alpha hosting

HIIIM · Post by **HIIIM** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:56 pm

hi do someone know how to host a server in alpha pls help me!

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:07 pm

Can you please state your question so I can understand it? I don't think anyone else understood that either.

What do you mean by “in alpha”? Do you mean the alpha versions of arma, like the 0.2.8_alphaYYYYMMDD versions you see on the server list? Those are servers compiled directly from the SVN sources (no releases). I don't suggest you run one of those if you don't know what they are

HIIIM · Post by **HIIIM** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:45 pm

but my friend epsy did use some pre-alpha and i want it because i gonna do a zombie run like its zombies all over the places and you should run óf horror

HIIIM · Post by **HIIIM** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:45 pm

but where can i download a pre-alpha hoster or something

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:11 pm

Then ask epsy

The zombie code requires Pig's patch, I think. For that, you need
- a development system. You need a compiler and all that.
- the arma source. Pig's patch is based on 0.2.8.something, so you can take a regular release. No need to go into SVN.
- you need to be able to compile the AA source to get a regular release before you should think about applying the patch.

If your server is Linux/Unix, read this:
http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php/ ... _source.3F
If your server is Windows, this:
http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php/ ... ent_System

- then you need to apply the patch and compile again.

Edit: Pig's patch is here:
http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=9441

And no, we don't have ready to use binaries available for any of that.

HIIIM · Post by **HIIIM** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:04 pm

can i ask one thing? can you do a server with zombies follow you on a race map the zombies gonna go so fast that we do so they have a chance

you know in spain he have a festival there the let out bulls and the bull hunting the people can you do same thing in armgatron but the bulls is zombies and the people is armagetron bikes

ed · Post by ed » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:10 pm

A zombie zone appears when a player is killed by another.
To my knowledge, without modifying the source, this is the only way to make them appear.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:12 pm

I don't know. The zombies as I know them only get created when cycles get killed, they don't spawn on their own. If you get them to spawn, then yes, that would be possible, the zombie speed should be a configuration variable.

Darn, am I this slow to post?

Post by **epsy** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:08 pm

arf

when i did set 'still in pre-alpha' i mean that config is far from being finished(you saw it) and that i'm missing some maps (actually 3 normal and 3 shot-maps, 4 maps still lack...) edit: not that i used an unstable v. of arma

now i understand what you did mean by that

also i did applied to 0.2.8. .... ehm 0.2.8.2.1 ^^:

- the pigsty patch (a mix of ctf, styball and shooting; i'm actually not planning to use ctf or styball, but time can give me another answer)

also to switch maps i used CT's script which doesn't really look anymore like the original one...

If you want my cfg files ask me

HIIIM · Post by **HIIIM** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:16 pm

but z-man cant someone do a new script/patch so zombies spawn too so it be like a bull hunting

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:26 pm

Wait for scripting and it'll be a breeze.

Note: The new “this will solve all of the world's problems” thing is scripting; XMMP is yesterday's snow

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:48 pm

You can make a feature request to Pig. It shouldn't be that hard to to even now, an new DTD, some lines in the map parser, making sure the zombies don't need to have a player.

HIIIM · Post by **HIIIM** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:54 pm

so i should ask pig for a new DTD because it should be nice i think many should like it

DDMJ · Post by **DDMJ** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:13 am

If the race map is comepletely straight (for some weird reason) how about an expanding deathzone...maybe you could experiment with deathzones at the turns. They get bigger, so you need to get to the turn sooner so it will be easier to make it.

custang · Post by **custang** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:19 am

lol that would be much easier to do