Map Ratings

Each map can be assigned a simple number rating and comment.

Adding a Rating to a Map

Use either of the following two ways to assign a map rating and comment to a map:

1. In the Map List Editor, open the Map Info Panel for a map (eg Click "?", F1 on a list or Middle-Click on a map). In the Map Info Panel, click on the Edit button to toggle between displaying the Map Info and the User Map Rating and User Map Comment. Enter your Rating and Comment here.
2. While playing a map you can use the mapmixer console command ratemap.
   The command is formatted as:
   ratemap <rating number> [<comment>]
   
   For example:
   mapmixer ratemap 5
   mapmixer ratemap 3 "classic"
   mapmixer ratemap - "cbo"
   
   The last example sets the map Comment but not the Rating.

Setting the Maximum Map Rating

You may decide what the maximum possible rating for your maps will be. Some people may like to use a rating between 1 to 5, 1 to 10 or 1 to 100 etc.

Open the mapmixer Options menu and enter the Max Map Rating value. Now click on the Set button next to it. MapMixer will now set the maximum map rating and then scale all rated maps to the new value.

For example:
Say you had a maximum map rating of 5 and you rated a map as 1 (ie 1 out of 5)
Now you set the maximum map rating to 10.
The resultant map rating will be 2 (ie 2 out of 10)

Viewing Map Ratings and Comments

Apart from displaying the Map Info Panel in the Map List Editor to view or edit a map rating and comment, you can also change the "Player Counts (PC)" and "Author" columns in the Available Maps List to show the "Map Ratings (MR)" and "Comment" fields.

There are two buttons under the Available Maps List ("^") that independently toggle the display of these columns.  As usual you may click on the column headers to sort the list via these values.

Map List Filter

You may create a Map List Filter in the Map List Editor that combines all the standard mapmixer filter options with the Map Rating and Map Comment fields.

So, for example, you could create a filter that lists only maps that have Player Counts between 2 and 8 and Map Ratings between 2 and 4. and have the word "Classic" in their Map Comments. There are numerous possibilities.

And of course you can use these filters when Auto-Creating a Map List using Game Lists, where one of your game types draws it's map source from a Map List Filter.

Notes

MapMixer counts a Map Rating of "0" as meaning "unrated". Therefore a valid map rating is any other number. So a valid map rating is anywhere from 1 to Maximum Rating.

You may use the Map Comment field for anything you like but keep in mind that you can use this field for a Map List Filter, so you might like to use your own "codes" or abbreviations in this field, so you can easily create a Map List Filter.

Example

A map comment could be: "Classic,CBO,BETA"
Example meanings:
"Classic" = Classic UT remake map
"CBO" = Cliffy B Ownage Map
"BETA" = Test map

Now you could create a Map List Filter that lists all maps with the word "classic" in the Map Comment field, or all CliffyB Ownage Maps, Beta Maps etc...