Maniaplanet Forum

Hi Team,
I work for an indigenous school and the great people at Nadeo are helping us out with sponsorship. We have got mania planet installed and have stadium working well for LAN racing, but with shootmania, something seems to have gone wrong with the install. When you go to shoot mania storm and want to play no map playlists show up. When you then navigate and find a map and click on it the whole game instantly quits.
Elite and Royal modes have playlists and run fine..
The big problem is with user created maps (which is important from the education point of view)
When you create and validate a map and then try to run it, the game sets up a server (that can be seen from other LAN computers) but freezes on the loading screen.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I can provide screen shots or any other info you need to try to help me out.
One thing we did do that may have made a difference.. When I said Elite and Royal were working- I actually downloaded the update (15mb) individually for the 3 computers that I am testing so far. With the storm update (850mb) I tried to download it from home and then swap the ProgramData/MAniaplanet folder over ( as the internet at school is slow and gimped by all the shield software running on it..
Thanks for all of your help and ideas, Nadeo is a brilliant company for helping us out this far and we really appreciate their and the community's support
HAve a great day
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Interesting initiative

Can you be more precise about the freeze?
When exactly does this happen?
When you do the "test run" inside the editor? Or When you want to play the map?

For each game more, you have to use also the right scripts in the map.
Ideally you load the title and edit maps inside this title and for this title only.

It is possible to edit maps for the other modes also directly from the plain ShootMania title, but most probably they won't run properly there.

Hey Cheers
So trying to be more specific. Any existing official map I try to run from shoot mania Storm crashes it. There are no maps in the playlist section at the start. When I try to create a map I am setting the map type to Melee and it runs fine in the editor in test mode. Then when you try to host a LAN server and use that map it hangs on the load screen (although other computers can see the server - they can't join) this is the case from storm, elite or royal - but I have only been trying to make melee maps
One interesting point. IF I locate the official maps in my computer and double click them, they start mania planet and will run fine, but there is no server and noone can join in.

Elite and royal are working because there is a playlist at the start and they will let you use those maps.

The part about linking script to the map, I am sorry but here I am a bit lost. I had to get a tech to help me install and maybe the folder structure has gone a bit weird because the accounts are network and not actually on the computer - so there are mania planet folders everywhere. I have tried to look for tuts - but so far I am failing to understand.
Thanks for your help
Cheers

ah ok. Do you know that you have to use the correct game script also at the creation of the local server? Especially in the GUI.

And do you know that you can run also a dedicated version of the server, which might be als realatively easy to set up?
http://doc.maniaplanet.com/dedicated-server/

Hey Tmarc
cheers I had seen the stuff about the dedicated server, but I thought we must be so close to getting it to work, as we can get stadium racing, elite games and royal to run. As I am at a school, the politics of saying to the man, I am going to run a dedicated server on the network is hard (but may be doable)
Can you tell me more about linking the script and do you know why Storm would have no playlists at the start and not want to run any official maps that I point it to?
Thanks again for your help
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In contrast to the Trackmania games, Shootmania does not feature solo player campaigns (except the new Platform title, however it is a bit different there).
Therefore there is no default playlist for Shootmania.
If you download the dedicated server, there is no playlist either for Shootmania, but you can easily create one in a text file, like it is for e.g. Stadium.

Once I downloaded a mappack from Mania-Actu just to test those maps, and I created a small playlist with those maps.

Linking the script in the GUI is easy: at the start of the server you can select game type:
Click on the script textfield to change the gamemode (not enabled in a title pack except Storm).

However, it is best to start in the title you want to run the exact maps with, e.g. Elite.
General hint: Do not mix maps of different types in ShootMania, this won't work properly.
Of course a crash should not happen, and I remember there was some similar issue a while ago, perhaps the bugfix for it was not yet distributed.

Hey Thanks heaps I managed to work out what you were saying and now have it all running!
Cheers and have a great day

That's great
Have fun