halfD has had a Mod switching/vote thing for quite some time. http://www.halfd.org/
Mufasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.firetiger.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of botman Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Am I an idiot? > Ah. I thought that's what it was. Can anyone suggest a workaround for not > being able to change the mod in-game? > > Or should I abandon the whole idea :) It can't be done through the engine itself. There's no mechanism to unload one game DLL and load another one in it's place. The only method that I can think of for Win32 is to create a batch file that starts the dedicated server. Write a metamod or AdminMOD plugin that can intercept a command ("changegame valve" or whatever), overwrite the batch file used to start the server with a new batch file that adds "-game valve" to the command line and have the batch file go back to the top of the file, like this... :loop hlds.exe -game whatever +maxplayers 16 +map startmap goto loop ...then have your plugin execute 'SERVER_COMMAND("exit\n")' to quit the server. The batch file will continue with the next line which will go back to the top and execute the dedicated server again (this time with a different game DLL). I doubt this techinque would work under Linux because Win32 batch file execution has the peculiar behavior of re-reading the batch file each time a new line is executed (i.e. it doesn't cache the open batch file in memory anywhere). At least it didn't do this under MS-DOS 6.x, the behavior might not be the same under Win2K/WinNT/WinXP, you'll have to try it yourself and see. Jeffrey "botman" Broome _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
