[bf1942] Killer Camera?

[David Snodgrass]

Same here. I've never seen it clobber its own config before :(
Oh well, I'll try it this way. Thanks.

On 3/18/04 4:21 PM, "Jon Wolberg" <jon at ecgnetwork.com> wrote:

> Hmm.....
> 
> This hasnt been my experience.  With BF1942 pre-BFSM we told the customers
> to download their serversettings.con files via FTP, make the changes, then
> re-upload them and type 'quit' into the console which crashes the server.
> It is then auto-restarted with the new settings.
> 
> Jon Wolberg
> Tech Support Manager
> www.ECGNetwork.Com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Forrest Thiessen" <thiessen at alum.mit.edu>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 4:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Killer Camera?
> 
> 
>> My experience is that you can only make changes to the
>> serversettings.con file while the server is NOT running (well, I guess
>> you can make them any time you want, but they don't "stick" unless the
>> server isn't running).  It's always been that way, as far as I remember.
>> 
>> BFSM can change certain parameters "in flight" because it controls those
>> parameters itself--for example, kick on high ping is done by BFSM
>> monitoring the current ping of players, and, when it sees someone
>> exceeding the set limit, it sends a kick command to the server.  If you
>> use BFSM to change the parameters in serversettings.con while the server
>> is running, the change has no effect.
>> 
>> Bottom line: if you want to change serversettings.con, stop the server
>> FIRST, and then start it up again after you've saved your changes.
>> 
>> --Woodrow
>>   thiessen at cyberscapearena.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jon Wolberg [mailto:jon at ecgnetwork.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:45 PM
>> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Killer Camera?
>> 
>> Same here.  When I put it into serversettings.con and run the server its
>> no
>> longer there.
>> 
>> Jon Wolberg
>> Tech Support Manager
>> www.ECGNetwork.Com
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Snodgrass" <dave at pmmci.com>
>> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>; "Jon Wolberg" <jon at ecgnetwork.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Killer Camera?
>> 
>> 
>> Me too. Additionally, if I put it into the serversettings.con, I seem to
>> have them 'mysteriously' disappear. Does the server somehow write back
>> to
>> that file on typing exit or such? - I have bfv running in a screen,
>> detach,
>> edit the con file, reattach, exit the server, and re-execute it. When I
>> go
>> look at the file, my changes are *gone* - Im stumped.
>> 
>> ./d
>> 
>> On 3/18/04 10:00 AM, "Jon Wolberg" <jon at ecgnetwork.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The console spits out an unauthorized method error when I try to type
>> this
>>> into it?
>>> 
>>> Jon Wolberg
>>> Tech Support Manager
>>> www.ECGNetwork.Com
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Neal Clayton" <xayd at vae-victus.org>
>>> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Killer Camera?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> game.serverDeathCameraType 0 works fine on mine, goes in
>>> serversettings.con
>>>> 
>>>> David Snodgrass wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone remember the proper config settings to NOT show the killer?
>>>>> All I can remember is the more recent game.serverDeathCameraType 0 -
>>>>> But bf:V seems to not like it.
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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