sv_downloadurl tutorial questions and suggestions

[kong]

SRCDS download list, Im not sure what this is?

[Drocona]

It's an internal list running inside the SRCDS process that lists all the files that ought to be downloaded.
Normally most plugins these days automate that, however if the paths are specified wrong in these plugins cfg's for example they will be added to the list with wrong paths and will fail to download.

It's far fetched but it COULD be a problem.

[CapsAdmin]

Is it possible to bzip a bunch of sounds isntead of compressing one sound at the the time?

It would be amazing if that is possible.

Edit:

Nevermind, I just read page 3. It's not possible

Edit:

Wait, not ALL hope is lost, what if I edit the bsp and include the sounds in there?

I usually host with the same map anyway. (garrysmod)

[helio]

i have a bzipper that compresses anything you want at the same time

[CapsAdmin]

I meant bundling all the sounds into one bzip2 file.

[css]

CapsAdmin Wrote:Wait, not ALL hope is lost, what if I edit the bsp and include the sounds in there?

I usually host with the same map anyway. (garrysmod)

That is possible if you can get the sounds included. I believe it's possible by doing separate "resource" file and then following instructions how to combine it (the resource) with the .bsp file.

It is not possible to combine multiple files inside one .bz2 file. Bzip is for files like what MP3 is for music

[mikec789]

I've set everything up for sv_downloadurl, i am using godaddy as hosting i try to navigate to http://www.mydomain.com/garrysmod and it always gives me a 403 forbidden I've tried giving the folder all permissions but it still doesn't work does anybody know how to fix this?

Thanks

[CapsAdmin]

css Wrote:

CapsAdmin Wrote:Wait, not ALL hope is lost, what if I edit the bsp and include the sounds in there?

I usually host with the same map anyway. (garrysmod)

That is possible if you can get the sounds included. I believe it's possible by doing separate "resource" file and then following instructions how to combine it (the resource) with the .bsp file.

I've been googling for hours, how exactly does this work?

[Derek]

Nice article, helps out alot of people.

[css]

CapsAdmin Wrote:

css Wrote:

CapsAdmin Wrote:Wait, not ALL hope is lost, what if I edit the bsp and include the sounds in there?

I usually host with the same map anyway. (garrysmod)

That is possible if you can get the sounds included. I believe it's possible by doing separate "resource" file and then following instructions how to combine it (the resource) with the .bsp file.

I've been googling for hours, how exactly does this work?

Here are some general instructions: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Bspzip

My instructions:

Create new text file and write in the file something like:

Code:

sounds/gm_somemap/sound1.wav
C:/program files/steam/steamapps/username/garrysmod/gmod/sound/gm_somemap/sound1.wav
sounds/gm_somemap/sound2.wav
C:/program files/steam/steamapps/username/garrysmod/gmod/sound/gm_somemap/sound2.wav

So you can see there's exactly like in the Valve's instructions:

Quote:

Code:

The 'file list' is a .txt file containing this pattern:
internal_path\file1
external_path\file1
internal_path\file2
external_path\file2
...

The first line is the internal name (which is relative to the mod directory), and the second line is the actual file on your computer.

Then you run bspzip command as in the Valve's instructions:

Code:

bspzip -addlist <input bsp> <file list> <output bsp>

So for you it becomes something like:

Code:

bspzip -addlist gm_somemap.bsp mysoundfiles.txt gm_somemap_sounds-included.bsp

I strongly recommend that you read the page at http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Bspzip thoroughly. It contains all answers you need. If you can't find answer from that page you can find instructions somewhere else with google keywords "bspzip" and something else.

PS. Could some mod split these posts (mine and CapsAdmin's) to separate thread. Thanks. Title for example "Combine external files to .bsp file".

[kong]

Drocona Wrote:Please verify that the sounds are named correctly, are in the correct directory and are added to the SRCDS download list correctly.

Doh, I thought all was well but you were right. The files on the hosting site started with lowercase letters. ooops

Working now :-)

[Pikku Sev]

What's best FREE site to use? Some that has pretty much space and is fast? Oh and works on css
Tell me your opinions.

[dinners]

Hi,
I'm hosting a Garry's Mod server and I wanted to use sv_downloadurl. I have it set up on the CS:S and TF2 servers I use.
The question I have is can anyone tell me which folders I should upload? As it doesn't seem clear to me which files would be custom and clients would need to download.

[realchamp]

Well when you connect to your own server, you can see which folders the files are downloaded from.

Then just upload them


The maps folder is mandatory.

[realchamp]

Type this into your client console(game console)

Code:

cl_downloadfilter all