Another person needing help playing a custom story

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Another person needing help playing a custom story - xResorx - 07-28-2012

First post Big Grin

sorry if this is in the wrong place...

Well I need help. No matter what I do I cannot get cs's to play. Here's what my directory looks like in the cs folder:

TheStalker
-maps
^- firstencounter.map
-custom_story.cfg
(no lang file, no image file. I'm going to finish the map and go back to add journal entries and notes.)

^
This is all located within redist/custom_stories/

contents of .cfg file
<Main
Name = "The Stalking"
Author = "Nurglitch"
MapsFolder = "maps/"
FirstMap = "firstencounter.map" <--- This one may be wrong on here, and if it is take it as the correct implacement. because im just going off memory
StartPos = "PlayerStartArea_1"
/>
Ive looked on the wiki.
Ive looked on multiple threads.

I do get a few errors in my hpl file . I believe thats the name, remember going off memory here. Its located in my documents/amnesia/main. It says something about the custom story failing to load because its not pointing to the right file. ie it cant find my story.

I can play in the MapViewer. However I cant get this story to show up in the custom stories subsection of the menu.

Also no .hps file.

Just want to test out what I have so far. I have a few custom skinned monsters that I made, that wouldn't ruin anything would it? They show up in the ModelEditor and in the LevelEditor. They work in the MapViewer too.

My guess is I've got something set up wrong with the whole file placement/ .cfg

Anything would be appreciated.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - Rapture - 07-28-2012

Does your CS crash on startup, or does the CS just not appear in the Custom Stories?

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom stor - xResorx - 07-28-2012

(07-28-2012, 06:57 PM)Rapture Wrote: Does your CS crash on startup, or does the CS just not appear in the Custom Stories?

It doesnt appear in the custom stories. I can run it in the editor/viewer.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - Rapture - 07-28-2012

Try renaming your config file to "custom_story_settings.cfg"

I think a CS requires a lang file. Here is a basic one, just save it as "extra_english.lang"

Spoiler below!

And save it in the same place as your config file.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - xResorx - 07-28-2012

Its been named that. I just changed the language file, no dice. But hey, guess Ive got a lang file to edit for later.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - Rapture - 07-28-2012

(07-28-2012, 08:58 PM)xResorx Wrote: Its been named that. I just changed the language file, no dice. But hey, guess Ive got a lang file to edit for later.

The first sentence, are you talking about the config file? It has to be "custom_story_settings.cfg" or it won't show up.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - xResorx - 07-28-2012

Yep. Thats exactly what its named.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - xResorx - 07-29-2012

... Is the .cfg file supposed to NOT be a text file?

Same question but with the scripts...

Im using standard notepad. How do I go about saving them in a different format? Usually by typing the suffix at the end it automatically does it for me....

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - JenniferOrange - 07-29-2012

NO, NO NO NO! The .cfg is supposed to have the extension of .cfg. You probably have the extensions hidden, so what you think is .cfg is actually .txt.cfg which is not the same thing. Change it!:
Click Start. Type Folder Options in the search bar. Open it. Go under the View tab. Uncheck the box that says Hide Extensions For Known File Types. Click Apply, then Ok.
All done! Now right click on your .cfg file and hit rename. You should see it will say .txt.cfg. Change it to it's proper extension, as well as the other files and you should be able to see it now.

RE: Another person needing help playing a custom story - xResorx - 07-29-2012

THANK YOU.

YOU.
ARE.
GOD.
Its fixed! Big Grin

thank you guys so much.