Difference between revisions of "Server.txt"

Latest revision as of 18:48, 23 June 2009

Server.txt is an important file and resides in the uogolddemo directory. It's the very first file the demo open and parses.

It is a text file and each line should have the following structure : <VARIABLE VALUE>.

This is a list of supported string variables : name.
This is a list of supported integer variables : id, port, width, height, x, y, startx, starty, spawnclient.
This is a list of supported R/W variables : animdata, art, hues, statics, templates, terrain, resources, tiledata

R/W variables are checked to be either "w" or "W", any other value defaults to non-W, this most probably indicates they allow for enabling of disabling the writing of certain data.

Some variables seem to be unsued in the demo and they could be indication of how the official OSI server worked internally, for example : name, id and port.

The variable "spawnclient" is mysterious one, if this variable is not in server.txt it will default to value "1". If its value is non-zero, then the uodemo will create a thread to run the client in. If its value is zero the server code keeps running but this has no effect at all since the actual client is not running. In this case the only way to terminate the uodemo is by closing it with the Windows Task Manager [1]. This variable was probably used by OSI during the development of the UO Gold Demo.