Multiple BSP copy locations possible? Created 16 years ago2008-05-20 21:06:43 UTC by srry

Well, I hate manually backing stuff up onto separate hard drives and such all the time, so the idea struck me: Is there any way Hammer or some other front end compiler could be set up to copy the BSP to more than one location after the compile is finished? It'd sure make things easier. In the Build Programs tab of the options menu in Hammer, there's obviously only one location that can be set up for this, but is there any sort of compile parameter I could use to do the same thing?

Y'know, i'd love that too. I could backup and copy my maps to other mod directories (when I compile in official games but test them in mods of mine) at the same time.

What if you made a batch file that copied the BSP from your maps directory to some other folder, and then instead of having Hammer or whatever launch Half-Life's executable, you launched the batch file instead? Maybe you could even set the batch file up to launch Half-Life as well, so you could still play the map directly afterward.

I don't personally have any idea how to make or work with batch files, but I assume it can't be too hard.

if u run a batch file you could tell it to copy the map more than once with a line like this i believe...

copy mapname.bsp "C:\Steam\SteamApps\EMAIL\counter-strike\cstrike\maps"
pause
copy mapname.bsp "f:\counter-strike\backups"
pause
"C:\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 10 -dev +map mapname

im not sure if u need the first pause or not. this should allow u to copy to your normal maps directory, plus a backup directory, and then launch the game.

I guess I must just suck at DOS stuff, but I simply cannot get any of my commands to work.

Edit:
Never mind, I got my batch to work... that code above is totally wrong though. Now just to see if it'll copy from one computer to another over my network.

Edit 2:
Got it all set up, and it works great. I can now copy the BSP wherever I need, as well as launch the game. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, klobb

Why not just add another command to your Hammer compile menu that copies your map to somewhere else? You can use full path-names there, you're not limited to those $path variables only.

A few days ago I hung two batch files under the Hammer compile menu, where the first STARTs the second, that does the real compile work. Since the first batch process returns almost immediately, Hammer doesn't stall during the compile. I'm still looking into automatically embedding files using Map Analyst or, if possible, Pakrat. That's where GUI programs generally fail to be usefull, in automated toolchains.

Well, I hate manually backing stuff up onto separate hard drives and such all the time, so the idea struck me: Is there any way Hammer or some other front end compiler could be set up to copy the BSP to more than one location after the compile is finished? It'd sure make things easier. In the Build Programs tab of the options menu in Hammer, there's obviously only one location that can be set up for this, but is there any sort of compile parameter I could use to do the same thing?

I can easily add a feature like that into The Compilator. You can either backup the bsp file, or the rmf/vmf file, or both.

Should i add it in?

why not? sounds like it could be useful.

Yep, I agree.

Alright then.

*Goes to wrork.

Edit:

Added, tested, approved, done.