Server Help

General Questions - .cfg and .set

Anonymous - Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:38 pm
Post subject: .cfg and .set

When i hit Esc + C to view the settings in game, it just sends server.set to your continuum directory and wont show up in the game. How do you make it so it views server.cfg in the game, so you dont have to edit on notepad.
Thx

Helicon - Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:15 pm
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you could use *getfile server.cfg
-or-
FACTS has a .set decoder

Anonymous - Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:31 pm
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*getfile server.cfg would send me the file to my cont. dir. but what if i want to view / edit settings in the game.

KrynetiX - Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:48 pm
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Hit ESC-C and it will let you edit the actul cfg.
i think .set is just for the information you see at the bottom (right?)

after you understand all the settings it becomes extremely easy to use this.. ?set warbird:initialspeed:1000

Dr Brain - Mon Jan 06, 2003 11:05 pm
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No, he is saying that when he presses esc+c, he only gets the .set in his folder.

Anonymous - Tue Jan 07, 2003 12:18 am
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ya dr brain knows what i'm talkin about

now i need an answer

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:03 am
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Helicon wrote:

you could use *getfile server.cfg
-or-
FACTS has a .set decoder

Descendant wrote:

now i need an answer :P

Am i missing something here?

Anonymous - Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:14 am
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yes mine .. *getfile server.cfg would let me view it in a text file outside of
continuum. I'm talking about editing inside of continuum by esc + c. When i do Esc + C inside zone it says File Sending Server.set and sends it to my cont. directory and nothing shows up in the game.

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:56 am
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Is the full file actually sent to your cont folder? If not, does your server have a template.sss file?

SOS - Tue Jan 07, 2003 4:27 am
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Yup, an empty/missing template.sss does that

Anonymous - Thu Jan 09, 2003 3:05 pm
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i'm unaware of template.sss .. what does it do and how do i fix this?

Helicon - Thu Jan 09, 2003 3:12 pm
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template.sss its a text file that contains descriptions and integer boundries (minimums and maximums) that are loaded to make sure that people know which settings do what and what they can be set equal to without breaking something. IT HAS NO EFFECT ON THE SERVER SETTINGS THEMSELVES!

You need to make sure that the folder where your zone is hosted contains the template.sss that can be found in the download section:
http://www.shanky.com/cgi-bin/ryan/download.cgi?template.sss

(use Save target as... if it loads it in the browser, k?)

Anonymous - Fri Jan 10, 2003 1:43 pm
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so does ur template.sss have to match ur server.set or server.cfg?

Helicon - Fri Jan 10, 2003 5:19 pm
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im not sure how the in-client editor handles it, but chances are that a mismatch cant be a good thing, right?

remember: template.sss is a completely different thing than server.cfg, it DOESNT EFFECT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE GAME!

Anonymous - Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:21 am
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So the template.sss doesnt have to match the server.cfg or server.set ? .. cause its goin be a pain to fill in all of the template.sss info

SOS - Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:43 am
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You're not supposed to touch the .sss in any way unless you wanna fix the numerous errors and missing stuff from there

Anonymous - Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:15 pm
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ok but the one of shanky has the names and descriptions and no values and i do not want to have to fill in anything .. anyone got a default one?

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Jan 17, 2003 10:44 pm
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You aren't required to touch the template.sss at all. You don't even need to ever open it. Its there for the server to merge the .cfg into a .set when you do ESC+C, nothing more, nothing less.