official Map Editor Tutorial - Publishing a Map

[R4bitF00t]

Hello!

Once you have completed your map, or at least got it to a functional state, you might want to publish the map to the community maps section of the campaign map.

While BattleForge allows you to create almost any map you want, I just want to stress one thing - please make sure your map is playable without crashes, especially on loading.
There is nothing that will discourage people more from trying your map, when it keeps crashing, or cannot even load properly.
And just to make sure - please don't include anything offensive in your maps, be it vulgarisms or obscenities.

With that out of the way, let's get to it!

 

If you encounter any issues, don't hesitate to ask in Skylords Reborn Map Making Discord.

 

• Content

• Publishing a Map
• Next Chapter

 

• Publishing a Map

To make the map publicly visible, we need to return to the map editor.

In the Map Settings -> Edit Map Description window, you can notice a little Public Map checkbox at the top.

   

Simply check that, save and PAK the map.
Then, navigate to the community maps section of the campaign map (User Generated Maps).

In the next window, search for your map, I will search for my "playable area test" map.
The map should have a blue folder icon to the left of it - symbolizing the map is present locally on your machine.

As you can see, the minimap is the beautiful one, we've made in the previous topic.

Now you can press the Upload Map button to upload your map to the server.

Once you upload it, you should see it in the list without any icon.

 

If you forgot to set your map as public and upload it, you will see a crossed over eye icon to the left of it.
You can hover your mouse over it to see what it means.

This is to prevent accidental publishing of maps, or for you to see how the published map looks like before making it public.

In that case, you will need to wait for the map to be deleted after the 3 hours, and then upload the map again - setting the map as public and uploading again immediately doesn't work.

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Note: Please be aware that publishing a private map for some reason messes up the minimap preview - don't worry, the public version of the map will have the minimap display correctly.

 

In the future, if for some reason you want to delete your map from the server, you need to contact a GM.

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Note: Maps that haven't been updated in a long time and are in a rough shape might get deleted at some point during cleanup, but remember - even after uploading the map, you still have your local copy of it.

 

• Next Chapter

This concludes the editor functionality and visual side of the tutorial. Now we will get to making our maps functional with scripts.
For that, we will first need to set up a script editor.

 

• Script Editors •

 

Alternatively, return to the Map Editor Tutorial homepage here.

 

• Map Editor Tutorial •

 

 

 

Edited August 27 by R4bitF00t