Zandronum

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:42 am**

In my time running Euro Friday Night Fragfest, I have had some difficulty in running setup scripts from a config file or from the command line as a + parameter. I believe what is going on is that configuration files and command line parameters are simply executed too soon - before the mod has a chance to load. Thus, everytime I load a mod that requires a setup script, I need to have somebody log in and execute an RCON command. This is...slightly inconvenient. More inconvenient if a server crashes, restarts, and requires the command be run again with no administrators around.

Now, there might be some method that I'm missing that can automatically run scripts on boot, and if so, please let me know.

Failing that, would it be too much trouble to have some method of bootstrapping the server automatically? Off the top of my head, the simplest way I think would probably be to replace MAP01 with a "Start Map" that maybe acts as sort of an introduction to the game, and the moment somebody joins the game, the setup script is fired. Another possibility is a global ACS script that detects when the playercount goes from 0 to 1, and the moment it does, fire the setup script.

Just a thought.

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:39 am**

I've had trouble with this as well for as long as I've been doing this, and there's no easy answer it seems. I began to write a long post here, then gave up. I really hate this shit.

But I believe any solution does involve usage of global variables though, or maybe inventory items given to player?

I will say that my most recent project does have a START map for the same reasons.

It has, for server cfg:

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sv_maprotation true
clearmaplist
addmap START

For MAPINFO:

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ClearEpisodes

// Episodes
Episode START
{
        Name = "$EP_WRATH"
	Key = "w"
	NoSkillMenu
}

DefaultMap {
    Music = "D_IDLE"
    Sky1 = "SKY1", 0.0
}

Map START "$MAP_START" {
	NoIntermission
	LevelNum = 199
	Music = ""
	Sky1 = "SKY1", 0.0
}

For LANGUAGE:

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[enu default]
EP_WRATH = "Wrath of Hell";
MAP_START = "Start";

and an ACS script, CORE:

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global int 8:game_started; // Do not change this.

script "Game" OPEN {
	// Start map.
	Delay(10);
	if (!game_started) {
		game_started = true; Delay(1);
		ConsoleCommand("map START");
	}

	// Waiting for players.
	until (PlayerCount() > 0) { Delay(1); }

	...

}

Then START.wad map script is:

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#include "zcommon.acs"

global int 8:game_started; // Do not change this.

// Game
script "Game" OPEN {
	// Do initialization stuff here.
	game_started = true;
	Delay(10);
	ConsoleCommand("changemap HUB01");
}

And the map itself (START) is just a black dark room with 4 player spawns.

Posted: **Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:31 pm**

All of my mods come with a command called "setup" for this very reason.

Posted: **Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:18 am**

Catastrophe wrote:All of my mods come with a command called "setup" for this very reason.

Read my original post again. Unless I'm missing something, I can't execute these setup scripts from a config file or at the command line. They're convenient, but they require an administrator to RCON them and run them by hand.

Posted: **Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:09 pm**

Setup scripts? Such thing exists?
I wonder what happens with these once ConsoleCommand is blocked.

Zandronum

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