How to change AI names?

^}LC}<SolJah*KF · Post by **^}LC}<SolJah*KF** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:36 am

How do i change ai names???

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:43 am

you edit aiplayers.cfg

this is located in the config folder

^}LC}<SolJah*KF · Post by **^}LC}<SolJah*KF** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:22 pm

what part do you edit...

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:24 pm

The first column? The one with the names? After the section of the lines starting with # that contain the explanation?

^}LC}<SolJah*KF · Post by **^}LC}<SolJah*KF** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:56 pm

oh..well also how do you change like where it says [name]core dumped [name]

how can we change the core dumped part of that...

and also when the death zone is activated, how do you change that part?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:07 pm

"core dumped" can be changed in the language files.

language/english_base.txt:

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player_win_frag			\1 core dumped \3 for \2 points.\n
player_free_frag		\1 core dumped \2.\n
player_teamkill			\1 core dumped teammate \2! Boo! No points for that!\n

Can you be more specific about the death zone?

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:35 pm

He probably wants to alter the message “Instant death zone activated! Avoid it!” (not an exact quote). It's in the same file, just search for it using your text editor's search feature.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:10 pm

I'd suggest creating a new language file for it, though, and including only the messages you want to change. It's not terribly straightforward, but it does protect you against upgrades, to where you just have to edit one file to reinclude the custom language file.

Also, there's a setting for changing the filename for the aiplayers file for the same reason, but I have temporarily forgotten it. I think I snuck it into 0.2.8.2. May be that I snuck it into 0.3.0, though.

Josh1416 · Post by **Josh1416** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:15 pm

it says there is no specific application to open this which application do I select?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:15 pm

Just force it onto a text editor.

Josh1416 · Post by **Josh1416** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:48 pm

alrighty I got that I switched from mac to windows because my mac is a laptop and the windows is the desktop will a laptop change the way the server works? Like it being on the master server for other people?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:00 pm

What do you really think? Does any other software behave differently on a laptop than it does on a desktop, besides perhaps adjusting to a battery?

Josh1416 · Post by **Josh1416** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:41 am

No because I saw something about port forwarding and then it said it had to with laptops forgot where I read that but yeah I think it makes no difference when you think about it...

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:56 am

The differences are:

* Laptops tend to be a lot more aggressive in keeping power consumption low. Obvious since they run on batteries. It's platform-specific how to configure this, but I believe Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux all have ways to configure a laptop to run at max power when plugged in.
* Laptop chipsets trend towards lower-performing because they're supposed to be good on power consumption, but a mid-range laptop should still perform comparably to a mid-range desktop, there's just something like a $800 price difference. (Dollar for dollar, the desktop will usually outperform the laptop)
* The one that matters here is port forwarding, and laptops are usually configured to use dhcp, which means that potentially every time you turn on your laptop, you will have a new IP address, meaning you'd have to reset your router to compensate. To deal with this problem, I set my laptop up to use a static ip address, which screws up wardriving.

The differences are largely irrelevent if you leave your laptop powered up all the time and connected to the network, but some default OEM configurations might still require tweaking to make sure there aren't any powersaving config options left checked that you'd rather uncheck. I've seen this happen with new Dells, and KDE's default laptop configuration is so bad that before I discovered it, I was using a 1600mhz cpu at 800mhz for quite some time.

So, yeah, Jonathan's right in general, but you do need to check that your OEM settings are where they need to be.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:14 am

DHCP seems to be the default in any case, even if just because people are allergic to a few 32-bit numbers that are usually expressed as four groups of 8 bits. It's really just how the user sets it up in my experience.

Power saving is usually different indeed, but we're now really wandering away from the topic: what difference it makes to software that doesn't interface with the hardware directly.

There should be many port-forwarding-related posts already. Try searching.