The server keeps track of every player ID that ever connected successfully.
This database stores the last names and IPs used by the player and the
last countries the connections came from. Some stats are counted, like
"time connected" and "total tks". Most importantly, the database stores
rights (like admin) and restrictions (like ban). All rights and
restrictions are kept as dates (or timecodes), so, for example, if your
ban date is in the future, you are banned - and if it's in the past, you
can play. The collected stats are meant to help server owners at managing
players - especially, if they want to give someone admin rights.
The database is periodically saved to a file and read from that file on
startup. The default file is config/servervita.cfg and one backup is kept
in config/servervita_bak.cfg. During server start, if the regular file
can't be loaded, the backup is tried instead.
While the server is running, it checks periodically for a file named
config/servervita_update.cfg, and if the file exists, it is renamed to
a backup filename including a timecode and read and merged into the
database. The automatic rename makes sure, that a file is only read once.
Using such updates, a server owner can easily give several people admin
rights or for example, add clan tags for a whole list of IDs. (Yes, the
database also stores a clan tag for every ID...)
The database also stores two short comments for every ID. One can only be
read by server admins, but the other one is public. The public reason, for
example, can state a reason for a ban.
One database record takes up 264 bytes of RAM. During autosave, accounts,
that have not been used for a specified time (default 12 months), will
not be written. After a server restart, those old records will be gone.
Currently, there is no process in place, to also clean up old records
from RAM. Maybe, that'll be added later...
Instead of a list of specific map+mode combinations the maprot now only
contains general rules for maps and game modes. The server then calculates
the list by itself when needed. The server accounts played maps and modes
(and map+mode combinations) and calculates the list specifically not to
overplay maps or modes.
May need further testing.
A list of parameters is read from config/serverparameters.cfg once per
minute and the values written to corresponding server data structures.
If the binary is compiled in debug mode, starting a dedicated server
will write a blank config file with all possible parameters and their
descriptions, sorted and grouped into chapters.
The name of the config file can be set with the commandline parameter -A.
So far, syntax errors are not reported. Instead, it's possible to dump
all current values to a file every time something changes.
also:
* -Y now sets the private key for the server
* -m without argument uses default masterserver URL
* servers run LAN-only by default (set ms URL and private key to
register with the master)
* use generic locale "POSIX"
new tool: list media sources
new stage: check vantage points
new: add single map from menu
new: option to abort maps on stage errors
fixed: make sure, player is alive (to be able to enter edit mode) during
conversions
- copyent and pasteent now also work with the menu list of copied ents
- pressing editmeta while using pasteent opens the menu
- new switch command (not unlike the old one)
- make expandselection and shrinkselection work with multiple selections
DOCREF switch copyent pasteent
newent7 type attr1 attr2 attr3 attr4 attr5 attr6 attr7
Works like newent, but can set all seven attributes directly.
Does not automatically put the camera yaw angle into mapmodel and flag
entities.
