------------------------------------------------------------------------- ###### Overview: ---------------- ServerModules is a set of modularized QuakeC modifications. The range of applicability is restricted to deathmatch games. The modifications require an installation on the server only. They are based on QuakeC version 1.06. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ###### Changes: --------------- The following is an excerpt from CHANGES: === 3.3.12 (last version was 3.3.10) # Fixed a bug that allowed players with name "" to mysteriously capture the flag. # Fixed a bug that allowed observers to collect items after a level change in non CTF games. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is an excerpt from README: ###### Modules: --------------- Module Admin: Allows remote server administration. By typing the correct sequence of impulse a player may gain root privileges. Root may then perform administration tasks like: - changing to the next level - jumping to any of the original id levels. - kicking players - restarting the server - changing the values of parameters like fraglimit, timelimit, noexit, gravity and friction. - toggling flags in the teamplay variable, thereby enabling or disabling certain modules. - changing the team membership of players when playing CTF. The following commands are provided to perform this tasks: root-nextlevel root-level root-kick root-restart root-fraglimit root-timelimit root-noexit root-gravity root-friction root-teams root-teamplay root-logout Most of the commands are self explanatory. The command 'root-teams' should be used to assign players to teams, the command 'root-teamplay' should be used to modify the 'teamplay' variable. Note that for obvious reasons most changes of the 'teamplay' variable act on the following levels only, not on the current one. Finally, when typing 'root-logout' root loses its privileges. Module Burn: Allows players to burn. Players may start to burn if being bombarded by certain weapons, including drones (see module Drone), the weldgun (see module WeldGun) and shrapnel missiles (see module Shrapnel). Three flavours of burning exist. The first causes little damage, the third hurts significantly. A player burning mildly may start to burn worse if hit again by incendiary ammunition. Fire is extinguished automatically after a certain period of time or if the burning player jumps into sufficiently deep water. A burning player may infect other players in the vicinity. Module CTF: Allows to play 'Capture the Flag' teamplay. The general rules for playing 'Capture the Flag' are the same as those found in the original CTF server patch created by Dave Kirsch (zoid@mindlink.bc.ca). They are explained in detail on "http://quake.threewave.com/". However, there are some differences compared to version 2.51 of Dave Kirsch's CTF package. The most important are: - Flag carriers carry the flag on their back, making it easy to identify them. - Players are allowed to change teams when they are dead or when they are observers. To do so a player should simply type for instance 'color 5'. This causes him to change teams, with a pants color of his new team and a shirt color of 5. The server administrator may, however restrict this default behaviour: - by removing a certain flag from the 'teamplay' variable in the file 'autoexec.cfg' a player changing his color will only join the other team if the other team is weaker than the current one. - by removing another flag from the 'teamplay' variable it is possible to disable team changes completely. - There is no need to patch the original id levels to include flags and weapons at the bases. All the information about flags, additional items, disabled doors/teleporters is done in the source code of the CTF module. - Players are allowed to change their color when they are alive; the server only enfores the color of the player's pants to be the team color. It is, however, not possible to change team membership by changing colors when the player is alive (not even for a split of a second) since the server handles team membership in a different way. Please note that the data used to turn regular deathmatch levels into a CTF playable maps was taken from Dave Kirsch's CTF package "3wave251.zip" and was only slightly modified here and there. I'd like to thank Dave Kirsch (and all the other authors) for the lot of work they put into the map conversions and for including this data in "3wave251.zip". Module Drone: Provides homing missiles to be shot by the grenade launcher. Drones search for targets once every second, preferring those which are most easily reached. To find potential targets hidden behind corners launched drones first fly on a straight trajectory for about one second, then start to adjust their velocity as required to reach the target. A Drone will target its owner if better target can not be found. Flying drones can be shot down, most easily with the shotgun or by nearby explosions. A player can only have four drones in air simultaneously. Launching a fifth one causes the self destruction of an older drone. Golden keys of targeted players are lit to indicate that they are hunted. To fire drones the player has to select the grenade launcher twice. The player's silver key is lit if the grenade launcher fires drones. This is not an 'allround' weapon. It is a very specialized weapon which sometimes provides the only way to attack an enemy which can not be attacked directly. Module ExitRules: Disallows to exit a level too early. Players can only exit a level - if at least one player has reached a minimum number of frags (which is 40 by default). - and if a certain time has passed on the current level (which is 1 minute by default). These ExitRules may be disabled by voting (see Module Vote). The ExitRules valid for the current level are displayed when the player enters the level. Levels like 'dm1'-'dm6','start' and 'end' don't impose ExitRules. Module Hook: This is a throwable hook, attached to a chain and allowing the player to climb or swing. To use it the player should add the lines alias +hook "impulse 98" alias -hook "impulse 97" bind +hook to "autoexec.cfg". Pressing will throw the hook. Releasing will deactivate the hook. Module KickSuicider: Players suiciding twice within two minutes are kicked out of the game. Module Lightning: This module reduces the damage done when discharging the lighning gun under water. Furthermore it improves the sound of the lightning gun and causes a lighning gun discharge to happen only if the gun is really under water. Module Init: Allows client side initialization when connecting to the server by causing the client to execute a sequence of 'init' commands. Example: A player puts the following lines into his autexec.cfg: alias init init01 alias init01 "init-nextcall; alias init init02; echo successful;" alias init02 "init-nextskin; alias init init03; " // skin 2 alias init03 "init-nextskin; alias init init04; " // skin 3 alias init04 "init-nextskin; alias init init05; " // skin 4 alias init05 "init-nextskin; alias init init06; " // skin 5 alias init06 "init-nextcall; alias init init07; color 3; " alias init07 " alias init init01; " These lines cause that a short time after the player connected to the server - he is assigned the skin number 5. - his color changes to 3. How it works: The server first tells the client to execute the command 'init'. The client executes 'init' which includes either 'init-nextskin' or 'init-nextcall', both of which tell the server to again let the client execute the command 'init'. This continues until in the example above the empty assignment 'init07' terminates the sequence. Apart from triggering the next step 'init-nextskin' also increases the skin number by one. Module LevelSelect: Allows to specify which levels are offered on the server and in which order they are to be played. By default this module is used to modify the original level order such that instead of the end level the level sequence dm2-...