Tools

[Domino]

Hi,

I am here i am interested

if you tools that can make my job easier lets see what you have got

[Ze_PilOt]

Here is a mini server :

https://bitbucket.org/thepilot/mini-server/src

You need python + pyQt4 to run it.

Launch the game with :

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ForgedAlliance.exe /gpgnet 127.0.0.1:1234

It will connect to the mini-server.

Now, if you put this somewhere in the lua code (in the UI side only) :

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GpgNetSend('addProp', 'prop', posx, posy)

prop is the name of the prop, posx & posy the positions

It will be recognized by the server that will add it to a table.
If you send

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GpgNetSend('saveToFile')

It will dump the prop table into a file named props.json.

Now, you can either :
- modify the code yourself to do what you want (the code is fairly simple)
- you can tell me what you want to do, give me your lua code so I can test, and I will give you the "dumper" in .exe.


It's probably better to save everything as a json file, it's more easy to manipulate, and it's trivial to convert it back to a lua table.

If for you making the scenario is the easy part, making the utility to dump data from FA is the easy one for me, so I think we can combine our forces to do something good

[Domino]

Hi,

Thanks for the download and instructions,

i have installed the latest python and PYQT4

what do i download from the mini server and how do i start that server
just incase you need to know im on windows 7 64U

thanks.

[Ze_PilOt]

You can either follow the instructions there :
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1788

or go there :
https://bitbucket.org/thepilot/mini-server/downloads
and download the branch "default".

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python main.py

to start it.

Also, if you do some modification to the code, you have to contribute back (give the modifications) in the repository. I can eventually put them myself if you don't know how to do it.

But if you are a coder, you should familiarize yourself with the repository system, it's really, really useful in many ways.

[Domino]

ok cool,

so tried that and start fa with the specified params, what is supposed to happen initially?

i downloaded the default thingy and extracted, i then made a lil .bat file with python main.py inside
i then double click the .bat file, the window opens and just closes i pressume the server is now running at this point?

i also created a .bat file to start fa with the required command line options..
fa starts BUT the screen is just black i have to manually close fa with ctrl + alt + del

what is supposed to happen?

sorry about this..

[Ze_PilOt]

Oh, and sorry, I actually usedpySide, not PyQt4 : http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide_Binaries_Windows

Also, it should produce a miniserver.log telling you what is happening if something is wrong. The console should not close as long as the server is running.

[Domino]

ahh, ok installed that,

i pressumed i had to put the mini server in the python folder, so i did that, and tried to start,

i get this error




again sorry,

[Ze_PilOt]

Do you have a __logger.py file in the miniserverlogger directory ?

This file actually :
https://bitbucket.org/thepilot/mini-ser ... at=default

From what I see in your screenshot, you have copied the main.py in your python install.

What you need to do is create a folder anywhere (ie. c:\workspace\miniserver), go there, and type

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c:\Program Files\python\python main.py

When the code is stabilized, it's easy to convert it to .exe to ease the process.

Also, you can put c:\Program Files\python in the path variable of your system, so you don't need to enter the path to python each time you want to launch it.

[RoundTabler]

What are you attempting to do Domino?

[Ze_PilOt]

Basically a tool that allow to place props in game and dump it into a file to allow mission creation.