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(Bizatch) #1

i made a pk4, and put all the necessery files in it

but when i give it to my friend he cant play because his doom is not in the same directory

as mine is.

what should i do?

btw, i tried not saving full path info also, and it doesnt work

(Scampie) #2

The pk4 dirs should be local to the /base/ dir. What this means is when you make your pk4, you should move everything into c:/textures c:/maps etc. This will ensure that you’ll have the correct path no matter where D3 is installed. Otherwise, when you create it with full paths from within the doom3 directory, they’ll be stored doom3/base/maps/mymap/ which is incorrect. Correct path for this example would be maps/mymap/.

(Bizatch) #3

what if the other persons doom is in D not C?

(Scampie) #4

Drive letters are not saved in the paths, I just used c:/ as an example.

(Bizatch) #5

k it worked thanks

(Scampie) #6

np :smiley:

And if anyone else is reading this and I wasn’t very clear, here’s a good tutorial on making pk3 files for Quake3, which is similar, you just have a differant extension.

http://fps.brainerd.net/creatingpk3.htm