New maps

[op3eYYYY]

Anyone know how I can install new maps? I have tried to extract files into the map section on ra3, but they dont show up ingame

[XYHC]

Make sure you are extracting into the right location. Also make sure you are placing a map FOLDER directly inside the game's map folder.

[Medstar]

You can get maps from places like CNCLabs, ModDB, here on Steam from peeps like MaD_Animal, and a plethora of other places.

To install a map, in your File Explorer, type in %appdata% at the top of the page where it shows your current directory. This will take you to the Roaming directory on your PC.

Here, find the Red Alert 3 folder. Inside the Red Alert 3 folder, you should see a handful of folders already there; there should be a Maps folder--go into that folder. If the Maps folder doesn't exist for you, then create the folder yourself.

Now, here is where the magic happens: if you've downloaded and extracted a map already, all you need to do is paste in the folder that contains all of the files related to the map itself (map.xml, overrides.xml, etc).

This is a very sensitive step: you need to make sure that the files are ONE folder deep inside the Maps directory.

For example, I have the map "zone_control_v1.4". The directory should be set up so that the map is placed like this:

"C:/Users/[USER]/AppData/Roaming/Red Alert 3/Maps/zone_control_v1.4/" with the map.xml, overrides.xml, etc and all of those other files for the map being inside the zone_control_v1.4 folder.

This goes the same way when extracting a map pack; DO NOT lump all of the maps in the pack inside one folder and putting it inside the Maps folder like that--the game will not read the files since the maps would technically be two folders deep.

If you use Origin, you will need to add in a registry key that allows custom maps to load; Origin kinda screwed up the installer in that it doesn't add in all of the necessary registry keys.

Hope this helps ya out

[op3eYYYY]

I finaly got it! Thanks!