TrueBalancer [v0.7.6] (28 Oct 2010)

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

nice to hear. i'm realy happy that you like it.

 

if there are any ideas for truebalancer to make it better, just let them come. we will discuss about it and i will try to implement it.

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Originally Posted by meanman*:

 

I might be being a bit thick here but i cant even get it to show in my plugins i have tried in my parent layer and locally could someone please tell me were to put everything.

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

how do you install it? the easiest way to do is to use the package manager within procon. did you try it that way?

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Originally Posted by meanman*:

 

No i haven't tried that how do you do that ?

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

Open Procon -> Under the Menu "Files" you can find a Blue House -> Click on it.

On the page which opens there, there are the ServerConnections on the top and belowthere are

 

News Feeds ---- Packages

 

Click on Packages and there you will find True Balancer

Click on it and press the Button Install Package.

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Originally Posted by meanman*:

 

Open Procon -> Under the Menu "Files" you can find a Blue House -> Click on it.

On the page which opens there, there are the ServerConnections on the top and belowthere are

 

News Feeds ---- Packages

 

Click on Packages and there you will find True Balancer

Click on it and press the Button Install Package.

Nice one thanks for your help now i just need a working weapon limiter ,sniper heaven out there.

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

There should be a plugin for BC2 and weapon limiter. I don't know how it is for Moh.

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Originally Posted by meanman*:

 

It doesn't seem to work on MOH, at least i cant get it to work

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

Put Enable Debug Mode on Yes and tell me what it says in the debug window, otherwise i can't help you.

 

worked fine until now on our server.

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Originally Posted by EBassie*:

 

worked fine until now on our server.

No problems what so ever on our server. Plugin does the job!

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Originally Posted by tofu*:

 

hello thx for the update but as i noticed whitelist isnt working it wont exlucde them from getting switched :/ is it just for me?

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

hello thx for the update but as i noticed whitelist isnt working it wont exlucde them from getting switched :/ is it just for me?

Please take care. There are two diffrent autobalancers. One is my autobalancer which is anouncing any balancing what is done by my plugin. Then there is the integrated autobalancer from the game itself, programmed by Dice. This autobalancer will switch players, who dies first. My Whitelist has no impact on the ingame autobalancer.

 

HELP FOR MY TRUEBALANCER:

I have checked this function once more in MoH with 5 Clanmates. It worked perfectly.

 

you need to enter one name per line.

The list needs to look like:

NAME1

NAME2

WAANABE3

..

..

..

 

Please enable the DebugMode.Look at the players list which is appearing every 20-30seconds.

 

you will see something like:

Code:

[20:28:55 28] PlayerCache: 2.1-NAME1 --- 2.2-NAME2 --- 1.3-NAME3 --- 1.4-NAME4

You see a format of:

x.y -Name --- .....

 

x ... TeamNumber

y ... PlayerNumber

 

y needs to have the value "-1" if the player is on the Whitelist

Lets make NAME1 and NAME2 VIPs from the above example:

Code:

[20:28:55 28] PlayerCache: 2.-1-NAME1 --- 2.-1-NAME2 --- 1.3-NAME3 --- 1.4-NAME4

You see, NAME1 and NAME2 are on Whitelist if everything is done as it has to be done.

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Originally Posted by tofu*:

 

do i understand u right to disable the "vars.teamBalance true" ?

 

also noticed when more players leave at the ssame time it sseems to be a bit tricky need balance true need balance true but nothing happen when warning is done means 1x 5 seconds (setup) should be switch them right after the warning? 5 seconds?

 

Regards,

tofu

Code:

