DejFidOFF

Sorry, I was a little busy being both sick and unmotivated, but i'm back to working on it and i believe i've gotten the start parameters working with a good input field, working on fixing the other stuff rn

Murples

I am using this parameters: VintagestoryServer.exe --logPath "c:\\Users\\Skyblock\\AppData\\Roaming\\VintagestoryData\\Logs" --append

But there is more https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Server_startup_parameters/en

DejFidOFF

ohhhhh i see what you mean now, i've never done that- if you give me some run paramaters i can see about adding them to the sidebar or smthn

if everything i've done works right, then the only way for it to close ungracefully should be a fatal crash, the close window button and alt f4 will shut down the server and clear all processes

i'll try to replicate and fix the issues, and see what i can do for run parameters

Murples

Hey o/ At first I am not blaming you or this program.

Overwriting logs is a feature of VintagestoryServer.exe not your manager. That´s why we need to run VintagestoryServer.exe with parameters, because you know, we don´t want to lose logs.

How "gracefully" I can exit the manager? There is not "exit" button. Only option is close the window or ALT+F4.

Yes, that´s what I do the first - give a manager option "run as administrator"

You don´t need to apologize, it´s just a development and good project. That´s why I giving you some feedbeck. 

If it´s not good I will skip that and don´t wasting my time to testing that on real server.

DejFidOFF

first, the manager shouldn't be touchign your logs, i never did anything with them, the manager should not be accessing the logs folder as that is still managed exclusively by the server

second, the only reasons i can think of for that happening are: 1, the manager was exited ungracefully; or 2, you have somthing the changes/removed the message for when a player leaves

third, this is probablky on me, thinking on it i handled the backup thing rather poorly so if you have a bunch of mods then it may mess up

fourth, i may have a vague idea of what could cause that? but it's unlikely, i will check

fifth, maybe try running as an administrator? could perhaps be a permissions error

i'm sorry for all the issues, this is by far my biggest project ever and only my second time dabbling in c#, as well as my first time ever making an app, so i'm super inexperienced, w/o more info there's not a whole lot i can do, if you could maybe provide a video or a great many screen shots then that could potentially be helpful, but otherwise i'm not sure if i'll be able to fix something i can't even replicate

Murples

It´s working, but not with paramaters. It means the server overwrites log files every restart - bad !

If it working fine it did not discard player from "players online column" when player disconected.

Makes 2 backups, when restarting and maybe when starting. First is not done and corrupted.

c:\Users\DejFidOFF\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Backups\TSS_map_119_v2-2024-08-21_04-00-11.vcdbs
c:\Users\DejFidOFF\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Backups\TSS_map_119_v2-2024-08-21_04-03-08.vcdbs

And now trying the stop button - not working after server restart.

Program did not hold settings. After close window and run again it reser "saving" "backup" player counts.

For me it´s useless at this point especially if I can not run the server with parameters to avoiding daily overwriting log files.

DejFidOFF

Have you tried setting the paths manually through the path settings section in the manager? 

Also, your VS paths config file should look something like this

Murples

It reject to run server and says there is no path when I try to put to config this 

C:\Users\Skyblock\AppData\Roaming\Vintagestory\VintagestoryServer.exe --logPath "c:\\Users\\Skyblock\\AppData\\Roaming\\VintagestoryData\\Logs" --append

And It still show players online even they are a long time disconected

And rendering is still slow and not in real time.

Servers settings / Players statistics reset aftor close program

DejFidOFF

does it give you any errors you can give me?

Murples

I try to fill this up in config, it did not working.

DejFidOFF

from what i can seeeeee there should be no issues ye, and it should be able to run a shortcut for the exe if you wanted it to

Murples

Will it woking with parameters like this ( or can it run a file shortcut )?

C:\Users\Skyblock\AppData\Roaming\Vintagestory\VintagestoryServer.exe --logPath "c:\\Users\\Skyblock\\AppData\\Roaming\\VintagestoryData\\Logs" --append

LeuxSeveN

i could try? but it would be rather difficult considering that this is an external tool that just grabs the server's console instead of actually combining with it or something

and yes, it already displays current players, but i have finished some updates that will be uploaded within a day or two once i finish testing everything that basically overhauls it

just to be sure, when you install the manager make sure you point it to the folder with your vintagestoryserver executable 

and finally, vintage story shouldn't detect my tool as a mod at all? it never has in any of my testing, could you show me what you mean? but yes i will add one if it is causing problems

Murples

Hi,

What i mean with loading bar is:

When the Server is starting up, the entire boot process can take VERY long whey you have a lot of mods installt on it (like one of mine takes 18min to start)

and we know hard points (lines in the start up log) that definitly happen when the Server boots.

It would be nice to have a progression bar even if rudimentary that gives you a estimation where the Server currently stands in its start up procedure.

So far I havn't used your Program to start my server, because I have a custome savepath for the differnet VS Servers I'm running, so I did not see if it displays current Players/count ^^"

(I got a rather strong Private Server that can handle like 10 VS Games á 32 Players at once, lots of cores, massive Server RAM, multiple nvme's(superfastHardDrive))

Additionaly:

could you add a modinfo file? (VS wines about your tool not having one)

basicly just;
{
"type": "content",
"modid": "MurplesManager",
"name": "MurplesManager",
"authors": ["Murples"],
"description": "ServerStartTool",
"version": "1.0.0",
"RequiredOnClient": false,
"RequiredOnServer": true,
"dependencies": {
"game": "1.19.8"
}
}

thank you for your time ^^

LeuxSeveN

hii, i've been working on some things and only just saw your comment!!

the custom paths i haveeee been trying to work on...! although i don't remember doing anything with the world save or servermagicnumbers files?

could you explain what you mean by a loading bar?

i added usage of my announce for restart announcements tbh, but ye i probably should make it does it on its own!

you should already be able to see what players are online? unless i'm misunderstanding what you mean by this

i will try to add a count of total player connected!

and finally i coulddddd attempt to make it keep track of total unique connections in a period! it might be a bit difficult to add it to the existing menu tho... but i've been meaning to make a sidebar anyway tbh, mostly for editing custom paths but a bunch of these would be right at home in it too

thanks for the feedback!!! i'm very happy to see it bc it's difficult for me to know what i need to work on w/o it! i'll def try to add most of not all of this!

Hi Murples,

I would like to sugest 3+4 things:

1: a custom "path to Save File"

2: a custom "path to Server Config & ServerMagicNumbers Files"

3: a loading bar (just aproximations would be enought)

nice would be

4: a Auto anouncement for the autoServerRestart, I would sugest 3 instances with different times till restart choosable.

if Posible

5: if Posible a display how many players are online ATM

6: if Posible how many total Players are on the Server (each User counts as one, multiple connects don't count)

7: if Posible how many Players have connected in the last week or two (each User counts as one, multiple connects don't count)

greatings ^^

DejFidOFF

oooooo that's a good suggestion!!! i'll look into how i can make and implement it!

Murples

Never mind. It is first release and sometimes bug happens. I hope it will works fine.

Option "backup world on restart" will be great with custom path to save file.

DejFidOFF

it should work now, i tested it a good bit and it seems to be working fine now from what i can tell-

can't belive i didn't think to try a custom install before uploading it

DejFidOFF

Sorry!!! I didn't even think to check if the path selection thingy worked properly, i'll get on that now!!!!

After all bugs will be resolved and all will work properly, this will be a great server launcher !

I choice the right path at the first time its start running and in few moments shut down. After that still same.. path not found, even in config is right path to Vs folder.

Error: VintageStoryPaths is not initialized.
Error: VintageStoryPaths is not initialized.