Gmad.exe - Creating a .gma? Stupid question

[Sirusmoose]

Hey, I am extremely new to mapping and have no clue what I am doing.
I've finished my map, and these are the files I have:
.bsp
.lin
textfile
.vmf
.vmx
I drop these (or the folder) into gma.exe but it closes, I press a single key and it closes.
I'm not used to terminals and do not know what to do, could someone spoon feed me what to do?

Thanks for tolerating my stupidity.

[Ott]

"C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/GarrysMod/bin/gmad.exe" create -folder "%~n1" -out "%~n1.gma"
@pause

Save this code to a .bat file and drag your folder onto it.

[Sirusmoose]

Okay, I've done that and it worked, but now I'm getting this:

C:\Users\Jackson Burrell\Desktop>"C:/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/Garrys
Mod/bin/gmad.exe" create -folder "gm_miniatureStage" -out "gm_miniatureStage.gma
"
Garry's Mod Addon Creator 1.1
Looking in folder "gm_miniatureStage/"
gm_miniaturestage.bsp
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.lin
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.log
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.vmf
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.vmx
[Not allowed by whitelist]
File list verification failed
Press any key to continue . . .
Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

What do I do now?
Thanks for that by the way, means a lot!

[c👌de_g🎷]

You have to make the reference directory reflect the garrysmod directory, meaning those should go in maps/

[Sirusmoose]

[QUOTE=code_gs;49124479]You have to make the reference directory reflect the garrysmod directory, meaning those should go in maps/[/QUOTE]

Wait, what? Could you explain how to do so?

[c👌de_g🎷]

Put those files into a folder called maps

[Sirusmoose]

I've done this, and I'm still getting this:

C:\Users\Jackson Burrell\Desktop>"C:/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/Garrys
Mod/bin/gmad.exe" create -folder "maps" -out "maps.gma"
Garry's Mod Addon Creator 1.1
Looking in folder "maps/"
gm_miniaturestage.bsp
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.lin
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.log
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.vmf
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.vmx
[Not allowed by whitelist]
File list verification failed
Press any key to continue . . .

This is probably something that is super simple but I'm just stupid, aha.

[c👌de_g🎷]

You have to reference the folder outside of maps. So you'd want to make a folder called "whatever", and inside that, have the maps folder. Then, for your -folder flag argument, you'd have "whatever"

[opti2000]

[QUOTE=Sirusmoose;49125043]gm_miniaturestage.lin
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.log
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.vmf
[Not allowed by whitelist]
gm_miniaturestage.vmx
[Not allowed by whitelist][/QUOTE]

Those files are not needed if you want to publish your map just remove them. The only thing that should be inside is the .bsp and a .json then try it again. To create a .json file, make a new textfile and insert this:

{
	"title"		:	"AddHereYourMapName",
	"type"          :	"map",
	"tags"		:	[ "Roleplay", "Scenic" ],
	"ignore"	:
	[
		"*.psd",
		"*.vcproj",
		"*.svn*"
	]
}

Then save it for example as addon and rename it to addon.json.

Now you have a folder with your mapname and inside this folder is another one called maps and inside maps there should be your .bsp and the .json file Now try again to make it a .gma.