fixed selectionwalk so that the first parameter can be ""
DOCREF newent7
- always allow read-only edittextureslot, editmapmodelslot and
editmapsoundslot
- allow setvantagepoint when editing offline or spectating offline
- new var editing_sp: 1 during edit mode in singleplayer (offline)
- additional menus for read-only access to map config slots
- new bonus edit scripts: selectmiddle and unclipentclippedmodels
DOCREF edittextureslot editmapmodelslot editmapsoundslot setvantagepoint
DOCREF editing_sp
menuitemmapload mapname action [hoveraction [desc]]
create menu entry for a map file
menudirlistsub action dots
adds subdirectory entries to a menu with a files list
has to come after the menudirlist command
<action> is the command to be executed, when the menu entry is chosen
if <dots> is 1, an entry ".." is added
enumfiles path [extension]
lists files in a directory
if extension is specified, only files of that extension are listed
if the extension is "dir", only directories are listed
DOCREF menuitemmapload menudirlistsub enumfiles
pressing CTRL+F12 during spectating creates a clean screenshot and saves
it as map preview picture
modkeypressed
returns 1, if a CTRL key is pressed and 0, if not
screenshotpreview [lines]
creates a screenshot cropped to 4:3 with a given number of lines
(in the range of 144 to 480, default 240 or last given value)
and jpeg quality 80
gotovantagepoint
now returns 1, if the map actually has a vantage point set
DOCREF screenshotpreview modkeypressed gotovantagepoint
changed commands:
strstr haystack needle
now returns position of needle in haystack (counting from 1)
or zero, if not found
substr string start len
now counts negative length from total length
"substr text 1 -2" now returns the text without first and last char
strreplace text search replace
no longer restricted to 260 char stringlengths
removed commands:
swapelements, strpos (can be scripted, if required)
DOCREF strstr substr
DOCREF swapelements strpos
replace tokens starting with @ during scanning/sizing-up of []-blocks
@word look up word as in $word
@(...) evaluate braces
@[...] evaluate braces and look up result
@"..." parse quotes
in nested []-blocks, use multiple @ to determine time of replacement
(for example, @@@word is replaced when found inside three nested braces)
in regular $-lookup, $[...] now evaluates the braces before lookup
* fix some memory leaks
* rename stuff
* fix crash
Removed commands and variables:
chmenumdl (replaced by menumdl)
scorefont (replaced by "menufont score mono")
menuitemvar (better handled with fully dynamic menus)
Changed commands:
menufont menu font
Sets the font for a specific menu. If menu is "", the currently
initialised menu is used. Example: menufont score mono
menumdl menu mdl anim rotspeed scale
Assumes the function of the previous chmenumdl. If menu is "", the
currently initialised menu is used. Specifies, which model to render
and how. If only menu is specified, no model is rendered.
DOCREF chmenumdl scorefont menufont menumdl menuitemvar
- omit step size for sliders with value descriptions
- optionally auto-determine max value by list length
menuitemslider text min max value display action wrap
menuitemradio text min max value display action
text: menu item text
min: min value
max: max value (or optionally -1 and set by display string length)
value: initial value
display: list of value descriptions or value step size
action: executed on value changes (new value in arg1)
wrap: if 1, wrap slider around (radio buttons always wrap)
DOCREF menuitemslider menuitemradio
getxmaplist <what>
Returns a list of all regular xmaps in memory, or, if <what> is "bak"
the details of a stored backup xmap. Each xmap is listed with nickname
and description.
DOCREF getxmaplist
also: added sanity checks for vantage points
getvantagepoint
returns string with coordinates of vantage point or empty string, if
none is set
DOCREF getvantagepoint
- make sure, nextclosestent works for pinned entities
- menu entries for nextclosestent
- highlight closest ent
- have closestenttype return the current value and not change the value if
the argument is "-"
- recognise manually changed closestenttypes in the menu
DOCREF closestenttype
- replace by simple bitmask
- rewrite showedithide, setedithide and seteditshow in cubescript
- menu added for convenient use
setedithide and seteditshow no longer accept entity type numbers as
parameters - only entity type names
showedithide, setedithide and seteditshow are considered deprecated
edithideentmask
Integer variable containing a bitmask of hidden entity types.
DOCREF showedithide setedithide seteditshow edithideentmask
pointatent 0|1
enables (1) or disables (0) pointing at entities
if an entity is poiinted at during disabling, it is pinned
pointatentmaxangle a
specifies the required precision for pointing at entities
DOCREF pointatent pointatentmaxangle
it gets cut off on 5:4 screens...
hideeditslotinfo 0..2
0: show info always
1: only show "unassigned slot" if necessary
2: never show info
DOCREF hideeditslotinfo
updateeditinfopanel is a cubescript hook to provide additional information
about the current edit situation, like, for example, the closest entity.
The returned text is rendered on the right side of the screen.
