Releasing a Map

After going through a map's pre-publication evaluation, you can publish your map in many ways:

• When your map is all done, You can upload it at some useful websites, so that other people can download and play it.
• A list of file hosting websites is available here.
• On the other hand, if you do have a server of your own that you could store your BSP file on, you could use the sv_downloadurl commands.
  For example, if you create a sub-domain on your website mymaps.example.com, then set the following command on your server: sv_downloadurl mymaps.example.com
  This would tell clients connecting to your server to directly download the BSP file from that url, instead of directly downloading from the server.
• You may wish to contact news sites to publicize your map's release.
• If you've created the map for a game with Bonus Maps UI, then you may wish to package it into a BMZ for easy import.

Further release tips

• Loose custom content can be time consuming to set up and distribute. Packing your custom files in the bsp simplifies distribution and encourages server operators to host your map. Try Pakrat to pack your custom files in the bsp.
• Have you done an Overview? If your map is capable of one then it's appropriate to include one.
• Be sure to keep your directories lower cased, this is a great benefit to linux server operators and prevents having to create upper case sub directories to store files on the server. For example if you have a custom sound it should go the "sounds" directory, not a created "Sounds" directory.

See also

• How To Take Screenshots