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OpenArena => General => Topic started by: lparcshinoda on July 17, 2008, 06:14:55 AM



Title: general understanding and tweaking
Post by: lparcshinoda on July 17, 2008, 06:14:55 AM
Hi All, just some random question i got playing OA and setting up a server

** I use Windows XP **

1) is there a way to avoid the super-blue-brightness effect that starts with the game ?
2) How can I run the openarena.exe in background (since I'm serving a game)
3) is there a way to terminate (an HOTKEY for example) the openarena.exe I'm using as a server (without using taskman) ?
4) i often receive yellow warning messages of missing sounds or others ... could those messages be avoided (just hiding em) ??

thanks guys, I'm still a q3 / OA noob so just keep doin stupid questions :D




Title: Re: general understanding and tweaking
Post by: Cacatoes on July 17, 2008, 08:58:03 AM
I can't answer you correctly because I'm not sure of everything but meanwhile :

1) That's strange coz I don't see anymore this screen ...
2) use oa_ded.[???].exe :)
3) don't worry to shut it down not properly, you could try to build some kind of shortcut with a kill command if you really care. I'm not sure there is a simple and proper way to close it. (that could be a suggestion of feature in next versions, though)
4) I'm not sure you can hide these messages, why do you mind reading logs ? :] Do they visually bother you while playing ? (I don't have these kind of messages appearing ...). The goal of OA development is to reduce them, so the other solution is to be patient ;)


Title: Re: general understanding and tweaking
Post by: lparcshinoda on July 17, 2008, 09:01:14 AM
thanks, the oa_dedicated solved points 2 and 3
the 4th point .. well I'll be patient but after having known that some bug exist I don't want to see them always !!


Title: Re: general understanding and tweaking
Post by: Cacatoes on July 17, 2008, 09:26:40 AM
It's only because of a map which tries to load some music OA doesn't have, this isn't like it was affecting gameplay ...
Just replace the ressource with one you like ;)
Where do these error appear ? You know, it's just common to log everything, it helps debugging and sometimes helps the player to point out a problem, so if you don't have any problem except these message appearing, that should be fine ...


Title: Re: general understanding and tweaking
Post by: lparcshinoda on July 18, 2008, 05:58:21 AM
I'm using custom maps and models (and bots) so often I receive messages that I don't need to read in yellow and read form, so I wanted to clean the on-game log, that's all ;)


Title: Re: general understanding and tweaking
Post by: lparcshinoda on July 19, 2008, 06:05:24 AM
so, now way to get the warning messages not to appear in-game but only in the console ?