Standard maps are listed first, custom ones come after in the list.
If you installed the full pack, you can't not see them.
Be sure to have unpacked each .pk3 directly in baseoa, without using any subdirectory (such as PACK#01)
thats the thing, i have the maps in the openarena directory. i tried putting them in the basoa, and it didn't work. The only way i can see the maps is by going to mods in the menu, and load them. But why can't i load them all at the same time? and it's the mappack
see, at the mod menu in openarena. it shows. pak05 pak01 pak03 and so on. each one of those paks have the maps the maps in them, but it will only let me load one. If i were to put all the maps out of all the paks, and put them into one BIG pak folder, would it work?