Might develop a patch for the Barb compass range Options

[ScrapyardBob]

This goes back to my work from Oct 2004 on the compass range issue in the initial release of CoD:UO:

http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/index.php?showtopic=10222

The default value for CoD:UO still seems to be 1024 units for the compass range. You can check this in-game by opening the console and typing ([TAB] means to hit the tab key):

/cg_hud[TAB]

You'll notice that cg_hudCompassMaxRange indicates the radius of your compass. It's read-only so you can only change it by applying server-side mods.

One of the fun things is that if the gametype or map that you're playing does not specifically set the compass_range variable in its GSC files, it will inherit it from the previously played map. This is why some of us noticed that sometimes Ponyri had a good compass while other times the compass was messed up. (It all depended on what map we played previously.)

More in a bit...

[ScrapyardBob]

Notes on gamestate:

http://www.after-hourz.com/forum/index.php...ter&f=24&t=6201

Posted by: gitman May 25 2005, 08:36 PM ok here's the testing ive done:

using dawnville as the map, tdm as the gametype, windows server (dedicated = 2)

notice i have "zzz_ahz_vehicle_pack1_beta2.pk3" being loaded. i renamed this file to "zahzvp.pk3" (a reduction of 21 characters) and gamestate dropped by 42 bytes. i then renamed that same file to "z.pk3" (5 chars less) and gamestate dropped by another 10 bytes.

so with this particular pak file, each character added to the name of the file adds 2 bytes to the gamestate. so maybe having a filename like "zzz_ahz_vehicle_pack1_beta2.pk3" and "user_pub_conquest_uo_svr_v3.0.b2.pk3" isn't such a good idea?

an empty pak file named z.pk3 adds 0 bytes. that same pk3 with a directory in it (name doesn't matter) adds 13 bytes, even if the directory is empty. i then renamed this file to zz.pk3 and that added 1 more byte, same thing with zzz.pk3.

then i renamed it back to z.pk3 and created a "gfx" folder and stuck a bunch of dds files in there. i found that depending on the amount of files that are in the pk3, it will fluctuate between 12-14 bytes.

so maybe saying custom maps doesn't affect gamestate is wrong?

Also:

http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/index.php?s...ndpost&p=113742