Doom3world

If anyone is comfortable with the SDK, a server side mod is desperately need to do the following for server-admins.

1. Ability to change weapon respawn times.
2. Ability to change power-up respawn times.
3. Ability to enable/disable weapons.
4. Ability to enable/disable power-ups.
5. Anti-Chat Spam (if possible).
6. Map Location Error Messaging.

Request #6 explained:

sv_map_error "You can get our maps at www-umk-inthegame.com"

So Bob joins server and can't connect because he doesn't have the right map. Instead of an obscure error, he gets the following message from sv_map_error:

You can get our maps at www-umk-inthegame.com

The way it is up to the server admin and the player to get the maps at the website stated.

Any takers on this much needed server side mod for all us server admins? You'd get get lots of friends and be popular.

Thank you very much.

What error does it give if you don't have the required map?

Connnecting to the following server:

Kilnet Labs DM 64.85.33.12:27666

--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------
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sending challenge to 64.85.33.12:27666
received challenge response 940808480 from 64.85.33.12:27666
sending connect to 64.85.33.12:27666 with challenge 0x38139920
Waiting for authorization

sending connect to 64.85.33.12:27666 with challenge 0x38139920
Can't connect to the pure server at 64.85.33.12:27666:
Missing 3 media pak files: 0xde3b80f5 0x691c161f 0xb0c64558
--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------
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Wrote screenshots/shot00003.tga
Wrote screenshots/shot00004.tga
--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------
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Shutting down sound hardware
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
------------ Game Shutdown -----------
--------- Game Map Shutdown ----------
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Shutdown event system
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Screenshot:

http://www.umk-inthegame.com/pics/maperror.jpg

Can a server side mod like this be done?

Hmm, I wouldn't think it would be that difficult, but the two strings (06751:Missing media pak files, 06752:Can't connect to the pure server at) don't seem to be referenced in the code anywhere.

Are 1 - 5 possible?

I haven't examined the SDK much yet, but I'm guessing that 1, 2 and 5 should be very possible, but not simple. 3 and 4, I don't really know, you'd probably need to customize the maps as well.

Even just 1 and 2 would be very helpful.

Well I'd help you out, but I'm already working on a mod thats consuming most of my time, sorry

In the english.lang file of the SDK is:
"#str_06751" "Missing %d media pak files: %s\n"
"#str_06752" "Can't connect to the pure server at %s:\n"

But, I can't find it in the code. There should be some code that says:

common->GetLanguageDict()->GetString( "#str_06750" )

that returns that string; but, I can't locate it anywhere. I even tried hex.

I'm afraid that the code which handles that error resides in "doom3.exe". I suppose the best fix for that in the interim would be to add some code to the idMultiplayerGame constructor that looks for the pak files and stops the client before trying to connect to a server. That...of course...depends on the class being instantiated before the server is started. But, I have a feeling that that class doesn't get initialized until after handshaking has been successful and doom3.exe is ready to add the client to the game.

I'll keep that in mind for sure. I ran several full servers for several months and can imagine how frustrating it is to have players visiting your server and having them kicked due to technical difficulties.