Map Download

[Devieth 103]

Took a look at giraffe's geolocation script and though, hey I can make a map downloader that uses the HAC2 Repo with that.  This does require the use of wget as well as 7zip.  Just like giraffe's script, this one requires that they need to be in the same folder as the dedicated server executable.

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

7zip_and_wget.zip

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

Commands:
map_download <map_name>

map_download.map <URL> <map_name.map>

map_download.zip <URL> <map_name>

repo <url or legacy>

 

Oh yeah since I just added map_download.zip <URL> <map_name>, a side note is that you can use .7z, .rar, or any format 7zip supports for decompression, I think?

Also the map_name is only required to also have SAPP load map into the game.

[Kavawuvi 5,907]

Cool! Does SAPP's map downloader not work?

[Devieth 103]

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 by Devieth

[msalerno 7]

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...