Making map name different from filename?

[FloofCollie]

Hi, this is a bit of a weird question... but one of the things that breaks immersion is when I see, say, an official map which is referred to, in game, as say "cp_terminal_velocity_rc2" (obviously not actually an official map). This can be seen in screenshots and the server browser (Quickplay). (It's a weird niggle I have, I know)

But some maps display different names which are more realistic, for example "cp_terminal_velocity_rc2" would be displayed as "Terminal Velocity" in the Quickplay menu or screenshots.
How do you edit the map name in this way? I know that, if you go into Tools > Map Properties there are two options: Name and Map Description/Title. I highlighted the Name box, and it gave me a similar description to the one used for naming entities - so I definitely don't want to do that, if it's what I think it is. The other one, Map Description/Title, then is the most likely contender - however, as I couldn't find any documents about it online, and I'm new to mapping and really don't want to break anything (I understand that a lot of features in Hammer are unfinished and unutilized).

 

[Izotope]

These different map names are hardcoded into the game.

 

[Crowbar]

The game tries its best to guess a good name for the loading screen. It takes away the gamemode indentifier (only those it knows, won't work with new ones you invent or unofficial that haven't been considered; PD, for instance, has), then turns all underscores into spaces. That however still shows version number, but the deal's here just as with the gamemode prefix - it can be absent and we can't do much about it.
Those maps however that have it actually different from the filename (like, cp_gravelpit has Gravel Pit and not Gravelpit) do have it hardcoded/

 

[FloofCollie]

I see. Thank you!

 

[FloofCollie]

Oh, and one more thing: Is it possible to change the position of the camera that shows the map as soon as you join the game?

 

[Idolon]

Spectator cameras can be placed with info_observer_point. They have a setting for which one comes up first, while the rest show up in the order you place them.

 

[killohurtz]

Yes! All you need is an info_observer_point set as the Welcome Point in its properties.

 

[FloofCollie]

Okay! Thanks again! =D

 

[henke37]

The thing with the loading screen and map select screen is that they run before the map has loaded. You can't put the name override in the map file. And surprise, surprise, only Valve has the power to setup name overrides.

 

[FloofCollie]

Sorry for bump, but if this is how the map name is handled, what's the Map Description/Title box for?

 

[Crowbar]

My guess is that source is full of redundancy and such stuff that was added but implemented the other way or not at all.
Also, mere hours isn't quite a bump.

 

[Izotope]

Didn't Half-Life 2 use that keyval to display new chapters on screen?

 

[ics]

Map Description/Title is a remnant from older games. TF2 doesn't use it. As others said, only Valve can apply different loading screen names vs map name and they have done so for the added community maps too.

 

[Pocket]

Even if they wanted to use that field to determine what's displayed in the loading screen, they couldn't, since the name appears before the game even starts loading the file into memory (or, in the case of server-hosted maps, starts downloading them) and the output freezes until it's done loading.