Chaotic Dreams

Hi I'm a first time poster, but a long time fan of chaos, been playing since the Quake2 version. I'm having some trouble getting my dedicated linux sever to work correctly with chaos.

I patched it up to 3204 before doing anything else. I then copied the CUT files to the proper locations. Following the advice on the forums here I've added all the correct paths and server packages to my ut2004.ini file.

The game types show up on the server admin, and if I select a chaos gametype the chaos ammo shows up in game. But the mutator doesn't show up in the lists on web admin, and none of the chaos configuration stuff shows up under the server defaults sections. Also no chaos weapons spawn in game aside from starting with the cpp and a melee weapon.

I've followed all the great advice seen on the forums here and I'm at a loss as to what is going on. I had everything working for a little while and I'm not sure what changed but now I'm stuck.

I love chaos and can't wait to get my server functioning with it again. Any help is appreciated.

Did you add the server packages to the server's ini file?

Thanks for the reply. In my ut2004.ini I added :

[Core.System]
CacheRecordPath=../ChaosUT2/System/*.ucl
Paths=../ChaosUT2/Animations/*.ukx
Paths=../ChaosUT2/Maps/*.ut2
Paths=../ChaosUT2/Sounds/*.uax
Paths=../ChaosUT2/StaticMeshes/*.usx
Paths=../ChaosUT2/System/*.u
Paths=../ChaosUT2/Textures/*.utx
Paths=../ChaosUT2/Players/*.upl

[Engine.GameEngine]
ServerPackages=ChaosUT
ServerPackages=ChaosGames

(I cut and paste these directly out of the file)
I have also made sure to copy the ChaosUT2.ucl to the main System directory. And just for grins I tried using the ChaosUT2.ini file provided in the zip that has all the paths and such already set up.

All this I'd done before I posted to the forums here looking for help. I have no idea what could be wrong, from what I've read all that should be correct.

Here is my command line if that helps:

./ucc-bin server BR-Serenity?game=XGame.xBombingRun?AdminName=xxx?AdminPassword=xxx ini=ut2004.ini

Thanks

This going to sound silly.. however:

Switch the order of the server packages. ChaosGames *should* be loaded first.

Alrighty, i gave that a shot. Still no joy

Two things come to mind:

1. try adding -nohomedir to your commandline

2. check your ini file for spaces at the end of the lines - happens quite often when copying&pasting stuff into the files and UT doesn't like those at all

Thanks for th tips, I'll look into that and see what I can find and post my results in a bit.

I completely deleted the .ini and let it recreate the default, I then added the lines for chaos by hand to make sure there were no odd spaces or anything.

I tried adding the -nohomedir option as well.

The only improvement I've seen is that now at least the mutator shows up in the list of mutators from webadmin. I can get chaos weapons to spawn as long as I select the mutator to run. I still don't get any of the chaos config menus in webadmin though. So it seems to be running as a mutator, but I can't configure it (such as wether or not regular weapons cycle too)