Setting up Campaigns

This article is an attempt to describe the various options mappers need to consider when setting up campaigns or multi-mission packages (I'll refer to campaigns for both of these for the sake of simplicity). Campaign support has been added in TDM 1.06.

Map Files

Regular, single-map TDM missions are packed in PK4 files, campaigns are no different. If your campaign consists of three missions ("red.map", "blue.map" and "green.map"), all three of them still go into the same maps folder in your PK4 file.

The actual order in which the missions are to be played is defined through the tdm_mapsequence.txt file, which should be added to the PK4 (just next to the readme.txt). Following the example of the "red", "blue" and "green" maps above the map sequence file would look like this:

Mission 1: red
Mission 2: blue
Mission 3: green

Looking at that, the syntax of the file is pretty much self-explanatory. The first mission has the number one, the map file is mentioned after the colon and the following space. You don't need to specify the ".map" extension of the map file that is handled automatically. See the main tdm_mapsequence.txt article for further reference, for this article it's enough to have the above lines I suppose.