Is it possible to create custom commands?

[idk]

I did just notice the command "/vote custom x", what is the second parameter, is it possible to create custom commands? In that case, how?

[Shogi]

Lam posted on the last update notes:

Originally Posted by lamster

You can now execute console commands on servers while they're running by writing lines to the file ~Altitude/servers/command.txt
Example: change the server running on port 27275's current map to ffa_cave
echo 27275,console,changeMap ffa_cave>> ~Altitude/servers/command.txt

Added support for custom voteable commands (edit ~Altitude/servers/launcher_config.xml to define custom commands)
Example: add a 'startLadder' command that requires 60% yes votes to pass:
Open ~Altitude/servers/launcher_config.xml with a text editor
For each server you'd like to modify, replace the line "<customCommands />" (or add a line just before <consoleCommandPermissions> if you're using an outdated config file) with:

      <customCommands>
        <CustomCommandDescriptor name="startLadder" votePassPercentage="60" />
      </customCommands>

You can then set up custom code to monitor the log file and respond to the custom command, for example when a line like this appears in ~Altitude/servers/log.txt:

	{"command":"startLadder","type":"customCommand","time":20428,"port":27275}
	(Note: your script should use a JSON-compliant parser to discover type=customCommand, command=startLadder, port=27275)

You can run custom code to initiate other events, for example show a message, balance teams, start a tournament, and change to a randomly selected map:

	echo 27275,console,serverMessage Initiating ladder game, leavers will be banned>> ~Altitude/servers/command.txt
	echo 27275,console,balanceTeams>> ~Altitude/servers/command.txt
	echo 27275,console,startTournament>> ~Altitude/servers/command.txt
	echo 27275,console,changeMap tbd_core>> ~Altitude/servers/command.txt

If that is what you're looking for.

[Varonth]

The problem is, that this "tutorial" doesn't say where to define the costum command.

      <customCommands>
        <CustomCommandDescriptor name="startLadder" votePassPercentage="60" />
      </customCommands>

This works, ok... now you can run /vote costum startLadder.
But where do i define what startLadder will do.

For example

      <customCommands>
        <CustomCommandDescriptor name="startLadder" votePassPercentage="60" />
        <log>"Your log message"</log>
        <command>"Your first command"</command>
        <command>"Your second command"</command>
      </customCommands>

Writing my commands between <customCommands> and </customCommands> doesn't work.

[nobodyhome]

From my understanding, you can't define what a custom command will do in the launcher config. The only thing you can do is to define a command, which will then be logged onto log.txt. From there, you must have a parser attached to log.txt which will notice when that command is logged, and then that parser itself will in turn have to write to command.txt to do the desired actions.

[lamster]

What nobodyhome said is right: custom commands aren't exposing a scripting layer or anything like that, rather they're providing a very simple hook into the game's console/vote system for 3rd-party mods to watch for in the log file.

[spc]

is it possible to use the /testcameraviewscale command in the command.txt file?

[tec27]

Originally Posted by spc

is it possible to use the /testcameraviewscale command in the command.txt file?

I would think its possible, try:

echo 27275,console,testCameraViewScale 200>> ~Altitude/servers/command.txt

[spc]

thx, but i tried it and it doesnt seem to work for some reason.

[nobodyhome]

Make sure that the server is already running before you try to write a command to command.txt. Tec's use of the "echo" command works for a server on the UNIX platform ("echo" is a unix command), but I assume you are running a server on windows or mac. In this case you will have to

1. Run the server

2. Add the line tec wrote (minus the echo) to the bottom of the file. Make sure that there aren't any spaces between the commas (I've found that that makes it not work).

3. Save the file

That should do it.