how do u install a new cockpit?

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:46 am

How do u install cockpits?
I have my code
COCKPIT_FILE spidey/pink-0.0.1.aacockpit.xml

But it doesnt say in the wiki or anywhere esle how to install it.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:11 am

the location of the file is in your application data
you put that in the user_3_0.cfg file
where it says COCKPIT_FILE type this instead of what is there spidey/pink-0.0.1.aacockpit.xml

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:34 am

what exactly is application data??
Config file?? is the game? where is this located plz....

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:51 am

what type of computer do you have
for windows xp it is here C:\Documents and settings\Username\Application Data\Armagetron

Application Data is a hidden folder so you may have to change you folder options

any others i'm not sure; its in the same location you maps download

if you have to simply search for user_3_0.cfg

Post by **Lucifer** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:30 am

no.

Start the game. Press ` (it's the backtick located next to 1 on most keyboards)
Type your cockpit line, mentioned in the first post.
Close the game.
Restart the game.

COCKPIT_FILE persists across settings. Don't assume that because you typed it in the console that it doesn't save! Any setting that saves to disk will always save to disk, no matter if you do it in the console or in the gui.

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:36 am

Sorry i dont know which one of u to trust.
I tried both.I searched everywhere for the "user_3_0.cfg" file and couldnt find it.
And lucifer and you talking about the conifg command?? to ttype in settings like CYCLE_RUBBER ect?

I HAVE That as the = on my computer.
I tried it with and without the COCKPIT_FILE at the front.
Neither times when i went back on did i have a new cockpit?
Is there a problem, am i doing something wrong?
Could i have it explained in a easier format?

thanks

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:44 am

are you using Armagetron Advanced 0.3.0 beta?

Lucifer's way is the safe way to change it mine is the complex way to change it. both work Lucifer's is probably simpler

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:58 am

dylan wrote:Sorry i dont know which one of u to trust.
I tried both.I searched everywhere for the "user_3_0.cfg" file and couldnt find it.
And lucifer and you talking about the conifg command?? to ttype in settings like CYCLE_RUBBER ect?

When in doubt, trust the programmer.

(that's me, although I didn't actually write the cockpit stuff) Kyle's way works, but the whole reason we have the resource system we have is so that we never have to do something that way.

As he mentioned, you need 0.3.0 or higher (higher being bleeding-edge svn checkouts, since we haven't released anything since 0.3.0). If you're running 0.2.8, it won't work.

I am talking about settings like CYCLE_RUBBER etc. COCKPIT_FILE is just another setting. You could put the command in your autoexec.cfg file for all it really matters, but it's easiest just to input it manually as I described, and frankly I don't know any simpler way to describe it than I already have.

And yes, in your configuration you'll press "=" instead of the backtick.

If it doesn't work, it's for one of these reasons:

1. The cockpit you want isn't in the resource repository. (It is, I'm pretty sure)
2. The path you have given is somehow wrong, and I didn't check it myself, I just trusted you to give me the right path.

So you may want to doublecheck it.
3. You're using a version earlier than 0.3.0.
4. The resource repository is/was unavailable at the time you were trying to make the setting (and I haven't heard of any downtime recently, so this isn't really a suspect, but it is a reason it wouldn't work).

For all of them you should've gotten some sort of output in your console when you did it that told you why it failed. Unfortunately, if you did it from a menu you wouldn't have seen your console. Can you go to a server (or a local game) and put the setting in there and grab a screenshot of the console output for us?

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:50 am

Thanks for the help.
I think its because i have a old version.
BUt i checked the site and the beta page the highest version i can see and find is 0.2.8.2.1

so uh... wheres this "3.0."?

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:41 am

http://beta.armagetronad.net/?product=client&branch=0.3

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:00 am

That's really weird. i went to the same place and it wasnt showing up for me..

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