Forest?
Darn I am feeling dumb. (;

Originally Posted by Michael

Forest?
Darn I am feeling dumb. (;

Thing to host servers with lots of features.

Ah I knew that, just wanted to check if you knew too. (:
Thanks...I mean, good job.

who DOES believe him?

You might be happy to hear that Neobeo helped me (or rather, did all of the work>P) fix the lasercrashes without stopping the laser from rendering last night. So don't you worry about SCE-lasers, or whatever they're called.

Awesome!

sounds... awesom-o

• Levels can now cycle eventhough the server is minimized (UNKNOWNFILE and Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Multiple instances of jj2 can be run at once (Neobeo and Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• The game won't crash if you lack j2v-files (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• If there's no warp target the player will warp to 0,0 and see a message saying "No warp target found", instead of crashing (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Jaz2 can use any custom j2a (Neobeo) 1.23+1.24
• Gemring divide by zero error crashes won't happen (UNKNOWNFILE and Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• No more seekerholes (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Changed Hollands to Nederlands in the language options (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Ammo will always respawn (Bobby aka DizZy) 1.23
• Ammo will always respawn (Grytolle) 1.24
• Longer version string in menu to avoid confusion; "1.23+ public beta 2". (UNKNOWNFILE and Grytolle) 1.23
• Longer version string in menu to avoid confusion; "1.24+ public beta 1". (Neobeo and Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Hardcoded listservers up to date; "jazz.madskills.org" and "jazz.nimrod-online.com" (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Clients of any version can join your servers (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Red teamchat brackets (Bobby aka DizZy and Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Messages will always send, eventhough you pressed backspace too many times (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Visual bug that made chat look like it was still there when you had pressed esc and t, fixed (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• The game will nolonger try to send teamchat if it isn't in CTF game mode (Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Lasers will nolonger crash the game (Neobeo and Grytolle) 1.23+1.24
• Lori can play in your server, without becoming a messed up frog (Neobeo) 1.23
• Lori can grab copters (Neobeo and Grytolle) 1.24
• Lori can play in all 1.23 patched and unpatched servers, without becoming a weird frog (Grytolle) 1.24

Nice stuff keep up the good work ;D

Great work you are doing for JJ2. Keep up the good work.

Great patch, this is quite amazing relativly to where we were a couple of months ago...
Makes me happy. [:

Would it be possible to fix Lori's fur color when chosing different colors for a player? Make the Laser Shield event actually spawn a screen giving the shield? Make the game not crash when putting an event on a flipped animating tile? Make the secret level swapping actually work, and not getting you stuck when you return to the original level? Fix the bug that causes multiple gems to spawn from players at times in treasure hunt mode (ie place one gem in a room and after enough hurting you'll have quite more than that)? Make hurt events/enemies actually damage your health in hosted games? Fix the bug that causes firing freeze at certain events (mentionably gem rings but also another event if I remember) crash the game?

Properly more out there. These were just bugs that I found limiting the game somewhat.

Thanks for your suggestions. However, I consider fixing the teamchat, and death on flag-captures of higher priority.

Edit: I also have high hopes of having custom furs work with -connect, -server and -j2i
Edit: The fur like totally works now!

Is there going to be any co-op support? co-op servers could be fun

No there won't be at this time, and no they probably couldn't.

...custom fur already worked, but yay!

it only did if you used -battle or some other game mode along with -j2i, -server and -connect

could you add anything that made it more router/firewall friendly? (like doenst disconnect if it doesnt get a constant signal like it does now)

I could make it not disconnect players after 30 seconds, but they would still not be able to play, since their UDP traffic doesn't work.

Anyway, the release will be delayed because I am working on crash protection and server control (with a great deal of help from Monolith and Neobeo).

was that TBCTF a built-in feature? also, good job fixing teamchat

Uh, what about local CTF, can you fix the problem with no flag dropping?

Isn't it better LAN-CTF then? ;s (in conjunction with /change_team)

Status update for you guys!
The 1.24 development is still in the same phase as a long time ago, the 1.23 development however has made some nice progress - so I thought I'd give you an update.

Bugfixes and features

* Marginally reduced CPU usage (same as when minimized).
* Levels will cycle eventhough jj2 is minizmied (credits to Unknownfile).
* If you lack j2v-files (jazz2video files), you will be able to run the game anyway.
* You will not crash if a warp lacks warptarget.
* You can run multiple jj2 windows.
* 1.24 players attempting to play as Lori can do so, without being 
  morphed to frogs (credits to Neobeo).
* The listservers are updated (you will try to connect to the correct ones).
* Most useless change ever: Hollands was changed to Netherlands!
* Custom furs will definitely work when you try to join games with Jazztool or simliar.
* You can load any custom j2a (credits to Neobeo).
* You can now change names within jj2 to most ASCII-characters, for example "|".
* Names can be 24 characters long.
* The server name can contain alphanumeric characters and the period.
* There is a lot of new output in the spywindow, for example chatlogging.
* The server is crash protected (credits to Monolith) like with NeoAC, 
  and won't crash by lasers (credits to Neobeo).
* Players won't immediatly recapture flag when they die on enemy base.
* Teamchat works perfectly.
  - Brackets for red team (clientside fix) (credits to Bobby aka DizZy).
  - Teamchat will only send to players of the team it should be sent (behaviour won't
    change in unpatched servers, though).
    to (no more hacking fun).
  - Teamchat will work regardless of what socket players are in.
* Fixed things with jj2's normal chat
  - Sometimes it would look like the text would still be there if you closed and
    opened the chatbox - nolonger.
  - The game will only attempt to send teamchat if the game mode is CTF.
* The game won't crash when you lack a level. Instead battle1 will be loaded. 
   (this shall be improved)
* When a gemring is frozen the game won't crash.
* No more seekholes :D (clientside). (this might be made a server side fix)
* Respawn bug patched (credits to Bobby aka DizZy).

