Cool mp mod but havinbg trouble doing a server

[SkeeterPSA]

I made a test map for me and my mate to play on a private server (server is me on my computer).

I can setup almost everything i need to make it run but theres a few problems.

1. Its not being detected in the browser list on ingame browser of servers (server aint showing up)

2. How do i manually change map to the map i made its a free roam one and before i go into my server i do this in the dos box thing "startrace free1" but it says error no such race but it is in the race folder with the others and even trying to get other official maps/races to run is hard. I tryed using remote admin thing but u cant change maps unless someone is in the map and when i try to go in server and then try to use admin remote (alt and tab) it wont work the alt and tabbing so i can change maps that way, grr.. So its a bit useless for people who want a server and play on their server.

So im after some help on how to change maps ingame easily (dunno rcon stuff so no clue on that stuff. And help on getting my private server on the browser list so mate can join easier rather than using ip.

Oh and also i was woundering if i had multiple spawn points ingame, how can players select which ones they want to spawn at? Lets say i have 2 spawn points in grove street and 2 at garage in Los F. How would like if we wanted to spawn instead of grove street and spawn at garage, how can we do this easily ingame without leaving or restarting server?

Btw the server really could do with better documentation on this sorta stuff as i looked in wiki (nothing there really) and readme and manual when installed mta sa and yet again nothing there about map changing or spawns or much really.

Thanks if you can help me out with this quickly as i want to have it ready for when mate is online later on today.

[eAi]

If only two of you are going to play, you can both just vote for your map in the server. If you're the only one there, it'll change instantly if you vote for it.

You can also use rcon, which works like the server console, but from the game console. This isn't an area I've worked on, but its certainly possible to do what you want, someone else can probably enlighten you here.

You could also remove all the other maps from your server, then you'd always be playing your one

You can't choose spawn points, generally you have one map per set of spawn points, so if you want to spawn in the orange grove, make an orange grove map with spawn points there and use that.

As for ASE, make sure you have the UDP ASE port open - it tells you which when you start the server up.

[Oli]

ok, to start a race from ingame RCON, you have to:

put a line in the server config that looks like:

Admin Name Password 5

Replacing the Name and Password with your ingame name and a password you want to login with.

Then start your server, go ingame, pull up the console (~) and type:

rcon_login Password

replacing Password with the password you chose in the config earlier.

Then type:

rcon startrace RaceName

Replacing RaceName with the name of your race. Then the race will start.

Secondly, you dont usually see servers running on your PC in ASE as ASE will not look for the server on your LAN.

[SkeeterPSA]

ABout voting how do u do it and how do u vote for a particular map as i havent read anywhere that explains how to vote.

Thanks about the rcon i will try it.

For now ive just rared the other maps and left mine so it always plays it.

About server for friend to find, i wasnt talking about ASE i was talking about ingame server browser or is that a ingame version of ASE and will be the same? Just when i host a game (server on my machine and wish to play that game) i wouldnt mind not having to type ip in myself all the time and just click and load using ingame server browser to find my named game and join that way, also helpful for mate as well. AS my ip changes everytime i log on (aol silver). Which is annoying when hosting games.

[eAi]

The in-game browser is powered by ASE.

You can get a list of maps on the server, in-game by using the 'races' or 'maps' commands in the console. You can them vote for a map using 'vote map ____' where ____ is a map name. E.g. 'vote map stunt'.

[SkeeterPSA]

Cheers. Ill give it a try.

[SkeeterPSA]

Map changing is ok now and mate joined via ip and port and that, had a bunch of fun

Cheers MTA for a nice release and congrats on the sync, tho can be tiny bit better to match vcmp sync but apart from that its a milestone better than ur old mta for vc sync issues.

Hope to see dm version soon or at least a idea to try mount weapons on cars and have em choosable for carmageddon style playing hehe.