Starsiege/Patches/1.003

Starsiege Patch to Version 1.003

This patch addresses the following:

• The Mission Editor can now be used for more information on the Mission Editor, see the file Mission_Editor_Readme.html
• 3DFX Voodoo 3 based cards are now fully supported
• Team damage can be turned off on MP servers. Team damage is ON by default (meaning two people on the same team can damage eachother). To turn OFF team damage, you must add the following line of code to the server mission script or your scripts/autoexec.cs file to take effect for all missions:

$server::TeamDamage = false;

For dedicated (console) servers, the server script is in your Starsiege executable directory, and is named "server_*.cs" (e.g. "server_DM_ALL.cs"). For non-dedicated servers you'll have to modify the mission script which is located in the multiplayer directory. In either case, insert the above line at the top of the file to turn off team damage.

• OpenGL is available for cards not specifically supported by Starsiege. If any OpenGL driver is available, Starsiege will attempt to operate in OpenGL mode, with default (meaning non-card specific) OpenGL settings.
• The cheat that allows players to mount artillery guns on conventional vehicles and bring them into multiplayer games has been patched.
• Several different cheats to allow hacked vehicles to enter a server have been patched.
• The "+connect" command line argument to Starsiege now operates correctly. Starsiege can be instructed to automatically connect to a game server by including the +connect command line argument followed by an IP address, and with a port for example the following will start Starsiege and immediately connect to the Oregon game server at 198.74.40.71 port 29001:

Starsiege.exe +connect IP:198.74.40.71:29001

This is especially convenient for those users who wish to attach desktop short cuts to their favorite servers.

• The code to query the secondary and terciary master servers was not functioning properly. If the primary Starsiege master server went offline, Starsiege failed to query the other master servers. This bug has been fixed.
• The allowVehicle(%id, T/F) script command has been modified slightly to prevent/accomodate cheat vehicles. Previously, allowVehicle() only acted on conventional, non-cheat vehicles, so the call:

allowVehicle(all, false);

would not restrict cheat vehicles. Cheaters who gained access to cheat vehicles were able to exploit this bug and join games in cheat vehicles. This routine now acts on ALL vehicles, so the following code:

allowVehicle(all, false);
allowVehicle(30, true);

will allow ONLY Emancipators in the game, whereas before it would allow Emancipators and cheat vehicles.

• To aid in the restriction of cheat vehicles, the file scripts/disallow.cs has been added. disallow.cs is called on the server *after* the mission is setup and after any server scripts are called, so that it has the last word on what vehicles are allowed and not allowed. This makes it easy to globally allow and disallow vehicles over all multiplayer missions, without modifying every multiplayer .cs file individually. By default, disallow.cs disallows all cheat vehicles (and only cheat vehicles).
• Several changes have been made for our localization team. One of these changes is the ability to specify the ascii returned by all key strokes. Squads may find this useful to support the graphics characters many of them have in their names.
• Bug with mines not exploding has been patched.
• Added new scripting function isEqualIP() that allows you to compare an IP address to a IP mask. Useful to ban users. Script examples are available on the website.
• Optimized float to int floting point conversions.
• Did I say MISSION EDITOR !!!