UT2003 - Redirection

[Azazel]

Tutorial follow up

[Niemand]

Compressing a file is covered. How about including ucc decompress to decompress a file in the tutorial.

Such as:

ucc decompress c:\temp\CTF-13.ut2.uz2

[serrano]

if you set up redirection with compression, it will not work properly unless you have the compressed maps locally! I've experienced this problem multiple times. under linux, when you compress a map or anything, the packed thing will be under $HOME/.ut2003/[somedir] so you can check.

[EL_INCA247]

so the compressed map needs to be in the same location as the Ucc.exe?

[serrano]

no, sorry for misunderstanding. so the key points (on a linux machine, some restrictions may not apply to windows servers) are:
go into the System subdir, there execute:
./ucc-bin compress "../Maps/DM-Mylevel.ut2"
this will compress the file into ~/.UT2003/Maps/DM-Mylevel.ut2.uz2
you've got to have it in this ~/.UT2003/ directory I think, but no probs, ucc-bin puts it right there. this is a hidden dir, be careful. maybe you can put these .ut2.uz2 files into your original Maps directory, but not sure.

[serrano]

I've found another big issue about compressed files (at least on linux, not tested). this one is about case sensitivity. I had some hard hours finding out why my redirection was not working, and the solution was simple: I have mispelled a map name in the map list, I wrote only one letter in lower case instead of upper one. this made the map load correctly on the server, even on clients if they had the map, however, redirection did not work. so be careful and look for this in case you don't know why doesn't it work.

[Tosk]

This may be stupid but....

Which files NEED to be available for the redirected download? I know you need .ut2, .usx, & .utx. But do you really need .ogg, .uax, etc...

[rain]

is it possible to have multiple redirect servers?

[Bry]

No you cant have multiple redirect sites atm with UT2003

Withr espect to compressed files i beleive it is every file bar .ogg

[rain]

thanks.

[UltraMagnus]

No you cant have multiple redirect sites atm with UT2003

Withr espect to compressed files i beleive it is every file bar .ogg

.ogg and any file that is under 10kb (some problems have popped up for me when compressing very small files)

[Airborne]

do not forget the switches eg: http://myredirect.com/maps/

[CowPits]

How do you uncompress files? I can compress them, but to uncompress what's the command? 8O

[CowPits]

Nevermind, figured it out... :sigh: