Server Help

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

How can I edit the F1 menu of my zone?

I have also heard that you can center and bold stuff for your News.txt file using RTF, but it didnt work out for me. All it did was show the RTF code.

Is there some way LVZ can help me with either or both of these problems?

Samapico · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:14 am Post subject:

Open the commands.hlp file in notepad, check how it's done. There are some special codes for colors, pages, things like that.
So you modify the commands.hlp, make a custom one, and add it as a file in your LVZ, the same way as any custom graphics or sounds

I believe there are some help file editors out there, never tried them though...
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General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

I dont see any command.hlp file anywhere...is it something you have to download?

Samapico · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:02 pm Post subject:

Commands.hlp , it's in your root continuum folder

Note that the help ticker can also be modified with Ticker.hlp

L.C. · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

I might recommend using the latest Commands.hlp file from http://www.hlrse.net/subspace/Commands.hlp for a start too. It contains all the latest on ASSS, Isometry, BanG, client-side and server-side commands in a consistent and organized format.

EDIT :: I think that latest Commands.hlp also contains some information on how to write content for Commands.hlp as well.

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

OK, I have the F1 help menu down, but is it the same with the news?

Btw, thanks guys

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

[quote="Samapico"]So you modify the commands.hlp, make a custom one, and add it as a file in your LVZ, the same way as any custom graphics or sounds
quote]
Would that be DefaultLevel= In server.ini?

Samapico · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

DefaultLevel is the name of the lvl file to use for pub... someone told you in another topic how to add files to a LVZ, with File=...

Not sure how to use RTF in the news file, never done it... but you could easily get in a zone with that, and then go to your continuum\zones\<zonename>\ folder and grab the news.txt there and check how it's done

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

OK, thanks

Hakaku · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:05 pm Post subject:

It's pretty simple. Write the news and save it with a .rtf extension. After you saved it, rename the extension .txt.* Voilà, done.

*Alternatively, open up the rtf file in notepad and save it as a .txt file.

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

Sorry to bump this topic, but i ran into a problem.

I have a test .hlp file called commands.hlp

I then lvzd it into commands.lvz

I added it to my zone, did *recycle. The f1 menu remained unchanged.

Samapico · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:00 am Post subject:

Did you add the lvz in the misc:levelfiles setting?

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

No one has any ideas?
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L.C. · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:34 am Post subject:

Rename test.hlp to Commands.hlp in the LVZ.

Samapico · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject:

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I checked the Commands.lvz file in Notepad and saw "test.hlp" in plain text amongst the gobbledlygook characters.

Samapico · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject:

Did he even attach the lvz?

I don't see that

L.C. · Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject:

No he didn't attach it, but you could join and download the zone BlueT World War 3 which does have Commands.lvz. :rolleyes:

General Shadow · Novice Gender: Joined: Jul 23 2009 Posts: 51 Offline

Ah...my bad,. Got it workin. Thanks.