[20:43:24 71] Team A: 16
[20:43:24 71] Team B: 15
[20:43:24 71] PlayerDiff: 1
[20:43:24 71] Teams are balanced.
[20:43:24 71] PlayerCache: 1.166-Big_Bad_Bosnier --- 2.147-a.S.S.m.A.N. --- 1.107-4ak_HoppuC --- 1.168-NvidiaErtan2206 --- 2.-1-Olagcollossov --- 2.118-QUABLA --- 2.119-Lord of War 92 --- 1.103-[76.PGR]McClane --- 2.167-Cpt Bartek --- 1.130-Jofert --- 1.112-schweinzel --- 2.164-GraveHeart --- 2.153-GH39 --- 2.149-SLON222 --- 1.151-(Steiner58) --- 2.150-shalom4u --- 1.94-rossiossi --- 1.159-Terror.illusion --- 1.109-0-CoNoR --- 2.170-Ne Pucaj Boli --- 2.146-dUrAcELKO --- 1.152-[RCM]Gyros --- 1.169-Deadjolly666 --- 1.156-Ralle778 --- 2.162-Murph81 --- 2.136-Ryna --- 1.59-ANKA 44 --- 2.160-gh11 --- 1.163-GH0ST94 --- 2.155-gh44 --- 1.105-TaTb --- 
[20:43:29 56] ---------PL-------
[20:43:29 56] Team A: 16
[20:43:29 56] Team B: 14
[20:43:29 56] PlayerDiff: 2
[20:43:29 56] Player Left: a.S.S.m.A.N.
[20:43:32 25] ---------PL-------
[20:43:32 25] Team A: 16
[20:43:32 25] Team B: 13
[20:43:32 25] PlayerDiff: 3
[20:43:32 25] NeedBalance = true
[20:43:32 25] Even Teams! Autobalancing teams shortly!
[20:43:32 25] Starting Timer now
[20:43:32 25] Player Left: Cpt Bartek
[20:43:39 60] ---------PL-------
[20:43:39 60] Team A: 16
[20:43:39 60] Team B: 12
[20:43:39 60] PlayerDiff: 4
[20:43:39 60] NeedBalance = true
[20:43:39 60] Player Left: gh11
[20:43:40 77] ---------PL-------
[20:43:40 77] Team A: 16
[20:43:40 77] Team B: 11
[20:43:40 77] PlayerDiff: 5
[20:43:40 77] NeedBalance = true
[20:43:40 77] Player Left: GH39
[20:43:49 94] -------OP-------
[20:43:49 94] Team A: 16
[20:43:49 94] Team B: 11
[20:43:49 94] PlayerDiff: 5
[20:43:49 94] NeedBalance = true
[20:43:49 94] PlayerCache: 1.166-Big_Bad_Bosnier --- 1.107-4ak_HoppuC --- 1.168-NvidiaErtan2206 --- 2.-1-Olagcollossov --- 2.118-QUABLA --- 2.119-Lord of War 92 --- 1.103-[76.PGR]McClane --- 1.130-Jofert --- 1.112-schweinzel --- 2.164-GraveHeart --- 2.149-SLON222 --- 1.151-(Steiner58) --- 2.150-shalom4u --- 1.94-rossiossi --- 1.159-Terror.illusion --- 1.109-0-CoNoR --- 2.170-Ne Pucaj Boli --- 2.146-dUrAcELKO --- 1.152-[RCM]Gyros --- 1.169-Deadjolly666 --- 1.156-Ralle778 --- 2.162-Murph81 --- 2.136-Ryna --- 1.59-ANKA 44 --- 1.163-GH0ST94 --- 2.155-gh44 --- 1.105-TaTb --- 
[20:43:54 74] -------OP-------
[20:43:54 74] Team A: 16
[20:43:54 74] Team B: 11
[20:43:54 74] PlayerDiff: 5
[20:43:54 74] NeedBalance = true
[20:43:54 74] PlayerCache: 1.166-Big_Bad_Bosnier --- 1.107-4ak_HoppuC --- 1.168-NvidiaErtan2206 --- 2.-1-Olagcollossov --- 2.118-QUABLA --- 2.119-Lord of War 92 --- 1.103-[76.PGR]McClane --- 1.130-Jofert --- 1.112-schweinzel --- 2.164-GraveHeart --- 2.149-SLON222 --- 1.151-(Steiner58) --- 2.150-shalom4u --- 1.94-rossiossi --- 1.159-Terror.illusion --- 1.109-0-CoNoR --- 2.170-Ne Pucaj Boli --- 2.146-dUrAcELKO --- 1.152-[RCM]Gyros --- 1.169-Deadjolly666 --- 1.156-Ralle778 --- 2.162-Murph81 --- 2.136-Ryna --- 1.59-ANKA 44 --- 1.163-GH0ST94 --- 2.155-gh44 --- 1.105-TaTb --- 
[20:43:55 00] ---------PL-------
[20:43:55 00] Team A: 16
[20:43:55 00] Team B: 10
[20:43:55 00] PlayerDiff: 6
[20:43:55 00] NeedBalance = true
[20:43:55 00] Player Left: gh44

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

do i understand u right to disable the "vars.teamBalance true" ?

 

also noticed when more players leave at the ssame time it sseems to be a bit tricky need balance true need balance true but nothing happen when warning is done means 1x 5 seconds (setup) should be switch them right after the warning? 5 seconds?

