Map Download

[Devieth 164]

map_download.lua script to replace/take place of SAPP's deprecated map_downlaod command.

//Edit: Script version bumped to 2.0  -- Changes:
'7z.exe is no longer used due to unwanted behavior, has been replaced by unzip.exe'
'Script can now download dependent unzip.exe and wget.exe using powershell upon load (should be compatible with powershell 2.0.) Default source is me at halopc.com, it is possible to change at the top of the script.'

//Notes:
'Still using wget because downloads via powershell alone would run along side the server (better for performance, bad for checking if the map actually downloaded afterward.

Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/kdEH3nyB
Github: https://github.com/it300/Halo-Lua/blob/master/map_download.lua

Search for available maps @ http://maps.halonet.net/maplist.php

Commands:
map_download <map_name>

 

Edited June 7, 2021 by Devieth
Updating script

[Kavawuvi 7,026]

Cool! Does SAPP's map downloader not work?

[Devieth 164]

14 minutes ago, Kavawuvi said:

Cool! Does SAPP's map downloader not work?

It no longer does since he killed off his website, guess he was hosting his own repo or a mirror that fed off of hac2's?
 

map_query snow
Sapp is not connected to the global server! Please try again later.
or
map_query snow
Map query request sent. Select an ID from below:
No map matches this expression!

 

Edited April 17, 2019 by Devieth

[msalerno 43]

On 4/17/2019 at 5:08 PM, Devieth said:

It no longer does since he killed off his website, guess he was hosting his own repo or a mirror that fed off of hac2's?

 

Sehe maintained his own repo of maps he considered "good" or "worthwhile". He refused to consider maps he didn't like for various reasons.

 

When the HAC2 repo disappeared, there were no backups, and Btcc22 and Harbinger got Sehe to cough up his repo. I populated the new HAC2 repo with that list, and then started adding more maps as I caught failures in the logs.

 

At certain points in time, I scraped the entire H3 website, or other places I could find map packs. Then, I got a huge dump of over 5000+ maps from mihirgates, of which over 2000 maps were unique.

 

Now, we're at the point where the HAC2 repo has 5,687 maps for both PC and CE, including quite a few singleplayer maps as well.

 

TA DA... always remember to back up your stuff, people...

[Kinnet 33]

So I'm trying to use this script on a Elite Game server, I placed the files where indicated and loaded the script on the server, even got the succesfully script loaded sapp thing. but it wont work, all the commands retturn: "unknown command" please help

[Devieth 164]

Do you have any errors from the halocded console?  That's the only way I can help. Otherwise it will do that if the command is not used right or map repo is being blocked by EGS.

[Kinnet 33]

I get this when attempting to use /repo (on my local sv)

LuaEventCallback >> OnEventCommand >> Lua Error: [string "map_download"]:136: attempt to concatenate global 'repo' (a nil value)
Unknown command: repo

 

When I use, map_download .zip command it downloads something and starts saving it in the specified path but it gets deleted as soon as the download finishes. however these results were on a local sv i have.

 

But in the egs  remote console all I get is  "Unknown command"  (I guess there are errors but they dont show on the remote console)

Do you guys know of an alternative I could use to download maps directly from hac2's repo into an egs sv?
E:

heres the exact command I was trying to use btw:
map_download.zip http://download752.mediafire.com/my4yea672zcg/za4daia7akqpdmc/chamber.zip maps\chamber.map
(i tested with maps of the repo as well and same luck)

Edited August 25, 2019 by Kinnet
I suck at explaining things

[Devieth 164]

Updated the script to version 2.0.  Script should now download maps more consistently.  Now automatically downloads required files for downloading and extracting.  Removed options for downloading outside of hac2_repo.

[Takka 13,377]

Added to the shortlist.