Cannot Gain Score In TDM With Custom Map

[false_chicken]

Hello. This may be a noob question but I am new to map editing and cannot seem to gain any TDM score in my map. The map is my Trench map from my WWII mod (Thread in the projects area) and as long as I play in that map I cannot gain any frags. But if I switch maps using the map command to say a built in map (D2DM10 for example.) I can gain score whenever I kill a bot. Any suggestions? The hud obviously shows that I am in TDM mode but the kills count for nothing. This seems like an odd problem to have... Thanks!

[Lollipop]

Is your mapinfo properly set up? I am not sure, but that might be the issue.

[false_chicken]

Thats likely the issue. Is there anything specific to deathmatch/TDM that I should be including? Here is what it currently looks like:

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episode RANGE
{
    name = "Shooting Range"
}

map RANGE "Shooting Range"
{
	sky1 = "RSKY1"
	NoInfighting
}

map TRENCH "TDM Trench"
{
	sky1 = "RSKY1"
}

Thanks!

[Lollipop]

I honestly don't know, I can only recommend digging into another wad to see how it is set up.
I am sorry, but my knowledge kinda ends there :(

[false_chicken]

Hmm I see. Dang. Ive been looking through the zdoom wiki on the mapinfo lump but don't see anything relevant. Its a shame :/. I hate problems that do not make sense/have no immediately recognizable solution. Thanks for the suggestion.

EDIT: I really do not understand :/. I get medals and such for killing the bot but the score doesn't increase at all.

[Torr Samaho]

Does your map have DM starts?

[false_chicken]

Does your map have DM starts?

No.... I have starts for team 1 and 2 but no DM spawns because for some reason when I do include regular deathmatch spawns everyone tries to spawn there even in TDM.

Thanks for the reply. I had almost lost hope lol

EDIT: I've just tried setting the DM spawn flags like dormant, Single player, Unchecking deathmatch. The game forces everyone to spawn there anyway :/. However the players spawn in the proper team points I set when I remove it. Really annoying.

[Arctangent]

What's happening there is that Zandronum automatically switches game modes based on what player starts the map has. Since there's no deathmatch starts, which team deathmatch uses by default, it's switching to something like capture the flag or teamgame as there are team starts and those game modes use them. Something similar would probably happen if you have the numbered player starts, with Zandronum switching to cooperative instead.

To bypass this, you'll need to set sv_useteamstartsindm to 1, then teamplay ( which is the team deathmatch cvar ) to 1, and then finally use the map command to warp to your desired map.

[false_chicken]

What's happening there is that Zandronum automatically switches game modes based on what player starts the map has. Since there's no deathmatch starts, which team deathmatch uses by default, it's switching to something like capture the flag or teamgame as there are team starts and those game modes use them. Something similar would probably happen if you have the numbered player starts, with Zandronum switching to cooperative instead.

To bypass this, you'll need to set sv_useteamstartsindm to 1, then teamplay ( which is the team deathmatch cvar ) to 1, and then finally use the map command to warp to your desired map.

Thanks! Ill give that a shot tonight.