 

Regards,

tofu

Code:

2.-1-Olagcollossov

It is up to you if you want to disable the ingame autobalancer. I didn't for the reason, because if you disable it, players will be able to switch to the otherside if the teams are even.

making for example 10vs10 to a 9 vs 11. Thats the reason i am keeping the ingame balancer on. but you could turn it off, to prevent palyers getting switched by the ingame balancer.

As i can see, only Olagcollossov is on the Whitelist.

 

What are your settings. You can see in the code you postet above that the autobalancer starts the timer but never enteres it. It looks like the Time between Warnings is set to a huge number

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Originally Posted by tofu*:

 

What are your settings. You can see in the code you postet above that the autobalancer starts the timer but never enteres it. It looks like the Time between Warnings is set to a huge number

How many warnings:? (1)

Time between warning in second:? (5)

 

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Originally Posted by Ubique1964*:

 

No0b here I cant even see it in my list of plugins for MOH. How do I install this one? Where to dht files go?

 

Cheers lads

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

strange, make me a screenshot of your settings and send it over to me please.

 

watch the debug window until there is written:

---Timer---

and count the time between "Timer started" and "---Timer---"

there is something wrong with it.

 

i will change that part to a procon integrated timer function. at the moment i am using a windows timer.

maybe after that, it will work better.

 

give me a couple of hours, because i am not at home at the moment

 

 

 

try to put 10sec instead of 5 in the meantime.

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

No0b here I cant even see it in my list of plugins for MOH. How do I install this one? Where to dht files go?

 

Cheers lads

Open Procon -> Under the Menu "Files" you can find a Blue House -> Click on it.

On the page which opens there, there are the ServerConnections on the top and below that, there are

 

News Feeds ---- Packages

 

Click on Packages and there you will find True Balancer

Click on it and press the Button Install Package.

Restart PRoCon

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

Bump - New Version online!

This is working still the same. Just changed the way, how to use a timer. Which should fix the above mentioned problem. I can't test it, because both versions worked for me.

 

Test it and report back.

 

 

Regards Panda!!!

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Originally Posted by WSU_GOSHOX*:

 

Hi,

 

Great Plugin! I run my server in a mixed mode fashion. When the server is below a certain number of people it goes to squad rush. What I have noticed is, when the server goes to squad rush your plugin spits out the following error message continually in the plugin console:

 

TrueBalancer: Still no data or GameMode not supported: |sqrush|

 

My question is, do you think it is necessary to have this warning continually spammed in the console? I mean, sometimes it reports every 20 seconds.

 

Perhaps you can you make the plugin work for the smaller modes like squad rush?

 

I would rather not turn it off because when the server automatically jumps to regular rush it will not be running.

 

Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

Hi,

 

Great Plugin! I run my server in a mixed mode fashion. When the server is below a certain number of people it goes to squad rush. What I have noticed is, when the server goes to squad rush your plugin spits out the following error message continually in the plugin console:

 

TrueBalancer: Still no data or GameMode not supported: |sqrush|

 

My question is, do you think it is necessary to have this warning continually spammed in the console? I mean, sometimes it reports every 20 seconds.

 

Perhaps you can you make the plugin work for the smaller modes like squad rush?

 

I would rather not turn it off because when the server automatically jumps to regular rush it will not be running.

 

Thanks in advance!

Hey, i am sorry, i haven't thought about that before, that ppl would run the server in such a kind of mixed mode.

Ok, keep your eyes open for an update today. Gonna make the plugin work for squad rush.

The only mode which will not be supportet will be sqaud deathmach.

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

bump for update.

 

new update available!

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Originally Posted by osumichael*:

 

No0b here I cant even see it in my list of plugins for MOH. How do I install this one? Where to dht files go?

 

Cheers lads

Open Procon -> Under the Menu "Files" you can find a Blue House -> Click on it.

On the page which opens there, there are the ServerConnections on the top and below that, there are

 

News Feeds ---- Packages

 

Click on Packages and there you will find True Balancer

Click on it and press the Button Install Package.

Restart PRoCon

Hello All, I appreciate any help you can give me:

 

Primary Target is hosting my procon and I have tried everything to install this plugin for the procon layer but it just won't show up. When you click on the blue house and install the plugin from there it works but not on the layer. When I install the files thru TCADMIN you can't see the plugin on the layer. I installed the 4 files in plugins/MOH. By the way the package install includes a DLL file that the zip file in the first post does not is that a problem?

