Biocross Closed ALPHA

Mindhunter

We’re currently running our NewUniverse1.8 internal beta01 server on IFSO.
If u need a fully modded server with 20 slots and in good times 5-6 peoples online i would like to offer my betaserver for testing.
The problem is we can not give u remote acces or something.
NU might also be interessting as Schmacki is testing new hookfeatures incl. autoupdater and extendet clienthooking.

Greetz
Mind

Note: I will start the beta02 in 3-4 weeks from my betabox at home but that will also work with 15-20 slots.
Edit: We’re running the betaserver with our full playerdb and therefor via hamachi to prevent errors in the serverlist (Mainserver and betaserver with same name).

Schmackbolzen

Sounds nice! Why don’t you use sqlite as a small database, or if it has to be something bigger postgresql / mysql?

HazardFN

@Schmackbolzen:

In Visual Studio the support for Microsoft SQL Server is greater and I can manipulate more options from within my program to increase flexibility without it looking like my program is actually doing anything - to be honest it’s kind of too late to just change the format now anyways without MAJOR recoding :S

@MindHunter:

FLhook functionality in Biocross is being saved for the last moments pretty much right before release - simply this is the bare bones at the moment, it shouldn’t interfere with FLHook in anyway at the moment so it can be used in conjunction, plus there are things missing as mentioned in my above post - I wouldn’t say it’s been tested enough to be used on a critical server…

HazardFN

UPDATED TO 0.0.0.1012

Changes:

Banning station fixes (HazardFN)
Checking for banned players that need unbanning now occurs on a thread (HazardFN)
Fixed lots of tiny bugs in MPEditor and some other areas

HazardFN

SQL Update:

In Biocross click the ‘Execute Biocross SQL Update button’ copy and paste this:

USE [Biocross]
GO

/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[InsertBannedPlayer] Script Date: 07/19/2009 03:32:00 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[InsertBannedPlayer]
@PlayerName [text],
@IsTimeBan [smallint],
@UnbanDate [DateTime],
@Reason [text]
WITH EXECUTE AS CALLER
AS
INSERT INTO [Biocross].[dbo].[BannedPlayers]
([Player Name]
,[TimedBan?]
,[UnbanDate]
,[Ban Reason])
VALUES
(@PlayerName,
@IsTimeBan,
@UnbanDate,
@Reason)

GO

then click run update!

HazardFN

UPDATED TO 0.0.0.1013

Player editor fixes(HazardFN)
Added Biocross options form, which now enables auto restart of FLServer and auto close of Dr.Watson (FriendlyFire)
FL new multiplayer character creation now runs a lot smoother(HazardFN)
SKINS!!! Yes you can now change how Biocross looks(HazardFN)

LancerSolurus

**Good to see you making progress on this, I would like to test it out as well.

Got a request for the scripts though, would it be possible to collapse all of the different ammo down into one file, Ammo.xml?

Anyways, the xml script builder is 80% complete, mainly just need to add a few filters to it before it’s released…**

HazardFN

@Lancer:

**Good to see you making progress on this, I would like to test it out as well.

Got a request for the scripts though, would it be possible to collapse all of the different ammo down into one file, Ammo.xml?

Anyways, the xml script builder is 80% complete, mainly just need to add a few filters to it before it’s released…**

All the ammo IS in ammo.xml :S

Projectiles.xml contains the launchers and stuff and ammo.xml contains the ammo for them, or is there something I’m missing?

LancerSolurus

Thanks for clearing that up, I’ll add a filter to split the ‘missile’ guns off from the normal guns. It had me a little confused since most of the stuff in those files you sent me were custom items. Anyways, chat me up on MSN later so we can go over the xml files this thing is making, time to go and see what method it will take to combine the shield and shield generator types, friggin duplicate names

LancerSolurus

For the Biocross testers

Download Biocross Data Generator 0.002

HazardFN

Is it because I’m using Windows 7 or because my FL is a brand new install and BINI’s aren’t supported but it doesn’t appear to be generating anything for me.

Tried admin rights and Windows XP compatability…

LancerSolurus

**It should work in Windows 7, it doesn’t have the BINI decoder active. The one I wrote needs rebuilding, a bit too slow…

Try it on a mod with text INI files.**

HazardFN

New Patch for ALPHA TESTERS using the new setup…

Good luck, this adds cheaters log checking functionality, Player maintenance and a few fixes in the wizard for x86 compatability…

installing will reset your settings due to a major difference in the settings file, apologies…

Also Skins are now saved into settings you get the same skin on reboot…

http://eredivine.net/biosoft/biocross/1015/1015.exe

Please Apply the SQL Update:

USE [Biocross]
GO

/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[InsertBannedPlayer] Script Date: 07/19/2009 03:32:00 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[InsertBannedPlayer]
@PlayerName [text],
@IsTimeBan [smallint],
@UnbanDate [DateTime],
@Reason [text]
WITH EXECUTE AS CALLER
AS
INSERT INTO [Biocross].[dbo].[BannedPlayers]
([Player Name]
,[TimedBan?]
,[UnbanDate]
,[Ban Reason])
VALUES
(@PlayerName,
@IsTimeBan,
@UnbanDate,
@Reason)

GO

from within the Biocross main screen too…