>For KV6 Files and mods.<
A guide to mods, in brief.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=2340#post-28851 )

>Hosting Servers?<
When you're using Pyspades, the command list can taunt you! Heres a helpful page from the PySpades guys.
( http://code.google.com/p/pyspades/w/list )

Portforwarding is important, too. Here is a small step guide to hosting.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=860#post-8638 )

This is another guide here on the forums.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=2025#post-24101 )

>For editing and generating new maps.<
First of all, there is a WIKI post with some good insight to the process but its really just to help you start.
( http://aceofspadeswiki.com/index.php?title=Mapping )

-Nothings made some neat map generation tools and they are here, on his forum post. They make some cool scenarios! But i haven't had many chances to see them hosted.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=803#post-8004 )

-VOX-Ed can be a little bit of a pain. Try this out if you want to change a few things about the operations. This is Voxed Companion, a tool to work with Voxed.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=759#post-7487 )

-Oh and if you haven't got a hold of Slab6 yet, here is a post for it.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=69#post-3309 )

-There is also a whole other forum, full of things to look at. This is a peek into the maps and mods section.
( http://ace-spades-community.com/viewforum.php?f=11 )

-Hey, don't forget we have a Search feature here on the forums!
Its where i get all my smarts.
( http://ace-spades.com/forums/search.php )

Don't be a deuce, guys! I'll add and rewrite over time, i'm sure.

If this hasn't been done already, it should be sticky'd.

I did something like this a long while back, but I don't think I worded it nearly as good as Exile.

Its been done a few times, from what i can tell. Usually mono-topical though. I'm still looking for information in various places. I'd just really like to boil down the whole "how the heck do i X Y Z" part of the forum into a knowledge base, personally.

>Changing your Avatar<

Sure, we have names. But dammit, these triangles is the deuce.
Its not commonly known that these are called "gravitars" a globally reconized Avatar.
Yeah, they are still the deuce.
( http://en.gravatar.com/ )

Sign up, use your same info from this forum. Change your avatar.

Fun fact, my Gravitar is my first avatar with these forums, recoloured, transparent, layered and rotated 90 degrees to the left.

wow i can't get it to work it won't except my account

Gravitar? well lets see if we can help you out.
Lets see. You sign up with the same email you use here on AOS? That is what i did.

Won't accept the account, huh? You can't log in as if you already were there FYI, its more like a registry to let gravitar know you'd like to change it so you have to register and sign up.

You should also go deeper:
There is a verified services function - i made sure to fill out wordpress, and a few others because i often post on those sites.

Once you're logged in, don't forget about this button:
( http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9142/unledk.gif )
So you can add any email you want to your gravitar log in, incase you used a different one for AOS! Also, it takes 5 to 15 minutes for your avatar to update.

I'm hosting a server and what r the commands and hb the god mode

Man that avatar is almost cooler than mine.
To get god mode, you have to be an admin on the server, like i imagine you are. So when you want to god-mode your self on your server, the command appears to be
/god akseltorgerson
OR what ever your name is in the game.

If it doesn't work you should have to change the config to add some passwords, so you can log into the admin stuff.

Running

Edit config.txt to your liking. If you don't want to go too deep with the configuration, just edit "name", "map" and the admin password ("replaceme").

+

passwords

User accounts and their associated passwords. When playing, a player may log into an account by typing

/login <password> 

Pyspades provides two types of accounts currently: "admin" and "trusted". Each account can have a list of passwords:

"admin" : ["password","sesame","watermelon"],
"trusted" : ["semisecret","coolness"]

You can use different passwords for different people, so that the server may be easily secured if one of them turns rogue or loses the password.

The admin account can use all the admin commands and is safe from votekicking. Trusted users cannot be votekicked, but do not have any other powers.

How do u custom make an avitar? Dude ur so beast in ur explanations!!!!!!! I love u as a friend :) thanks

With paint.

I mean really?

Well you can make a fancy one with Gimp. it works a little like Adobe but its free!
( http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ )

Crazy Kaede is right, though.
Lets look into making a avatar, then!

First you need an avatar you want. So i will go to google and type "Pea Soup" gross
Alright, so now i got a bowl of pea soup in photo format. Save the image to your hard drive, or copy it from the screen with right click. Open PAINT on your windows system or what ever you use. Save it as some thing new, maybe MAYBE write your name on it.

You can now upload it directly to Gravitar, which i listed in this thread already. Just gotta scroll up, now!

Ur amazing exile wherd u learn?

17 years of photoshop, videogames, music, writing and hanging around the internet.

And the search function at the top of the page.

Exile you should have used this as an example instead of pea soup.

Because Pea Soup isn't bad enough?

/noigetit,dontworry.

You may be missing the joke.

And actually, I love split-pea soup, so I take that offensively.

Not that I'm actually offended. But the soup should be offended.

I know I'm mildly necromancing this thread, but it seemed the lesser of two evils compared to starting a new one. So:

Speaking of avatars, how long does it usually take between changing your avatar with Gravatar and actually seeing the change in here? I changed mine several hours ago and haven't seen any change here.

