Map Management

Map Management

Interface

We have created a web interface for map management that can be found at https://fastdl.pugs.tf.

Upload and delete

Anyone can use this page to upload a map directly to the server but only authenticated admins can delete a map.

FastDL

Once a map has been added through this interface, it immediately becomes available for all of our hosted TF2 servers. This map manager address also doubles as a fastdl server, so you only have to upload your map once and it will also be available to our servers over fastdl.

Mapcycles

This management interface can also be used to add a map to (currently) one of two mapcycles. We have the "pt_official" and the "pt_all" mapcycles. To add a map to one of these mapcycles, you need to be an authenticated admin.

PASS Time maps (any file whose name starts with pass_) are added to pt_all automatically when they are uploaded, and leave it again when they are deleted, so nobody needs to tick that box by hand. pt_official is still curated manually. A helper can still untick pt_all for an individual map if it should not be in rotation.

The resulting mapcycle files are published at https://fastdl.pugs.tf/tf/cfg/mapcycle_pt_official.txt and https://fastdl.pugs.tf/tf/cfg/mapcycle_pt_all.txt. The game servers download these into their tf/cfg/ directory; the FastDL server no longer writes to the game servers directly.