 

Anyone who has installed this plugin on a hosted solution can you tell me how you got it to show up on the layer?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Originally Posted by HelloKitty*:

 

Is there any manual download ? The package installation is not working for me.

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Originally Posted by Zaeed*:

 

Is there any manual download ? The package installation is not working for me.

Its on the first post

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

Hello All, I appreciate any help you can give me:

[...] I installed the 4 files in plugins/MOH. By the way the package install includes a DLL file that the zip file in the first post does not is that a problem?[...]

Thanks in advance for your help.

Download the zip from the first page.

If you want it to run copy all files in "plugins" to the "Plugins" folder of PRoCon. Also the not needed files for BC2.

There is also a file called "TrueBalancer.inc" within "plugins". This is the major code of TrueBalancer.

 

If you only copy out the 4 Files for MoH it will not work. You need to copy the 5th file called "TrueBalancer.inc" in "plugins" to the "Plugins"-folder of PRoCon.

 

As I said above. Copy ALL files from the extracted "plugins" folder to the "Plugins"-folder of PRoCon. Even if you don't use BC2, copy those files too.

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Originally Posted by MemphisRaines*:

 

Hi,

I also have PrimaryTarget hosting Procon Service and can't get the plugin to show up on the parent layer either.

 

Here is what i have done so far:

I installed the plugin through 'packages' option. No joy. I manually uploaded the files to their appropriate folders. No joy. I even submitted support ticket to have coding for truebalancer manually inputted into the server ip config file. No joy.

 

I have the 4 files in the MOH and BC2 folders. I also have the 5th file in the plugins folder, but it is not an .ini extension. it is an .inc extension. all the other plugins are like that as well. there was also a packages folder with truebalancer.xml file . i had support upload that folder as well.

 

The only issue i see is that everytime i start up my own procon on my desktop, the truebalancer.dll file appears. When i stop it, it disappears. On the parent layer hosted by procon, that .dll file never appears, even after restart. I even tried to run my desktop procon, and then upload a copy of the .dll into the parent layer version and it just disappears if i restart the parent layer.

 

I have a feeling it may have something to do with the fact that PT does not give us full access.

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Originally Posted by Panther*:

 

I will ask the guys from PT if they can have a look at that. Give them some time. I think it will be able to work very soon.

We will answer here if everything will work.

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Originally Posted by WSU_GOSHOX*:

 

Hi,

 

Great Plugin! I run my server in a mixed mode fashion. When the server is below a certain number of people it goes to squad rush. What I have noticed is, when the server goes to squad rush your plugin spits out the following error message continually in the plugin console:

 

TrueBalancer: Still no data or GameMode not supported: |sqrush|

 

My question is, do you think it is necessary to have this warning continually spammed in the console? I mean, sometimes it reports every 20 seconds.

 

Perhaps you can you make the plugin work for the smaller modes like squad rush?

 

I would rather not turn it off because when the server automatically jumps to regular rush it will not be running.

 

Thanks in advance!

Hey, i am sorry, i haven't thought about that before, that ppl would run the server in such a kind of mixed mode.

Ok, keep your eyes open for an update today. Gonna make the plugin work for squad rush.

The only mode which will not be supportet will be sqaud deathmach.

Panther,

 

Thanks a bunch for making the plugin work with squadrush. It seems to be working fine. One thing though, when it switches a player, it doesn't automatically put them in a squad. The reason this is important is, in 4v4 squad rush there is no option to join a squad when you join a server because you are automatically put in one. After Truebalancer switches a player, they are left outside a squad. Now, the person can open the menu and select to join the squad, but for some reason most players can't figure this out.. lol. They find they aren't spawning on their teammates and just leave the server. If this is something that would be easy to fix I would be very grateful. If not, I do appreciate your efforts in making a fantastic plugin. It works superbly when the server goes to normal rush.

 

Thanks so much!

 

GOSHOX!

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Originally Posted by Phogue*:

 

It seems to be working fine. One thing though, when it switches a player, it doesn't automatically put them in a squad.

@Panther

 

The in game admin uses a similar method to find out the default squad id used from gamemode to gamemode.

 

You can use something similar to this to get whatever the default squad id is for the map being played. It's generally 0 for all gametypes but in sqrush it's 1.

 

Code:

int m_defaultSquadId = 0;

public override void OnServerInfo(CServerInfo csiServerInfo) {
	// Remember to do error checking, this.GetMapByFilename() returns null if
	// procon does not know the map.
	this.m_defaultSquadId = this.GetMapByFilename(csiServerInfo.Map).DefaultSquadID;
}