An IMMEDIATE Request

[e-Hate]

Hello MTA community,

First off I want to thank you for taking the time to read this and respond promptly. You see me and my race mapping partner are currently making a race map, however we have a deadline to catch, so we would appreciate all the help possible.

When testing out our map, we get the following error:

[11:43:30] Starting [DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070 
[11:43:33] INFO: onGamemodeMapStart([DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070) 
[11:43:33] Map '[DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070' started. 
Map '[DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070' started. 
Error loading map [DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070 
Changing to random map in 5 seconds 
[11:43:33] start: Resource '[DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070' started 
[11:43:33] WARNING: race\racemap.lua:70: Error while loading [DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070: no <race /> node in meta.xml 
[11:43:33] INFO: Error loading map [DM]-eHate--Vol-2--We_Found_Love--Ft-Hoffman0070 

I've already tried google'ing it, and searching the forums, I've found no good answers. I've already tried deleting editor_test and editor_dump and the problem persists.

Edited December 3, 2011 by Guest

[Towncivilian]

Topic moved to Mapping support section.

[e-Hate]

Thanks for moving and sorry for posting in the wrong place.

Also if it's any help, some objects in the .map file have this instead of the normal object:

[Deagle]

Have you set your gamemode to race ?

Have you put at least spawnpoint ?

[e-Hate]

-.-' yes of coarse. lol, The map is 50% made, so there are a lot of objects, spawns, car changes etc, everything works fine until now.. D: I can post the meta.xml if you need...

<meta> 
    <file src="song.mp3"></file> 
    <script src="music.lua" type="client"></script> 
    <script src="client.lua" type="client"></script> 
    <info gamemodes="race" type="map" name="[DM]eHate_Vol2_We_Found_Love_Ft_Hoffman0070" author="eHate" version="1.0.5" description="map"></info> 
    <map src="[DM]eHate_Vol2_We_Found_Love_Ft_Hoffman0070.map" dimension="0"></map> 
    <settings> 
        <setting name="#minplayers" value="[ 0 ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#maxplayers" value="[ 32 ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#gravity" value="[ 0.008000 ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#weather" value="[ 0 ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#time" value="2:0"></setting> 
        <setting name="#locked_time" value="[ false ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#waveheight" value="[ 0 ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#gamespeed" value="[ 1 ]"></setting> 
        <setting name="#ghostmode" value='[ "true" ]' /> 
        <setting name="#vehicleweapons" value='[ "true" ]' /> 
        <setting name="#duration" value="[ 600 ]" /> 
    </settings> 
</meta> 
  

[Deagle]

Are you using MTA 1.0.5 or 1.1 ?

[e-Hate]

map made in 1.1 but I tested it in both versions.. I also tried opening mta_server.exe in both versions, problem persists.

[SDK]

The "no node in meta.xml" error usually means something is wrong inside the .map xml file and race can't load it.

(Here it should probably stop and give an error, but I guess they forgot that.) Then, race tries to load it as an old map from the old mta:race version, fails and gives the no race node in meta.xml error.

Check your .map file with a good file editor for syntax errors, as it looks like you have some editor addons installed too.

[e-Hate]

Thats what i was just thinking... there must be something in the .map.... what kind of program should I use to find out about my .map error? I'll start looking around, but if you find something before I do please post here. Or if you know the solution.

[Deagle]

Could you post the first part of your .map file ?

[e-Hate]

Check your PM's. and thank you

[arezu]

try going into map settings in editor and reset your ghostmode settings etc and then save and try again.

[Deagle]

I opened the .map file and guess what : the first line is bad.

Instead of :

<map mod="deathmatch"> 

It should be :

<map edf:definitions="race,editor_main"> 

Also, you said that you added spawnpoints, but your map didn't had any.

Anyway, I sent you a PM with a link to the archive with the fixed .map file, also containing a spawnpoint. You can add more later when you finish your map or when do you want.