helpmsg

im fine u? · Post by **im fine u?** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:12 am

Could anyone tell me the format for a help message? Thanks.

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:13 am

as in the ingame /help command?

im fine u? · Post by **im fine u?** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:15 am

yes. I want to know how to make one.

optic delusion · Post by **optic delusion** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:47 am

first you make a text file, then specify it's path inside your conf.
the file must be in plain text, not richtext or whatever..
here's how it looks in mine....

-helpmsg /users/bearded/bzfiles/help/topic.txt topic

the last word there is the word the player types
so player types.. /help topic
he sees the helpfile I have specified

Not sure why, but my mac server does not like it if I use more than nine files, I have seen a windows server with 25.

Spazzy McGee · Post by **Spazzy McGee** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:02 pm

A-Delusion wrote:My mac server does not like it if I use more than nine files,

why would you need more than 9?

optic delusion · Post by **optic delusion** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:15 pm

I have helpmsgs for all the plugins.
http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=6317

im fine u? · Post by **im fine u?** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:21 pm

I keep trying to run my server with a help message but this keeps coming up:

Spazzy McGee · Post by **Spazzy McGee** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:25 pm

iget this when i don't put the <name> in "-helpmsg path/to/thingy <name>"

are you sure you have put the name in there?

im fine u? · Post by **im fine u?** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:27 pm

i did it this way: -helpmsg admin.txt admin

optic delusion · Post by **optic delusion** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:50 pm

Takes the quotes out of the message.

And hopefully, thats in the right format.