Problem with playing created maps

[Majik]

Greeting fellow dungeon keepers,

Recently i tried to have a dabble in making my own map for some fun and chaos, i made th emap, made the buildings required heart and such, saved it too the folder, and ticked the boxes that are required too play it ( mutilplayer and skirmish ).

but when i load up DK2, click on skirmish, my map doesnt seem too apeear for some reason, ive tried fiddling around with it for a while but unsure as what is causing the problem. The version i am currently using are DK2 v1.7 and DK editor v2.0.

[Duke_Jebawe]

I don't have the editor installed on this pc, but there should be a map setting somewhere in the editor that lets you play the game in skirmish or multiplayer.

[DragonsLover]

Make sure that the level files are stored inside the Data\Editor\Maps folder of the game. If it's already the case, then I don't know. It should be there.

[Majik]

Make sure that the level files are stored inside the Data\Editor\Maps folder of the game. If it's already the case, then I don't know. It should be there.

hmmm the plot thickens, its saved through all of that too the location, yet nothing seems to appear when i load it up on dk2, silly game

thank you for the replies though!

[DragonsLover]

Perhaps the name of the map is inappropriate or too long? Perhaps it requires a thumbnail (which would surprise me)?

[Majik]

I've made sure too keep the names of the maps short, such as calling it Gems.

Could be something i'm doing wrong while creating it, run through of what i do is;

Open up a new one, made it 80x80, i then added the players dungeon heart along with 4 imps, then i added 3 other dungeon hearts for the Computer AI, along with the 4 imps again, i made sure to tick the box on the keeper menu on the side too make them listed as AI. Then give each a portal for them too claim.

Then i give them their money source, a single block of gem save it as Gems.kwd.

could it be something with the way i'm doing it i'm missing a vital part out by any chance?

[Hapuga]

Majik, please, post your map here. I will look into it. later today.

[Majik]

I seem too of stumbled across what i think is the problem, when i save the actual map file itself, the editor says it saves it into the data/editer/maps location, but when i actually open the file again going through my computer, outside of the editor, it's not actually there, what happens is that it's being saved as a shortcut to it, rather than saving it as the map file.

of course... this could be a whole load of gibberish and im making a fool of myself, so sorry if i am haha

[Duke_Jebawe]

Are you running Vista or XP? If so, you have run run the editor as administrator, or the editor can't save in you programs folder.

[Hapuga]

just post the map.