Showing a meassage after every round.

Self_Destructo · Post by **Self_Destructo** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:18 am

I would like to show a message to everyone after every round. Is that possible?

LETE · Post by **LETE** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:32 am

put one of these into settings_dedicated.cfg

round_center_message
or
round_console_message

followed by your message, or you could create a file called everytime.cfg and stick it in your config folder, anything you put in there will be loaded after each round, so stick

center_message
or
console_message

followed by your message and it will be displayed after every round, you can do allot of other fun stuff with everytime.cfg besides this.

center-prints a center message
console-prints a message in the chat space.

Post by **dlh** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:40 am

To clarify: round_console_message_1, it goes to 4

Or you could use everytime.cfg like LETE mentioned.

LETE · Post by **LETE** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:43 am

nemostultae wrote:To clarify: round_console_message_1, it goes to 4

Or you could use everytime.cfg like LETE mentioned.

actually, it goes to five.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:52 am

Generally you don't want to put center messages in everytime.cfg, they'll get canceled or cut short by other center messages the game decides to display. Also, when you put console messages (or use "SAY" to say something in everytime.cfg), don't make the lines dependent on a specific order. I think that's fixed in cvs or will be fixed sometime in the near future (if it's not already fixed I"ll beat on it eventually anyway), but in current releases, each line in everytime.cfg isn't guaranteed to take effect in the same order they're listed in the file. So you could have:

SAY Hi there
SAY Goodbye

But you might see:

Admin: Goodbye
Admin: Hi there

Worse yet, it's different for every player.

Self_Destructo · Post by **Self_Destructo** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:01 pm

Thanks guys. Is there one for displaying a message after every match.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:32 pm

Self_Destructo wrote:Thanks guys. Is there one for displaying a message after every match.

Not really, no, but if you go into the language files you can work on the match winner string.

Self_Destructo · Post by **Self_Destructo** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:56 pm

One more question. Is there a way to log the server action? All the stuff it shows you at the CP.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 8:10 pm

Yeah, you can either run the server with --daemon and redirect output to a file, or you can run it with --vardir *yourfile* (I believe) which will output the console to a file. Of course, the --daemon flag is probably still needed there....

antix · Post by **antix** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:23 pm

I noticed that it still doesn't log the console data.
However, I'm experimenting using the command screen -L
and running the server with in the screen, just a small problem, is the log file produced, has some unwanted characters in it. But its a start.

antix · Post by **antix** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:40 pm

Ok sorry for the double post, was an sql time out, and lol I had to click refresh.

Anyways, i found that using less to view the log(linux os) works great, but using nano or pico, it displays the unwanted characters.

so, just running the server inside a screen with the -L works great.
a log file called screenlog.0 will be created in the current directory where the screen session is started.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:08 am

Sounds like a lot of work to go through to generate a log that a simple:
armagetronad-dedicated --daemon > logfile.log
would do.

I think it's --vardir that tells the server itself to write the log, and you have to give it a filename. Also, on Mandrake anyway, if you don't redirect the output or otherwise, and you run it from an init.d script, then the log will be output to syslog.

antix · Post by **antix** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:20 pm

yeah, that is easier

But I wanted to be able to view the console at the same time, and enter console commands.

antix · Post by **antix** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:24 pm

however if one doesn't need to enter console commands, then they could start the server using the command line you mentioned.

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armagetronad-dedicated -daemon >> ~/.armagetronad/var/games.log

Then use this command to view the log as its being generated.

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tail -f ~/.armagetronad/var/games.log

I edited this post, need double >> for appending

Post by **Lucifer** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:51 am

The next version looks like it'll have stronger in-game admin, giving access to the console. Tank had that implemented, but I haven't tested it. (After the automake branch is merged I'm going to rebuild Hell on a cvs server to start testing the dedicated server for the release) So we'll finally have logging as the preferred way to run it and still have access to the console, and we'll have it all in-game.

Yay!