Dedicated Servers?

Johan K · #1 November 3rd, 2003, 02:58 AM

You must have the X-windows and OpenGL libraries installed. You don't have to be running X-windows though. It doesn't even have to be properly installed as long as the libraries are in place.

Gandalf Parker · #2 November 3rd, 2003, 03:31 AM

Found it. I downloaded and installed a package called libglib2.0-0 which didnt seem to do it. So after googling for the answer (Im a real good googler) I installed one called xlibmesa3 which fixed it.

Now to find a webmaster who wants to run a domain

[ November 03, 2003, 13:39: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Gandalf Parker · #3 November 3rd, 2003, 03:40 PM

By the way, the "run continually on a port" example was very helpful.

Do you happen to have an example of a "process and quit" command line for processing pbem games? Has anyone run one of these and have some experience trying to create and host a game without ever walking thru the menu?

[ November 03, 2003, 13:42: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Johan K · #4 November 3rd, 2003, 05:20 PM

Process a turn and quit is very simple:
dom2demo -g name_of_game

[ November 03, 2003, 15:20: Message edited by: Johan K ]

Tourmalyn · #5 November 3rd, 2003, 05:50 PM

Does the command line way of launching a server have any way to include the map name and game settings? I tried launching it that way on a win2k machine, and the process launched successfully. Only problem was that it blocked on selecting the game name. So clients connected and sat at the 'getting game info' screen.

Tourmalyn · #6 November 3rd, 2003, 05:52 PM

Oh, yeah... And...

"dom2demo -g name_of_game"

How do you supply the turn data?

Gandalf Parker · #7 November 3rd, 2003, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tourmalyn:
Oh, yeah... And...

"dom2demo -g name_of_game"
How do you supply the turn data?

The players turn files can be delivered by whatever method desired (email, file transfer, floppy disk) and then copied into the games directory. Im not completely sure how the first turns would be made to start a new game.

On the game-map choice.....
He listed it farther down in this thread. The command line switches. The only one I think you HAVE to have is one like
--mapfile eye.map
since the name of the tga is specified inside a map file.

All the others have defaults which it will use unless you give the switch saying you want it a different way. All of those settings can also be set inside a map file if you wanted to create a map for the game you are making instead of using the command-line switches.

[ November 03, 2003, 16:55: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]