Moving levels

[Skybax]

Hey so, I downloaded the new Bitfighter, but I can't seem to get it to load the levels that I already had. And I can't find where it saves levels that I make in it. If I put it in the same folder as my level file then it won't open. I don't want to lose my levels xD

[watusimoto]

What platform are you on?

[Skybax]

Mac OS 10.6.4. I've tried it on both Intel and PPC.

[watusimoto]

I'm not sure where they are on the Mac, but if you can look at the command that launches the game, it should have some cmd line params that specify the -rootdatadir, which is where the folders live. Note you can also change where the folders are by changing the cmd line params if you don't want to move your files.

[Skybax]

Uhhhhhhhhhh where is the command line?

[watusimoto]

We're going down the wrong track... I'd better let a mac user respond to this!

[raptor]

Not a Mac user per se... but I helped create the package. :]

Every user on a Mac will have his/her own copy of levels in their home directory. What you are looking for is under the directory:

  Code:

<HOME>/Library/Application Support/Bitfighter

That is the bitfighter user preference directory, which includes a copy of the standard maps. Just add what you want to the levels sub-folder, and you're done!

[Skybax]

Sweet, I found it, thanks!

Looks like this has already been solved, but Bitfighter levels can also be found in the Documents folder.

/Documents -> /bitfighter_settings -> /Bitfighter -> /levels

[raptor]

/Documents -> /bitfighter_settings -> /Bitfighter -> /levels

Yes. That is a soft link folder that points to the one in Application Support. I forgot I put that there..

[Skybax]

Okay, here's a weird problem.
Even though when I press F7, and Bitfighter tells me where it's getting it's levels from, it says exactly where the levels are, when I try to host a dedicated server, it can't find them.
This is what happens.

dan-myalls-computer:~ Calvin$ /Users/Calvin/Desktop/Bitfighter.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitfighter -dedicated -hostname "Skybax Levels"
CA: alc_ca_init
Welcome to Bitfighter!
Could not read any levels from the levels folder "".
No levels found in folder . Cannot host a game.
CA: alc_ca_deinit

How come the Application itself can find the levels, but Terminal can't?

[raptor]

/Users/Calvin/Desktop/Bitfighter.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitfighter -dedicated -hostname "Skybax Levels"

That's your problem :]

you are using the 'Bitfighter' binary. You have to use the wrapper script bitfighter.sh with the same commandline parameters.

The wrapper script is the magic that does the user-specific preferences for the game.

[Skybax]

Ohhhhh... It changed...
Before the binary was what you used. Thanks!

[ZoombeR]

no, you still do it with the binary, but the binary always points right outside bitfighter.app, which was the old location of the levels folder. If you want to host from terminal, youl have to do what raptor said, OR, specify the -leveldir. I think you can point to the soft link for that, or the real location if not.

[Skybax]

Yeah I pointed Terminal at the .sh instead of the binary and it's been running for a few hours now. It even runs bots!
Also, the noise that it makes when people join and leave changed. It's cooler now. I'm guessing that's probably sposed to be like that.