Converting maps to Melee

[velofire]

ok I know many of you want to make melee maps out of existing maps but i must warn you!
DO NOT SAVE THE CHANGES TO THE ORIGINAL MAP FILE OR YOU WILL GET A VERSION MISMATCH ERROR!!!!!!!!!
that said, PLEASE dont upload the duel version of the map unless it is an original map!
this would create a massive amount of different maps with the EXACT SAME NAME and NOBODY would be able to use that melee map online!!!



1 open unrealed
2 open a duel map
3 look for the "chaosmapinfo" actor and click once
4 copy it(NOT under the right click menu)(edit>copy OR ctrl+C)
5 open map to be converted to a melee map
6 paste the actor ANYWHERE in the new map
7 CAREFULY go to file>save AS and replace prefix from map name with "duel" (example DM-Pieceofcrap would be saved as Duel-Pieceofcrap
(putting save will screw up your map and you wont be able to use it online unless you download and replace it with th d/l version)
8 close unrealed and open ut2k3/4 and enjoy

please note that ive only tried this with br,dm,dom,koth,and CTF maps...
and no you cant yet play ctf melee just by converting a ctf map.

PLEASE remember to be considerate and DONT UPLOAD any converted map you downloaded.

[R.Flagg]

Hi.

If this is just so you can play melee Duel in non-Duel maps, I'd recommend trying the XMaps mutator.

http://www.planetunreal.com/xmaps/ (It's in his beta section.)

It will allow you to do just that. Simply start a game of melee Duel with the XMaps mutator running, and after map starts, hit your XMaps button, and then you can pick your map, any map. BR, CTF, DM, KOTH, whatever.



The map there is Angelhearts DM-Highlander, and the model is Hunter, by Piotr S³omowicz. Neither are made by Chaos team. (wouldn't it be nice to have a map by him though?)

Not that I want to encourage folks to play non-Chaos maps, but I guess it might be better than cracking maps open in the editor and so forth.

[jb]

velofire

a large part of duel testing was done on Duel-Gael in the same mannor. In fact we wrote duel in such a way that you can get other maps to play after you rename them or use another tool)

[LeFilou]

little off topic sry
I have a little collection of Angelheart maps, but didn't know about highlander yet
I tried to download it 5 times now, and every archive is CRC corruptet it seems
could you tell me plz where you dl'ed it from?

btw:
there is a server called '[BE]Chaos' where you can vote for 'Chaos Deathmatch Meele Weapons' or something like that, which is in fact playing DM in DM-maps with meele weapons
very funny
dunno how they did that though ..

[FurrySound]

About the Chaos Deathmatch with Melee, they might be using XMaps to do it, as RFlagg mentioned.

Head on over to www.fasterfiles.com for DM-Highlander... I just downloaded it and it tested fine.