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13 hours ago, Guppycur said:
Hm, I test on a 2080 and didn't see those drops... That being said, once I made the changes I tested on a laptop with I think a 980m and it was fine. Pretty sure it was a combination of the particles I lowered and the particle blocks I removed. I had forgotten My first iteration had cactuses turn into sandstorms to simulate them, I had forgotten about that when I made the sandstorm entities, so you were dealing with both. 🙂
It seems better now in terms of performance for the sandstorms.
I see lots of those stills spawning and what seems to be like large air intake filters in the desert giving off trails of smoke, that snake hissing sound is still there as well.
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3 hours ago, Guppycur said:
...fixed, thanks for letting me know!
*Fixed - Extinguisher action1 now extinguishes fires
Hey would you mind asking your user with the most potato of a computer to test the desert mod again, and manually spawn in a sandstorm?
I will ask them if they can do that, they aren't the most computer literate.
Just FYI it also affected my PC with a 12700k and 3080, in the desert I usually get around 90 - 100fps at 3440x1440p with ultra settings. In some storms that only dropped down to 80 fps but there was almost a persistent sandstorm around a certain trader that dropped me down to 15 fps.
I will try it again soon and let you know.
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12 hours ago, Guppycur said:
Removing it would be bad, but editing the entitygroups to remove the sandstorms (gupSandStorm) is going to be your best bet.
If you take blocks and items out of a live game you're asking for trouble, but preventing an entity (sandstorms are entities) from spawning again is fine.
Dust devils should only be heard from 15 blocks away but I'll check again next time I'm on the laptop.
I tried both removing the entities and setting their value to 0, the storms still persisted even over some time.
The loud noise might be from the sandstorm.
There is a snake hissing sound heard every ~20 feet or so when you walk in the desert with the mod installed.
I had to remove the mod, I told all players to drop / destroy all mod-related items and move out of the desert, did desert biome chunk resets. Seems to have worked. Made backups of course.
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For MAGA, do you foresee any issues removing it from a server with play in progress, as in, issues with the save. I am asking as players are mentioning large performance drops with the sandstorms and the dust devils suddenly becoming very loud. These aren't things we can turn off on our end are they, I didn't see any config options in the mod.
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For a Better life is that supposed to dynamically spawn the fish in bodies of water in existing areas we have been before, only new unexplored areas or does it require a new world gen?
Update: I see various aquatic creatures now spawning in rivers and lakes.
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Thanks very much for both of your help stallionsden & zztong, I woud have been "poking about" and experimenting a lot longer trying to weed out what properties actually still do something, much appreciated!
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5 minutes ago, stallionsden said:
All of those don't work except Tags.
Just add wilderness to the tag and it will spawn in wilderness
Really, wow, and most of those properties apart from the allowedbiomes I got from the a21 base game poi xml's.
Thanks for the quick reply, I will start with the tag property and do some experimenting.
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Where can one find a list of possible values for each property?
I have found interesting properties in the poi xml of both base game and third part poi's I am willing to explore but it's very inconsistent.
For example there is:
<property name="Zoning" value="" />
<property name="AllowedTownships" value="" />
<property name="EditorGroups" value="" />
<property name="Tags" value="" />
<property name="AllowedBiomes" value="" />
My issue is for example if one wants a wilderness poi, so far I have examples where some people have wilderness in the "tags" section, others under "zoning", some in "allowedtownships". It just seems very inconsistent and I also cannot find a source of all possible values for each header. Makes learning how to do things properly difficult. Is there an official source of material I am just not finding?
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8 hours ago, zztong said:
If you're willing to edit a POI's XML file, you can tag it for wilderness and remove any other district tags.
Like Stallion says, you can't force a biome without C# code.
Thanks for the tip, I will look into how that is done, would get me at least one step further, 2 out of 3 isn't too bad.
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1 hour ago, stallionsden said:
Biome placement doesnt work in vanilla.
editing the dll would be needed.That's a shame, sure would be a great feature, thanks for the response.
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I am trying to better place custom and third party mod prefabs in their appropriate biomes and zones.
I was able to find out how to control the number of spawns of certain biomes but I have not found examples of how to control location or biome placent.
For example in my rwgmixer.xml I have the following:
<append xpath="/rwgmixer"><prefab_spawn_adjust partial_name="Svalbard_Seed_Vault" min_count="1" max_count="1" bias="10"/>
</append>
Does anyone know how I would for example force that as a wilderness only spawn and also only in the snow biome?
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On 6/29/2023 at 8:54 AM, Scyris said:
The bicycle droped from 10 m/s to 9m/s. I have both a20.7 and a21 b323 installed in diff folders so comparing the xml's yeah the bicycle was nerfed. Both in speed and torque from a20.7's version
This is a21 b323 area involving max speed.
<property name="motorTorque" value="500, 180"/>
<property name="turboScale" value="1.5, 1"/>
<property name="velocityMax" value="6, 4"/>I assume the numbers on left are when turbo is being pressed, while right is when they aren't being pressed. Actual max velocity is velocity max of 6 times the turbo scale in this case 1.5, so this makes it 9 m/s which is inline with what the speed in game says.
This is A20.7
<property name="velocityMax" value="5, 10"/>
I assume here the lower number is non-turbo, while the higher number is when turbo is active. There is also no turboscale in a20.7, Also this is the torque in a20.7
<property name="motorTorqueMinQ" value="1000"/>
<property name="motorTorqueMaxQ" value="1000"/>I really do not understand the change in this xml, especially when the turbo scale and velocity max for other vehicles seem to almost match their a20.7 versions, other than the torque, the torque is lower on everything across the board in a21 b323. Seems like it was made over complacated for no real reason that I know of yet.
No need to assume, top of xml has notes as to values, states: "motorTorque, velocityMax, turboScale are forward, backward, turboScale effects motorTorque and velocityMax".
Using your values given:
<property name="velocityMax" value="6, 4"/>
Vehicle forward speed is 6, vehicle reverse speed is 4
<property name="turboScale" value="1.5, 1"/>
Vehicle forward speed with turbo is 6x1.5=9, vehicle reverse speed with turbo is 4x1=4.
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35 minutes ago, P3rf3ctVZer0 said:
Yeah that is basically what I was trying to figure out. Example War3zuk AIO or Darkness falls Just large packs
Map size and quantity of players and their play style ie base building etc all influence ram usage.
I ran a Darkness Falls and Rebirth servers with a bunch of extra mods on top, 8k map size, we were at 10GB ram usage, sometimes it crept towards 12gb.
Try the 12GB and go from there, never heard of a hosting company that doesn't let you adjust and they often do so quickly, especially when it's increasing the service which means they get more money.
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See if the following helps in any way:
<property name="ServerDisabledNetworkProtocols" value="SteamNetworking"/>
Worse case roll back to 20.3 for now so you can play, we are on 20.3 and enjoying it, 20.4 is a mess.
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Instead of going through a bunch of attempted fixes due to a lot of people having ongoing issues with a20.4 just ask your friend for the ip address and port number and use direct connect for now.
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On 5/5/2021 at 11:22 PM, Boidster said:
I suppose you could just put the whole thing in a loop. I'm keeping in this in batch language just cause that's the sample I started from, but really PowerShell would be better. The below script worked for me; only thing I changed were the paths in the 'start' command. Each time the server needs to be started you will get a new Cmd window opened.
@echo off :loopstart tasklist | findstr -i 7DaysToDieServer.exe if %errorlevel% EQU 0 goto running echo 7D2D Server is not running, starting it... start "7 Days To Die Server" /d "d:\7 Days to Die Dedicated Server" "d:\7 Days to Die Dedicated Server\startdedicated.bat" REM give it time to get started timeout 120 goto delay :running echo 7D2D Server is already running... :delay REM this is the wait between each check timeout /t 15 /nobreak goto loopstart :end
This worked great for me, along with servertools (to handle the shutdown and many more features) I have an automated shutdown and restart system for our 7d2d dedicated server on windows (in general, not just for crash scenarios).
I just changed the timeout to be longer, 60sec instead of 15, matter of preference is all.
To avoid the extra cmd window for each server restart just edit the original startdedicated.bat that this batch script calls and change "pause" on line 83 to "exit".
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Yup, I agree with the above, I hate the new system which is why I version froze my server to a20.3 for now.
It's like inventing a square wheel, why, the round one already worked much better, lol......
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Yeah, when I updated to a20.4 my server could not be found either, even with those two new parameters, previous to that it was rock solid under a20.3, I just switched back to 20.3 for now, will wait for the next more stable release.
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I have the same issue, since a20.4 I cannot find my server, what really get's me is I can see it from my a20.3 client but not my a20.4 client.
serverconfig.xml has the region and language settings, it is also not showing up on my lan despite being on port 26900.
Didn't have these problems with a20.3.
Only direct connect works.
The old server browser was quick and easy and worked, the new one is buggy and requires filters set just to see something, why....
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There are two new entries required in the xml as mentioned in the changelog, region and language.
If that fails, which it did for me (server still not showing up) then you can connect via direct connect, then save server to favorites and it should show up in the list thereafter.
Definitely not a fan of the new server browser, it's bugged in more ways than one and takes longer to find servers....
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I too would rather it stays as it is, I have like 5 or 6 different 7D2D copies each with it's own different mod setup for various testing purposes, so much cleaner and easier to keep track of as it is now.
I despise games keeping files in %appdata%, then you have to look whether its local, locallow, roaming, then you have to see if it's under the game name or the company name.
Would like to know the actual reason for this change, or, at least keep the option to load from the /mods folder as it is now a permanent one, sure can't hurt anything.
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On 2/26/2022 at 7:20 PM, ElDudorino said:
I've seen a few people bring up the black-and-white color scheme of this mod (technically of SMX) and ask how to change it. I found it hard on my eyes and it was really hard to see certain items in my inventory, such as the screwdriver and sunglasses.
For anybody who wants to change this, you can go into Mods\SMXlib\Config\XUI_Common\styles.xml and the file is chock full of comments to help you figure out how to customize the look. Here are a few lines I changed:
<style_entry name="smxlib_element_background" value="7,7,7,195" /> <style_entry name="smxlib_element_backdrop_1" value="32,32,32,195" /> <style_entry name="smxlib_element_backdrop_2" value="64,64,64,195" /> <style_entry name="smxlib_element_separation_1" value="255,255,255,195" /> <style_entry name="smxlib_element_separation_2" value="128,128,128,195" />
Here I kept the RGB values the same but added a 4th number (alpha value) to make the black background semi-transparent, so you can see through it.
<style_entry name="smxlib_slot_main_background" value="170,170,170,160" /> <style_entry name="smxlib_slot_slot_background" value="170,170,170,160" /> <style_entry name="smxlib_slot_item_background" value="170,170,170,160" />
Here I changed the item backgrounds to a semi-transparent gray.
You can see the result below. Maybe you'll hate it and the point of this post isn't to say that this look is "better" but basically to tell you that if you want to change the colors in the UI, it's pretty doable.
Nice tip, thanks, how did you alter the rows and columns and their size for your main backpack inventory, I would like to do the same as I use an ultrawide and could get away with viewing more without having to scroll so much, I started to look through the xml's but there are, lets say, just a few.
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A temporary solution to at least get the 7D2D server working was to install the steam client, in this manner I can still use SteamCMD to install and update the server.
The client just needs to be started and running, I didn't even log in as you can see here: https://i.imgur.com/3KKbiQi.png
When running, somehow [Steamworks.NET] GameServer.LogOn connects / works immediately.
Still no idea why the 7D2D server won't work without it on our dedicated server, and again, it is the only game with this issue, I have 6 or so others that are fine.
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28 minutes ago, Beelzybub said:
Maybe it's permissions? You shouldn't use a personal (C:\Users\Max\AppData\Roaming/7DaysToDie/Saves) folder for the server saves.
Use this variable in your serverconfig.xml to set a path:
<property name="UserDataFolder" value="absolute path" />
Generally creating a "Saves" folder in your game folder will correct any permissions issue.
If you have a second drive creating a "Saves" folder there will improve disk io performance.
In your case it looks like you do have 2 drives so you could do - C:/7D2DSaves as the absolute path.
Also, check your serveradmin.xml, maybe whitelist is enabled?
If you pm me your ip I'll try to connect and see if I see anything weird in my log.
Hi there, I actually do have those folders configured on what was going to be the main 7D2D server, the "test" server at d:\7d2d_2 which I am messing about with all these tests did not have those path variables set.
I just set those, tried again, same error.
serveradmin.xml is the default generated, no alterations as of yet, no whitelisting.
I am still of the opinion that as long as "ERR [Steamworks.NET] GameServer.LogOn timed out" is still happening that dare I say one need not even try and connect, it's a guaranteed fail. Have to solve that and then I believe clients will be able to connect and authenticate successfully.
I do appreciate all the help though.
Will have to head off to bed, nearly 01:00am here.
I might try the experimental / test branch tomorrow, see if that changes anything.
Not quite understanding what is difference between the steam client installed version under tools and the steamcmd one.
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Guppy Mods - A21
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Posted · Edited by Reytag (see edit history)
I just tested a new RWG 2k desert only, no stills or intakes to be seen.
My Theory, I had previously tested a RWG, the same save both with your previous and new mod versions. Since you changed the sandstorm generator from block to entity type the log was full of replacement warnings, I think it was replacing those sandstorm blocks with the intake producing smoke block that I mentioned. That and the stills that were originally there from the previous mod version were introduced back again (same save). I could be wrong, just doing some quick logical deducting there.
In the new RWG none appear, stills nor intakes.
The hissing noise is apparent in the new rwg save as well, when you run forwards you hear it every 2-3 seconds, regardles of direction you run, with or without a storm happening.