gforce - I could give you real life examples of the problem we are having here, but having tried that in another thread, I am aware you don't care for it.
You stated that people have problems with maps..... if they have not made this known, how are you aware of this fact?
You say people don't understand what is being done in this thread.....how do you know of this??? 1161 views have been made on this thread, 44 replies have been made, BY 10 PEOPLE. Now go over the thread and tell me how many ended up dumping this way and going on to some other way... only 1 as I recall, and he just gave up on the whole game cause it wouldn't work for him. No one else has said that this is not working. Hey, I gave up on mind reading long ago, doesn't work(heck, I have trouble reading my own mind at times). It seems that this is to difficult for you. OK, what is it you don't understand? Slappy had problems with it, I spent time working on this thing, searching things, going over his files, anything I could to help him make it work. And it works for him now. I'll do that for anyone else also. What I, and no one else, can do is help someone who comes up and says 'My game won't do this, tell me how to fix it.....' Won't do what????? You yourself have put up posts saying I'm trying to get the game to do XXXXX, and I've tried 6 ways and it won't work, can someone help me? What 6 things did you do, what did you put in the XML? And to try more than one thing at the same time and your system crashes, that's where you slow down. Change one thing at a time, make sure that works, make notes of exactly what you did to those XMLs and if you can't get it to work, tell us all about it. We'll help even those who condem us.
As to choobaccas maps and the FPKs, those FPKs are as needed as the map. People are asking for different things in these maps and the only way to do it is those FPK files or D53462s folders. And sooner or later you are going to have to start shuffling those around just like the maps. Someone hits 'Move' instead of 'Copy' and once they delete it when they are done, they've lost it and won't know until they want to play it again. They also have to keep records of what they have to move with what maps and where.
At any time someone can ask and the full Globals and all needed files can be uploaded for someone to download and place. What I did was to allow people to learn how to change it themselves. If a mapper chooses not to use Global, fine, I don't plan on jumping up and down on his head for it, I gave that up when people continued to not put ReadMes in their maps. I'll rewrite the map for myself and set it up for Global. And if someone asks for it, I'll upload it for them to use Global. If it is in Global, I'm sure someone will be willing to rewrite it into non-Global form. But I'll not condem anyone elses way of mapping! If someone didn't put a ReadMe in a file, someone else has always been there to assist them and the user. And people to assist others will be around a long time.
If someone doesn't want to play with XMLs because they don't know how or don't want to, but they would like to use Globals, all they have to do is ask and they'll be given what they need and won't have to open any files. This was done to teach people how to do it, just like your tutorial on editing things FPK files. Yes, I'd like to do that also, but if I start on something and get interupted for some reason, I have a great chance of loosing my train of thought and not finding it again. There is a reason for that that has haunted me for a decade now, and will for the rest of my life.
And the worse is the 'except' you put in your post.....you yourself are working on things that will have to be in the CustomAssets file. Holiday Scenario requires things to be in there, so does Scrooge. What do you plan on doing then? Don't pounce on something you will soon be doing.
And please leave this post to those who do want to use it. If I find something in this forum I have no use for, I skim thru it, shrug my shoulders, and go on to the next thing. I've past thru many posts that way.
When you first put a reply on my trying to show mappers how to do Globals, I had to walk away from my computer to compose myself. I won't answer that post, I think I've said it all here. I only hope you can come to understand it all.
I was going to avoid this, but since it was brought up by the good Doc, I did alot of playing around with UT2K4. To keep from having any problems I had 3 copies of it on my system. One for me to play with my settings, one for my younger brother to play online when he came down to work on my fathers house, with his settings and the third was nothing more than a 'Construction Zone' which I used to make maps. When I thought I had everything right, I moved the map to my playing game and there found what was working and not working. Try it, it just might work for you.
and he pulls his left foot out of his soapbox, picks it up, takes a deep breath, and walks away.......
Steps back......
And tell me, anyone, with all the dislike of this game and its problems, would you have liked it any at all if everytime you wanted to play a map you had to shuffle folders 
I can't remember a computer game with more than one version that EVER required that. Heck, it was bad enough back before you connected a cassette recorder to your computer, when you had to load in each game from switches of a keyboard of some kind.
drops his chin to his chest and shuffles away........I'm correct 97% of the time..... who cares about the other 4%....
you don't need to answer before you (can) have positionned yourself once in others point-of-view, don't get stuck
