For those that are interested, here is the script that runs to rotate the maps:
It is a modified version of a script by wrtlprnft (thanks wrtlprnft).
I am no programmer, it is down right dirty.
If anyone has suggestion, etc, let me know.
you'll see it says "range=6"
this makes map selection like a roll of the dice. I can specify the likelyhood of a map being played.
It's very easy to add new maps.

it is called with:


it is called eddie.sh and looks like this:



EDIT: did 1 miner change which still allows this to work no (20 April 2011)

I was thinking, for random dz's, walls, etc... map_file ed/fortress/map.cgi?round=9&mode=1&etc...
Then could use cgi to generate each map

Problem is, the map HAS TO BE $mapname$ + '-' + $version$ + '.aamap.xml'

It can't have anything after the '.aamap.xml'

Also, FAT file systems, and Windoze shell (even XP on a NTFS partion) both have trouble with oddly named files, so question marks and qual signs are out.

I'll have to think more about this rotating, randomly generated maps (or walls, or what not). Probably will have to be done through the tail command :/

Unless you want to get hacky and set your /resources/ed/fortress/ 404 page to a cgi script that returns a text/xml document, based on the requested name. <-- this is probably the easiest way to return randomly generated maps, with the least amount of effort.



In the cgi 'error page hack' script you simply grab the appropriate ENV{} parameter to pick out 'random_maps_${ROUND}-0.2.0_${SUB_SUB_VER}.aamap.xml' in the request. s/// out the round number and generate the xml file. do a print "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8\n\n"; and then start printing out the generated map.

Ofcourse the problem with ~any~ randomly generated map, is the amount of 5 to 10k files that will be permanently stored on the clients computer. (I'm up to 1.2MB in my resource directory, and I don't play randomly generated maps! Imagine how big that could get if I played wild with this script, for one day straight! almost noticable, , but still, some people don't even have 20 Gig HDs).

if [ "$line" == '[0] Go (round ' ]

Won't work, but I don't fell like doing a man bash right now

You get the idea though, right ed?

I get the idea. But I'm not sold on the idea of randomly generated maps.

Race to win zone is very clever and fun, but how long have you stayed there in one sitting?

I think well designed maps work much better, and I think people like the familiarity of knowing a map and it's tactics.

I don't know if you've seen wrtlprnft's post here on how he did it:
http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=2855

It's a bit out of my depth (the php map gen script), but you may get it.

I try to make this for windows but I dont. Can you help me??

The script was designed for Linux. As that's what our server runs on.

You might want to try Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/

That allows you to run *nix tools on windows.
It may work, dunno, never used it.

i used it, it can work, but it means it will need to run arma server there 2, and perhaps it will get problems with performance, it's a emulator and it's slow.

You wouldn't need to run arma under cygwin.

As long as the script has access to the arma log files and is able to write to the file everytime.cfg, that should be enough, theorically.
Armagetron-dedicated should be able to run under Windows.

yes and not, cygwin just can get access into files are located in its instalation, u will ahve to install into its path or make a mount, and i'm not sure about mount capacilities.

i suggest u translate it into a vbscript in won't take u a lot of time.

Mounting is no problem, just edit the config.


Tztztztztz...don't say that loud, cygwin is not a Full-Virtualization app, it's a bit like Xen and you don't have much performance performance problems

okis, as u want i remember when i mounted x-windows up to it, , was really far away from a native linux