Feature request: In-game-map-downloads

[ghost]

To give map creators the ability to quickly test fresh maps and to enable game hosts to quickly add new maps I want a feature to download OpenRA-Maps directly from inside the game-lobby.
These maps might be hosted on the content website http://content.open-ra.org and on that website there could be features like flagging malicious map files etc.

[ihptru]

on content.open-ra.org, if map is malicious or abuses anything, any signed in user can click on Report this map and it will be automatically unavailable for Map API

[psydev]

I second this proposal, wholeheartedly!
This feature would be especially useful if working on unit balancing/modding, since the easiest way to test is to place balance changes in the map itself, instead of asking someone to modify their .yaml files.
Right now it's hard to get a game started to test balance changes because you can't have just anyone easily join when they're looking for a server to join. They have to download the map first, and then place it in the game directory.
So when you're waiting for a 4th player to test a new map/balance settings, no one without the map (just browsing available games) can join because first they would have to go to IRC first to find out where to download the map (and not everyone is on IRC) because they can't even join your game to talk to you and ask where to download it.

[chrisforbes]

@ihptru good to see you've got some abuse control stuff in there now. I'm happy to add support for this now.

[ihptru]

I still do not like the idea of this (I mean using the content site which can't be simply replaced). I'll keep thinking what can be done to get around it.

[chrisforbes]

if the API is kept simple, it should be possible to reimplement it anywhere without much effort if it comes to that. We can retarget the deployed clients via DNS.

To that end, can you avoid having .php warts in it?

[ihptru]

For those who want to fix this:

to download map: http://content.open-ra.org/api/map_data.php?load=INSERT_MAP_HASH_HERE&direct
to get map's FILENAME you will need to fetch "content-disposition" from headers

and you will need to save map somewhere: "{1}maps{0}{2}{0}{3}".F(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, Platform.SupportDir, mod, filename)

oh ye and in result you will need update Dictionary of maps in modData

Have fun

[ihptru]

#2488

[psydev]

(edited)
Feature request: allow maps to be put into subdirectories, e.g. /openra/mods/ra/maps/download

Currently it seems like the game won't recognize .oramap files that are in subdirectories.

[chrisforbes]

Yes, we could do that, and it's probably the right thing to do.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Igor Popov notifications@github.com wrote:

no idea what you said.

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[ihptru]

maps are saved into support dir aka (in linux)

~/.openra/maps//.oramap

which should be alright

[ihptru]

fixed in #2823