anotherDSH said:

I'm running two instances and they are working well and I've had no crashes so I'm happy with the ubuntu platform. The second instance is launched with the configsubdir switch and a subfolder was created automatically to contain the new server "ini" files which I've edited as needed. However I can't figure out how to make the second instance create a launch.log file or if it has done it automatically then where to find it. Can anyone advise me about the log files for a second instance? Thank you.

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Aleflippy said:

I've watched the video again, and came to two theories regarding what the new Scrake abilities might be... As I believe, again as Glokage said, that all zeds will get new tools. Hell, even the modest Cyst is more fearsome now ! I would be surprised if the Scrake stayed the same. So here are my two cents that might be completely wrong.

1) Maybe the Scrake won't rage simply by reaching a certain health threshold anymore, but rather be linked to its mask. My theory is that as long as you fire centermass, the Scrake won't rage out, making the creature easier to dispatch... but way more ammo-consuming. Maybe the Scrake could have a thick hide that reduces all incoming damage by a certain amount (let's say 20-25% for example), so firing at its torso or limbs would take forever to kill it. But at least, it shall remain calm in the meantime. If you want to quickly dispatch a Scrake, the usual strategy applies : AIM FOR THE HEAD! Doing so will allow much more damage to be dealt, at the exchange of destroying its mask... and making the zed much faster and angrier. In the end, it sounds fairly similar to the relationship between Fleshpound and Scrake that we've always known : you can't run away forever from a Fleshpound. They'll always end up angry and ready to turn you into minced meat. Meanwhile, Scrake are somewhat "docile" until you're truly ready to take them out. It's just that this time around, you might even choose to NOT rage them at all... At the cost of wasting a ton of ammo for extra safety. While you might instead want to get rid of them ASAP, at the cost of facing a tougher foe.

2) It's easy to notice the Scrake now has some weird torture device thingy on its other arm... And I do wonder if they took a cue from the concept arts for KF2's Scrake, which had a hook in its second hand. I do wonder if MAYBE, that might imply that the Scrake is now capable of "tethering" a player in order to bring them closer, kinda like the EDAR Trapper... But even more annoying and terrifying. I think this would play very well with the mask/maskless Scrake idea I talk about right above. Maybe it could be used even WITH THE MASK ON, so players don't forget that the Scrake is still there, relentlessly walking towards them. But then again, considering how NOBODY liked the EDARs, I believe that idea would be quite unpopular as well... Maybe the range could be very short? And it's fairly easy to break from it before getting shredded to pieces, unless you're caught in the middle of a reload?

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TornadoChaser34 said:

This is incredible! Can’t wait to play this game in the future! Keep up the amazing work! Just made my account today to say this

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Bridges Dave said:

can't report on it got no access, is there another way?

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1. According to both the UE2 and UE3 documentation ActorX is only designed to be an interchange format between an external DCC apps and the game engine, this was later supplanted by the FBX pipeline later in UE3’s development cycle and has remained largely the same to this day.I can’t find any credible evidence that would suggest that UE3 would be able to ingest UE2 ActorX files.The only real option that I’ve found is to dump all the packages you need with Umodel then bulk impot into 3DS Max, you can then bulk export to FBX with a script like one of these:https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/batch-exportimporthttps://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/batch-exporter-1https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/...saveexport-objfbx3dsmax-as-objfbx3dsmax-filesAs for maintaining material assignments I am unaware of any method that allows for that, however when you export a mesh with UModel you will see it generates a text file alongside with the same name as the asset.This text file will contain the material reference which should make it a simple task to re-apply the correct textures from KF1For example:
   Materials[1] =
   {
   Materials[0] =
   {
   Material = Texture'Military.locker_6door'
   EnableCollision = true
   }
   }
   If you are looking to port an entire map from UE2 to UE3 you can leverage Unreal Engine’s text-based scene description format (.t3d) which is a way to export all actors in a given level to a human readable text file.Just keep in mind that the file will need to be reparsed with a tool like UT Converter as there are differences with how UE2 and UE3 handle T3D files.https://github.com/xtremexp/UT4X-ConverterI’ve glossed over a Metric Butt-ton of details that would quickly turn this into a wall o’ text that would make a university theses look light in comparison, but hopefully this helps point you in the general direction. (edited)
   
   
   
2. According to both the UE2 and UE3 documentation ActorX is only designed to be an interchange format between an external DCC apps and the game engine, this was later supplanted by the FBX pipeline later in UE3’s development cycle and has remained largely the same to this day. I can’t find any credible evidence that would suggest that UE3 would be able to ingest UE2 ActorX files. The only real option that I’ve found is to dump all the packages you need with Umodel then bulk impot into 3DS Max, you can then bulk export to FBX with a script like one of these: https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/batch-exportimport https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/batch-exporter-1 https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/...saveexport-objfbx3dsmax-as-objfbx3dsmax-files As for maintaining material assignments I am unaware of any method that allows for that, however when you export a mesh with UModel you will see it generates a text file alongside with the same name as the asset. This text file will contain the material reference which should make it a simple task to re-apply the correct textures from KF1 For example: Materials[1] = { Materials[0] = { Material = Texture'Military.locker_6door' EnableCollision = true } } If you are looking to port an entire map from UE2 to UE3 you can leverage Unreal Engine’s text-based scene description format (.t3d) which is a way to export all actors in a given level to a human readable text file. Just keep in mind that the file will need to be reparsed with a tool like UT Converter as there are differences with how UE2 and UE3 handle T3D files. https://github.com/xtremexp/UT4X-Converter I’ve glossed over a Metric Butt-ton of details that would quickly turn this into a wall o’ text that would make a university theses look light in comparison, but hopefully this helps point you in the general direction. (edited)

baztheallmighty said:

You will quickly discover it is irrelevant what platform you use. KF2 dedicated servers are not stable. Especially if you add mutators.

Here is a generic Windows Powershell script to monitor and restart KF2 instances. The $Processlist variable needs to be updated to have all of your server details. The hardcoded wait time and number of players can also be adjusted as required.

Code:

Function New-TitleObject(){
    #Create a object for holding server titles and player count
    $LDefaultObject = New-Object -TypeName psobject
    $LDefaultObject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Title                     -value "NOTSET"
    $LDefaultObject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name PlayerCount               -value "NOTSET"
    return $LDefaultObject
}
Function Write-LogHost(){
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
    $LMessage
)
    write-host "$(get-date -UFormat "%d%m%y %H%M") $($LMessage)"
    "$(get-date -UFormat "%d%m%y %H%M") $LMessage" | Out-File -Append -FilePath c:\bin\log.txt
}

#windows only
#Gets the currently running KF2 windows titles which has the count of players in the game. Returns array of users and titles
Function Get-WindowTitalsAndPlayers(){
    $WindowTitles = Get-Process |where {$_.mainWindowTItle} | where { $_.name -eq "KFServer" } | select mainwindowtitle
    $WindowTitalsAndPlayers=@()
    foreach ($WindowTitle in $WindowTitles){
        $TempTitle=New-TitleObject
        $TempTitle.Title=$WindowTitle.MainWindowTitle -replace ":.*",''
        $TempTitle.PlayerCount=$WindowTitle.MainWindowTitle -replace ".*?\(",'' -replace " players.*",''
        $WindowTitalsAndPlayers+=$TempTitle
    }
    $WindowTitalsAndPlayers=$WindowTitalsAndPlayers  | sort title
    return $WindowTitalsAndPlayers
}


#Server name,Binary location,commandline parameters
#Server name is the name of the server in the config file. This will appear in the title of the window.
#Binary location is the location of the kf2 Binary
#commandline parameters are the parameters you wish to pass to the kf2 binary.
$Processlist=@(
@("BAz | HOE | RANKED | Endless | Server1","C:\KF2Server\Binaries\Win64\KFServer.exe"," KF-HorzineArena-B1-v5?Mutator=xxxx?Game=KFGameContent.KFGameInfo_VersusSurvival?Difficulty=3?AllowSeasonalSkins=0?ConfigSubDir=yyyyyy -QueryPort=xxxxx -Port=xxxx -WebAdminPort=xxxx"),
@("BAz | HOE | RANKED | Endless | Server2","C:\KF2Server\Binaries\Win64\KFServer.exe"," KF-HorzineArena-B1-v5?Mutator=xxxx?Game=KFGameContent.KFGameInfo_VersusSurvival?Difficulty=3?AllowSeasonalSkins=0?ConfigSubDir=yyyyyy -QueryPort=xxxxx -Port=xxxx -WebAdminPort=xxxx"),
@("BAz | HOE | RANKED | Endless | Server3","C:\KF2Server\Binaries\Win64\KFServer.exe"," KF-HorzineArena-B1-v5?Mutator=xxxx?Game=KFGameContent.KFGameInfo_VersusSurvival?Difficulty=3?AllowSeasonalSkins=0?ConfigSubDir=yyyyyy -QueryPort=xxxxx -Port=xxxx -WebAdminPort=xxxx")
)




while(1){

    $GWindowTitalsAndPlayers=Get-WindowTitalsAndPlayers
    #Check all servers are running and restart them. Only restart if there are less than 5 people in game as this causes lagg.
    $PlayerCount=0
    Get-WindowTitalsAndPlayers | % { $PlayerCount+=$_.playercount }  
    if($GWindowTitalsAndPlayers.count -lt $Processlist.count ){

        if($PlayerCount -lt 50){
            foreach ($KnownProcess in $Processlist){
                if(!($GWindowTitalsAndPlayers.title -contains $KnownProcess[0])){
                    Write-LogHost "Restarting process:$($KnownProcess[1]) $($knownProcess[2])"
                    & "$($KnownProcess[1])" "$($KnownProcess[2])"
                    sleep 30
                }
            }
        }else{
            Write-LogHost "--"
            Write-LogHost "$(get-date) Server count is $($GWindowTitalsAndPlayers.count) should be $($Processlist.count). Too many users to restart server instance."
            foreach ($KnownProcess in $Processlist){
                if(!($GWindowTitalsAndPlayers.title -contains $KnownProcess[0])){
                    Write-LogHost "Need to restart process:$($KnownProcess[1]) $($knownProcess[2])"
                }
            }          
            Write-LogHost "--"
        }
    }else{
        Write-LogHost "PlayerCount:$($PlayerCount)"
    }
    sleep 60
}

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Yoshiro said:

Sadly none of our LD's have an answer handy, but we've reached out to some other members of the modding/ld community to see if someone does.

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