Can players download workshop maps from Download URL but not workshop?

apocalyptic · **Author**

Hi everyone!
Valve removed all workshop maps from CS:GO default map founder a few months ago, such like Favela, Seaside, Season, ect. Now I have to download these maps from workshop to my server.
But here comes a serious problem: If a player had not download those maps before he connects to my server, he has to download it from Steam Workshop when he connects, this takes a very long time, could be 30 or much more minutes.
I can let players download sound files from my DLurl by using a SourceMod function "AddFileToDownloadsTable", that is very very fast, but it seems do NOT work for maps, whatever .bsp or .bz2.
Would someone please give me some advice?

rogeraabbccdd

1.Subscribe the map you want in workshop.
2.Your maps will download in maps/workshop
3.Upload them to your fastdl server.

hamilton5

I can't understand why it would take more then 5 minutes to start a workshop download.. are you in some funky region?

apocalyptic · *Last edited by apocalyptic; 01-05-2017 at 21:15.*

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Originally Posted by rogeraabbccdd

1.Subscribe the map you want in workshop.
2.Your maps will download in maps/workshop
3.Upload them to your fastdl server.

Thank you for your advice, but most of those players have not subscribe any thing before, so they have to download it when they connect.

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Originally Posted by hamilton5

I can't understand why it would take more then 5 minutes to start a workshop download.. are you in some funky region?

You are right, there is a firewall here, it blocks Google, Youtube, Twitter, ect.

I got some idea from my friends yesterday, let me test them, if I got solution, allow me to share with you.

rogeraabbccdd

Your player do not need to subscribe the map if you upload them to your fastdl.

apocalyptic

Here comes my suggestion:
1.Download maps from workshop to your server.
(https://developer.valvesoftware.com/...rver_Operators)
2.Move the .bsp file to your maps directory.

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Example: maps\workshop\123518981\de_favela.bsp -> maps\de_favela.bsp

3.Make a .bz2 file.

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Example: de_favela.bsp -> de_favela.bsp.bz2

4.Move this .bz2 file to your download-url.
5.Add it to the download table by using this SourceMod function:

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Example:

PHP Code:


			
OnMapStart()

{

    AddFileToDownloadsTable("maps/de_favela.bsp.bz2")

}