-dm6-end is played when selecting the end map on the start level (the players must exit the levels dm1-dm6 and end by voting (see Module Vote)). Module Messages: Allows to selectively enable or disable messages about picking up ammo, armor, backpacks, keys, health, powerups and weapons. Also some 'centerprinted' messages triggered by secrets and doors can be switched of. By default all these messages are suppressed. Module Motd: When connecting to the server a message-of-the-day may be center-printed to the player's screen. A moment later, information about local server settings and extensions is dumped to the player's console. Module Observer: As observer you just watch what's happening, without interacting with other players or with the environment. This especially means that other players will not notice you when you are an observer. As observer you can - fly around. - switch to another observation point by pressing 'fire'. - join the game as regular player by pressing 'jump'. You can turn into an observer by pressing 'fire' when you are dead. When you connect to the server you automatically start as observer. The command 'help-observer' provides help on the observer mode. Module Protect: Protects respawning players. The protection ends automatically after a certain amount of time or if the player shoots or picks up a weapon, armor or a powerup. Module Random: Randomizes positions of items. The randomizer knows four groups of items: AMMO: shells, nails, rockets, cells and health boxes WEAPON: all weapons POWERUP: armors, quad damage, invisibility, invincibility, and superhealth The randomizer mixes only items within the same group. Randomization doesn't affect the biosuit. Module Rank: The command 'rank' displays a sorted ranking table with entries in the format X TOTAL = KILLS DEATHS ACCIDENTS = PLAYER where X = letter 'D' if the player is dead, letter 'O' if the player is an observer PLAYER = the name of the player TOTAL = his total score KILLS = how many he killed DEATHS = how often he got killed by other players ACCIDENTS = number of self-caused, deathly accidents A Suicide counts as double-accident. The default formula for calculating TOTAL is TOTAL = 3*KILLS - DEATHS - 3*ACCIDENTS The command 'help-rank' provides help on the format of the ranking table and should explain the (local) formula used to calculate the total score as well. Module ServerConsole: Does nothing except except of printing some messages to the server console when a player suicides, is killed, enters the game or is telefragged by another player. Module ServerHelp: Provides the command 'server-help', used to display some help on server settings and extensions in the player console. Module Shrapnel: Provides splintering missiles to be shot by the rocket launcher. Once a splintering missile hits a massive object it defragments into a few splinters. The high-speed, burning fragments move on straight trajectories but are reflected by every massive object, causing an explosion on the object's surface. Players hit by the missile or by its fragments may start to burn (see module Burn). To fire shrapnel missiles the player has to select the rocket launcher twice. The player's silver key is lit if the rocket launcher operates in 'sharapnel missile' mode. This is not an 'allround' weapon; its main intent is to clean rooms or other areas from a safe distance. Module Skin: This is a slightly improved version of Dennis Noordsij's (lnoordsi@inter.NL.net) Multiskin, which allows players to use different skins (see also section Acknowledgements below). The improvements have the effect that - corpses show the correct skin. - skins are preserved across level changings (so that players have to choose their skin only once). - the commands 'skin-next' and 'skin-prev' may be used to change the skin. - the command 'help-skin' provides some help about available commands. - names for Multiskin-1.1 skins and for Top20Skins-1.0 skins are shown when the player chooses a skin. Players certainly still have to use proper player and player-head model files containing the actual skins to be displayed. ServerModules supports - the MultiSkin 1.1 PLAYER.MDL file which may be found on Dennis Noordsij's QuakeC page: http://web.inter.NL.net/users/L.J.Noordsij/qc.htm - the Top20Skins PLAYER.MDL and H_PLAYER.MDL file included in the skin collection ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/quake/graphics/mdl/top20skins-3.zip When using this set of skins gibbed heads will show the correct skin also. Module Telefrag: Reduces the risk of getting telefragged by respawning players. When a player respawns the module tries to find a spot which is not occupied by another player. If such a spot is available the player will respawn there. Only if no such spot is found the player will respawn in occupied space, thereby telefragging another player. Note that telefragging caused by players leaving teleporters is not affected. Module Vote: Allows players to vote. Players may use the console commands vote-exit: to vote for exiting a level immediately. vote-exitrules: to vote for disabling the rules imposed by the module ExitRules. Votes are counted every few seconds. Voting for exiting allows to leave levels which don't provide an exit. Voting via 'vote-exit' and 'vote-exitrules' may both be used to override the ExitRules for the current level. The console command 'help-vote' provides some help on available voting options, the command 'votes' displays current voting statistics. Module WeldGun: Provides a weapon which spits burning blobs of a magnesium-steel mixture in rapid succession. The blobs cause small explosions on the surface of whatever they hit. Players hit by burning blobs may start to burn (see module Burn). This weapon overrides the nailgun. Selecting the nailgun twice causes it to shoot ordinary spikes instead. The player's silver key is lit if the weldgun is active. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ###### Copyright: ----------------- /* ** ** Copyright (C) 1996 Johannes Plass ** ** This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ** it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ** the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or ** (at your option) any later version. ** ** This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ** GNU General Public License for more details. ** ** You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ** along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software ** Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ** ** Author: Johannes Plass (plass@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de) ** */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Johannes Plass