Compression Created 20 years ago2004-10-10 08:28:42 UTC by Sras

My map compressed as .Max .Map .Dxf but CZ refuses to acknowledge it's existence. I put it I the right folder and There were no errors: No Leaks.

WTF is going on?

Erm, what?

Read the tutorials on the left, the In The Beginning and Compiling Introduced ones.

You need a .bsp to play it. And .map sucks, because it can't store visgroups etc., and doesn't compress as well as .rmf. But basically:

.map: like a .rmf but crap
.rmf: save your map in this
.bsp: compile to this
.max: irrelevant file created on compile
.dxf: no idea

.max and .rmx are actually backups of the rmf and map files created when you save the map or rmf. (Thanks to Seventh for this vital information which saved the compo map of yours truly ). The real irrelevant files created on compile are the .p0, .p1, etc, .wic, .lin, and .prt files. DXF is a format used by many 3d modelling programs, like Maxon or MAX. You could probably make a map in one of these programs, I'm skeptical on it's playability, in terms of both scale and speeds, however.

Anyway, read the tutorials now before asking pointless questions already carefully covered. Read this into the bargin.

The .map file is the one that the compilers read and use.
VHE uses .rmf files to store the map and some other stuff that is irrelevant for compiling.
Exporting to .dxf can be used to fit animations for monsters into your levels.
You cannot import them.

WAIT, HOLD ON - How do u retrieve old maps using and .max and .rmx???

Rename them to *.rmf and/or *.max and, erm, open them.