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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Hendrich on June 07, 2008, 10:21:50 pm

Title: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Hendrich on June 07, 2008, 10:21:50 pm

Hey, its me again. I just want to ask quickly, how do you change the build timer? when i say "buildtimer" i meant the time it takes befoe you can build again (That damn circle!  >:(). I want my server to have Insta-Build.
Also, can you tell me how to change the SD time through the console?

Thank you for your quick and swift response.

(PS: when I mean "console", I mean the "server console", the one you get when you create a server.)

Title: Re: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Rocinante on June 08, 2008, 01:47:10 am

If you turn on devmap, you can build instantly.  Lakitu7's QVM (and some others) have a variable that lets you turn off the cheats that usually are available with devmap, such as /god and /give.

Title: Re: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Le Compilateur on June 08, 2008, 05:18:26 am

Not possible with standard QVMs unless you turn on devmap. There are some that let you set g_instantBuild to 1 and that makes things build instantly and nullifies the buildtimer. The only ones I can name right now are:
- Equilibrium QVM (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=8253.0) (mine)
- Nero's QVM (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=7484.0)

Title: Re: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Hendrich on June 08, 2008, 10:51:41 pm

Ok, so I found the QVM im looking for. (Your QVM Euiqi  ;D) but how do I open/install it? I try putting it into my tremulous folder, thing happens.
Plz help me!

Title: Re: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Le Compilateur on June 08, 2008, 11:55:49 pm

Don't put QVMs in the /base that contains data-1.1.0.pk3 and vms-1.1.0.pk3. Put them in /vm, which is in the /base that contains autogen.cfg.

As for the sudden death time, the cvar for it is g_suddenDeathTime.

Title: Re: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Lakitu7 on June 09, 2008, 06:29:02 am

One of you guys with no standards who puts in any ol' game-ruining patch that people request should make the cvar controlling build timer allow you to linearly scale it. Ie g_buildtimer 0 is instabuild, 1 is normal, 0.5 is half normal time, 2 is twice normal time, etc. Then it might actually be useful for testing subtle balance changes instead of just being for servers that want to pretend to be legit by having cheats appear to be off but actually have cheats enabled anyway.

Title: Re: How do I cheat through the Console?
Post by: player1 on June 09, 2008, 07:42:01 am

(http://www.craigsc.com/cheaters.jpg)

Title: Re: How do I change the Build Timer through the Console?
Post by: Le Compilateur on June 09, 2008, 09:21:39 pm

Quote from: Lakitu7 on June 09, 2008, 06:29:02 am

One of you guys with no standards who puts in any ol' game-ruining patch that people request should make the cvar controlling build timer allow you to linearly scale it. Ie g_buildtimer 0 is instabuild, 1 is normal, 0.5 is half normal time, 2 is twice normal time, etc. Then it might actually be useful for testing subtle balance changes instead of just being for servers that want to pretend to be legit by having cheats appear to be off but actually have cheats enabled anyway.

I'm implementing something similar to this in Equilibrium QVM 2.6, you might like it. g_instantBuild has 3 modes, 0 is instant build and no timer (default), 1 is instant build only, and 2 is no timer only.

Quote from: Le Compilateur on June 08, 2008, 11:55:49 pm

Don't put QVMs in the /base that contains data-1.1.0.pk3 and vms-1.1.0.pk3. Put them in /vm, which is in the /base that contains autogen.cfg.

As for the sudden death time, the cvar for it is g_suddenDeathTime.

You also need to know how to run a dedicated server.