R Soul on 3/1/2007 at 15:48
Yeah I second that. I wonder why browsers don't have a word wrap option for text files?
Eshaktaar on 3/1/2007 at 17:14
Good text editors like UltraEdit allow you to convert text files so they have hard returns at a certain line length.
R Soul on 3/1/2007 at 18:07
That sounds useful. I use Notepad++ and I just noticed that has a similar function - lines can be split when they reach the edge of the window.
Cardia on 29/1/2007 at 23:49
i´ve read all rules, i got disapointed because if you go to lvlworld.com it´s the site most updated of quake 3 arenas you will find the most variety of arenas were the authors take the liberty to add music at their own choice to their arenas without forgeting to mention the artist name on the credits, and alot of arenas are being always updated and most of them have been built a few years ago, even the weakest author has the oportunity to share his weak arena to the world, i think that´s important because authors will feel motivated to build more and more arenas and to improve their skill on level editing, i ´m not saying that i don´t agree with all rules what i´m saying is that some rules may limit the quality of a mission. and that there is some lack of support concernig the sites for thief fms, about 3 or 4 years ago there was at least 5 sites that were always updated with fms by that time i didn´t know that there was fms but i already was playing thief, only last year on march i decided to try to search for expations for thief and then i found some sites with fms Keeperofmetalandgold thiefcircle and another site with fms, but when i found them i noticed that they stoped being updated , so i made i deep search for other sites of fms and it then i found thiefmissions.com i got very happy because i found new fms that the other sites didn´t have, i ´ve played so many fms that i also had the wish to make fms and share my skills, luckly Jason submited my fms, and i want to thank him for that beacuse i was able to share my great taste for thief and its fms, Thief is defently my favourite game:thumb: . i hope my new mission"Citadel of Douro" wasn´t ignored just because i´ve broke a few rules that i didn´t know, i´ll make sure that in future i won´t break those rules , in order to keep sharing my missions. i´m counting with your support Jason, don´t worry i´ll see that my next mission will follow all your rules despite of some limitations
john9818a on 24/2/2007 at 21:37
Quote Posted by Thelvyn
I suggested we do a crc/md5 or something similar on mission's and you could then just compare them to see if it is the same.
There is a program supplied with windows called fc.exe in the windows\command folder. Type fc /? to get the usage, but it will compare two files and list the differences.
Thelvyn on 24/2/2007 at 22:08
Quote Posted by john9818a
There is a program supplied with windows called fc.exe in the windows\command folder. Type fc /? to get the usage, but it will compare two files and list the differences.
Your telling me we should use file compare instead of an md5 to verify if a zip is different ?
Your kidding me right ?? Sorry but that is ridiculous.
That was a DOS program for christ sake and if you rely on that to verify your files are not corrupted I feel sorry for you.
20 years ago I used to use that but there are so many better tools not to mention cross platform.
*Zaccheus* on 30/7/2007 at 12:48
Quote Posted by R Soul
This thread has lots of good advice for people making and submitting FMs, but now I have a request to make of those
hosting FMs:
When you extract the readme files and link to them directly,
please remove the email address.
I hardly ever got spam until I released my FM.
I agree.
:)
It's too late for me, but it would be nice if something could be done about new FMs being released.
john9818a on 15/6/2009 at 02:56
Sorry, but I didn't see this post until tonight.
I think you are reading into my post too much. I never said to do this instead of anything... I just gave another option that actually does work, and no, I don't use fc.exe. :tsktsk:
Quote Posted by Thelvyn
Your telling me we should use file compare instead of an md5 to verify if a zip is different ?
Your kidding me right ?? Sorry but that is ridiculous.
That was a DOS program for christ sake and if you rely on that to verify your files are not corrupted I feel sorry for you.
20 years ago I used to use that but there are so many better tools not to mention cross platform.
Nameless Voice on 15/6/2009 at 03:08
What's wrong with FC?
It's a simple program that comes with every version of Windows and performs a binary compare of two files. It serves its purpose perfectly, and compares the full file against the full file, rather than just against a checksum.
It may have problems with very large files, but FMs are hardly that big.
Obviously enough, it's more useful for comparing one set of files rather than repeatedly comparing all the files in a folder - you'd need a special program for that - but the idea that it doesn't work for modern files is preposterous.
Thelvyn on 15/6/2009 at 14:07
Two years later...
But I digress really use whatever you want but if your making suggestions for other people I believe MD5 is better since for one thing people on linux do not have fc.exe
There are viruses that masquerade as fc.exe.
Using MD5 also makes it easier for the people running Linux download servers to verify files against.
And what is wrong with recommending an open source/cross platform solution anyway ?
