A Plea to Mission Authors

[grayman]

This is a pet peeve of mine, and you're certainly free to ignore it.

 

But it sure would make my Developer's life easier if y'all would name your map file something close to what you call your mission.

 

It drives me nuts when I have to hunt down a mission problem and I can't quickly figure out which map file I should be looking at. (I keep a folder full of just the *.map files for quick reference.)

 

For example, here are maps that make my work easy:

 

"Business as Usual" -> business.map

 

"TDM Training Mission" -> training_mission.map

 

"Somewhere Above the City" -> somewhere.map

 

And here are maps that make my work ... um ... not so easy:

 

"Old Habits" -> mc.map

 

"Sneak and Destroy" -> kneipe24.map

 

"St. Alban's Cathedral" -> stac.map (close, but not obvious)

 

As I said, your artist's license allows you to name your map any frackin' thing you want, but it would help me if it held some clue as to which mission it belonged to.

 

Thanks.

[Springheel]

Yes, I got burned by "mc.pk4" as well. I've had a few times where I had to go look up the download links to figure out which .pk4 to open. Though I probably am guilty of naming my map file itself poorly.

[Bikerdude]

"St. Alban's Cathedral" -> stac.map (close, but not obvious)

Np, so as I have 2 St Albans missions I'm gonna call this one cathedral and the other caduceus, Mr G.

[Goldwell]

well I just keep my accountant mission as a.map until it's done then I will rename it to theaccountant.map because typing dmap a/a map a/a is much easier

[Obsttorte]

And here are maps that make my work ... um ... not so easy:

"Old Habits" -> mc.map

Yes, I got burned by "mc.pk4" as well.

Sorry. Intentionally the mission was designed to be a castle which you enter through a mine, so mc stands for mine castle. I never changed that name afterwards as I thought it doesn't matter. I'll change that for the 2.0 pk4.

"Sneak and Destroy" -> kneipe24.map

Kneipe is the german word for pub. So it makes sense for a german person

[Sotha]

Grayman is right! Maybe someone should add this to wiki in the mission packaging instructions.

[SeriousToni]

Kneipe is the german word for pub. So it makes sense for a german person

 

Oh dear I'm sorry, I didn't imagine back then that this would be important some day!

My apologize!!