Correct Campaign Path...

[Thanatos]

Hey guys,

just wanted to start testing my campaign developing skills. No big plan or so... just testing what is possible... But I have a little prob:

The Wiki gives me two options for the Campaign Directory:
http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/BuildingCam ... yStructure is saying:

To build a campaign in the Wesnoth user path you must place it in ~/.wesnoth .

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/EditingWesnoth is saying:

* userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign.cfg - a text file
* userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/ - a subdirectory
o userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/scenarios
o userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/units
o userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/images
o userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/music
o userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/sounds
o userdata/data/campaigns/MyCampaign/utils

Now I'm asking myself: Which one is right? If someone could tell me, I would also correct the wrong entry on the wiki page...

Thx.
Than

[Ranger M]

I think that both are right, in linux the file which the data/campaigns directory is in is called .wesnoth/. On other operating systems it might be different, might be the same, but it's the userdata folder, you'll recognise it because it's the folder with lots of directorys named after the campaigns (all of the ones you downloaded, not the mainline ones)

[NeoPhile]

They're both right, but neither is complete. What the first one is saying, essentially, is that userdata = ~/.wesnoth.

The correct path in linux is ~/.wesnoth/data/campaigns/My_Campaign.cfg (and so on for the other files). In windows, it's something like C:\Documents and Settings\username\.wesnoth\data\campaigns\My_Campaign.cfg (I'm not a windows user, so I'm guessing a bit here). I can't help with macs at all.

[scott]

c:\Program Files\Wesnoth\userdata (windows)

~/.wesnoth (linux or mac command line build)

~/Library/Preferences/Wesnoth/ (mac official app)

These are the locations of the userdata directory for each OS. The wiki article should already include a note somewhere that userdata is a symbol which you should mentally replace it with your OS's true location, but perhaps this note doesn't exist in the campaign section. EditingWesnoth should have this note (and you're asked to read that first). If you want to clarify it, go ahead.

The funny thing is that the Windows way is the easiest to understand (since it actually is a "userdata" folder) but is the least functional (since it lives with the game and not the user's personal files).