you very much !
If I have understand, I open the console with ² and I write /q3wpak4. Yeah ?

You open the console with the tilde (that's the '~' sign) and type `/map q3wpak4` if that is the map's file name within the .pk3.

They don't. There are a bunch of maps in the q3wpak4.pk3 file, these are the names of the map files:

q3wcp17
q3wcp18
q3wcp19
q3wcp20
q3wcp21
q3wcp22
q3wcp23
q3wcp24

These are all CTF levels and an .arena file is included in the pk3, so if you start quake 3, go into the multiplayer menu, click skirmish and switch to Capture the Flag gametype, the maps should be selectable. If not, you could alternatively enter these commands in the console:

\g_gametype 4
\bot_minplayers 8
\map q3wcp17

And ofcourse you can replace q3wcp17 with one of the names listed above.

I don't can do it... Very strange. The console say me : "Can't find this .bsk file" or a sentence like this

Howw !! Yes ! Nice ! Thanks all I have done it ! Very good maps ! Bye !

Another happy customer.

Yes ! Thank you !!!

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Peenyuh please ask your question in english because google traduction doesn't speak french very well !!!

I was... trying... to ask if you understood what the guys have told you. I was running into the same problem. I added a bunch of maps and couldn't find them in-game. I still have to play some maps through the console, but, a lot of them show up in-game now. I just have to look in the right place.

That's probably because there's a limit to the number of maps the map list will display. Also, it rounds the number of maps off to 4 so it always fills up each page of the list, so if you have 13 maps in there, one of those maps won't be shown in the list. Really odd but true.

edit:
that, or the map doesn't have an .arena file included.

I have found the missing .arena file to be a problem, but I didn't know about the rounding to 4 thing. Thank you.

Eraser wrote:Also, it rounds the number of maps off to 4 so it always fills up each page of the list, so if you have 13 maps in there, one of those maps won't be shown in the list. Really odd but true.

I see 3/4 maps on the last page.

I see less than 4 maps per page all the time at least in ioQuake3. I seem to recall navigating through the collections of non-FFA maps in vanilla quake 3 would display the odd-number of maps there as well.

That might be a side effect of a bug in stock Q3 that was fixed in ioquake3: having an insane number of maps (>1024) could a) crash the program hard, or b) subtly corrupt memory.

obsidian wrote:

Eraser wrote:Also, it rounds the number of maps off to 4 so it always fills up each page of the list, so if you have 13 maps in there, one of those maps won't be shown in the list. Really odd but true.

I see 3/4 maps on the last page.

Hmm, I remember seeing code that did this in the SDK, but maybe it was only in the SP map selection menu, not in the skirmish menu.