OK, Octavius, now I'm really confused. I downloaded an adventure that said DO NOT copy PAK files into adventure folder,
I have a hunch the way it was written may be similar to the way I wrote most of my readme's.
The wording would be COPY, DO NOT CUT THE PAK FILE, into your Adventures folder.
So once again, I will write out the steps for installing User created maps.
A) Make sure that the map you are downloading is suitable for your game. If the map was created with the Poseidon editor, you will need Poseidon to play it. These maps will be noted in the downloads section with a "Y" beside the filename.
To install a user map follow the below instructions.
1) Create a folder in your Zeus Adventures folder named exactly the same as the custom adventure you are planning on installing. Make sure that the folder name is identical to the PAK file included in the ZIP and NOT the name of the ZIP file. Some zip files closely match the contents of the zip in name, but small differences will make the file useless.
So example... the Pak file is named Treasure_Hunt.pak
You will need to create an Adventure folder called Treasure_Hunt, This folder must be located inside the Adventures folder you already have. The folder must be named identically to the Treasure_Hunt Pak file. treasure-hunt, Treasure_hunt, or treasure hunt would not work. Remember it MUST BE EXACT.
So you will end up with something like this.
C:\Impressions Games\Zeus\Adventures\Treasure_Hunt
Once the folder is created, extract the files as follows.
Place the .Pak and .txt files inside this folder. If the user file contained .set files, .map files and .mp3 files, these would also go into that folder.
Now you should have something like this.
C:\Impressions Games\Zeus\Adventures\Treasure_Hunt\Treasure_Hunt.pak
C:\Impressions Games\Zeus\Adventures\Treasure_Hunt\Treasure_Hunt.txt etc.
In the original version of the game, players were often having problems getting user created maps to work. The way around this was to also include a copy of the custom pak file in the main Adventures directory. So in addition to the above, COPY, DO NOT CUT the Pak file from the custom adventure into your main Adventures directory.
You will have this
C:\Impressions Games\Zeus\Adventures\Treasure_Hunt.pak
Hope this helps you out.
Please remember that Poseidon created adventures, will not work with Zeus.
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