Tip 33 - Custom maps

• Totality - closed down now, but has a good selection of old reviews: http://www.totality.org.uk/pages/index.htm
  
• TFXmaps - not much here yet, but mostly new maps: http://freespace.morat.net/tfxmaps/reviews/index.phtml
  
• Info Beta - mostly maps still in testing, but may have stuff about maps previously in testing too: http://info.gamedesign.net/Beta/index.htm
  
• And of course fileplanet - though you really need to know what map you want: http://www.fileplanet.com
  

• Info beta has some stuff which I seal and copy here: http://info.gamedesign.net/Beta/install.htm
  
• They also recommend this tool: http://info.gamedesign.net/Beta/fra.htm
  

1. The map is in a zip file.
   Unzip the file. Inside you should find a readme of some sort, which will tell you what to do with the files. You might find a .res file which will tell you the same information if you open it in notepad.
   
   The zip file will usually have the files stored in the appropriate paths inside it anyway. Remember that everything goes in the \tfc\ directory - you want the .bsp to end up in \tfc\maps
   
   
2. Just a bsp file
   Well - if you got it like this from a website, try it. It goes into \tfc\maps\
   However, it might not work - which usually means you need some extra support files.
   
   If you downloaded it from the server, then this is often the case - and that is one reason it is evil.
   
   Obviously, the file might be corrupt - try downloading it from somewhere else.
   
   
3. In a .pak file
   
   This is.. unusual. But some map packs do this.
   You CAN extract the files just like a zip file, but easier is just to put it next toyour other pak files in /tfc/
   If you only have pak0.pak, you'd name it pak1.pak and put it there. if you have pak0, pak1 and pak2.pak you'd name it pak3.pak and so forth.
   
   
4. You downloaded it from the server and it doens't work
   
   You are evil! Evil I tell you!
   First of all, you might need additional support files (and the server didn't have a .res file - as of 1.1.0.4)
   
   Get it from a website, it saves so many problems.
   
   
5. Ok, the unusual case. The map came with a whole bunch of files, and no info on where they go.
   A rule of thumb is to put like with like - .bsp and .txt in \tfc\maps\ .wad in \tfc\ .tga in \tfc\gfx\env\
   
   

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