McVinster's Big Fat List of Questions
Well, I've been looking around here and Google with no luck on somethings, maybe I've been searching for the wrong things, so I'm going to put all of my unanswered questions into one thread and hope you guys can be as awesome as usual in answering them for me.
Some questions will be noobie, as I am still (probably forever) learning so feel free to laugh though that will get us nowhere.
If I get some links or help I will set out making a Noobie Guide so you guys don't get so much spam from people like me asking these things.
1. Does anyone have an idiot-proof, step by step guide to installing the new versions of PWAdmin onto hrace009's server release? I'm getting closer to working out what I've done wrong in the past but an in-depth guide would be great as then I can check it for sure.
2. How do I add maps to my server? There are lots of awesome releases me and my friends would like to play with, but I just don't know how to add maps. Is there a thread you can link me to with instructions?
I will add more questions to this same thread as I think of them :)
Thanks in advance :8:
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For Question number 1.. u copy the new pwadmin over the old.. but go to webapps/pwAdmin/WEB-INF" directory and save pwconf.conf and pwadminconf.jsp.. overwrite everything else with the new files and then replace those 2 files there.. but heres ronnys pwadmin and documentation sPWadmin
for 2nd question it really depends on the maps.. but basically like take for example Eistigers a35 map.. u download both client and server... server u just extract into gamed/config/
and client u put the a35 inside elments/maps/ and the other files have to be pcked inside the right pck file.
but if u need additional help i can help ya... from what i learned.
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norman1234
For Question number 1.. u copy the new pwadmin over the old.. but go to webapps/pwAdmin/WEB-INF" directory and save pwconf.conf and pwadminconf.jsp.. overwrite everything else with the new files and then replace those 2 files there.. but heres ronnys pwadmin and documentation
sPWadmin
for 2nd question it really depends on the maps.. but basically like take for example Eistigers a35 map.. u download both client and server... server u just extract into gamed/config/
and client u put the a35 inside elments/maps/ and the other files have to be pcked inside the right pck file.
but if u need additional help i can help ya... from what i learned.
Thanks for those answers, you cleared up what I thought I'd done wrong, I just didn't know which files I didn't need to overwrite. Hope I can get the new PWAdmin working by tonight :)
As for maps, that's great, sounds easier than I thought. I have the pack files and know what to do with those now, thanks again!
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Ok question number 3:
Why, sometimes, does my PWAdmin not load up the Character and Server Config tabs, when my gamedbd says its online and I haven't changed anything since I last had the server running, when the tabs both worked fine?
I've also had some times when the gamedbd comes online then decides to stop working, but I've just put this down to it being part of a computer system. They always stop working for no reason when they feel like it, but maybe there is something wrong.
EDIT: The way I fix it normally, is just to stop the server through PWAdmin, or to stop it through the tomcat script and restart it. Mostly I have to do this a few times before it will work.
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McVinster
Ok question number 3:
Why, sometimes, does my PWAdmin not load up the Character and Server Config tabs, when my gamedbd says its online and I haven't changed anything since I last had the server running, when the tabs both worked fine?
I've also had some times when the gamedbd comes online then decides to stop working, but I've just put this down to it being part of a computer system. They always stop working for no reason when they feel like it, but maybe there is something wrong.
EDIT: The way I fix it normally, is just to stop the server through PWAdmin, or to stop it through the tomcat script and restart it. Mostly I have to do this a few times before it will work.
I'm not for sure about the tab's not starting, although I have read about people having the same problems. Check and make sure your java file path's are right..Other then that, no idea.
gamedbd is a very fragile file. It just loves not to start up.
Code:
cd /PWServer/gamedbd; nohup ./gamedbd gamesys.conf
^^Manuel gamedbd startup.
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McVinster
Thanks for those answers, you cleared up what I thought I'd done wrong, I just didn't know which files I didn't need to overwrite. Hope I can get the new PWAdmin working by tonight :)
Well, took a bit longer than I thought to try and get PWAdmin updated, because I was waiting on my dev buddy.
I've followed all of the steps ronny says (with help from several people to understand them, thank you all) and I still can't get PWAdmin working. *sadface*
I copied the new files into the same folder as my old tomcat, is this right or wrong?
With just copying them over, I got some changes on my server control screen, but nothing in the Server Config or Characters tabs.
I tried (what I think is) changing the permissions of the directory to 0755, then the conf files to 0644 and now:
Back to the header with blank pages when I click the links.
This is really doing my nut in and I am on the verge of pleading for someone to take a look at my server and see what I did wrong.
Just tell me what screenies/dumps/etc you'd need to diagnose the problem or PM me and see if we can set up a screenshare for you to take a look with me in real time.
:grr: computers
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Something that's been bugging me for a while now is what type of colour code does PW use on characters?
I've played about a lot with editing .ini files but I don't recognise the colour codes used in them. Does anyone know what type of code it is, because then I can find a big list of colour codes or a converter.
The only thing I can find on this forum about codes is about fashion, but I don't know if they're the same type of code.
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If you mean colours for texts (quests, etc) that look like ^ff0000 its simply hex colours (see Wiki color formatting help - Meta for some examples).
If you mean colours stored as integers then its a bit more complex. It works the same way except that instead of stopping at an hex code, you transform it to an int. Example:
Code:
Red: 255, Green: 0, Blue: 0, Alpha: 255
Hex Red: FF, Hex Green: 00, Hex Blue: 00, Hex Alpha: FF
Hex code: FF0000FF
Integer: 4278190335 (unsigned) OR -16776961 (signed)
(example conversion Signed integer (32-bit) Converter)
P.S. doing this from memory so might not be exactly what PW uses, but the idea is there.
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McVinster
Something that's been bugging me for a while now is what type of colour code does PW use on characters?
I've played about a lot with editing .ini files but I don't recognise the colour codes used in them. Does anyone know what type of code it is, because then I can find a big list of colour codes or a converter.
The only thing I can find on this forum about codes is about fashion, but I don't know if they're the same type of code.
The ones in the ini files are just hex codes...
The ones in elements.data are pretty much the same thing but as an int I wrote this converter a while ago for this purpose Perfect World ARGB Converter
