Posts by LordFoobar

Quote from encode

I could update the reference if needed.

Oh! That'd be awesome, yes!

Quote from realdude19

I have been trying to use this Script but I cant seem to clear any blocks that are in a selected area... I have tried EVERYTHING! Its driving me absolutely bonkers.
Is there a command like: "/we set air' or "/we place 0"

I just want to clear a area completely with no placed blocks, no wood blocks metal blocks, or anything. can you please help me with this? And is there anyway I can keep the selected area after it runs a command? I would like to clear a area of blocks and then try another type. Also is there an "/we undo [1,2,3...Ect] to roll back edits?

Thanks in advance.

You can type /we help for in-game help. Other than that, I just tried and it works, you can do either

/we select
/we clear abs

or

/we select
/we fill air -c

NOTE: the -c (or -clean is the same) is the same as doing /we clear abs before /we fill.

Type /we help clear or /we help fill for more information.

Hope this helps!

Edit

Sometimes, the chunks will not update after executing a command. This has nothing to do with World Edit. If you don't see any error after executing a command, or any message, exit the world chunk (move away), than come back. You have to move away until the blocks disappear (seeing low details terrain is fine, as long as the blocks are no longer visible), then come back. If the command failed, nothing will have changed. Otherwise, you'll see that the command had succeeded indeed!

Regarding your /we undo, I'm afraid it is not quite possible at the moment, but we'll keep that in mind. And as for keeping the previous selection in memory (i.e. re-using a previous selection instead of selecting again and again the same area), yes, this is something that we can implement.

Quote from red51

Well done, great work! Do you mind if we apply your changes to the original file which will be delivered with the next serverversion?

Please do! This is why I'm posting

Cheers!

I have finally put some time to finally fix the linux startup script!

If anybody noticed (or maybe not?), the line

if ! [[ $SCREEN_NAME =~ ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+$ ]]; then

was always evaluating to true, thus exiting prematurely. The problem was that fetching the screen name from the configuration file also snatched the new line character \n (or carriage return caracter \r) and, thus, failed as it is an invalid screen character name! Piping with tr -d '\n\r' removed any trailing invalid characters and solved it. (Yay!)

Same thing with the memory limit config option.

Also, the nice colors weren't reset. This also was fixed.

Enjoy!

#!/bin/bash
SCREEN_NAME=""


txtgrn=$(tput setaf 2) # Green
txtred=$(tput setaf 1) # Red
txtbld=$(tput bold) # Bold
txtreset=$(tput sgr0) # reset colors


if [ ! -x `which screen` ]; then echo "You have to install screen first!"; exit 1; fi
if [ ! -x `which java` ]; then echo "You have to install java first!"; exit 1; fi


cd $(pwd)


function checkTitle(){
    if [ -n "$1" ]; then
        SCREEN_NAME=$1
    else
        SCREEN_NAME=`grep -i 'server_screen_title' server.properties | tr -d '\n\r' | cut -f2 -d'='`
    fi


    if [ -z "$SCREEN_NAME" ]; then
        echo "${txtred}No server_title set. Set title to 'Rising World Server'${txtreset}"
        SCREEN_NAME="Rising World Server"
    fi


    if ! [[ $SCREEN_NAME =~ ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+$ ]]; then
        echo "${txtred}The Server title contains invalid symbol. Only a-z A-Z 0-9 - _ . are allowed${txtreset}"
        exit 1;
    fi


}


case "$1" in
    start)
        checkTitle $2
        MEMORY=$(grep -i 'server_memory' server.properties | tr -d '\n\r' | cut -f2 -d'=')
        if [ -z "$MEMORY" ]; then
            echo "${txtred}No server_memory set. Server starts with 1024mb memory${txtreset}"
            MEMORY=1024
        fi
        if ! [[ $MEMORY =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
            echo "${txtred}The property 'server_memory' is not numeric${txtreset}"
            exit 1;
        fi


        if screen -ls | grep [.]${SCREEN_NAME}[[:space:]] > /dev/null
        then
            echo "${SCREEN_NAME} is already running";
        else
            screen -dmSL ${SCREEN_NAME} java -Xmx${MEMORY}m -Xms$(($MEMORY/2))m -jar server.jar


            if screen -ls | grep [.]${SCREEN_NAME}[[:space:]] > /dev/null
            then
                echo "${txtgrn}${SCREEN_NAME} is successfully started${txtreset}"
            else
                echo "${SCREEN_NAME} an error has orcuded${txtreset}"
            fi
        fi
    ;;
    stop)
        checkTitle $2
        if screen -ls | grep [.]${SCREEN_NAME}[[:space:]] > /dev/null
        then
            screen -S ${SCREEN_NAME} -p 0 -X quit
            echo "${txtgrn}${SCREEN_NAME} is successfully stopped${txtreset}"
        else
            echo "${txtred}No screen with name '${SCREEN_NAME}' found${txtreset}"
        fi


    ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop && $0 start || exit 1
    ;;
    status)
        checkTitle $2
        if screen -ls | grep [.]${SCREEN_NAME}[[:space:]] > /dev/null
        then
            echo "${SCREEN_NAME} is ${txtgrn}${txtbld}running${txtreset}"
        else
            echo "${SCREEN_NAME} is ${txtred}${txtbld}not running${txtreset}"
        fi
    ;;
    attach)
        checkTitle $2
        if screen -ls | grep [.]${SCREEN_NAME}[[:space:]] > /dev/null
        then
            screen -r ${SCREEN_NAME}
        else
            echo "${txtred}No screen with name '${SCREEN_NAME}' found${txtreset}"
        fi
    ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: linux_startscript.sh {start|stop|restart|status|attach} [title]"
        exit 2
esac
exit 0

Quote from VUVossi

every Admin can do "shutdownserver"

Are you serious???

LOL!

Alright!

Thanks. However I'd like to know when an end point has been selected, somehow (i.e. know if the user has selected both endpoints when calling disableMarkingSelector). Can this be possible?

In other words, what are the members of the lua.callbacks.MarkingSelectorStatus class?

We've had an issue a few days ago where an admin screwed up (LOL you know who you are!) big time by not completing a selection before calling a World Edit command... which resulted in using a previous coordinate and filling up a few hundred meters of blocks, destroying most of the map; he basically started a selection, but never selected an end point, which used (probably) a previous end point a few hundred meters from there.

While I agree that he screwed up on that, it made me wonder if I could receive feedback from

event.player:enableMarkingSelector(function()
  -- receive feedback here about the selection???
  end);

But the function is, actually, never being called! When reading the API, it is in fact required to pass a function... so... what's the function used for, then?

My guess was that it was being called once an end point was selected, no? Could be nice if that was it's purpose. Then, we could validate the a full selection was being made before calling event.player:disableMarkingSelector, no?

Quote from red51

@LordFoobar: Thanks for sending us the world! There was indeed a problem with the conversion: When a particular table (e.g. chests) was empty, it hasn't been converted. You can fix the problem by deleting all tables that are empty, then they will be recreated when loading the world. If the worlds are not too important, you can simply create a new world
We also uploaded a new version, Steam should automatically download it. If you're using the Standalone you need to delete any file (since this update has no new version number), e.g. server.jar in the data subfolder.
Thanks for helping us to find this issue

No problem! Happy to help you guys! These world weren't important, so I'll just create new ones.

Cheers!

Quote from red51

3 Weeks is okay, as long as it's not a few months old there should be no problem^^
What happened when loading the world for the first time after today's update? There should have been a small yellow indicator about conversion in the loading screen? Or did you perhaps cancel the loading process?

I have seen the yellow rectangle for the second world, but did not have time to see what it was, it was there a fraction of a second, and I didn't think of copying the debug output I haven't noticed that the first time (for the first world).

It was fine before today's update... as far as I know, and the world has been created about 3 weeks ago. (about two updates back) I have two test worlds that I randomly choose to test scripts. If I'm the only one to report this, then I'll just delete it and create a new test world Just thought I'd share this.

UPDATE : same thing with the other world, same error. The other world has been created when update 0.5.6.4 was released (the bear and moose update).

UPDATE 2 : I have noticed a brief yellow rectangle while loading the world, but did not notice any particular output, sorry.

Tested a script in singleplayer and got this at a 10 secs interval or so

java.sql.SQLException: [SQLITE_ERROR] SQL error or missing database (no such column: LastAccess)
    at org.sqlite.DB.newSQLException(DB.java:383)
    at org.sqlite.DB.newSQLException(DB.java:387)
    at org.sqlite.DB.throwex(DB.java:374)
    at org.sqlite.NativeDB.prepare(Native Method)
    at org.sqlite.DB.prepare(DB.java:123)
    at org.sqlite.PrepStmt.<init>(PrepStmt.java:42)
    at org.sqlite.Conn.prepareStatement(Conn.java:404)
    at org.sqlite.Conn.prepareStatement(Conn.java:399)
    at org.sqlite.Conn.prepareStatement(Conn.java:383)
    at d.a.a(SourceFile:108)
    at ap.c.c(SourceFile:248)
    at as.d.b(SourceFile:47)
    at ao.b.b(SourceFile:212)
    at ax.a.b(SourceFile:118)
    at server.b.h(SourceFile:1156)
    at server.b.b(SourceFile:468)
    at server.b.run(SourceFile:1224)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
 -> Remove spawn collision helper

The code should check that such column doe exist and ALTER the table accordingly...

