Autorserver macros & tracks

[S_Racer]

Hi, i want to make an autoserver that will pick tracks automatically in a very precise sequence.

To give you a global overview, i got 5 sub-folders in my /tracks folder : Racing, Fun, Punaball, Battle and X-Bumpz.

I would like to make a macro that will do the following :

- Select randomly 1 track in the Racing folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Fun folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Racing folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Punaball folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Racing folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Battle folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Racing folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Fun folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the Racing folder
- Select randomly 1 track in the X-Bumpz folder
etc....

Until now i only found the "/tracks addrnd #" command but it takes tracks from the main /tracks folder and i cannot find how to instruct it to look into the sub-folders. And i cannot simply drop every track in the main folder because i need to balance the cup like stated above (1 racing and 1 other type alternately).

Any idea ?

Thx !

[dede]

There is no simple way of doing that, since the /tracks /addrnd command works only on main folder. The simplest way to do it, in my opinion, is to make a server-side script, but of course you need programming skills to achieve that.

[S_Racer]

thx for quick reply dede !

Actually i am a programmer . How do the server scripts work ? where can i find a place to start looking into this ?

Thx !

[Tijny]

thx for quick reply dede !

Actually i am a programmer . How do the server scripts work ? where can i find a place to start looking into this ?

Thx !

It's briefly documented in doc/README-autoserver.txt. I actually made something just like it for the LVP servers, here's a quick example for you (I used PHP, but it can be any language that can be run from the command line):

sliders.ini:

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ScriptsOn 1
CustomCmd php ./custom.php

custom.php:

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<?php
/*
 * Assumed usage: /cmd track <folder>
 * Read input from input.prm. When you execute "/cmd track Racing", it will contain "track Racing"
 * Check if the command equals "track" and get the desired folder
 * (Optional: make an additional parameter for the number of tracks to be selected)
 * Get all files matching with *.trk in the desired folder and randomly select one or more
 * Write the track selection commands to custom.src.
 */
?>

example custom.src after execution (the quotes are important!):

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/tracks /add "banaring"
/tracks /add "luxuryng"

Now you can use things like /cmd track Racing in macros.ini. Hope I helped.