Server control commands

FOR ALL PLAYERS
...............

/nostuck on|off
-Makes it harder to get stuck (not good for wallclimbing servers:P).

/weap(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-) on|off
-Set this to off to make your selected weapon not change when you pick up ammo.

/autorun on|off
-Setting this to on will make you always run, regardless of what buttons you push.

/spy
-Opens the spywindow

/spystats
-Outputs some packet statistics to the spywindow.

/np
-Echos what music jj2 is currently playing.

/change_music musicname
-Change the music currently being played (credits to Overlord).

FOR SERVER ONLY
...............

Custom game modes
-----------------
/koth on|off
-Turns King of the Hill on or off. The spot you stand at when doing this will become the hill. (Credits to FrankQ and Newspaz)

/koth width value
-Changes the width of the hill. By default this is set to 1.

/teambattle on|off
-Set to on to make dying players score for the team of their opponents'.

/tbctf on|off
-Set to on to enable Teambattle CTF, a gamemode combining teambattle and CTF. When a player
 gets skilled the killer's team will receive one point. When a normal CTF score is made, the
 team scoring will receive 5 points.

/instagib on|off
-If this is turned on, players will die as soon as they are hit.

/em on|off
-EvilMike's Custom Game Mode: This is like teambattle CTF, but with a twist - when a CTF score is made,
 all players on the opposing team will die, and thus make more scores for the team that made the CTF
 score.

/noblink on|off
-If this is set to on, players won't blink when they get hit - can be a fun variation to other game modes.

Server control
--------------
/multiversion on|off
-Turn this on to allow players of other versions than 1.23 to join your server.

/public
-Makes your server public.

/private
-Makes your server private.

/servername name
-Changes the name of your server.

/password pass
-Changes the password of your server.

/list
-List your server

/delist
-Delist your server

/rename playernumber newname
-Rename a player, example: "/rename 1 Grtolle|||||CC".

/gamemode battle|ctf|treasure|coop|sp
-Change the gamemode currently played. Don't do this when playing a custom game mode (turn the custom game mode off first).

/scramble_teams
-Randomize the teams - not extremely awesome at the moment.

/reverse_teams
-Makes all players on the red team become blue, and vice versa.

/change_team  playernumber red|blue
-Changes the selected player's team.

/allred on|off
-Makes all players always be red if enabled (useful for playing tests).

/allblue on|off
-Makes all players always be blue if enabled (useful for playing tests).

/morph jazz|spaz|bird|frog
-Morphs your player, no need for unnecessary rehosts anymore! :)

/alljazz on|off
-Forces all players to be jazz.

/allspaz on|off
-Forces all players to be spaz.

/change_score playernumber newscore
-Changes the score of a player.

/change_score red|blue newscore
-Changes the score of a team.

/reset_score
-Resets the score of all players and teams.

/next_level
-Skips to next level.

/change_level levelname
-Changes level to levelname.

/restart_level
-Restarts the level you currently are playing.

/blink on
-Idle mode for server. Makes the server blink so he can't be hit.

/freeze on
-Idle mode for server. Makes the server be frozen to ice and not attracting seekers.

/count_down
-Performs a count down (5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go!)

/maxscore newmaxscore
-Changes the maximal score, i.e. the score needed to be reached in order for the game to end.

/maxplayers newplayerlimit
-Changes the player limit, deciding how many players there can maximally be in the server.

/mute playernumber
-Allows you to make for example Ajazz (-).

/unmute playernumber
-If you for some reason do want to talk to Ajazz again.

/stealthkick playernumber
-Artifical 30 second connection time out is fun.

/recall playernumber
-If you change your mind.

/specialkick playernumber kicktype
-This allows you to kick players showing them other messages than "Server kicked you off".

/change_trigger triggernumber 1|0
-Example: "/change_trigger 1 0", would turn trigger one off.

/change_all_triggers 1|0
-Turn all triggers on or off.

/update_triggers
-Makes all clients have their triggers set to the same value as yours.

/kill victim killer
-If I for example would like to kill player 1, with player 2 as the killer, I would do: "/Kill 1 2".

/spectate playernumber|off
-The coolest feature in Forest integrated. Allows you to spectate a game nicely. Use "/spectate 2" to spectate
 player 2, and "/spectate off" to completely stop spectating.

Change Netherlands to Nederlands next patch >O

Also, that one /kill feature... that's in Azure Moon too AFAIK

patch looks really good.. nice added stuff those commands are great

So, where can we download this incredible patch?

There won't be any public release any time soon, since I decided to work on it quite a lot over Christmas. And in any case, carrotade is quite awesome, so you can use that instead for now. If you really wanna try 1.23+, though, feel free to ask me for a private beta on msn.

Something which I just thought of reading the feature list was some sort of confirmation mode. When someone joins your server (*before* the level downloading process if possible), have it freeze his joining process for x seconds or something (just not sending packets back or something? if possible), and pop up a message to the host asking him to /confirm (or something of the order) the incoming client. Good for invite-only servers of all sorts.

Btw, Koth concept THIEF :-o

An idea worth considering^________^


But u gave it 2 me

since that text is striked I suppose he didn't ?

Anyway, that conferm thing looks useful indeed, then my levels won't leak by *a certain iT member* anymore

i got full game i like it