Campaign/Scenario problems.

[Emmanovi]

I have created a campaign and put it in the Campaign folder.

I have then created the scenario for it and placed it in the scenario folder.

The scenario "could not be found". I tried placing the scenario:

• In a sepcific folder in the scenario folder.
  In the campaign folder.

I have checked it over and over again...but it comes up with the same message: ""X" cannot be found".

Help?

(Shall I post the cfg files here?)

[scott]

No, post everything including folders.

If you download a campaign and modify each piece line-by-line your chances of success should go up.

[Emmanovi]

Riight...here goes....

Hold on, how do I do folders?

[turin]

tgzip it. (tar -czvvf file.tar.gz FOLDER).

[Emmanovi]

tgzip it. (tar -czvvf file.tar.gz FOLDER).

Forgive me...I am a complete novice at these things...

Do I type:

> tar -czvvf (FILENAME).tar.gz

?

And That would be all the folders? As in the entire directory? Or just those I need?

[WildPenguin]

"tar -czvvf (FILENAME).tar.gz FOLDERNAME" to add the folder to a tgzip'd archive

[Emmanovi]

And Which folders do I need to do that to?

Oh, and I used the basic layouts on the creating scenarios thingy on the wiki.

[scott]

The campaign folder and the campaign .cfg file. Anything in .wesnoth/data/campaigns (or userdata/data/campaigns/ or ~/Library/Preferences/Wesnoth/data/campaigns ... whichever applies to you) that pertains to your campaign.

You could post the contents of the .cfg file, but it would be hard to tell what's supposed to happen without knowing the directory structure of the campaign folder.

[Emmanovi]

Here goes....

Grr... the campaign folder isn't tzipping!

Right, sorted it!

BTW, these are both folders in the /data folder. The Campaign is "Test Campaign" and the scenario is "Tester".

[scott]

Ok, first of all, you're using the game data folder and not the user data folder. You must use the user data folder, which varies based on operating system.

Assuming you have located the user's data folder, you should place your files in certain locations.

I recommend you do it like this:

./data/campaigns <- the user data folder
./data/campaigns/test_campaign.cfg
./data/campaigns/test_campaign/ <- a folder
./data/campaigns/test_campaign/scenarios/ <- drop your scenarios here
./data/campaigns/test_campaign/maps/ <- drop your maps here

The scenario file looks alright, except using the above scheme the map data line looks like this:
map_data="{@campaigns/test_campaign/maps/scenario1}"

The campaign configuration file, when using the above scheme, needs some lines telling the game where to find the scenario configuration files. The lines look like this:
#ifdef CAMPAIGN_TEST <- which is defined with the define= key in [campaign]
{@campaigns/Liberty/scenarios}
#endif

You should download a campaign from the campaign server and modify it. That way all of the structure is already done for you.

[Emmanovi]

I can't find anything like a user data folder...I'm running this on Suse Linux, do you know where it might be?

[turin]

/home/(username)/.wesnoth/data/campaigns/

[Emmanovi]

Got it. Copying over files....

[Emmanovi]

Ok, first of all, you're using the game data folder and not the user data folder. You must use the user data folder, which varies based on operating system.

Assuming you have located the user's data folder, you should place your files in certain locations.

I recommend you do it like this:

./data/campaigns <- the user data folder
./data/campaigns/test_campaign.cfg
./data/campaigns/test_campaign/ <- a folder
./data/campaigns/test_campaign/scenarios/ <- drop your scenarios here
./data/campaigns/test_campaign/maps/ <- drop your maps here

The scenario file looks alright, except using the above scheme the map data line looks like this:
map_data="{@campaigns/test_campaign/maps/scenario1}"

The campaign configuration file, when using the above scheme, needs some lines telling the game where to find the scenario configuration files. The lines look like this:
#ifdef CAMPAIGN_TEST <- which is defined with the define= key in [campaign]
{@campaigns/Liberty/scenarios}
#endif

You should download a campaign from the campaign server and modify it. That way all of the structure is already done for you.

The #ifdef thing I don't fully understand....

I copied down those lines, but do I need to put CAMPAIGN_TEST somewhere as well?

[scott]

You already have it as the define key in [campaign]