For NaliCity admins and especially for QaPete:
The service I'm describing here is NOT a competitor for NaliCity. I am planning merely to make it a supplement for it. The service contains a lot of things that make it slow on large loads. It also does NOT have ANY kind or reviews and/or bulletin boards or news. It is just another pure-bred service for mappers.
Have You ever met one of the following:
- downloaded a HUGE map just to notice that there is one gigantic texture file that is not actually used by the puny map
- downloaded a cool map because it was played in a server. After installation You noticed that You could no more play any map that uses UT.utx in any server but on the one having this cool map.
- downloaded a map but could not find the JimboJambo.uax anywhere
- uploaded a map to NaliCity and noticed 27 seconds after starting the upload that You forgot to include the citytex.utx
- after a succesful upload You noticed a horrible BSP error in the red base ceiling. It was easy to fix but NaliCity had already spread the map all over the planet. So, You decided to make a new version, CTF-NoBspHole]IX[.unr
- noticed that some idiote had replaced You map (by requesting update) with something too ugly to mention
Just to mention a few....
Well, this service then, here's what it will do for You:
You can send Your map into the service with FTP. In order to do that, You have to register into the system with a functioning e-mail (to retrieve Your password). The system will only accept maps that belong to You or are not already in the system. This is checked by comparing a list of map names created from the files You uploaded with Your login account. This is to prevent Mr. WiseGuy from ruining Your artwork. You have also opportunity to remove/rename/update Your map in the system. You also have the choise to allow/deny public visibility of Your data.
After You uploaded the package, the map, text files, additional packages etc are teared apart. They are inspected and stored into the system individually. During this process the system generates a preview HTML page of Your map with screenshots, briefings, level info etc... This information is updated every time You make changes to Your data.
When You want to download a map, You have the choise to get all items that were originally zipped with it or You can let the system automatically include only the needed components (the data owner can define for example the readme as an essential component). You can also get only the nice texture pack.
On the download screen You have warnings in case some of the essential packages conflict with the majority of similar packages around. You can still install the thing but at least You were warned !!!
So, that's basically it. Just some automatic package analysis, some interesting statistics and good download system.
If You have any suggestions for more features, I'd like to hear about them as soon as possible.
The service I'm describing here is NOT a competitor for NaliCity. I am planning merely to make it a supplement for it. The service contains a lot of things that make it slow on large loads. It also does NOT have ANY kind or reviews and/or bulletin boards or news. It is just another pure-bred service for mappers.
Have You ever met one of the following:
- downloaded a HUGE map just to notice that there is one gigantic texture file that is not actually used by the puny map
- downloaded a cool map because it was played in a server. After installation You noticed that You could no more play any map that uses UT.utx in any server but on the one having this cool map.
- downloaded a map but could not find the JimboJambo.uax anywhere
- uploaded a map to NaliCity and noticed 27 seconds after starting the upload that You forgot to include the citytex.utx
- after a succesful upload You noticed a horrible BSP error in the red base ceiling. It was easy to fix but NaliCity had already spread the map all over the planet. So, You decided to make a new version, CTF-NoBspHole]IX[.unr
- noticed that some idiote had replaced You map (by requesting update) with something too ugly to mention
Just to mention a few....
Well, this service then, here's what it will do for You:
You can send Your map into the service with FTP. In order to do that, You have to register into the system with a functioning e-mail (to retrieve Your password). The system will only accept maps that belong to You or are not already in the system. This is checked by comparing a list of map names created from the files You uploaded with Your login account. This is to prevent Mr. WiseGuy from ruining Your artwork. You have also opportunity to remove/rename/update Your map in the system. You also have the choise to allow/deny public visibility of Your data.
After You uploaded the package, the map, text files, additional packages etc are teared apart. They are inspected and stored into the system individually. During this process the system generates a preview HTML page of Your map with screenshots, briefings, level info etc... This information is updated every time You make changes to Your data.
When You want to download a map, You have the choise to get all items that were originally zipped with it or You can let the system automatically include only the needed components (the data owner can define for example the readme as an essential component). You can also get only the nice texture pack.
On the download screen You have warnings in case some of the essential packages conflict with the majority of similar packages around. You can still install the thing but at least You were warned !!!
So, that's basically it. Just some automatic package analysis, some interesting statistics and good download system.
If You have any suggestions for more features, I'd like to hear about them as soon as possible.
