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Newbie with questions...

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:13 am
by springli
Just created my first 2 levels, and I'd like to submit them for feedback, but I'm not sure how :?... My OS is linux, if that makes a diff. Please help!


Springli :)

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:02 pm
by Francesco
Hi springli, welcome to the forum!

To share your levels, put the folder that contains them in a zip file, then upload it to the RnD File Archive (or anywhere we could download it from).

Then report the link in this thread (or another, new one) so that most of forum users will notice it ;)

Addon: if you don't know where the files are stored, take a look in your documents folder. For example, my levels are in "D:\Documents\Rocks'n'Diamonds\levels\" (my OS is WinXP, but it makes no big difference)

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:14 pm
by Holger
Hello Springli, welcome to the R'n'D forum! :-)

> > My OS is linux, if that makes a diff.

> Addon: if you don't know where the files are stored, take a look in your
> documents folder. For example, my levels are in
> "D:\Documents\Rocks'n'Diamonds\levels\" (my OS is WinXP, but it makes
> no big difference)

Well, in this case it does make a difference, as Springli uses a Unix system (the following is therefore also true for Mac OS X):

While you have a "My Documents" folder on Windows, you have your "home" directory on Unix, but applications usually use a sub-directory in the style of "~/.<application>" on Unix to store their data. Therefore, in this case it is the "~/.rocksndiamonds" directory in your home directory.

Unfortunately, many Unix systems tend to hide directories that start with a dot, which is sometimes wanted -- Windows would do the same, if I would use the "right" directory for application specific data (it really wouldn't be easy to find for the average user, therefore I used "My Documents/Rocks'n'Diamonds/..." on Windows systems).

So, you can find all your levels in "~/.rocksndiamonds/levels/..." and your tapes in "~/.rocksndiamonds/tapes/..."!

Just put them into an archive (zip, tar/gz, whatever you like best), upload them to Zomis' R'n'D file archive and use the forum here to tell the world about it! :-)

Hope that helps! :-)

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:29 pm
by Tomi
If you use Konqueror as your file manager (= if you use KDE), there should be an option like "View -> Show hidden files" or something like that. I'm not sure how to show hidden files in Nautilus (GNOME).

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:38 pm
by Francesco
> > My OS is linux, if that makes a diff.

> Addon: if you don't know where the files are stored, take a look in your
> documents folder. For example, my levels are in
> "D:\Documents\Rocks'n'Diamonds\levels\" (my OS is WinXP, but it makes
> no big difference)

Well, in this case it does make a difference
Ooops! Sorry :oops:
This is what happen when I speak about things I'm not sure of :?
I should have wrote "my OS is WinXP, but it *should* make no big difference"

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:16 pm
by Holger
No problem. ;-)

I think this is also something for my just started "R'n'D FAQ" thread... :)

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:33 pm
by springli
thanks for the help- I'll post them in a few!

Springli