Creating a .nob file

Creating a .nob file
Question Submitted By: HueyPLong

How do I package and distribute my map or chronicle as a single .nob file?

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Answer Category: Mapping / Embrace


Creating a .nob file is easy!
(If you have WinZip)

Just make a new directory (anywhere) and name it your map.

Then make subdirectories under that one, one named levels, maps, scenes, and chronicles.

Then go into your correponding vampire directories (vampire/levels/, vampire/maps/, etc..)

Copy any files, in each vampire directory to YOUR corresponding directory.

e.g. C:/vampire/levels/yourmap.nil
----to---c:/yourmap/levels/yourmap.nil

After your done, just open WinZip, and pick "Create New Zip File".
Name the zip file, whatever you like.

Then put YOUR main directory (make sure subdirectories is enabled)....

SET COMPRESSION TO NONE (very important)

Zip those directories up.

Leave Winzip, and change yourmap.zip, to yourmap.nob

(a .nob file is basically a directory structure that has been zipped without compression)

Well, it's done!

Just zip the .nob file (WITH COMPRESSION), and your ready to upload!


-dyllantina


What it boils down to is creating the neccessary Vampire directory structure, then zipping it all up into an uncompressed .zip file. Of course, then you have to rename the .zip to .nob

-Huey