Quote from lenko

one can give the player more information

You mean like, in-game help? If so, this will happen in the next release. Is that right, Zabka?

Quote from Zabka

what about your searchs about calling module and stuff in LUA ?

Spent some time with the wife yesterday; we hardly saw each other lately, so we watched some shows and I fell asleep at my keyboard playing RW after for a while

I'll keep you updated! haha

Quote from Zabka

Hi folks !

I said it many times, but now it gets real I'm currently working on a group management system. But before launching myself, I would like to know what you think I should add (as functionality !) for the group management part ! So far, this is going to be like this :

Little group (so called :P)

• Any player can create a group. When it create a group, he became "Group Leader" and can add and remove people from the groupe
• When the group leader disconnect, the group is deleted
• When multiple players are in the same group, they can use a /p (for party) command to speak only inside the group
  

Bigger Group, guild (Maybe?)

• Only admin can create guild (so people will need to ask to admin to create a guild), but they don't administrate guild, when an admin create a guild, he must specifiate a guild admin
• When the guild admin is offline, the guild is still there
• When multiple players are in the same guild, they can use /g (for guild) command to speak inside the guild only
• Guild can have one or multiple "Guild's Chest", to use like a "guild bank" (well, I'll see what I can do with this)

Maybe I could use the AreaProtection script to mix Guild / Area
Maybe I could do something else ?

So I'll try starting working on this as soon as I'll get more feedback about it Also, I would definitely need some help for the testing part !

Cheers guys

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I would create a "Guild Script" of the like for that, IMO, so to not mix responsibilities of the admin script. But I like the idea. And, I would not necessarily remove the group if the group creator disconnect... Perhaps, instead, invalidate the group only if the group creator has been disconnected for some period of time, just to avoid breaking the group if the group creator is disconnected briefly.

As for protecting against griefers, only admins should protect anything. This is to insure ownership of the server to admins only; a player is a guest, unless granted by an admin and should not grant himself rights without approval. This is why I was proposing "admin" grant "Group Admin", and "Group Admin" grant "Group Owner", and "Group Owner" grant "Group Guest". But this should go into the AreaProtection script discussion.

my2cents

Quote from yahgiggle

i would like to see /viewplayersaddedtoarea to see what player was added

/listplayersinarea perhaps? But, yeah, this should definitely be added.

Also, the group Owner have no rights to destroy blocks. This is a problem; I don't see why anyone could be added as a Owner without running into problems when misplacing something. This is odd and not very practical. Basically, owners should be free to modify the area at will. And Admin players (belonging to the Admin group of AreaProtection) should be able to add and remove other players as Guest or Owner. RW admins should be able to create and remove areas, and manage players in areas, too. Also, a Owner should be able to add/remove Guest, too.

I would like to put AreaProtection to Github, so it is available to the community, so things like that can be discussed and actions taken more easily. @KingGenius I can add you as admin of that repo. All that, if you don't mind, of course.

Considering how things work at the moment, I think this will be implemented after the next update, since different blocks require different ores, destroying blocks would return back different ores as well.

This is a logical expectation anyway.

Like I said, it would make things easier for everyone, including the devs, if scripters would have more API to make this sort of ambiance themes.create/remove sound objects at a given coordinates, moveable

• create/remove 3D models with or without collision detection / physics
• create/remove lights (with RGB spec)
• create/remove shaders
• etc

Then, all the devs need to do is implement in-game features, add contents, etc. Bottom line, let players customize the game

Quote from andyzee

@LordFoobar, personally I'm waiting for lua gui api, so that all this things could be done omitting the use of chat commands

Alright! Then I shall not mention this topic any longer

But, yeah! GUI API shall be a great addon for extending the game!

I personally would not really like it, unless I want to play that game type.

But, perhaps this could be done via scripts at some point; being able to play sound from a 3D point of origin from the player. This would totally allow scripts to create different environment... even set custom sounds at a given location (i.e. a radio playing music, a machine making noise, etc.)

Just not as a core game type. Let the community mod the game through API
My opinion.