Migration Guide

2006-03-13T17:24:15Z

Ekted: /* Team:MaxFrequency */

This guide will highlight some of the known pitfalls and gotchas when moving from subgame to asss.

You may need to familiarise yourself with [[Module_General_Faq|modules.conf]] to apply some of the fixes.

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== Settings ==

=== Team:MaxFrequency ===

This setting now behaves as it is written. It is the maximum frequency you can enter. It is not the maximum number of frequencies available. For example setting this to 5 means you can enter 0,1,2,3,4,5.

[I would like to propose that this setting be changed to MaxFrequencies and be a true count. It is very rare and awkward for something to be 0 to n. -Ekted]

=== Prize:MinimumVirtual or Why do my flags and balls spawn differently? ===

Flags and balls now have their own spawn settings:
<pre>
SpawnX = 512
SpawnY = 512
SpawnRadius = 20
</pre>

Additionally balls can have multiple spawns as of version 1.4.2:
<pre>
SpawnXN = 512
SpawnYN = 512
SpawnRadiusN = 20
</pre>
Where N is 0,1,2,3.
The numbers correspond to the ball ID. For example if you have 2 balls the ID's will start from 0. Ball 0 will use Spawn...0 and ball 1 will use Spawn...1. You can have up to 8 balls, meaning ball 4 will use Spawn...0 and so on.

== Commands ==

=== Why doesn't ?owner work anymore? ===

This is disabled by default. You need to add the line 'cmd_owner' to conf/groupdef.dir/default.

=== Why doesn't ?objon work anymore? ===

The objects module is not loaded by default. You need to add the line 'objects' to conf/modules.conf.

=== Why doesn't *arena <msg> work anymore? ===

The command has been shortened to ?a <msg>. Additionally ?aa <msg> will anonymise the originator; their name will not be automatically appended to the message.

You can use the sgcompat module to restore this command.

=== Why doesn't *log work anymore? ===

This has been replaced with ?lastlog [<number of lines>] [<filter text>] where [] means an optional parameter.

You can use the sgcompat module to alias this command to *log, however the format will not change back to subgame format.

=== Why doesn't ?help <msg> work anymore? ===

For an unknown reason the creator of asss decided to use this command as an online manual for commands and settings. Possibly because many billers used a similar ?man command.

There is currently no workaround.

=== Can I add more AlertCommands like ?cheater ? ===

You cannot do this with vanilla asss. However you can write a custom module to handle these. See [[Writing Modules In Python]] for more information.

== Game quirks ==

=== I have some LVZ objects controlled by a bot but they don't work anymore ===

The objects module is not loaded by default. You need to add the line 'objects' to conf/modules.conf.

=== Why am I not seeing a greet message when I enter the arena? or Where have the periodic messages gone? ===

The messages module is not loaded by default. You need to add the line 'messages' to conf/modules.conf.

Additionally the PeriodicMessageN settings are bugged in asss. You can download a patch for 1.4.2 from http://toktok.sscentral.com/dump/messages.c.patch.txt.

=== What's up with the goal message? ===

If you are seeing 'SCORE: Warbirds:xx Javelins:xx' and would rather see Team0,Team1 then read on.

The points_goal module was coded for a specific purpose and did not implement all the things from subgame. You can download a patch from http://toktok.sscentral.com/dump/points_goal.c-scoremsg.patch.txt.

=== I want to keep my bots but they aren't behaving, is there any hope? ===

There is a module called sgcompat that creates command aliases from subgame commands to asss commands. To use the module add 'funky:sgcompat' to conf/modules.conf.

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