SAPP

[stunt_man]

I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong in trying to configure the sapp mapcycle. The sapp directory is "ftp://123@xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx/haloce/cg/sapp".

This is what my main init.txt looks like (in "/haloce"):

sv_name: "blah blah blah"
sv_maxplayers: 10
sv_rcon_password: "blah blah blah"
sv_public: "1"
sv_mapcycle_add fissurefall "slayer"
sv_mapcycle_begin
load
mapcycle_begin

This is what my sapp init.txt looks like (in "/haloce/cg/sapp"):

v2
afk_kick 300
ping_kick 600
anticaps 1
antispam 1
map_skip 51
aimbot_ban 10000 1 1440
sapp_mapcycle 1
mapvote 1
no_lead 1

And this is what my mapcycle.txt looks like (also located in "/haloce/cg/sapp"):

No_Remorse:"real TEAM ctf"
Zanzibar_Classic:"real TEAM slayer"
Etc etc

What am I doing wrong? I paid special attention to the instructions on the site but I guess there's something that I'm missing....

I'd really appreciate any help, been trying to get map voting working but I believe I need the sapp mapcycle to achieve that? Right now whatever won the vote doesn't make a difference, the server continues the mapcycle specified in the main init.txt. I tried setting it up so there was no map cycle in the main init.txt, but the server won't run.

Is as if it isn't detecting mapcycle.txt in the "/haloce/cg/sapp" folder. Does this file need to be saved in a specific encoding? Or is the directory incompatible? Or I am completely out of the ball park lol

Thanks in advance!

[sanni]

Nolead really working great these days <3

[stunt_man]

I got it! It was the quotes I had around the game type! SAPP DOESN'T LIKE QUOTES!

On another note: so how does map voting work exactly? Lets say I have 10 options in mapvotes.txt, but specify max_votes as 5, does it pick 5 options randomly to show at the end of the match?

Also why is it that sometimes the map voting options are displayed twice consecutively, flooding the chat?

[Donut]

so i started halo for the first time in a long time the other day. i joined a server that mentioned SAPP. it said it had no-lead enabled, but it seemed like i still had to lead. so whats the deal with that? do i need something installed for that to work? or was that server just not set up correctly?

[{XG}Gijs007]

I got it! It was the quotes I had around the game type! SAPP DOESN'T LIKE QUOTES!

On another note: so how does map voting work exactly? Lets say I have 10 options in mapvotes.txt, but specify max_votes as 5, does it pick 5 options randomly to show at the end of the match?

Also why is it that sometimes the map voting options are displayed twice consecutively, flooding the chat?

That's correct, SAPP picks 5 random maps at the end of the match.
As for your issue with double vote options, I've never seen that before, are you sure you don't have multiple entries in your mapvote.txt?

so i started halo for the first time in a long time the other day. i joined a server that mentioned SAPP. it said it had no-lead enabled, but it seemed like i still had to lead. so whats the deal with that? do i need something installed for that to work? or was that server just not set up correctly?

SAPP's no lead mod isn't perfect IMHO (since halo's netcode is still shit), but it could also be the server being set up incorrectly.

Question:

I want to spawn a sniper rifle at the bases of Icefield.

So I create the following command in commands.txt

icesnipe 'say * "DEBUG: Sniper spawned";spawn weap "weapons\sniper  rifle\sniper rifle" icebluebase; spawn weap "weapons\sniper rifle\sniper  rifle" iceredbase; w8 30; despawn g 0;despawn g 1;wait 50;icesnipe' 4

Add this in events.txt

event_start $map:icefields 'icesnipe'

And locations.txt

icefields:iceredbase:21.017452 -13.972477 0.000000
icefields:icebluebase:-72.007332 76.430954 0.000000

Now my problem is that the event "icesnipe" doesn't stop when a new map is loaded.

So I would need an eventstop command like so:

event_end $map:icefields 'eventstop 9'

Possible?

Try using the $map:icefields in your command in the commands.txt

[sanni]

Can I check wether or not scrim mode is enabled in events.txt? Like lets say I wanna disable all server messages like killing spree when scrim_mode is set to 1.

Like: event_kill $scrim_mode!=1 $killstreak=5 'say * "Killtacular"'

[stunt_man]

That's correct, SAPP picks 5 random maps at the end of the match.
As for your issue with double vote options, I've never seen that before, are you sure you don't have multiple entries in your mapvote.txt?

Positive. And it just repeats the same options. It's like it posts it twice. It's hard to tell when there's 10 people in the server and the chat is flooded to shit anyway, but yeah as far as I can tell it happens pretty often. Ill test later with max_votes 2 and post back here.

Also, I joined a server last night that used SAPP to edit starting weapons. I'm not home at the moment, so ill post my theory as to how it's done here. Does this work?

event_spawn $mode=serious_ffa_snipers;'wdel $n 0'
event_spawn $mode=serious_ffa_snipers;'spawn weap "weapons\sniper rifle\sniper rifle";wadd $n'

+rep for anyone that corrects my amateurish syntax

I really have no idea what I'm doing. The idea is to strip the player's starting weapons, then spawn a sniper rifle at his feet, the put it in his hands (without a secondary weapons). I haven't done much scripting, please tell me if I'm doing something wrong or if there's a more efficient way to accomplish this!

Thanks

EDIT: Also, not sure if this is possible, but since there are so many people who's eyes aren't open to the benefits of automatic map downloading with HAC/OS, I'd like to make it so that if no one votes at the end of the game, it doesn't just pick a random mapvote option. The idea is for the server to continue on a mapcycle with the default maps until a custom map gets voted for. Doable?

It's a hard knock life for a server host that is sick of the stock maps and would like to play customs but no one fucking has them so he'll tolerate stock maps just so people don't get dropped from his server unintentionally

[sanni]

Have a look at the example Zombie server, it has starting weapon replacement in the event.txt: http://www.elitegameservers.net/sapp/downloads/SAPP_Zombies_Server.zip


mmmmmm In my current server I do it like this:

event_spawn $mode:caketheflag $map:dangercanyon 'wait 100; wdel $n 1;spawn weap "weapons\shotgun\shotgun" $n;wadd $n;ammo $n 24'

First I wait 100ms after the person is spawned, this seems to prevent glitches. Then I delete their first weapon, spawn a shotgun, equip the shotgun, and then I define exactly how much ammo they got in it again to prevent glitches

[stunt_man]

You wouldn't happen to be the owner of that 'RAWR' server would you? :0

Thanks for the reply, working on it now!

EDIT: Something is causing my gameservers.com server to crash. I deleted events.txt and mapvotes.txt to troubleshoot, but even without those, after I hit "restart server" it stays offline. I still have FTP access. Could it have something to do with map files? I'd rather not have to re-upload but I will if that's what's causing this.

EDIT 2: Found out (sorta) what is causing this. When I remove the "mapcycle_begin" command from the main init.txt the server works fine. So I must be doing something wrong... But I can't find my error.

In the main init.txt I have:
...
load
mapcycle_begin

In the SAPP init.txt I have:
...
sapp_mapcycle 1

And in mapcycle.txt I have:
chillout:real ffa snipers

No quotations this time. And I'm 100% sure I have that gametype and map in the right places.

I mean I guess it's not a huge deal that I can't get SAPP's mapcycle to work, since I'm using map voting anyway. Still...

[sanni]

Make gametypes without spaces in their name, saves you a lot of trouble ;D