MediaPack - Revision history

Flowtron: going out of business

2011-11-02T09:51:13Z

going out of business

Viper: /* Packaging textures */

2011-05-24T02:36:24Z

‎Packaging textures

Apollo at 12:28, 20 March 2011

2011-03-20T12:28:31Z

Flowtron: more elaborate explanations on the different types of media

2011-02-13T16:31:08Z

more elaborate explanations on the different types of media

Flowtron: Information about using/creating a MediaPack

2011-02-13T16:15:21Z

Information about using/creating a MediaPack

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=MediaPack=
A MediaPack (M.P.) is a package of additional media for AssaultCube. There are people who also call it a [[Map pack|Map Pack]], but it's actually for more than just maps!

==How-To Install==
You might get URLs from your client - if a map's header contains the information - so you can enjoy maps you got through [[getmap]] in their full beauty.
Simply get the URL printed to your console from the logfile and paste it into your browser; you will be redirected to the download-site for that MediaPack and receive a ZIP-file.
Take the ZIP-file and uncompress it into your [[game-home]]. That's all.

==How-To Package==
Packaging is a bit more complex, naturally. You will need to create an appropriate text-file with a file-per-line of what the MediaPack provides. This text-file goes into packages/mediapack and is named after the following convention: YYxx - this means in 2010 the 1st MediaPack was called 1001, in 2011 the 23rd MediaPack is called 1123. To get your index-number (the xx bit) please speak to a member of the development team, but you can also just assume the number following the last released one - unless someone else is bundling one in parallel (and get's there first) that number will be correct.
As an example:
Say you've got some textures to provide that you've put into packages/mytextures; three of them 001.jpg, 002.jpg and 003.png. Say you spoke to [[User:flowtron]] and he told you your M.P. would be 1123, then you create the file packages/mediapack/1123.txt with the following contents
packages/mytextures/001.jpg
packages/mytextures/002.jpg
packages/mytextures/003.png
Then you creat a ZIP-file containing all the 4-files (the 1123.txt and the images) inside their proper subdirectories; finally you give it's URL to a member of the dev-team, so they can add it to the [http://assault.cubers.net/cgi/mediapack.do download-tool].

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   packages/textures/mytextures/002.jpg
   packages/textures/mytextures/003.png
-Then you creat a ZIP-file containing all the 4-files (the 1123.txt and the images) inside their proper subdirectories; finally you give it's URL to a member of the dev-team, so they can add it to the [http://assault.cubers.net/cgi/mediapack.do download-tool].
+Then you create a ZIP-file containing all the 4-files (the 1123.txt and the images) inside their proper subdirectories; finally you give it's URL to a member of the dev-team, so they can add it to the [http://assault.cubers.net/cgi/mediapack.do download-tool].
 ===Packaging models===
 This is basically the same as for textures explained above. But you just put in the directories, not the actual files. Assuming your model data is

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	To be sure you've done everything right you can also find out which requirements a map has by using the '''listmapdependencies''' command.		To be sure you've done everything right you can also find out which requirements a map has by using the '''listmapdependencies''' command.
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 =MediaPack=
 A MediaPack (M.P.) is a package of additional media for AssaultCube. There are people who also call it a [[Map pack|Map Pack]], but it's actually for more than just maps!
 ==How-To Install==

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 ==How-To Package==
-Packaging is a bit more complex, naturally. You will need to create an appropriate text-file with a file-per-line of what the MediaPack provides. This text-file goes into packages/mediapack and is named after the following convention: YYxx - this means in 2010 the 1st MediaPack was called 1001, in 2011 the 23rd MediaPack is called 1123. To get your index-number (the xx bit) please speak to a member of the development team, but you can also just assume the number following the last released one - unless someone else is bundling one in parallel (and get's there first) that number will be correct.
+Packaging is a bit more complex, naturally. You will need to create an appropriate text-file (called MP-listing) with a file-per-line of what the MediaPack provides. This text-file goes into packages/mediapack and is named after the following convention: YYxx - this means in 2010 the 1st MediaPack was called 1001, in 2011 the 23rd MediaPack is called 1123. To get your index-number (the xx bit) please speak to a member of the development team, but you can also just assume the number following the last released one - unless someone else is bundling one in parallel (and get's there first) that number will be correct.
 As an example:
-Say you've got some textures to provide that you've put into packages/mytextures; three of them 001.jpg, 002.jpg and 003.png. Say you spoke to [[User:flowtron]] and he told you your M.P. would be 1123, then you create the file packages/mediapack/1123.txt with the following contents
+Say you've got some textures to provide that you've put into packages/textures/mytextures; three of them 001.jpg, 002.jpg and 003.png. Say you spoke to [[User:flowtron]] and he told you your M.P. would be 1123, then you create the file packages/mediapack/1123.txt with the following contents
-  packages/mytextures/001.jpg
+  packages/textures/mytextures/001.jpg
-  packages/mytextures/002.jpg
+  packages/textures/mytextures/002.jpg
-  packages/mytextures/003.png
+  packages/textures/mytextures/003.png
 Then you creat a ZIP-file containing all the 4-files (the 1123.txt and the images) inside their proper subdirectories; finally you give it's URL to a member of the dev-team, so they can add it to the [http://assault.cubers.net/cgi/mediapack.do download-tool].