I know, I do that.

^ Make houses with SLAB6 and import them into the VOXED.

I love this editor, just found it today :D

So fun making zombie maps with it, but I wish you could make houses and buildings etc...

Just updated this :
http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=6849&replies=1#post-114444

Thanks Buildramer!

How very very cool!! thank you very much :)

pyspades loads the map from whatever is specified in the config.txt file.

If you could somehow use GREP, or use your program to edit the text file, and change teh mapname.vtx, it should work out.

Pyspades uses a feature called rollback that you can set up to refresh the map. It takes a long time sometimes, and lags the players.

It would definitely be faster to just restart the server.

What would be cool is if you could somehow echo to the players that the server is changing maps, and to log back in 1 minute.

Thanks for doing this :)

i am going to give it a test run tonight.

That is a good idea to have a cycle maps feature. I built it into the program now.

Just visit the link above and it has the newest version.

In the new configuration file you set several maps (could set as many as you want) and it will rotate through them. When it restarts it will go back to the first one and thus start over.

Before this new version it would only run the one map, and the only way you could rotate maps would be using the batch files and a cronjob. Now you just set the maps in sever.ini, and set the restart time in hours.

If there is interest in it I can tweak this to work with PySpades (I haven't really used PySpades, so I don't know what all would need to change for it.)

In theory this could work with pyspades! It is an executable like the default server.

Thanks for doing this for us. We really need a way to cycle maps.

In yout thread title you might want to add : How to set up map cycling. or Server launcher +map cycle feature.

i am sure the Admins would live to add this :)

With your exe files you can have the windows scheduler automate a server :)

I was going to do something with batch files like this.:

#REM stop running server.
taskkill /IM client.exe

#REM delete old config.
DEL config.txt

#REM get new config file from pool.
copy /configs/config.txt

#REM launch server.

C:\path\to\AOS\server.exe

Then i would have seperate config files in a pool folder that load the various maps and settings for that map.
To automate it I would use Cron in Linux or Schedule manager in windows to daisy chain the scripts together, and execute them whenever i wanted a map cycle or a game mode change.

Pyspades provides us with a bunch of CLI commands, so we might be able to load the seperate map files without swapping the custom config files. like this:
Server.exe -mapname -switch1 -switch 2

that would be the easiest route, but i dont know if Pyspades does that or not.

I thought this might be helpful to someone so I uploaded it. This is a rather simple tool that will help you to Launch a default server from a configuration file.

Be Sure to Read the ReadMe for more Information. Or at least be sure to edit server.ini with your own information.

Download
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http://umh.sandcrawler.net/index.php?page=downloads&command=view&id=232

Open Source Information
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This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

The source is included inside the Source folder. You will need AutoIt3 to edit/view the source.

Release Log
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Release 2 (8-18-2011)
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- Discarded the split versions, Now there is just ServerLauncher
- New Feature, Map rotation. You must have at least 2 maps you want to rotate.
- Changes to the ini file to accommodate multiple maps.

Release 1 (8-17-2011)
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Initial release, a basic Server Launcher with configuration file, and Server Restarting feature.

Is google really that hard to use?

Ok so I got Hightmap and made a bitmap, so it is a 1024x1024 how to I get it to a 512x512 then how do u convert batches and crap

Facepalming doesn't do it.

FACEPALM!

how do u make a bitmap

EDIT:<snip> Because i was an idiot
EDIT2: Again, i am VERY confused in making heightmaps, do I need a specific color palette for each block height, and is 8 bit = 24 bit (8 bits for Red+8 bits for Green+8 bits for Blue = 24)
I'm such a noob at this

@Fig

The short syntax doesn't work properly for me. But if I say "convert.exe city.bmp city.bmp 4" then it's OK.

@Buffet_of_Lies
I love how you just assume that I don't understand how to convert it to a Batch file. Stop assuming you're smarter than everyone else.

Hmmm. No idea why isn;t working. Did you try 5?

Whenever I attempt to use this it shows this:
convert.exe city.bmp 4 (like in the readme because I just want a flat map)
Invalid Parameter - 4
I run it as an administrator and I have made sure its a 24-bit map.
Any ideas as to why it is doing this?
I double checked everything but maybe I've done something wrong.

Please please please bildramer, Add an external tool to convert 3D raw data to a map!
That would be AWESOME!

You probably did it with notepad which would save it with a .TXT extension instead of a .BAT... for example, you edited a new batch file with notepad and save it as test1.bat but what notepad, sneaky devil, did was save it as test1.bat.txt. See what I am saying?

When you click your "batch file" does it open a command window or does it just reopen in notepad. If not notepad, then paste the contents of your batch file into a message here and maybe I can see what is wrong.

The Batch file won't work for me even after I've created my own.

@rooster What do you mean by "won't work"?

How can I get this to work? I did what the readme said, and it still won't work. Any actual tuts?

Ohhhh... I see... new version! Facepalm.

I can't get it to work :/ Oh well.

hmm i cant work out how to actually start up the conversion process. i read the readme, but unfotunately being the fool i am i dont know how to actually start a batch process :/

What I do is edit example.bat in Notepad to read;

converth.exe terrain.bmp terrainh.bmp
pause

Then, I place my heightmap (terrainh.bmp) and my terrain texture (terrain.bmp) into the folder, run example.bat, and it spits out my map for me.

After renaming it, all you have to do to generate a map is to drop a heightmap and a texture into the folder, rename them, and run the .bat.

hmm i cant work out how to actually start up the conversion process. i read the readme, but unfotunately being the fool i am i dont know how to actually start a batch process :/

Lexsym, why do you always post in the community forum? If you're just going to redirect us, shouldn't you just post it in the official forum?

this is shit

didn't try it with the new version, but I forgot to give my thanks for the old version. Thanks. It appears I was the only one able to actually use it. I loved it.