| [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371043] |
Sat, 07 February 2009 20:18  |
Genesis2001
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Project Coder: aca20031 and Zack
Project Owner: St0rm Gaming
Version: 1.0
Requires: Microsoft .NET 3.5
Click to watch a video of this inaction!
* Courtesy of RoShamBo
Download: here (Source included)
Currently, what this does is download maps from our website and install them to your Renegade directory which is gathered from User Input, or, taken from the Registry(default).
If you mess with the source, we do not hold any guarantee on it if you mess something up. We won't provide support for it at that point!
Also, we kindly ask that if you do edit the source to, say, maybe change the URL where it downloads from...that you keep the copyrights in place in both the executable and the User Interface. 
Enjoy!
Oh, you can contact me about becoming a mirrored site for the downloadable maps.
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371158 is a reply to message #371150] |
Sun, 08 February 2009 14:27  |
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Goztow
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| Caveman wrote on Sun, 08 February 2009 21:59 |
Not to be rude or negitive but this is just an application to view whats on your site without a web browser?
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That kinda was my first impression. But whatever makes it even easier to download maps...
You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371169 is a reply to message #371158] |
Sun, 08 February 2009 15:24 |
Genesis2001
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| Goztow wrote on Sun, 08 February 2009 14:27 |
| Caveman wrote on Sun, 08 February 2009 21:59 |
Not to be rude or negitive but this is just an application to view whats on your site without a web browser?
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That kinda was my first impression. But whatever makes it even easier to download maps...
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It was meant as a way for our players, who are lazy..., to download the new maps for our new server (St0rm Extreme Mix).
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371170 is a reply to message #371169] |
Sun, 08 February 2009 15:37 |
Zuess
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Just a suggestion, really should downgrade so you dont need .net 3.5.
Alot of people don't have it installed, and really is not needed for a browser rapper, just need .net 2.0, which sp2 installs by default.
Another idea, since you have client permission to write to default folder, why not create a quick list of files already installed, so they dont accidentally re-download it. Should be easy enough to implement, tho really didn't look at source so dunno how difficult it would be to embed in your existing code.
If people catch on to this, can even write a wrapper around renegade exe and have it auto-check for new maps and versions of maps and download in background throttled while you play.
Also, dunno if this is for multiple servers, but have a dropdown of servers with the mappacks for each.
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371175 is a reply to message #371170] |
Sun, 08 February 2009 16:26 |
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| Zuess wrote on Sun, 08 February 2009 15:37 |
If people catch on to this, can even write a wrapper around renegade exe and have it auto-check for new maps and versions of maps and download in background throttled while you play
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This is just a pre-mature release of TT so-to-speak. TT has planned on doing an auto-map downloader built-in to the game. What this does is simply downloads the maps you want and extracts them. :/
Also, we're going to be setting up two other mirrors of the maps so it's not 100% dependent on St0rm's Website.
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371232 is a reply to message #371181] |
Mon, 09 February 2009 07:30 |
Genesis2001
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| Sir Kane wrote on Sun, 08 February 2009 17:33 |
Why C#?
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It's both mine and aca's home language. I haven't explored any other language for UI development, unless you want VB.NET :@ (lol...)
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371550 is a reply to message #371043] |
Wed, 11 February 2009 05:33 |
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Looking good so far, still I think I'll be messing with the source a bit to see if I can improve your program a little. As far as I know it doesn't look for the renegade installpath in the registry, if I'm wrong then it just doesn't work for 64-bit OS.
Also I think I'm going to change the interface a bit so it's more renegade styled (green, black etc. looks like the old hud).
It's a nice program, but in MY OPINION it's still not finished.
Edit:
Here is a 64-bit compatible version. Binaries + Source.
- Just added a small line of code similar to 32-bit version which now checks for the 64-bit registry key.
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| Re: [3rd Party] Map Downloader [message #371607 is a reply to message #371550] |
Wed, 11 February 2009 10:40 |
Genesis2001
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| DimitryK (Nero) wrote on Wed, 11 February 2009 05:33 |
Also I think I'm going to change the interface a bit so it's more renegade styled (green, black etc. looks like the old hud).
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I was told to make it look like our Renegade section forums. lol, so that's what I did.
Feel free to mod the source. Just keep the copyrights in place.
Good luck, and thanks too. I'll put the 64-bit compatible version up on the google code site later when I get home.
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