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Wussie

Tue Apr 24 2012, 05:51PM

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Your intentions are good but it doesn't seem like a very practical approach. What if tomorrow comes out an all new "caves_something" map which should have an entirely different image? And what about many other maps with variants which are not named "caves", "farm" or "rrbridge", should they be added to lgsl_class.php too?
In my humble opinion, editing core php scripts within LGSL may be fine for a connaisseur like yourself, but sounds like a bad idea for the average user.
The easy way to link multiple map names to the same map image is probably this (only if you run on LINUX): make a symlink for each map variant pointing to the same image name.
In your case, you need to type the following into the Linux console, from within the images folder:

ln -s m01_caves.jpg m01_caves_day_.jpg

Basically, this will create a shortcut m01_caves_day_.jpg pointing to the same image m01_caves.jpg, working exactly like having 2 separate images but with less space occupied on the harddrive.
You will need to have shell access to the webserver to do that, unless your ftp client or cpanel can also create symlinks.
I'm not sure if shortcuts on Windows systems can do the same trick as symlinks on Linux, but one could try it and get back here to report...