That's the point where I began to play around with the parameters for minimap.exe. My brother quickly built a Delphi-program with which I could set the params for minimap.exe when exporting a mp map. The only difference between a single- and a multiplayermap is that KME adds two 8's to the parameters when calling minimap.exe, so I wanted to find out what they do. I experimented around for two days and I may have found a solution (btw: I first wanted Nahoo to test my "solution" but he doesn't seem to have enough time - no real response after half a week...).
I changed the parameters which are given to minimap.exe so it uses the same as when exporting a singleplayer mission (simply remove the two 8's at the end). The map however can still be selected from the multiplayer screen, so I tried to start it but the game crashed while loading. I found out that a side-effect of the changed params is that there are no starting points in the map (although at least one appears to be at the top left corner of the map, but out of it's map-bounds). Then I found out by luck that the starting points are taken over from a previously selected map. So I first selected a normal mp map and then switched over to my map. It then had the same starting points. And then I could play with my own map. One thing is that the created map has to be large enough to contain the spawnpoints from the other map (so that they don't get out of the map-area). So you can not place your own starting points but you have to select a standard mp map to get the SPs from it, then perhaps give your map a name so it appears right after the map you want the SPs from (I hope you understood this^^).
I'm not sure if this works with players connecting as clients because they might have the map, too, but they still don't have spawnpoints on their map. I don't know how KKND handles how players get their starting position, but to avoid crashing the game it might work that the clients first start their own mp-game with the user-created map (of course with previously selecting the map with the wanted starting points), then immediately close that game and then connect to the server they want (if it works it would be the same "bug" as when using user-created unit stats).

The new minimap.exe can be obtained here:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-30.12.06_s323y.zip.html
(the upload service changed the filename, but what the heck^^)

It has become a bit too long now but if it works I hope that there will be more multiplayer maps soon
let's hope for the best...

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With the new minimap.exe you can adjust what parameters are given to the original minimap.exe (which is always executed when KME exports a map). As I stated in my first post, using the new minimap.exe may give us an opportunity to export multiplayer maps as well. However, testing this is your task

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On my computer (WinXP) KME starts normally but it crashes when I click on any of the tabs at the bottom (tiles, attributes etc.). The rest however works just fine.
What is the problem with your KME? Does it crash while starting? If so the only solution I know is to either use VMWare in order to emulate WinME or to install a second partition (not sure if that's the right word^^) with WinME on it. There are some threads about this problem here on the board.

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The only tileset that comes with KME is the desert one. On some of Nahoo's pages you can download the pictures belonging to the other tilesets (urban and grass). They are however not in a kp-file as far as I know. There was a user on this board who created another kp-file with textures based on grassland.

As I said before, my "solution" or workaround for KME was to use VMWare where I could install a version of WindowsME on. This way I could use KME as normal.
If that doesn't work for you you have to dust-off some old WinME CD and install it on another part of your HD
I don't know any other way of getting KME to run than using an older version of Windows, especially WinME...

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As far as I know you have to use VMWare Workstation to create a VM and use WinME. However you will only obtain it per illegal download if you're not willing to pay so much money

But there was another info on wikipedia which might come in handy. I read about VirtualPC from Microsoft which seems to offer similar possibilities. See here: wikipedia

However, I can't give you more infos on that as I have no experience with that up to now. There is a download link from wikipedia, see if it works: Microsoft

If you managed to install it there are some infos about setting it up here (a bit down the page): Infos

PS Do you think the site moderators come on anymore? I get the feeling the don't, which is a real shame.

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@WinME
Perhaps you have Win98 which might work also with KME. Otherwise you could just buy an old ME CD. *checks Amazon* Wow. Such an old WinME CD costs about 50 bucks (in that case EUROs)...

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