Default for updateeditinfopanel is explainclosestentity which provides
detailed info about the closest entity.
editinfopanelmillis <n>
update the edit info panel every n milliseconds
hideeditinfopanel 0|1
render (0) or hide (1) the edit info panel
DOCREF updateeditinfopanel editinfopanelmillis hideeditinfopanel
Images are stored in packages/misc/igraph/*.png and loaded during game
start. Filenames consist of the image shorthand (mnemonic) and optional
frame times, separated by "_". Keep in mind, media file names may only
contain letters, digits and "_-.()".
All texts displayed in the game console are scanned for mnemonics prefixed
with ":". All found matches are replaced by the image.
The images are displayed as squares with width and height the same as the
regular font height. To create animations, put several square images side
by side into the file. For example, a 128x32 image is interpreted as four
frames. Frame duration is encoded in the filename, so, for example the file
"nop_1000_200_100.png" shows the first frame for 1000 milliseconds, the
second frame for 200 msec and the third (as the rest) for 100 msec.
Igraphs "1" to "9" are hardcoded and can be manually encoded in menu texts.
Use the new escape code "\i" plus the number of the image: "\i\1".."\i\9".
Other images can be used in menus as well, but the codes have to be fetched
by getigraph.
new commands:
updateigraphs
Checks for new files in packages/misc/igraph. Only necessary, if new
files are added during the game - for example, by mod package download.
getigraph <mnemonic>
Returns an encoded string to display an image outside the console, or
an empty string, if the mnemonic was not found.
new parameters:
igraphsize 80..300 (default 120)
scales the images (in percent)
igraphsizehardcoded 80..160 (default 106)
scales the hardcoded images "1".."9" (in percent)
igraphanimate 0..1 (default 1)
if 0, only the first frame of every image is displayed
igraphdefaultframetime 5..2000 (default 200)
used for images with multiple frames but no frame duration specified
in the filename
hideigraphs 0..1 (default 0)
if 1, no new images will be shown in the console
DOCREF updateigraphs getigraph igraphsizehardcoded
DOCREF igraphsize igraphanimate igraphdefaultframetime hideigraphs
- cleanup scoreboard menu code
- clientlog info messages for debug binaries only
- have debug binaries check for easy docs errors
- docinvalid now also checks for broken references
and: fix enumsounds, kill some CR, cleanup
menuitemcheckbox <text> <value> <action> <position>
Now takes an optional fourth parameter "position" in the range from 0
to 100, default 0, which moves the position of the checkbox over the
width of a text input or slider, with 100 being left and 0 being right.
DOCREF menuitemcheckbox
- collect most sound infos in one table and use it to generate the menus
- no more sound category checks with ranges
- now only PAINx and FOOTSTEP* sounds use hardcoded index numbers
enumsounds <list of categories>
Lists sound index numbers and short descriptions for all sounds of one
or more categories. The argument should contain one or more of PAIN,
OWNPAIN, WEAPON, PICKUP, MOVEMENT, BULLET, OTHER, VOICECOM, TEAM,
PUBLIC, FFA, FLAGONLY. All sounds with at least one of the flags will
be listed. Flag names prefixed with "!" will exclude all matching
sound from the list.
Example: /echo (enumsounds "VOICECOM !PUBLIC") will list all voicecom
sounds that are for teams only.
DOCREF enumsounds
scriptcontext and isolatecontext now allow plain text mnemonics for
context level arguments (one of CORE, CFG, PROMPT, MAPCFG, MDLCFG)
also:
- cleanup (some dead code and dead prototypes removed)
- some stuff renamed
- script errors now show context levels
- conc is no longer thread-safe (but slightly faster)
DOCREF scriptcontext isolatecontext
- add new hook "autoexec", executed right after autoexec.cfg
- properly report errors during hook execution
- new script to edit the contents of an alias in the console
DOCREF autoexec
ac-stef