Cant "play" my map

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Cant "play" my map

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Grand Hustla was helping me with this one, but I forgot to write stuff down, so I was wondering if anyone else knows what to do....

I want "play" my map through the localhost port 5154.... all I remember was the cmd and dragging my map there...

what I have in the cmd so far is "C:\Documents and Settings\Nate>" now what do I type, when do I press enter, and when do I drag in my map?? thank you!
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A Looney Kumquat wrote:what I have in the cmd so far is "C:\Documents and Settings\Nate>"
You need to navigate to your BZFlag install directory, and make sure that your map file and config file are in that directory. Then use "bzfs -conf myconfig.txt". You don't need to drag your world file anywhere if you use the -world command in your server config.
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<<ignore>>
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exactly but what I need is HOW do I navigate to my BZ directory?
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First, don't double post.
Second, don't post pointless replies.
Third, learn some more about your OS and it's CLI.
Fourth, learn more about bzfs.
Fifth, don't ask where to learn, that has been posted in many many topics already.
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first, distraction posted, I read it and replyed, then he edited it, I read it accedentally posted again, tryed to delete my first post, couldnt, so I said ignore....
second, see above
third, no... its the cmd...... at least on windows
fourth, I never asked where to learn, and I never intended to- all I wanted is some help... then I would never need it again....

last: if your going to post, at least try to help!
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CLI stands for Command Line Interface, which, the 'cmd' prompt is.
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If you're on windows, open command prompt (in accessories). Then, if you put BZFlag in the normal place, type:

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cd C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.8
If not, just type the address after cd
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bzfs.exe -world (Name of map).bzw
After that, open BZFlag.
Enter localhost and 5154, in address and port respectively. Join.
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And if you want to test/play your map with a configuration file then change the

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bzfs.exe -world <yourmap>.bzw
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 bzfs.exe -conf c:\conf.txt -world c:\world.bzw
Assuming you have saved your map and configuration file on disk C.
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