RenegadeFDS: PackageEditor for custom content

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- Introduction -

Renegade, in 4.0, will have the ability to download new maps from a server's remote file repository.

When a player is missing the map it will be automatically downloaded and installed on the client whereafter the client can immediately play the map,

no game-restart is required.

- PackageEditor -

The PackageEditor is used on the server to create so called packages which are installed on the server and uploaded to an offsite repository.

When a map package is installed the clients connecting to the server will download said package from the repository url set in the tt.cfg file.

- Commands -

convert ---- convert a mix file into a packageinstall ---- install a converted mix file into the packages systemuninstall -- uninstall a converted mix file from the packages systemdownload --- download a map package from a remote repository urllist ------- list all installed packages

- Converting Maps into usable Packages -

Open a Command Prompt window and change directory to where your server is installed.

First we need to convert the map into a usable package by typing:

PackageEditor convert "data\C&C_Mediterranean.mix" 1.0 zunnie [enter]

When the converting has been processed a message like the following will appear in the Command prompt window:

Package was saved to 'C:\Servers\UberMapPack\UltraFDS\UltraServer\ttfs/packages/00091e55.tpi'. You can now install it via 'packageeditor install 00091e55'.

We need to install the package when we created one. The Command prompt will output an ID we can use for that, in our for example the ID is 00091e55.

We can install our package by typing the following:

PackageEditor install "00091e55" [enter]

- Notes -

Note that we do not enter the .mix extension when installing a package.

When installation is completed a new folder will be created in your server's folder called "ttfs".

Upload the contents from this folder to your website repositoryUrl and enter this url into your tt.cfg configfile.

Players who connect to your server will then download the packages from your website.