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Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:48 pm**

I am useing WINDOWS and I have the config file complette now where do I stick it?

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:01 pm**

somewhere that will be easy to find, like in "My Documents", or the folder bzflag was installed in, or maybe just the root of your hard drive

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:06 pm**

I'd suggest making a folder inside of My Documents that is strictly for bzflag. If you ever get around to making player groups, logs, report files, help files, etc. they would all go here too.

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:15 pm**

What I mean how to use the file to make the server.
(Here it is)

-admsg "Remember: Now swearing, cheating or teamkilling, and listen to
evanejk!!!"
-disableBots
-fb
-j
-help
-lagdrop 4
-lagwarn 300
-mp 10,10,10,10,10,10
-ms 10
-passwd
+r
-sb
-st 4
-tkkr percent 10
-world map.bzw
-Publicaddr 76.179.57.83:5154
-p 5154
-public "Evanejk's Place Please Come In!!!"
-world C:\Documents and Settings\Evan\Desktop\my_1st_map.bzw
+f SW{4}
+f WG{8}
+f L{3}
+f O{1}
+f M{1}
+f BU{3}
+f G{1}

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:18 pm**

start it like this:

<your_path_to_bzflag>\bzfs.exe -conf <the_entire_path_to_the_config_file_you_made>

that should start the server using the config file you made

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:28 pm**

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:31 pm**

the server

it would be like C:\Program Files\BZFlag\bzfs.exe -conf C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\BZFlag\config.txt

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:47 pm**

Macrosoft wrote:the server

it would be like C:\Program Files\BZFlag\bzfs.exe -conf C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\BZFlag\config.txt

the first line of the config file?
where do I put this?

c:\Program Files\BZFlag\bzfs.exe -conf desktop\bzfs_canf.txt

thx 4 your time

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:54 pm**

the config is on your desktop?
whats your user name on your computer, it will be part of the path

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:04 pm**

the comand prompt comes up and says a ton of things like

BZFS Options Descriptions
-a: maximum acceleration settings
-admsg: spec...

and it keeps on going
realy fast and then goes away

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:51 pm**

Evanejk wrote:is the comand prompt comes up and says a ton of things like

BZFS Options Descriptions
-a: maximum acceleration settings
-admsg: spec...

and it keeps on going
realy fast and then goes away

Maximum acceleration won't effect anything from what i've noticed. Simply putting:

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-a 38 50

OR

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-a 50 38

Dont remember in which order, but simply adding that will get rid of that msg.

Evanejk wrote: -admsg "Remember: Now swearing, cheating or teamkilling, and listen to evanejk!!!"

I can't see any errors in that other than your spelling errors

Evanejk wrote:-world map.bzw
-world C:\Documents and Settings\Evan\Desktop\my_1st_map.bzw

You shouldn't have 2 'world'

Also, when specifying a world make sure you put " both at the start and end of the path.

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-world "C:\Documents and Settings\Evan\Desktop\my_1st_map.bzw"

Evanejk wrote:-help

From what I know (which isn't much) that won't add anything.

I think maybe your looking for this:

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## Player Controlled Functions ##

# This option specifies a help file that will be displayed when the player
# types /help name  
# Maximum length is 50 lines and 120 characters per line
#-helpmsg shock /path/to/shockwavehelp.txt 
#-helpmsg noob /path/to/noobhelp.txt

Hope I helped

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:52 pm**

alright, still didn't work; did the same thing where all the text comes up in comand mode and then goes away

-admsg "Remember: Now swearing, cheating or team-killing, and listen to EvanEjk!!!"
-disableBots
-a 38 50 (tryed -a 50 38 to)
-fb
-j
-help
-lagdrop 4
-lagwarn 300
-mp 10,10,10,10,10,10
-ms 10
-passwd [adminrocks]
+r
-sb
-st 4
-tkkr percent 10
-Publicaddr 76.179.57.83:5154
-p 5154
-public "Evanejk's Place Please Come In!!!"
-world C:\Documents and Settings\Evan\Desktop\my_1st_map.bzw
+f SW{4}
+f WG{8}
+f L{3}
+f O{1}
+f M{1}
+f BU{3}
+f G{1}

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:11 pm**

-dd #this enables debugging messages
-admsg "Remember: No swearing, cheating or team-killing, and listen to EvanEjk!!!"
-disableBots
-a 38 50
-fb
-j
#get rid of -help as Grace suggested
-lagdrop 4
-lagwarn 300
-mp 10,10,10,10,10,10
-ms 10
-passwd [adminrocks]
+r
-sb
-st 4
-tkkr 10
-publicaddr 76.179.57.83:5154
-p 5154
-public "Evanejk's Place Please Come In!!!"
-world "C:\Documents and Settings\Evan\Desktop\my_1st_map.bzw" #quotes, again as Grace suggested
+f SW{4}
+f WG{8}
+f L{3}
+f O{1}
+f M{1}
+f BU{3}
+f G{1}

This worked on my machine except without your world setting. If it doesn't work, your path to your world is problematic.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:59 am**

didn't work, should I be looking at http://www.willempen.org/bzflag/server/?
the screen still goes away after it says on the picture attached.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:07 am**

All that stuff never appears when I run my servers

I guess that's because im hosting it ?privately?

Does that happen when you host it privately?

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:21 pm**

Tedius wrote:-dd #this enables debugging messages
-admsg "Remember: No swearing, cheating or team-killing, and listen to EvanEjk!!!"

the switches in the config have to be in alphabetical order, like
-a
-b
-c
etc.

so you cant have -dd before -admsg
it will not start a server
thats why it wont start

ill put it in alphabetical order for you

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:24 pm**

That stuff is good stuff. It is what you get when you turn on debugging with the "-dd" in the config. I don't see an error, I suppose it may be time to look at router configuration issues. Google for "port forwarding" and look up the manual for your router model to configure it to allow udp traffic on port 5154 to your machine.

Has it worked locally? get rid of the -publicaddr and -public lines in the config, start up bzfs, open bzflag,
for the server, put: localhost
for the port, put: 5154

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:27 pm**

here it is in alphabetical order: (see attachment)

try running a server using it as your config

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:36 pm**

Macrosoft wrote:
Tedius wrote:-dd #this enables debugging messages
-admsg "Remember: No swearing, cheating or team-killing, and listen to EvanEjk!!!"
the switches in the config have to be in alphabetical order, like
-a
-b
-c
etc.

so you cant have -dd before -admsg
it will not start a server
thats why it wont start

ill put it in alphabetical order for you

Uh, alphabetical order has nothing to do with it...

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:36 pm**

in the picture of the window above, i think its closing before you have a chance to see all the error messages,
try opening a command prompt window, then change directory to the folder with bzfs.exe and run it with the prompt window

that should make the window stay open after bzfs.exe exits, and you should be able to see all the error messages that you might have missed

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:52 pm**

Evanejk wrote:picture attached.

The screen does no show any errors.
It says that a server is running - have you tried to join it.

Macrosoft wrote:the switches in the config have to be in alphabetical order

This is NOT true.

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:56 pm**

tried joining his server, didnt work
(i cant post again till tonight, be back later)

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:57 pm**

He hasn't posted in over 12 hours, it's safe to assume he has terminated the process one way or another.

Posted: **Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:07 pm**

Now I'm getting this.

Posted: **Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:15 pm**

Evanejk wrote:Now I'm getting this.

Read what it says... the server is already running.

CannonBallBuy wrote:have you tried to join it.

Yes, join it.

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OK, one last thing

OK, one last thing

What I Mean

THX

where?

ok

Re: ok

no work :(

so close

Re: so close

help

Re: help