[Resolved]server-side mod only

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9. June 2010 - 18:26
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hello folks,

i tried to install the xp-mod as a server-side mod only but i failed and have no clue how to do it.

I already searched the forums and just found that it is possible but no explaination on how to do it.

Maybe you guys can help me?! Here the things I already tried (I am using the OpenArena version)

1. added the .pk3 files in /baseoa (thats /baseq3 of Openarena) server starts but if i have sv_allowDownload set to 1 it starts downloading the pk3s to the client.

2. I disabled sv_autoDownload and tried to connect. So it gives me an error that I cant download the needed pk3s for that pure server.

3. so i disabled sv_pure and set it to 0. Now I got the error that I cant download the pk3 files. so i disabled the automatic download on the client and i could connect. BUT: as soon as I want to join a team i get the error: "cg_registeritemvisuals out of range 130... range [0-60]"

i didnt get the error if i used the xp-client.

so any clues on how to get the server-side mod running? is there a way to make it a sv_pure 1 server?

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9. June 2010 - 19:13
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Re: server-side mod only

You don't have to put it under the baseoa directory, and the server doesn't require any special configuration. Server-side mod means that players without the mod installed can connect to your server without problems, and those who have the mod will play fine too.

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9. June 2010 - 19:27
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Re: server-side mod only

thx beast+ for your answer.

well if i dont have to put the pk3s in the /baseoa folder of the server, then i dont understand what files of xp are needed for the server.

Can you tell me what files I have to put serversides?

I think you are talking about my #3. I have to set sv_pure 0 and disable the autodownload. well then I still get that error I named above.

And I dont really want to set sv_pure 0. any further ideas?

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9. June 2010 - 20:32
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Re: server-side mod only

You should NOT put the e+ files on baseoa directory.

You just have to setup a NORMAL e+ server:

- Extract the contents of the e+ release under your oa directory (the folder excessiveplus will be created).
- Start the server with something like: oaded.exe +set fs_game excessiveplus +set vm_game 0 +set dedicated 2 +exec server.cfg.

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8. January 2012 - 3:53
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Re: server-side mod only

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I'm currently preparing the launching of several permanent servers, and I would like them to be based on E+ v2.2b server-side.
I have unpacked the vm into the excessiveplus/vm folder and removed the pk3 to test a full server-side implementation (I may add them back later if players with autodownload want them).

Now the problem is an incompatibility between OA 0.8.5 and 0.8.1: when using E+, it seems that it is based o 0.8.1, and so when a player with OA 0.8.5 connects, there is an incompatibility of the range of items (which were changed, don't ask me why...).

The other day, I had it working, and I was pretty sure that this was because I had set sv_pure 1 and +set vm_game 1, but now I can't get it to work with those settings (I get an error because of vm_game 1 so it can't be loaded, and when I set vm_game 0, I get the item out of range bug again).

Do someone have an idea of how to circumvent that? WaspKiller maybe?

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8. January 2012 - 4:02
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Re: server-side mod only

Ok I think I've done it Happy
Simply remove the v085 pk3 from the server (not the client!) and set the server as pure (sv_pure 1): this will force the client to switch to v081 upon connection.
Now with some clever symbolic linking, it's possible to have two different basepaths or homepaths: one containing the v085 patch and one without to use with excessiveplus serverside Winking

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8. January 2012 - 19:17
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Re: server-side mod only

The method I outlined in my previous post works flawlessly. But this is only a temporary workaround, when ExcessivePlus for OA will be based on OA 0.8.5 or the soon-to-be-released 0.8.8, this workaround won't be needed anymore (because the problem reside in the incompatibility between OA 0.8.1, upon which is based E+ v2.2b for OA, and OA 0.8.5).

Since I'm not the author of the thread, could a moderator set it to RESOLVED please?

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8. January 2012 - 19:24
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Re: server-side mod only

question grosbedo, since newest e+ is qvm based again shouldn't it easily work in oa any version?

edit: about the items, maybe the gameconfig is bugged or something.

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24. January 2012 - 7:10
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Re: server-side mod only
rUnThEoN?! wrote:

question grosbedo, since newest e+ is qvm based again shouldn't it easily work in oa any version?

edit: about the items, maybe the gameconfig is bugged or something.

What do you mean by qvm based again? I saw that the .so and .dll files were again to be removed, but what does it change technically? Please excuse me for my ignorance but I don't have very much experience in Q3 modding.

/EDIT: I see what you mean now. If you mean by qvm based that it only overwrites the qvm, then that's exactly the problem: the update v0.8.5 for OA mainly resides in a new qvm that changed the handling of items. That's why it doesn't work: E+ is compiled over v0.8.1, but not on the new v0.8.5 game logic code, so that these changes are uncompatible with E+ currently.

I don't think there's any other workaround but to either use v0.8.1 and sv_pure 1 for now, or wait for a new release of E+ that will be based on OA v0.8.5 or OA v0.8.8 (that is very soon to be released).

About items, I will take a look, but I don't think so, there's no special weapons enabled nor gametype, it's a standard q3/oa cfg. And if it was a problem with the config, it would neither work with OA v0.8.1

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