MEAT wrote on Nov 1^st, 2011 at 2:32pm:


This is now in place in version 330. Link updated in first post. Make sure to read the readme for how-to and the DISCLAIMER. Search for MaxPlayers in the readme.

hey , great to see you still popping out new mods and improvements.

in regards to medtoggle.. Iam wondering , is it possible to replace that flak cannon down by the goo with another weapon?.. perhaps even custom like a zarkrifle or mac10 or even naliweapon3  weapon?.

thanks.

so just to be clear I would do something like the following;

WeaponSwap="UT_FlakCannon1:Botpack.PulseGun" 

^ as I would like to replace only that Flakcannon (not both)

cheers.

hey hey , thanks mate , I have been contemplating building some kind of routed type server of recent..

starting off at stock deck then progressing through other stages with differing mods etc.. and ending somewhere in Zeto!..

one problem that seems to be faced these days is downloads.. players just really hate them.. This was for memory addressed by Cr@tos many moons ago with the advent of DynamicPackageloader or DPL as I named it once ..

This little gem allowed for map specific mods to be loaded at 'Map Load' time.. however it is/was slightly flawed for memory and caused alot of issues for Admins .. I think it was more to-do with the Prefixes for the individual game types and was based somewhat on these. But we as you know liked to venture beyond the point of simplistic and incorporate things like SLV-SomeMap.unr into the works and such.

Basically what I would like to do is take the player through some kind of journey as such.. so they start off on Deck.. and then perhaps the next map in line would be face but with slv's then maybe veridian combo instagib then maybe wootabulous cIG.. then maybe some custom sniper map , low gravity with custom sniper rifle.. before ending up at Zeto classic..

this mod I believe maybe just what is needed to achieve such things

Thanks.

Hey Helen, thanks for medToggle, it's really very cool.

I have a question, which is probably covered in the (excellent) ReadMe, but there's so much detail in there that I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed

My question is this: I run a BT server with all of the usual BTPlusPlus stuff. But we've been forced to use an alternative Instagib mutator because the BTInsta one (that comes with BTPlusPlus) has some strange problems when using the Boost/NoBoost BT feature (allowing you to be "pushed" by shockrifle hits, or not) and player collisions occur (it stops working - Boost that is, you become "unboostable" when you "touch" another player).

But, one of our maps (made by a regular visitor), has some other unusual weapons included in it, and he tells me that they won't spawn while we're using this modified Instagib (from i4games).

So, medToggle came to mind. I figure I can swap out our i4games Instagib gun for the stock BTInsta one *just* for this map. My main question is this - since I only want to use medToggle for this fairly small case, is there any way to ask it to *not* set the defaults (for the translocator, gravity, aircontrol and so on), and just leave the ones that are pre-configured already on the server?

Thank you very much in advance!

Hey Helen, thanks for the quick reply!

Understood, that's what I thought to be the case (about the defaults). That's a very kind offer, I'll give setting things up a try on my own first rather than taking up your time, and if I have problems I'll come back and ask for more help!

Best regards

Update. OK, I've looked into this a little further, and I think (maybe ) I have a better understanding of the issue now. The map that we're having the trouble with uses NemesisX SLV rockets (pretty unusual for BunnyTrack!).
And it seems that the setting in BTPlusPlus.ini called

bAutoLoadInsta=

...is the issue, it's set to True on our server. When I set it to False for offline testing, the NemesisX rockets appear. I had a peek at BTPlusPlus.uc and I think this is all down to:

function PreBeginPlay()
{
  ...

  if(bAutoLoadInsta)
  {
    if ((!bDisableInTournament || !class<DeathMatchPlus (Level.Game.Class).Default.bTournament) && (!bDisableInNonBTMaps || (Left(string(Level), 3) ~="BT-" || Left(string(Level), 7) ~="CTF-BT-")))
    {
      RemoveActorsForInsta();
      Insta = Level.spawn(class'InstaGibBT');
      Insta.DefaultWeapon = class'SuperShockRifleBT';
      Level.Game.BaseMutator.AddMutator(Insta);
    }
  }
 

...because that seems to tbe the main place the bAutoLoadInsta variable is referenced. So... I'm reluctant to set bAutoLoadInsta=False because on all other maps this works fine (I'm not entirely sure what the implications of doing that are anyway). But I'm not sure this is something I can get around with medToggle afterall.
Apparently you can flip the setting of bAutoLoadInsta by typing:

type mutate btpp bAutoLoadInsta False
 

...in the console in-game. I don't know if there's some way I can do this automatically.