FAST 4.0.0t (2013-07-16) for TM2/Canyon/Stadium/Valley

[Slig]

1.1 Why does FAST support Dedimania but not "Mania Records"?
1.2 Is their any possibility to connect FAST with the "Mania Record" system too?

Because it's me who dev the Dedimania server side, so (logically) i made the Fast plugin at the same time to test it
I will probably support ManiaRecords in Fast, but it's not the main priority in my todo list.
I don't think that someone else made a MR plugin for Fast, at least no one announced it...

2.1 Where in the config-files is the plug-in screenposition defined?
2.2 Is it possible to change the size and transparency of the plug-in boxes?

You can customize a little, but only for plugins which have $_panels[....] inits at their beginning (ie actually only ml_times, localrecs and gpp plugins) : just copy the $_panels[....] inits in fast.configs/fast.panels.php , then modify values. I will try next days to change more things to have panels more customizable, so probably better wait 1 or 2 week for a new version before trying to customize

Anyway, transparency can't be 'as you want' : panels background is made using the game builtin styles, you can see most of them on the manialink 'exemple'.

2.3 How can i add the "votebar" permanently to the resultscreen?

Actually you can't, unless you modify the code in plugin.95.ml_vote.php
Wait 1 or 2 weeks, perhaps that it will be possible.

3 Do you want to create your own boardsection here at MP-Board like the other Playertooldevelopers?
In my opinion it would be more structured and easier to find updates or sth.

'other Playertooldevelopers' means ony 2 of them actually (plus mlepp which is a manialive plugin).
It is easy to find : http://www.tm-forum.com/viewforum.php?f=126 , here is just not the right place, and if you look in old posts of this topic you will see that it was asked to not use it !.....

Btw...Some time ago I asked to farfa to add a 'Player Tools' subforum for Fast : i guess that he forgot it, i will remind him

[Smarti]

Hey Slig!

Thank you for answering my questions.
I think i just consider your advice and will wait 1-2 weeks.. ;D

so far, thank you


greets, Smarti_

[Xymph]

1.1 Why does FAST support Dedimania but not "Mania Records"?

Because it's me who dev the Dedimania server side, so (logically) i made the Fast plugin at the same time to test it

And also, because Dedimania is several years old, and is supported by most controllers on TMF, while ManiaRecords is several months old. It just took longer than desirable to finish Dedimania(2) for TM2, partly because Slig also improved the API. That in turn delays support by other controllers, but it is being worked on for XAseco2 (by me), and maybe others.

[_bb_mort]

2.3 How can i add the "votebar" permanently to the resultscreen?

You can set the votebar to appear at the end of each round, is that not what you mean?
From memory though, it only appears if the player actually finishes the track and they haven't voted on it already. Otherwise use the "vote" menu button in the top left corner.

[deathdragonaw]

it does not appear itself at the moment and he wants it to do, because the players forget voting if they dont see it displayed at match end. there's a german saying i'd translate like this: out of sight - out of mind

and as feedback to my previous post, fast does not crash now by clicking on jukebox when its empty since i updated fast on n-versions

thx, we are hloding on for news

P.S.: an own website or something would be better than forum topics here, or on tm-forum or any other forums

[Slig]

Actually the vote panel appear only if you have not already voted, have made a time on the map, and if the chattime is >15s (because if player don't have enough time to vote, showing the panel use bandwidth for nothing).

You can change the min value accepted for the chattime just by setting it in fast.php, for example: $_ml_vote_minauto = 2000;


edit:

P.S.: an own website or something would be better than forum topics here, or on tm-forum or any other forums

A site take time both to build and update, and anyway too many users won't read infos on it and will ask on forums

[macarrony]

Starting Fast4.0.x...

Timezone: Europe/London
If you have a timezone problem, then try to set in fast.php Europe/London
to a valid value, for example: Europe/London='Europe/Paris'


Using dedicated config file : ./dedicated_cfg.txt

[10/30,16:56:57.39]



##############################################################
Connection to TM server: 127.0.0.1:5000
##############################################################
[10/30,16:56:57.39]

**************************************************************
*** Server type: ManiaPlanet / Alpine
##############################################################
*** Unknown or unsupported game name/type/packmask
##############################################################

What can I do to change the timezone and the type to canyon?

[Slig]

the first message is not the right one (it's a bug), it should be :

If you have a timezone problem, then try to set in fast.php $_server_timezone
to a valid value, for example: $_server_timezone='Europe/Paris'

Btw, the main problem is that you are actually trying to connect to the game and not a tm² server (dunno why the packmask returned game is Alpine btw ^^).
You are not supposed to start 'FAST4 ingame.bat' without thinking about what you are doing... Fast need only few config, but you should anyway read the install file.

[macarrony]

I config all of the files that said in the install and now the problem is:

Starting Fast3.2.x...

Timezone: Europe/London
If you have a timezone problem, then try to set in fast.php Europe/London
to a valid value, for example: Europe/London='Europe/Paris'


Using dedicated config file : ./ingame.cfg

[10/30,18:24:30.31]



##############################################################
Connection to TM server: 127.0.0.1:5000
##############################################################

[10/30,18:24:30.31] #** Wait server start... (status=2)

[10/30,18:24:30.31] #** Wait server start... (status=2)

[10/30,18:24:30.31] #** Wait server start... (status=2)

[Slig]

Using dedicated config file : ./ingame.cfg

You are using a dedicated server ? then why are you using ingame.cfg and not the real dedicated config file ?