[bf1942] Killer Camera?

[Brigham Stevens]

The server clobbers it's own settings on map change.
If you time it right, you can get away with editing, waking the server, and
restarting.

It is a pain. It would be superb if the server would NOT overwrite
serversettings.con file.. I wonder why it overwrites that ??

It also overwrites the maplist, which is annoying.... It would be better if
the current map were stored in a separate file, like "currentmap.con" and
then you could edit the maplist to make changes on the next map load. That
would be sweet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Wolberg" <jon at ecgnetwork.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Killer Camera?


> 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.
> > >>>
> > >
> > >
> >
>