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| Should RenGuard send out the latest scripts.dll? [message #122169] |
Thu, 25 November 2004 05:29   |
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Oh and btw, this installer would download and install autmoatically with no user interaction required.
How RenGuard would detect that the installer needs to be sent is that it would check your scripts.dll.
If its not one the RenGuard server knows about or if it is one that is out of date, it would send the new installer.
Jonathan Wilson aka Jonwil
Creator and Lead Coder of the Custom scripts.dll
Renegade Engine Guru
Creator and Lead Coder of TT.DLL
Official member of Tiberian Technologies
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| Should RenGuard send out the latest scripts.dll? [message #122170] |
Thu, 25 November 2004 05:50 |
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ghostSWT
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| jonwil |
How RenGuard would detect that the installer needs to be sent is that it would check your scripts.dll.
If its not one the RenGuard server knows about or if it is one that is out of date, it would send the new installer.
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I don't think doing this to every one is a good thing. What if I run a small server from time to time (not FDS) and use a modified scrips.dll. I wouldn't wand renguard to over write it, but i would still like to still get core patches.
Edit: unless you just check everyone's scrilts.dll against all known scrips.dlls and if it's not one of them then don't update, but if it's oroginal or any of the publicly released scrips then update it to the newest one.
There sould be another option in renguard that will let you select if you want the scrips.dll update or not.
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| Should RenGuard send out the latest scripts.dll? [message #122171] |
Thu, 25 November 2004 05:56 |
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In that case, one of 2 things would happen
1.You would have a seperate install of Ren for use as a server.
or 2.Your modified scripts.dll would be "approved" for RenGuard use by Blackhand Studios.
The same would apply to those doing scripts.dll development.
They would need to keep a seperate non-RenGuard install for development/testing.
In any case, even if we dont send the scripts.dll out to you, your "modified" scripts.dll would still be rejectred by RenGuard (the RenGuard team has decided that allowing any scripts.dll at all that we dont know about is a security risk and therefore we wont be doing that).
Jonathan Wilson aka Jonwil
Creator and Lead Coder of the Custom scripts.dll
Renegade Engine Guru
Creator and Lead Coder of TT.DLL
Official member of Tiberian Technologies
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| Should RenGuard send out the latest scripts.dll? [message #122248] |
Fri, 26 November 2004 01:08 |
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We are doing this to prevent cheaters.
Anyone with C++ skills could cheat with a custom replaced scripts.dll. (I wont say exactly how because that would aid cheaters but I know of an example that is fairly easy to do, runs on the client and is undectable from the server end)
Hence why we are checking for modified scripts.dll files.
If you have a modified dll that ISNT a cheat, it will be added just like w3d files are.
BTW, we are working on a way to streamline the approval process for w3d files so that getting w3d files approved for RG is easier but that isnt done yet.
Jonathan Wilson aka Jonwil
Creator and Lead Coder of the Custom scripts.dll
Renegade Engine Guru
Creator and Lead Coder of TT.DLL
Official member of Tiberian Technologies
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| Should RenGuard send out the latest scripts.dll? [message #122368] |
Fri, 26 November 2004 16:20 |
Slash0x
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Registered: January 2004
Location: California
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| jonwil |
BTW, we are working on a way to streamline the approval process for w3d files so that getting w3d files approved for RG is easier but that isnt done yet.
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Reminds me of a bunch of other things that aren't done yet...
L3T'5 4LL THR0W 3GG5 4T D4 N00B! 
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| Should RenGuard send out the latest scripts.dll? [message #122468] |
Sat, 27 November 2004 12:47 |
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If only this game would be supported by Punkbuster... This whole "we have all the rights to the game and to your game folder" thing is really getting on my nerves.
I suck cock and love it... absolutely love it. And I just got banned for being too immature to be allowed to post here.
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