eXpansion 0.9.7 @ nighty branch (26/7/2014)

[reaby]

Good news everybody,
I and Oliver just decided we release 0.9.7 as nighty update, this means we are doing quite much the last checks before the actual release of 0.9.7! So, if you feel like you would run the latest then just update!

More info at homepages!
http://ml-expansion.com

How it looks nowdays ?
Screenshots of eXpansion 0.9.7 UI and HUD

The Change log

• server statistics fixed
• Tooltips in windows fixed => it should explain why no one understood the plugin windows red and green icons XD
• Cool animation added to the menu on opening
• Load screen can now shos Mania exchange images of the maps, for a greater wooow effect
• Animation on opening & closing windows for woow effect as well
• Dedimania widget in script mode should be fixed
• allow customization of quit dialog
• Fixed adding local maps
• rounds points are recovered on expansion start and saved
• Change force mode plz see here : viewtopic.php?f=518&t=28748
• Added Advert widget
• Added Load screen plugin
• Added hook to change Mania exchange search map list buttons
• Added map wish plugin
• remove english 1st, 2nd and 3rd postfixes for numeric messages
• Dedimania: with 1 or less checkpoints on map will show new times
• Fix Tm-Karma issue
• Fix admin help window
• Fix ignore list
• New speedometer plugin
• Added net loss plugin widget
• Added net loss plugin
• Windows stack recoded => moving windows is better & zindex maths has been improved
• Add support for score records (not sure migt not be stable)
• Multiple optimisations to Local & Dedimania widgets
• Added feature to disable chat
• Fix issue with chat customisation not showing messages in correct order if started later or to early
• Fix WIndows to fit new Maniaplanet theme
• change dedimania rules to show messages. At the moment only first 30 records are shown in chat
• Fix dedimania widgets to use same rules
• Chat emotes works when chat is disabled
• Live rankings shows only top 60
• PB Best works strange when spectating
• fix /adm get ignorelist
• Plugin management window has wrong permissions
• Adapt eXpansion interface to the new MP interface [
• Adjust Top100 window width of elements
• Remove weblink from main project
• More code cleaning & better logs
• Wrong plugin order makes the system crash
• Information about netloss and ping
• Click on Nicknames in live rankings do spectate
• Make live rankings more like fast
• Manialive restart command works even if expansion started with parameters
• ...and the ones we forgot to add here

How to upgrade
..to switch to the nighty release. Start eXpansion only when connected to the server

• In game use the /admin setexp command.
• there be sure that use Git is checked
• change the branch name to "nighty", without quotes
• save the settings
• use the /admin update command
• then restart the system /admin manialive restart

And you should have the nighty running after this

[chipo89]

Hello, I just install Expansion 'on my server very nice work
1)
I would like to install the aperture of 07/26/2014 but when I type the command line
  / update admin
  I have this error
Starting to update Dedicated server Api!
[2014-07-27T12: 36:52 +02:00] [eXpansion: AutoUpdate] Error while updating 'Dedicated server Api.'. !
[2014-07-27T12: 36:52 +02:00] Starting to update ManiaLive Lib!
[2014-07-27T12: 36:52 +02:00] [eXpansion: AutoUpdate] Error while updating 'ManiaLive Lib.'. !
[2014-07-27T12: 36:52 +02:00] Starting to update eXpansion!
[2014-07-27T12: 36:52 +02:00] [eXpansion: AutoUpdate] Error while updating expansion. '. !
  What should I do?
 
2) being new to this server control, I wanted to know how to change the loadscreen loading and apply a mod on srv
 
thank you

[hackie]

Maybe Git is needed ?

For Windows : http://msysgit.github.io/
For Linux : apt-get install git

[oliverde8]

hi,

for the error on the update as hackie said is git installed on your server? can you chack that? we don't use zip updates as there is to much chances something goes wrong.
git also allows switching from new to old as well as old to new which some server admins might like to do just to test something on a newer version and then rollback to older one.

At the moment we don't have a plugin to change the load screen, it is work in progress we probably will have something quite soon, but no promises as it just planed to be done but the when is a bit vague

Finally for the Mod, we have the Force Mod plugin, you can set up the mods to be loaded setting in the General tab of the expansion settings window. not sure about the tab. and then starting the plugin in the plugins window should do the trick.

[chipo89]

thank you for your quick response ^ ^
but I'm newbie in this matter before I work with xasec
what is git? has its lair to be complicated for me
how installed on the server?


and for the mod, I have well put the link in the window server, then start forcemod, ya til a line add ds ficheir config.ini?

[oliverde8]

hey,

nono with expansion once expansion is running you never touch the config file you do all in game

right click on the screen, Server Management, (last option in the menu, it has strange translation in french) , and then plugins and you can start it.

For the settings, same right click on the screen, Server Management, (last option in the menu, it has strange translation in french) , and then expansion settings and you configure it in that window

For git, well git is a versioning system, it like svn it you know what that is
Short story git is a tool were you tag versions of the programs then you can use that to switch from one version to another. it will remove, add and change files that need changing. The advantage is that it is automatic so switching versions is extremely simple. YOu don't need to know to use expansion will use it for you

To install as hackie said :

For Windows : http://msysgit.github.io/
For Linux : apt-get install git

If you don't want to we are preparing a new zip file with the 0.9.7 but we do zip files less often as it requires more work.

[oliverde8]

hey, so we added ;
Added Advert widget
Added Load screen plugin

to the nighty and update link to images to a nicely done gallery

[chipo89]

hey dude how are you ?



   I wanted to point out that there is a slight bug with the plugin loadscreen
I managed to do it worked once, but when I have done the work forcemod plugin, the loadscreen dispare then impossible to do work again


=)

[reaby]

Hey,

I visited your server, the loading screen is working out fine as the screen dims little...
thought this tells me the image url is set wrong...

try that you can load the image url you've configured there by using internet browser.

or

try this sample config:

[chipo89]

hi dude

yes indeed the loadscreen and forcemod plugin works!


-plugin, skip / res bug for payment (no planet) but changes the map
and other plugin does not work or is not config ^ ^
and bug with irc plugin i doest off