Map rotation file generator

[henesy]

Not sure if this is useful to anyone else or if a better option exists, but I use this to generate my map rotation server files from all maps in a directory: https://git.sr.ht/~henesy/et-utils/tree

[TomekKromek]

Cool that you shared this and showed how something can be automated. Could you also explain how to run it and how it works? Not everyone is a programmer, and maybe someone might want to use it.

 

There's a bit of a problem with the script, though. It doesn't account for the fact that pk3 package names don't match the .bsp names, so the script won't work. Sometimes a pk3 can have more than one map, or none at all, because someone could’ve thrown in a random pk3 that just changes character looks. If you uploaded that to the server, it could crash. It’d be great if you could add a check in each file to see what bsp files are inside.

 

unzip -l etdo_f2.pk3 | grep .bsp | cut -d'/' -f2

OUTPUT:
etdo1.bsp
etdo2.bsp
etdo3.bsp
etdo4.bsp
etdo5.bsp
etdo6.bsp
etdotj.bsp

 

[henesy]

Thanks! This is super helpful.

 

I did not know about the '.bsp' file distinction, probably explains my server instability problems

 

I *think* the latest commit should follow your advice, the example command was very helpful: https://git.sr.ht/~henesy/et-utils/commit/f66cd30f4526e9f6c20677a57aee3f3ffbe28611

 

README also present now for ease of reference with examples: https://git.sr.ht/~henesy/et-utils

[phir0x]

Nice one  

I use a python script for the same, saves a lot of time editing manually.

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import os
import zipfile

pk3_dir = r"C:\Users\Phirox\Downloads\pk3"
pk3_files = [f for f in os.listdir(pk3_dir) if f.endswith(".pk3")]

#get .bsp name from a pk3 file
def get_bsp_name(pk3_file):
    with zipfile.ZipFile(pk3_file, 'r') as zip_ref:
        bsp_files = [f for f in zip_ref.namelist() if f.endswith(".bsp")]
        if bsp_files:
            # Return the first .bsp file found
            return os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(bsp_files[0]))[0]
        return None

config_lines = []
for i, pk3_file in enumerate(pk3_files, 1):
    pk3_path = os.path.join(pk3_dir, pk3_file)
    bsp_name = get_bsp_name(pk3_path)
    
    if bsp_name:
        next_map = f"d{i+1}" if i < len(pk3_files) else "d1"
        config_lines.append(f'set d{i} "set g_gametype 6 ; map {bsp_name}; set nextmap vstr {next_map}"')
    else:
        print(f"Warning: No .bsp file found in {pk3_file}")

config_lines.append("vstr d1")

with open("map_rotation.cfg", "w") as f:
    f.write("\n".join(config_lines))

print("Config file generated: map_rotation.cfg")

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for example see screens
 

 

 

Edited October 2 by phir0x
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[henesy]

Ah excellent! 

 

Looks like we do more or less the same thing!

 

One thing I haven't looked at, but would like to is if there are any other rotations than mapvote and plain ol' ordinal rotation that I should account for. I haven't used any others, I only really play mapvote on my own servers.  

[phir0x]

I don't think that will be used much. But if I understand you correctly you mean this right ? 

This was a simple adjustment though.

The prompt:

print("Select the gametype:") print("2 = Objective, 3 = Stopwatch, 4 = Campaign, 5 = LMS, 6 = Mapvote") gametype = input("Enter the gametype number (e.g., 6 for Mapvote): ")

The validation:
if gametype not in ['2', '3', '4', '5', '6']: print("Invalid gametype selected. Defaulting to '6 = Mapvote'.") gametype = '6'

Config generation:
config_lines.append(f'set d{i} "set g_gametype {gametype} ; map {bsp_name}; set nextmap vstr {next_map}"')
 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 3 by phir0x
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