Hiya, recently got back to playing VTM-R the last week or so and started going through all my old dvd disks of mods, maps, skins etc etc a daunting task cos i got quite a few full to capacity most of the old modhaven stuff etc too.
Anyway less babble more reason posting here, while rummiging about on said disks i found loads of the old FAQ pages from the now dead map depository, and in regard to creating a .nob file here is the answer to the age old problems

any more let me know might be an idea if i send them to rain for posting under this section? (less typing for ya lol)
Anyway here is a blast from the past and the answer..... Best Regards Unforgiven
Question Submitted By: HueyPLong
How do I package and distribute my map or chronicle as a single .nob file?
Answer Category: Mapping / Embrace
Creating a .nob file is easy!
(If you have WinZip)
Just make a new directory (anywhere) and name it your map.
Then make subdirectories under that one, one named levels, maps, scenes, and chronicles.
Then go into your correponding vampire directories (vampire/levels/, vampire/maps/, etc..)
Copy any files, in each vampire directory to YOUR corresponding directory.
e.g. C:/vampire/levels/yourmap.nil
----to---c:/yourmap/levels/yourmap.nil
After your done, just open WinZip, and pick "Create New Zip File".
Name the zip file, whatever you like.
Then put YOUR main directory (make sure subdirectories is enabled)....
SET COMPRESSION TO NONE (very important)
Zip those directories up.
Leave Winzip, and change yourmap.zip, to yourmap.nob
(a .nob file is basically a directory structure that has been zipped without compression)
Well, it's done!
Just zip the .nob file (WITH COMPRESSION), and your ready to upload!
-dyllantina
What it boils down to is creating the neccessary Vampire directory structure, then zipping it all up into an uncompressed .zip file. Of course, then you have to rename the .zip to .nob
-Huey