I'm using the same email for the Gravatar account as I am for the forums, and set the avatar to that account. The file I'm using is in .png format and uploaded from my computer. What've I done wrong? Why is my avatar still a mess of pink triangles and diamonds?

@1337

I almost necromanced the VOXED companion thread until I saw this one.

I can't get VOXED Companion to work right, all it does is tilt my screen everywhere when I try to move.

Necromancy, of a five day old thread? OH NO THE WORLD WILL END!

>VoxEd-Companion<
Well, lets talk a bit about what you are doing in VOXED-C.
Once you clear that up a bit, we can help more but before that i'll mention that some Voxel based editors want you to run it maximized.

Aside from that, Voxed-C runs the motion controls on the WADS keys. Depending on the screen orientation when you are moving your left and right could cause you to go up or down (Related to the camera sway on the engine.)

>Gravitar<
As for gravitar, try activating your word-press account on gravitar to make the changes stick. It is usually not required by most people but it helped me. I already have a word-press email relation though. The changes generally take 5 to fifteen minutes. I have seen cases of longer on the forums but it usually ends out changed.

To verify your service with Wordpress or Blogger which i also did, you have to go to
>My account
>Edit Profile
>Verified Services

@1337101:
Wasn't your gravitar Goldish-brown before?

Oh, so I just want to run VOXED-C maximized rather in window form?

@Exile: I never had an official gravatar. My old "random pattern" was green and white, but I changed some of my profile data and it seems that changed the seed for the pattern to something that produced pink diamonds. I'll check with Gravatar and see if it's verified everything.

EDIT: What link do I need to enter into the web address field? I tried entering the forums address and my forums account information, but obviously that was a newb thing to do because it didn't work.

i voted

@NinjaAlienRock: Watch where you put your comments... that was way out of context.

@1337101
Hey sorry i had a long two weeks, was pretty damn sick here.

http://gravatar.com/sdkexile
I'm sorry, i was incorrect and i feel terrible for it but i do think it was blogger i verified my service with.
So here is a link to all the things i verified. Honestly I'm impressed it hasn't taken almost immediately.
Here is a small hash of information from the FAQ.

I changed my gravatar, but I still see my old one on sites!
We cache your gravatars for periods of time, which means that your new gravatar will take effect after the old one expires from the cache.
The reason we do this is to be able to serve your (and indeed everybody’s) gravatar images much more quickly and reliably.

My gravatar doesn’t show up for a particular rating (or site!)
Many sites only support displaying avatars with a rating of G.
If your avatar is rated as too explicit (you get to set the rating yourself) it will not be shown on sites that do not support that particular rating.
The check tool (http://en.gravatar.com/support/check) will show you what your gravatar might look like for all ratings.
If you wish to change your images rating,
simply hover your mouse over the image in the list at the bottom of your manage page,
and you will see the rating appear in black.
Click on that rating, and choose a new one from the next page.
As always give it a bit of time for the new rating to take effect!

My gravatar doesn’t show up on a particular site!
The most common reason for this is the rating of the image you are using for your gravatar above.
After that, the usual reason for this is a common error in making image links on the originating site.
(Click here: http://en.gravatar.com/support/check to double check your gravatar.)

@Gregery
Did you get your stuff running well?
Found a user's manual of sorts.
(http://aceofspadeswiki.com/index.php?title=User:Grapist) - Thanks space for pointing it out to me in a way.

@Exile: I saw all that stuff as well, and found it about as helpful as a... as a...
oh, what the heck, I can't think of anything less helpful. My gravatar is rated "G" (C'mon, it's just a strip of bacon... people only find that disturbing if they belong to PETA [People Eat Tasty Animals, People Embarrassing to the Tidewater Area, etc]).

The real problem I've been running into is activating my AoS Forums account. I go to the activation page and select Wordpress, and it asks me for a web address and my login information. I obvioulsy know my login imformation, but what address am I supposed to put in the web address field? Neither the main site address nor the forums address work.

That is what i meant, when i was considering the mistake i made. I did not activate Wordpress first to gravitar (blogger was the one i used first), and i recently(today) checked it off my gravitar list as my wordpress site has gone under in a way.

I do think you can forget about wordpress and i'm very sorry for the confusion.

OK, I've asked this several times, and I'll ask it again:

WHICH WEB ADDRESS DO I USE TO ACTIVATE MY AoS FORUMS ACCOUNT?

...allcaps, I know, but I've asked it about five times in normal casing with no answer. Can someone help me out here?

@Exile

I uninstalled it, But I'm going to try again later.

There isn't a webadress to activate, 1337101, thats what i was saying. Blogger is account based along with every thing else. I am pretty sure Wordpress is one of the few things that require any sort of URL input and none of them effect AOS.

THE ONLY thing i can imagine is that you need to add some more email accounts to your gravitar, thinking that you might have used the wrong one if you have multiples when you signed up here.