hi, i made some maps for a club im in with some friends, in the maps i made there is custom maps, for me all work good, but for friends they dont see the signs - its black.
they can play the maps tho. any idea why? pls help, thx!
#custom signs dont work at club?
elfin geyser
next cobalt
Hi, can you link me to one of the maps @elfin geyser ?
elfin geyser
yes! thank you for help, ill send you the one in the picture, ill also send a msg with more details on it
the maps work but the custom signs dont show to anyone, only me, i uploaded it to my club with friends but they cant see it, tried fixing it by sending them the picture pack and told them to put it in /any but didnt work, no clue whats the issue is
here is a recording of me playing the map on the club, seems fine, but here is msgs from friend who played it
elfin geyser
any news?
next cobalt
Sorry. I haven’t been at my PC since you sent it. Will check shortly.
next cobalt
@elfin geyser As I suspected, there's no locators (URLs) for the signs. So the signs work for you, because you have them locally. But no one else who plays the map is able to see them because their game has no idea where to get the signs.
You can solve this by adding .loc files with each picture in your local files. It's a text file that has a URL with a direct link. Then reapply the sign on every sign block in your map.
Alternatively (and this is what I do), just drop the images somewhere like imgur or discord, and copy the direct link. You can then paste it in to Trackmania on each sign (CTRL+V to paste), and that will ensure each sign has a locator.
If you decide to use loc files, they would look like this in your local files:
picture 7.png
picture 7.png.loc
To double check your map file to make sure it has locators, you can use GbxDump.
http://www.wolfgang-rolke.de/gbxdump/
That's what the screenshot above is from.
An example of a map that has locators. You can see the URL added there:
