Sunday, November 30, 2008

Create Videos from dem files in Counter Strike with Fraps and WeGame

The .dem files are the demo files which store the data related to the input to the game like, the key presses in the Keyboard, Mouse clicks or Joystick input in the game Counter Strike while playing. When the demo is been played, these inputs are again given to the engine and the output is displayed as the playback in Counter Strike.

It is always better to record demos, before directly making the movies as the direct recording takes more memory usage and may slow down the game and the recording performance. There are three methods of recording a Video. These include the methods by Fraps, Wegame, Video Mach.

Fraps uses the Video output of the screen to directly record it as a video. Wegame also does the same thing. But with Video Mach or any other sotware of such kind, you need to record movie in the Counter Strike. This will give the output as a series of images saved in the cstrike folder. These images should be clubbed and made as a motion picture. For this the Video Mach Software is helpful.

Comming to the clarity of the video output, all are ok. But with Fraps, you need to spend some 2GB of Disk Space just for 5minutes of Video. Wegame is optimal based on the settings. In the third case too, the each image saved will be around 1.5MB. 30 frames per second will give out 50MB per minute.

Movie editing can be done by using the Adobe Premier or by Windows Movie Maker Softwares. Both are equally good. Adobe Premier's latest versions seem to have better features.

With Fraps or Wegame, you just need to install the software. That will start the application automatically on startup. When you start any game, you can see FPS on the top left corner of the game view. This shows the FPS possible. In the case of Fraps, you just need to press F9 to start recording the video and the same key to stop it too. Now the output video will be saved in c:\Fraps folder. You can see the video wih VLC or Mplayer or any other media player. F10 will save a screenshot. WeGame also follows similar procedure to record the videos.

Settings will greatly effect the lag in the game while recording the videos. It is always better to use the same FPS for recording and in the game settings. You can change FPS of the game by giving the command "fps_max 30" in the console of the Counter Strike game. This will change the Frame Rate to 30. Also videos are mostly made with 30 Frames per second itself.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

How to Add Admins and Give Access Flags in AMX Mod X

What is AMX Mod X:



To know what is AMX and for what purpose is it used, you may need to see the other posts of this blog, but very briefly, AMX Mod X is a Server Administration and Game Play Changing Tool for Cs1.6 or any version of CS.



How to install AMX Mod X:



For this, you must go to the other posts, it cannot be briefed.



How to add Admin in AMX Mod X:



In AMX Mod X, you can add number of admins who can control the server with out the necessity of the Rcon password. Let me explain you clearly,



To add an Admin, write a line like the one shown below, in the users.ini file. The location of the users.ini file is ...\cstrike\addons\amxmodx\configs\users.ini.
"Name/IP" "" "abc....(all the flags)" "c/d"

The last part of the line, that is c/d is dependent on what parameter are you giving in the first part of the line. Use c for name and d for IP. See the flags explained in users.ini file to confirm this. The second parameter is for password. This is amx password and can be given in config.cfg. This can be neglected if you give the IP. This is useful if there is another users trying to access the admin privileges by changing his name to the Admins name. So, you need to give some password in the second field. The same password should be set by the Admin whom you are giving the privileges to. This can be done by adding this line in the config.cfg of his CS1.6 like this
setinfo _pw "password"

This line hould be added to either config.cfg or userconfig.cfg. The _pw is the value of amx_password_field. If you are willing to use another variable, you can do that by the command amx_passwors_field "variable". This is also present in amxx.cfg. There is no difference between these two configs. Now that you have added him as the admin, even without Rcon, the user who is granted the Admin privileges can do everything that admin can do.

What are AMXX Flags:


Some times, you may want to give him access to only some commands like, map changes etc. You don't want him to use kick or any other command like that. So, what you should do is to give that flags pertaining to only those which you want him to do. This can be done by seeing the corresponding flags and putting those in the third part of the line. If you give only "j" in the third part of the line, he can just change the map.

Also, he can use only the amx_map command to change the map and cannot use changelevel command. This is because, amx commands can only be accessed like this.

Some Examples:


  • "192.168.1.137" "temp" "j" "d" - This grants the user with that IP to commands that change map only. That too amx_map and not changelevel command. He should use setinfo _pw "temp" to get the access.
  • "Temp" "temp" "j" "c" - The user with the name Temp can get the access if he has correct password set in setinfo _pw.
  • "192.168.1.137" "temp" "j" "de" - There is no password needed, just he will be granted access.
  • "Temp" "*" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstu" "c" - The user Temp is given admin privileges to all the commands of AMX. This is because all the flags are added in the third parameter. And his password set in _pw can be anything.

Now, if you want to give all the users a certain level of access, you can do that by going to the amxx.cfg file of AMX Mod X. You can see that line in the beginning of amxx.cfg saying default access. That means, all the users will be given that access. amx_default_access "j" is the command for it, to use it in the middle of the game.

Also, if you want to give the users access based on a single file or plugin, you can do that. This can be done by seeing the corresponding flags in the file cmdaccess.ini in the same folder as users.ini. In that file, an access flag is given to each of the plugin files. This makes it easier to grant some command access to the users which are in a single plugin.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Download Prince of Persia The Two Thrones Profiles and Save Files

Prince of Persia The Two Thrones is the third game in its series developed by Ubisoft. It a story based game. The Prince of Persia The Two Thrones takes more than a day to complete it normally. You can have a look at the games progress with the profiles completed by other players just by copying their profile and pasting it in your installation.

What To Do:


Here is a package consisting of a profile named Temp and the folder contains saved files more than 50 in number. Just Download it. Extract the files. These saves are named in the game, according to the place. But these files appear as just normal files in the folders. Like Save0.SAV, Sav50.SAV etc... You can see a folder named Temp. Just Copy Paste it in POP3Profiles folder of your POP3 The Two Thrones installation. These files are from a profile played at normal difficulty level. This profiles is not complete too. If you have the completed Profiles you can upload that in a file sharing website like Rapidshare, Megaupload and put the download link here as a comment to this post.

Download POP3 TTT Profiles:


Download Link: POP TTT Profile

The Saved files are named as follows in the game Prince of Persia The Two Thrones, the first is the latest save.
  • The King's Road
  • The Royal Workshop
  • The Canal
  • The City Gardens
  • The Upper City
  • The Plaza
  • The Bowery
  • The Market District
  • The Market Palace
  • The Temple
  • The Temple Roof Tops
  • The Balconies
  • The Arena Tunnel
  • The Arena
  • The Lower City
  • The Tunnels
  • The Ruined Palace
  • The Trapped Hallway
  • The Throne Room
  • The Palace
  • The Palaca Balcony
  • The Fortress
  • The Royal Chambers
  • The Ruined Palace

About the Profile:

Firstly, the Profile is for the game Prince of Persia The Two Thrones (POP 3 TTT). The profile has saves up to the state where the prince rides the Horse Cart for the second time. That is just after the escape from the Burning Building. There is a Save just after the Burning Building. Here the Horse Cart ride starts. You need to complete the Horse Cart ride, then you will face two enemies. One with an Axe Kind of Weapon and the Other with a Sword. You will just have the Dagger.

Comming to the Life, Combos, Powers, Attacks and Sand Tanks. You have all the six Sand Tanks Available, Activated and Filled. The Life bonus is gained twice. More than 200 Sand Credits. The Eye of Storm, Slow Down Time, power is available. It can be used by Tapping "R" key in the keyboard. The Block+R gives attack in all directions. This can be used when you are surrounded by many enemies. Almost all the Sand Gates are closed and may be some are left. So, some of the powers may be missing in this profile given here.

Some of the save files may be missing, but the stating and the state described are the two extremes present in this package of save under the profile Temp. The Profiles.DAT file is also included in this package. The actual name of the profile was DMSS. So, check it out in case if any problem is created.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Download Fully Completed Profile of Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare

Call of Duty is a most massively played multi player game in the Internet. It has both single player and multi player profiles saved separately. Here is the package of the save files of one of the Single Player Profiles.

The Profiles contains different stages where the game has been saved, with more than 20 files. These file names itself describe the state of the game and you can follow that state.

Download COD4 MW:


Download Link: COD4_Profile

What to Do:


Once you finish downloading the file given above, extract the files. The files are of .svg format. These files should be put in the Save folder of COD4MW\Profiles\Name\Save\. This will add these saves to the current active profile which you are using. These saved files in that folder can be loaded in the game. You can start the game form that point of the game and start playing from there.

The Task actually contains 5 different parts, one of which is the introduction type of thing and the final one is a supplementary kind of thing. In the middle three are different missions to complete a task. It is divided into Act I, Act II, Act III. These Acts contain different stages and sub-tasks kinds. Start the game in the single player application and go to the select mission option and you will understand everything.

Download Fully Completed Profiles of Need For Speed Most Wanted

Many versions are released after the NFS Most Wanted Version of Need For Speed, but they are not as cool as NFS Most Wanted is. The Need For Speed Most Wanted is unique in its own way. The latest version, NFS Undercover is slightly similar to NFS Most Wanted in the sense of engaging races illegally etc...

Download NFS MW Profiles:


Download Link: 2 NFSMW Profiles.

What to Do:


Once you finished downloading the file given in above download link, extract the files in it and place the folders exactly as they are in C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\NFS Most Wanted Profiles folder.

What it Does:


NFS Most Wanted program when starts to run will load these profile files and uses them as aliases. These aliases have the information of how much the game has been finished and what the other settings are. Once you have put the downloaded NFSMW Profiles, you can select the Aliases Temp or TempJump.

Profile Temp:


You can see the profile Temp is completed up to 85%. All the Blacklist #s are defeated. But there are small race events and bounty events remaining in the Blacklist.

Profile TempJump:


The other Profile TempJump is intended to just play the game at the end. That is just to Jump to another city while the police are chasing you in the BMW Car.

Whats the Task:


These Profiles have all the cars unlocked and many cars bought, like Benz, Ford, Lamborghini, to the Garage. And many cars are re-tuned and upgraded in the performance by packages Nitrous, Tyres and Engines. All the Cars are set to their best. If you think making bounty is a difficult task, never worry about it. Just see the post given in this blog previously, and you will be able to make tons. You can select which ever car you like. The BMW Car is painted in Black and White and the Porche with Red and White. Now its up to you to give a test ride and complete the remaining part of the Profile and make it 100% complete.

If you have your own completed profiles, you can upload the files in the Internet in the websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Sendspace, 4shared etc. You can paste the Download Link here as a comment so that others can download your Profiles to play. 100% Complete Profile is also not interesting as there is nothing to do. So, even Partially Complete Profiles also can be uploaded to let the others defeat the final members of the Blacklist. Defeat Blacklist #1 Razor, that's the Task.

File Not found d3dx9_34.dll reinstalling may solve the problem.

This is generally caused because of the missing file d3dx9_34.dll. It will occur mostly when you install a game in the C:\ Drive and you want to transfer it to another drive by copying the dump, to re-install Win XP. But when you do it, this error shows up "File Not found d3dx9_34.dll reinstalling may solve the problem". You can fix this problem just by getting the file d3dx9_34.dll and placing it in c:\windows\system32 if using 32 bit WinXP. Or c:\windows\system if using 64 bit WinXP after your installation. You can get the file from Internet or by any other source.

Not only this, in many cases where it reports the same error, this will be the reason. Just get the file and put it in the place as indicated above, c:\windows\system32 if using 32 bit WinXP. Or c:\windows\system if using 64 bit WinXP. Or sometimes, this may be solved by re-installing DirectX.

Hope you got the solution.

Add PodBots in Fy_Snow and Any New Maps in CS 1.6

For adding PodBots to any Map in Counter Strike 1.6, it needs waypoint files. These are named pwf files. You can download them from the Internet. They appear as fy_snow.pwf, aim_map.pwf, scoutzandknivez.pwf ect... These files shoul be placed in WPTDefault folder of PodBot folder. You can create your own way point files as discussed in the previous posts of this blog. That post gives you complete information of how to do it. For now, a brief explanation in a crude way is here.

  1. Just start the map you want to play.
  2. Type this command in the console "pb wpmenu".
  3. Press 1-Add Wapoint.
  4. Then again press the same command in the console "pb wpmenu".
  5. Now press 8-Save Waypoints.
  6. Now Press the same command "pb wpmenu".
  7. Now press 9-Options.
  8. Now press 1-On/Off.
  9. The map will start in 5 seconds.
  10. When the Map restarts. Just type this command in the console "pb add".
  11. Add as many bots as you want.

That's it. This must solve your problem. This needs to be done only once. every time the map is started you will be able to join and play with bots. This is possible for any new map. This method lacks map information for the bots. But you can play with them normally.

For complete creation of Way Point File with Goals, Targets and T's and CT's Important Points, you need to see the previous posts in this blog. If you complete it, you can upload your .pwf file to the Internet to help other download it and use it directly.

Stunt GP and Acclaim Revolt Racing Games and Downloads

Acclaim Revolt vs Stunt GP:


Stunt GP is a Racing Game similar to Acclaim Revolt Racing Game. The Acclaim Revolt racing Game includes some powers like Electricity, Battery, Rockets, etc... But in the case of Stunt GP, the key is its Graphical Quality and Game Play. Both are basically very small games appear to be designed for children. Both have the option for playing Multi-Player in LAN or Internet.

Stunt GP Overview:


Stunt GP starts with racing in circuits and some Stunt Arenas. You will be given some time in which you need to make your best score. The score is given for different combos and stunts you do while jumping in the arena. In normal circuit racing you can use Nitro Boost Kind of thing to increase the speed by using battery power. The Boost can be used by tapping Ctrl key in the Keyboard. You can recharge the cars just by going to a pit stop kind of by pass. You loose some time in going to the recharging passage. So you need to be calculated to decide when to go to the recharge passage and after how many rounds. The battery is discharged in case of any damage occurred to the car. So, it is an unwanted loss of battery power.

Acclaim Re-volt Overview:


In case of Acclaim Revolt, the battery power is unlimited. The task is to just come first in the race no matter what you do. You can obstruct the other cars from over taking you etc. A power is gained each time the car touches the strike symbol in yellow, floating just above the road. The power obtained is random and can be used by tapping Ctrl key in the Keyboard.

The powers include Electricity, in which you can switch on electricity when ever wanted to give a electric shock to the nearby cars. This shock will stop the cars by 2 seconds before they start accelerating. The battery power enables the car move faster than before for certain time. The Oil will make other cars skid and slip to lose their control. The Ball will obstruct the cars in some narrow paths. Rockets can be used to hit the other cars in front of the car up to some range. The star power stops all the cars for a second. Water bags, can be used to hit the cars in front etc...

Multi-Player Support


Being multi-player these games are really exciting to play against human players in the LAN or Internet.

Download Demos of Stunt GP and Acclaim Revolt:


You can download the demos of Stunt GP and Acclaim Revolt from gamespot.com for free trial. The site also allows you to buy the games full versions.

FPS Games for Linux

Linux is a free OS. It is the fastest developing OS. Most of the server around the world use Linux as their platform as it has many advantages and easier programming facilities. Then why not for games. Games like Couter Strike and Call of Duty seem to have servers running in Linux. It is good to have runnable games in Linux to encourage the increasing number of users of Linux around the World.

The Games like EA Sports Fifa, NFS, etc should be supporting Linux too. Linux's baisc video mode is OpenGL which is a widely supported mode for all the games. With good GPUs available form nVIDIA and ATI, it might never be a problem for Linux to process games of such Graphics. The supported Games are the most massively played multiplayer games like Unreal Tournament and Quake and Counter Strike. It is always better to have more number of games supporting Linux OS with time which will increase the number of users of Linux around the World.

The Limitation to this idea may be the wide range of Linux OSs releasing with time. There are a number of OSs like Red Hat's Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Debian etc...

Monday, November 24, 2008

AMX Mod X and Admin Mod Installation for Counter Strike 1.6 on Linux OS

AMX Mod X is also designed for the Versions of Counter Strike running on Linux OSs. AMX Mod X needs Metamod, as it runs on Metamod. The Metamod supports both Windows and Linux. This makes it possible for AMX Mod X to run in Linux too.

The AMX Mod X package for Linux can be downloaded from amxmodx.org. This package includes the Metamod for Linux. Or the Metamod alone can be downloaded from the website metamod.org. You can download the Linux version of the Metamod.

The same case holds good for Admin Mod also. You can install Admin Mod for Linux. You can download it from adminmod.org. File Download link is shown as halflife-adminmod and is available for Windows, Linux and also AMD64.

The Admin Mod installation is always made easier by making it a self extracting and installing package. You can do this by giving the command install_admin in the Terminal while you are in the directory where install_admin file is present. You just need to run the install_admin file with parameter as the mod name, in Linux OS to install the Admin Mod in Linux by opening the Terminal. It might ask you the path to the CS1.6 installation in Linux and adds the required binaries and writes the paths in required files like liblist.gam.

All the files are in tarball. So you can use winrar to extract the files. While in Linux the program package is given with the Linux installation itself.

Once the package has been downloaded, just extract it to get the files. These files should be placed in the addons folder of Counter Strike 1.6 installation. The folders should look like this,
  • cstrike\addons\metamod\dlls
  • cstrike\addons\amxmodx\configs
  • cstrike\addons\amxmodx\modules etc...

This is how the folder tree should be placed. Then you need to edit the liblist.gam file. The liblist.gam file is a text file which loads the required module for the game while it is running. The liblist.gam file previously contains the line gamedll_linux "dlls/mp.dll" change it to this gamedll_linux "addons/metamod/dlls/metamod_i386.so". The name of the file may change, but make sure that you are giving the correct file name for the OS and also 32 bit or 64 bit, because each OS has its own name and 32 or 64 bit has its own name. Like,

  • Windows 32 bit has its own metamod dll filename ending with .dll. (use gamedll)
  • Windows 64 bit has its own metamod dll filename ending with .dll. (use gamedll)
  • Linux 32 bit has its own metamod filename ending with .so. (use gamedll_linux)
  • Linux 64 bit has its own metamod filename ending with .so. (use gamedll_linux)

That's it, you are done installation of Metamod.

Now for the installation of AMX Mod and other mods, you need to download their packages and put where ever you want but put this line in the Metamod's plugins.ini file linux "path of the file" ex: linux "addons/amxmodx/dlls/amdmodx.so" or linux "addons/statsme/dlls/statsme.so" same for Admin Mod with the path to the .so file. See for the compatibility of Statsme plugin in 64 bit and Linux in its official website.

That's it. You can now finish the installation, unless you want to know how to install AMX Mod X addons like CSDM, GunGame Mod, Diablo Mod, Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne Mod in Linux. For this you just need to know how to install them in the windows. Just place the file sin their exact location comparing the folders in the downloaded package and the folders in the installation of CS1.6. It is same. You can see the topic of AMXX Plugins installation for much detailed complete explanation.

You may face a little difficulty in the Compilation of the AMXX Plugins in Linux which can be done just by running the other file which runs in Linux.

Metamod Binary for AMD64 and 64 bit OS

Meatmod is an addon for Half-Life and it mods which helps in changing the usage of the mod. This mod also supports a great number of other addons running on it like the AMX Mod X, Admin Mod ect... Metamod is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the Software on supported Hardware.

You can download the 64 bit Binary of the Metamod form its official website metamod.org. This site gives all the information and downloads of all the versions of the Metamod Binary. 64 bit version of any hardware is developed to make the processes run faster with dowuble the data transfer between any two components when compared to 32 bit. As per the addons of the Metamod, they may not be strictly of 64 bit to run on the 64 bit Metamod Binary. As many 64 Bit softwares does, Metamod may also support the 32 bit addons for it like the AMX Mod X, Admn Mod, Statsme etc...

The speed of the processes depends not only on the software it is used to trasfer the processes but also the main program. Like the fastest possible procesing can only be achieved only when the program AMX Mod X also is to make use of the 64 bit. Thus, any stage where there is an involvement of a 32 bit program results in slower processing speeds.

NFS Undercover on 64bit XP AMD64 and nVIDIA GeForce

NFSU System Requirements:


NFS Undercover is the Latest Version of the NFS games. As given in the system requirements, it needs a processor of speed better than 3.0GHz, RAM more than 512 MB, and a Graphic Card.

NFSU Performance on AMD64


The game NFS Undercover is working just normal on

AMD64 Athlon 3000+ 1.8GHz,
Asus M2N MX,
1 GB DDR2 RAM,
nVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 1GB 64bit Drivers
Win XP 64bit,
and DirectX 9.0c,
SATA HDD.

when the settings of the game are set to all low and some configuration variables to off, Resolution 800x600. Also all the other processes running on the OS are stopped. On overall review, the NFS Undercover performance can be stated as running slower on the configuration shown above. NFS Undercover definitely needs better requirements than NFS Pro Street. NFS Undercover is taking around 512MB of memory usage as shown in the Task Manager of WinXP.

The Game Performance can improved to a greater extent when the processor or the RAM or both are upgraded.

NFSU View


NFS Undercover is showing some similarities with the game NFS Most Wanted. This is when the Police cars chasing and in some other cases. The story as such is not clear in the starting. Differentiating the older versions, the types of races are new. It includes Dominating the race cars by getting the lead upto 1000ft etc.

NFSU vs NFSMW vs NFSPS


The new kind of races added may show some better interest. Coming to Graphics, The Graphics appear inferior to that of NFS MW at lower resolutions and low detail settings, like the shadow effects, car detail variables, world detail, world effects etc. The appearance of car too is very similar to that in the case of NFS Pro Street. The environment view or the world view is better in the case of NFS Pro Street out of these three. The game goes on as the racer roams in a city and engages races of different kind. GPS Navigation is available. Damage indicator is added in the right bottom at the location where Nitrous Oxide used to be shown in the other versions. The Time Slowdown also is available. Nitrous Oxide when used may not show any flames coming out. After all what matters is the game play. So, let us see, how well the game goes on.

Age of Empires II The Conquerors Expansion Trial Help Topic

In the Age of Empires II The Conquerors Expansion Trial consists of a single scenario of the Campaign Montezuma. In this scenario, you will be starting with the Aztec Civilization and with three Eagle Warriors and three Villagers. The task is to finish the game by putting the four Relics inside the four Monasteries. If the monastery is explored there is a probability for the enemies to destroy it. If the monastery is destroyed you are defeated. So, keep protecting the monastery which ou have explored or just dont explore it.

Tepanaca, Xochimilco and Tlatiluco are the enemies you need to face in the game. Out of these three, Tlatiluco is the easiest to conquor. Firstly, you need to build a defensive strategy. For this you just need to go towards the Tapanaca's side, that is towards the top of the map. You will find a gate of Tepanaca as you go in that direction. You need to build a gate exactly beside the Tepanaca's gate so that you wont waste too much resources stone or wood. Also build a gate at your left side and make your development fast. See the following screenshots for reference.


While development, you need to exhaust the resources to get the required buldings and army. You reach the castle age and get an army of around 20 Military Units to take down Tlatiluco. But with Xochimilco and Tepanaca, you need to be careful.

Xochimilco and Tepanca, both try to attack you from the direction shown in last screenshot. Tepanaca will use Eagle Warriors and Plumed Archers. Xochimilco uses Long Swordsmen and Archers. No enemy uses seize weapons, so there is no big problem. Also, Tepanaca has two watch towers gaurding their base. Xochimilco and Tepanaca both use one Castle. Tlatiluco uses none. You need to build two castles to defend the gate shown in the third screenshot. You make the best of your army and then attack the enemies. You need to build a dock to finish the fourth monastery. Thats how you do. The Jaguars in the game wont hurt Eagle Warriors and Monks. Tlatilucos, military buildings are built at an island at the bottom of the mini-map towards your side.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Downlaod Age of Empires II The Conquerors Leagues Recorded Games

What are Age of Empires Recorded Games:


The professional gaming leagues held between different clans have their games recorded. These files are with extensions .mgx in the Age of Empires II The Conquerors version and are saved in SaveGame folder of Age of Empires. These are also reffered as Replays of the games.

Why to see Recorded Games:


The best way of knowing and understanding Age of Empires strategies is by seeing how experts play. You can see the games played by experts and get some help for yourself on how to play age of empires and what are the critical strategies they use.

How to see Recorded Games:


You can download them from the given download links. Once you finish downloads, just extract the .zip or .rar files and place the files in SaveGame folder of your age of empires installation. You can now open the Age of Empires game application. Go to the single player mode and go to saved and recorded games. You can see the file names here. Just open them. You can see the games in fast mode also. The controls are given in the bottom of the screen while playing the game.

The files you get from the package are .mgx files. You should put these .mgx files in the SaveGame directory.

Where to get Recorded Games:


There are many websites which have a good collection of recorded games of Age of Empires. These are some directories where some Age of Empires Recorded Games Downloads are given,

Download Links:

RTS Clan Leagues

esnips directory1

esnips directory2

Legion Cup Aoc

Legion Clan

IndusClan

The first link given contains a good number of latest recorded games to download with all the information about the game like map Arabia, Islands, Ghost Lake, Baltic, Black Forest etc... the duration of the game and the Clan Tags. These are league matches held between two Clans.

How to Record Games:


You can record your games played in the LAN or Internet. To do this the server who has started the game either in LAN or Internet must put the option record game. Then all the clients will get the recorded game in their SaveGame folder of AOE installation folder. You can record your own video of AOC 1 on 7 and put the recorded game in some file hosting websites and post the link on some website or blog. Your Age of Empires Conquerors recorded games will be saved in the same folder SaveGame in the AOC installation folders.

If you want to give any Recorded Games links, you can post the Direct Download links here as a comment to this blog post.

Age of Empires II Scenario The Land Nomad

The Land Nomad


Scenario:
This is a scenario for Age of Empires II The Conquerors.

Task:
Same as normal Random Map Game

Given:
Only 3 villagers.

What to Do:
Just build a Lubercamp and start collecting wood until you can get a Town Center to build one. Just after you finish building a Town Center, its just another random map game.

Tips:
You can use sheep to explore the map. Be quick as always.

Age of Empires II The Conquerors Civilization Strategies for Newbi

Understanding Age of Empires:


Age of Empires, a game by ensemble studios, has the most strategic game play. It is a great game to play online with human players than with computer multi-player games. The better part of the game is that it is game number of strategies, which are better than others in some way or the other.

Understanding Age of Empires Civilizations:


It has 18 different civilizations namely, Aztecs, Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Franks, Goths, Huns, Japanese, Koreans, Mayans, Mongols, Persians, Saracens, Spanish, Teutons, Turks, Vikings. Each of these civilizations have their own advantages and disadvantages. The key of the game is that, a civilization appearing weaker than second civilization may be much stronger than the third civilization which is better than the second civilization. If you understand this, that is more than enough to go on your own. But is always good to what others strategies are.

Understanding Strategies:


Every strategy in the game has a strong point and a weak point also. It is experience what really matters when it comes to what strategy to use for the others strategies. But after all experience cannot be bought.

Basic Variables in the Game:


The first and important point you need to observe about the game is that, there are many different decisions to be taken like whether to create a military unit at this time or to go for another villager? Should you build a building with the existing for the age change or you create one? Should you change the age or go for some more villagers and military units? These are the variables to decide on,

  • Whats your Civilization
  • Whats your opponent's Civilization
  • Number of units to use for a task
  • Changing age at the right number of resources and population not by time.
  • Selection of military unit
  • Number of military units
  • Which units to create and which not to

Basic Strategy of the Game:


  1. Never let the stock piles overflow than required before reaching Feudal and Castle age. This means that you are using those villagers on unwanted task and that is a wastage of that many number of units in your population.
  2. You need to know the number of resources you need by the time you reach other civilization.
  3. You should see that all the gold and stone mines are exploited once you reached Castle age.
  4. For extinguishing the resources very fast you need to have more number of villagers. The fastest way of creating more number of villagers is by building more Town Centers. The major difference comes here. The faster you build more Town Centers the faster you develop.
  5. The fastest way of building an army is by building more number of military buildings.
  6. The exact composition of the army, meaning the number of units of each kind, is a very important variable. For example, 50 Palladins can be taken down by 50 Pikemen. But if you have 25 Palladins and 25 Champions, the case would be far different.
  7. Using Guard Towers is skillful task. The place where you build a gaurd Tower and the units surrounding it should be thought of.
  8. Use your unique technologies and make sure that they are well used in the game.
  9. Use appropriate number of Ranged Units and Non-Ranged units.

What makes the difference:


The strategies can be improved in a large view by watching the recorded games of experts online. The recorded games can be played by just placing the files in savegame directory in Age of Empires installation folder. Later in the game you can go to saved and recorded games in the single player game tab and then select the game.

You can see a good number of strategies of the game when the pros are playing. Certain Civilization start the battles from the feudal age itself. This is to make sure that the enemy will be took down before he reaches castle age itself or the imperial age. Because some of the civilizations are strong in Imperial age and the other are faster from the beginning itself. If you let the other guy advance ages completely, your civilization may not beat him at all in the Imperial age. Chinese is one civilization which you need to expert in which you should not let the enemy advance the ages.

There should be any restrictions like no dark age attacks or any things of that sort which makes the team with civilizations like chinese and aztecs suffer more than what others do.

Try exploring the map as fast as possible. Keep some pressure on the opponent. Keep on getting the resources from as many sources as possible.

Defensive and Offensive Civilizations:


This classification will help you decide whether to keep your focus on developing and advancing to the next ages or to keep on going for battles with the enemy.

Formations:


Formations make a lot of difference with the army consisting of ranged units and non-ranged units. It is better to go for the formation which will save the archers for longer time.

Bonus Attacks:


Bonus attack is a special attack bonus given to some units against some other units which are sometimes more powerful than the attacking unit.
  • Pikeman has bonus attack vs Cavalry and War Elephant.
  • Swordsmen have attack bonus vs Buildings.
  • Knights have bonus attack vs Archers.
  • Skirmisher have bonus attack vs Archers.
  • Samurai has attack bonus vs all Unique units.
  • Cataphract has attack bonus vs Infantry.
Like this the attack bonuses have to be kept in mind while making an army. Both your units and the enemy units have to be considered. Selection of the best unit is a key.

Use hot keys:


You may not consider this a big variable but is much bigger. Using hot keys makes a lot of difference in the game. You can think about the game for longer time than struggling around to find a Mill to fill with farms, or to create villagers, or to go to the buildings.
  • Tapping H, C,C,C,C does not take a second to do, and hence is better than going to Town Center, clicking on it, then going to villager icon and clicking on it for four times.
  • Use hot keys to build buildings like B,E for House, B,F for farm, etc...
  • Do group your army. You can group your units using Crtl+(1-9). You can have many groups like this. So that you may not waste time to group the units which are to be sent for rescue or to attack. Never keep on tapping attack key continuously on the enemy army while your army is in selection as your units all try to attack that guy only.

Some more:


The speed of the unit is also a key variable, even though it seems normal. Don't cluster your non-ranged units as they take time to spread around the enemy units. And in the case of ranged units clustering them may help as the enemy units does not get the contact with all the units at once. The effective area exposed for the attack decreases. But the more important point is to keep in mind the siege unit attacks. If you cluster the units. All those units may be killed with a single attack from a siege unit like Onager.

Putting apart everything, all you need is experience.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

What is CS Server Rcon and How to use

What is Rcon:


Rcon means remote control. You can control the servers console right from your console. Assume that you have a dedicated server running, you cannot go to the dedicated server each time to change or give any command. This is the situation where you need rcon. In the dedicated server, you will give a password in the dedicated server and the same in your console.

How to use Rcon:


Just give this command in the dedicated server
  • rcon_password xxxx
Now give the sae password in your console
  • rcon_password xxxx
Now from your console, you can control the dedicated server's console by giving commands with this type,
  • rcon changelevel de_dust2
This means that the command changelevel de_dust2 should be given to dedicated server. This is it.

How to Host Counter Strike 1.6 Multiplayer LAN Server with AMX and MetaMod

Basics of Hosting a CS1.6 Server: Dedicated Server and Listen Server


Listen Server:
You can host a listen server by opening the cs1.6 game and going to the option Create Server. This is called Listen Server. You can give commands in the console while playing in the Game itself. In the beginning you alone will be there in the game, the players join later.

Dedicated Server:
You can host a dedicated server by opening the file hlds.exe in your directory where hl.exe file exists. This will not open a game but it will just create a server with a GUI. You can select the required options in the GUI. Like whether to host a LAN or Internet server. The map. The maximum number of players. The Rcon etc. See whats Rcon and Port in this blog posts. You wont be in the game. You should join the game by opening the hl.exe and then by typing connect loopback:27015 in the console.

Basics of Hosting a CS1.6 Server: The Graphic Card


It does not matter whether you have a graphic card or not, but what you really need is a good Processor and RAM. The game consists of two basic divisions. One is the Graphical User Interface and other is the actual program. The graphic card only takes those responsibilities which are directly related to the graphics. But it wont care about the actual program. In the game if you press a key then that goes to the main processor instead of the GPU - Graphical Processing Unit. This is how the processes vary.

I will give you practical difference. If you are hosting a dedicated server or listen server, no matter how good graphic card you have, you server may lag. This is because of the processor or RAM.

Basics of Hosting a CS1.6 Server: The Commands


You can give commads to change the variables of the game. Like, kicking a player, slapping a player, changing map, changing gravity, changing time per round, changing friendly fire. You can give these in the starting of the server itself in the GUI, but if you want to change them in the middle of the game.

Some commands:
  • mp_startmoney "money" - Gives that much money in the starting of the game
  • mp_friendlyfire "0/1" - 0 for Off, 1 for On
  • mp_roundtime "timeinminutes" - time in minutes 2, 2.5, 3 etc
  • sv_gravity "number" - Default is 800, 0=players fly, 2000=players cant jump.
  • changelevel "map_name" - de_dust2 for dust2 or any other map name.
  • sv_restart "timeinseconds" - The time in seconds, game restarts from 0 rounds.

Basics of Hosting a CS1.6 Server: The Mods


CS1.6 server can be equipped with some mods like AMX Mod X, Admin Mod, Chicken Mod, StatsMe etc. These are mods which help in server administration or change the gameplay. AMX Mod and Admin Mod help in server administration, where as Chicken Mod changes the game play, StatsMe allows in-game on-screen statistics of the players.

AMX Mod X:
Installing AMX Mod X allows you to get menus on the screen, which will allow you to change the game variables with out the use of console commands. You will get the AMX Mod Menu if you type this keyword in the console "amxmodmenu".

For more on Mods see other posts of this blog about how to install and how to use.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

AMX Mod X for Day of Defeat GunGame and CSDM Set up

What is AMX Mod X:


AMX Mod X is an administration utility for the mods of Half-life like Counter Strike 1.6, CS:Condition Zero, and many more games. AMX Mod X provides many features like in-game on-screen statistics with player names and scores. It provides in-game on-screen menu for controlling the server like giving information, map changes etc. It also has plugins which can change the gameplay of the gae itself. The plugins used for gameplay chage are like GunGame, CSDM etc... These plugins are very popular in CS . DoD GunGame and DoD CSDM can also be played with the help of AMX Mod X.

Download AMX Mod X:


You can download and install AMX Mod X form the internet its free, the download link is given in this blog or just go to amxmodx website. The latest version. The links given in the amxmodx website contain AMX Mod X for Cstrike, DoD and all. You can download the complete package if you want to. Or AMX Mod X for Dod is enough to work with DoD.

Setting up AMX Mod X:


If you have downloaded the installer file. Just run it. It will install the AMXX Studio and the package installer. The package installer runs just after the first installer finishes. Now it asks for some options like,
  • Steam Dedicated Server
  • Steam Listen Server
  • Standalone Server
  • Select Mod Directory
Select Mod Directory will be the best option and we will go for it. There is no need to check the remote ftp option below the four options. A window opens up with the name chose directory as shown below,

Now, just select Day of Defeat, in the Custom game addon as shown and DoD folder in your Half-life installation folder. Just select DoD folder and press OK. If it says that there is liblist.gam file missing, then you have given a wrong folder or folder which is not installed properly. If you give the folder correctly, the setup will start and finishes. Now, you have your server set up with AMX Mod X.

Installing Plugins in AMX Mod X


There are some plugins which can be used in the AMX Mod X for changing the gameplay of the game to something else than normal. These pluigns are GunGame, CSDM, and other mods. For installing plugins to your AMX Mod X, you need to downlaod them from the internet. These plugins are available in the amxmodx website itself.

Get these plugins and just take the .amxx files from the package and put them in addons\amxmodx\plugins folder of amxmodx. Now add these names of the .amxx files to plugins.ini in the addons\amxmodx\configs folder. You should add the complete name of the .amxx files correctly including .amxx also. Now run the game, you will get the plugins running.

.amxx files. Put these files in addons\amxmodx\plugins folderIf your plugins do not work, put the .sma files in scripting folder of amxmodx fodler in DoD and .inc folders in include folder of scripting folder. Now, run compile.exe. You will get the compiled and then add the lines to addons\amxmodx\configs\plugins.ini. Thats it. Now you should be able to run the plugins. Addition of each plugin will add some console comands too. For the commads of the plugin added, go to site where you have downloaded the plugins.

To know how to play GunGame and CSDM refer the posts in this blog.

EA Sports FIFA with First Person View Mode in the Game

Whats new in FIFA 09:


FIFA 09 has come up with a new feature of mouse controls in the game. In the game the movement can be controlled by either the keyboard or both keyboard and mouse. This new feature will not bring any big change to the players who were playing Fifa previously, but the new players who ever start the game with FIFA 09 would tend towards using both keyboard and mouse. In the mouse contols, the direction combined with shooting and passing the ball can be controlled. All these stuff apart, the main consideration here is that the game has come up with a new feature each year. This makes it much interesting to see whats new in next version of Fifa.

Whats new in FIFA 09:


The next version of Fifa is to have many new features when it needs to satisfy all the players. The main feature to be considered here is the appearance or the gameplay change. The appearance change includes one of the very good features. This is First Person View.

Why First Person View:


A number of games played online, the massively played multiplayer games are all the games with First Person View. The First Person View makes the game look much classical than the normal Ariel view or bird's eye view. These Ariel view or the bird' eye view makes the game look as normal game than a professional game. The first person view makes any game professional.

Also with the first person view include in the game, the number of players around the globe also increases as they and the previously playing pros all have the experience starting from nothing. Most of the gamers play the games with view in First Person Mode itself.

Scope of First Person View:


Very similar to the game counter strike, the view should be controllable with mouse. This makes it easier to look around and pass the ball or take the ball. The mouse controls can be bound to the two buttons, the Mouse1 and Mouse2 for pass and shoot respectively. This mode will perfectly suit the game when playing 11 on 11 with a single player in his unique character.

When in the game, the view looks much cooler when the players see the ball in front of them and while shooting a goal themselves, it would be addicting.

Advantages:


  • Cool View
  • MultiPalyer Friendly
  • Height Control
  • 3D
  • Can be Made More Custom Game Play
The actual game 3D look shows up with out 2D view. the old view looks completely 2D, which is in no comparison with 3D. As the game play becomes 3D, the height of the ball kick also can be controlled. The controls can be increased and more custom game play can be set up. Jumping can be manually done instead of automatic. The 3D grass will have a great impact then and not now. Finally the game becomes reality.

This idea is in many minds and were discussing about it. So this is the time for EA Sports to start the feature in its newer version.

Disadvantages:


Firstly, the graphic capabilities needed to play the game will increase much more.

And, since the players are all need to be designed very precisely, this makes it difficult for both the designers and the program writers. But there is no compromise if the situation is so. The competition, the one who does little extra work wins.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

How to enable Restrict menu and Teleport menu in AMX Mod X

By default, the pluigns enabled in AMX Mod X are the following,
  • admin.amxx
  • adminhelp.amxx
  • adminslots.amxx
  • multiligual.amxx
  • menufront.amxx
  • cmdmenu.amxx
  • plmenu.amxx
  • mapsmenu.amxx
  • adminchat.amxx
  • antiflood.amxx
  • scrollmsg.amxx
  • imessage.amxx
  • adminvote.amxx
  • nextmap.amxx
  • mapchooser.amxx
  • timeleft.amxx
  • paucecfg.amxx
  • statscfg.amxx
  • statsx.amxx
  • stats_logging.amxx
  • amxmod_compact.amxx
  • pluginmenu.amxx
These are disabled by default,
  • telemenu.amxx
  • restmenu.amxx
  • miscstats.amxx
You can enable the Restrict Weapons Menu and Teleport Menu as described below,

Open addons\amxmodx\configs\plugins.ini. You will find a ";" in beginning of the line restmenu.amxx and telemenu.amxx. Remove ";" infront of both the lines and save the file. That's it, the menus are enabled. Now you can access the menu from the command "amxmodenu" in the console.

In this manner you can enable or disable any plugins with just a ";" in the beginning of the line in the plugins.ini file of AMX Mod X. This is not only in the case of the AMX Mod X, but also holds good for MetaMod plugins.ini file.

The Teleport Menu:


The Teleport menu lets the server teleport players from one point to another point with out killing them. Like this the players all can be brought to a single point. You can set the destination point while you are in spectating mode with free view state. Just select the destination point and put the players there. Only player alive at that instant can be teleported.

The Restrict Weapons Menu:


You can restrict the weapons to be bought at the buy time by adding them to restrict list. You can do this with the help of this menu. This menu will show you all the weapons. You just need to tap the number of the weapon to put that in restrict list.

How to change PodBot names and remove skill and pod tag

PodBots:


Podbots are the most popular bots for the game Counter Strike 1.6 and for CSCZ. These bots are very famous for their headshots. Read related stuff here.

Names:


The names of the PodBots by default are shown as [PoD] fname_lname (99). This name may disturb you a lot especially the skill value in the brackets. You can remove these tags by just changing the value of the following cvar pb_detailnames.

Where to go:


Go to the podbot installation directory. This will be addons\podbot\ folder generally. Open the file podbot.cfg with wordpad. You can see some lines with # before them. The # before them indicates that it is a comment in that language and it is not considered while executing the config file. You can see some commands with some values after them which does not have a comment in the beginning of the line, these are the actual executed commands.


What to do:


You can see some commands explained there. You can understand them to change the other settings of the podbots. Now, for the names sake you need to go to the line

pb_detailnames 1

This line decides whether or not the names to be displayed with the skill and the tag [PoD]. You can change this to 0 to remove the two skill and the tag. The name changes from "[PoD] name (100)" to "name"

Now, Save and close the podbot.cfg file

How to change the Names:


You need to open the file botnames.txt present in the same folder as the podbot.cfg. Open the botnames.txt file and you can see some lines with # at the beginning and some lines with out the #. The lines without the # consist of some names. Names of Hollywood heroes and Heroines by default. You can change these lines to your own, but make sure that you only change those characters and no line is deleted.

just remove the old name put what you want. You can put some nick names what your friends use. And when they join your server they just wonder who the other player is.

Bot Auto Kill and Auto Kill Delay:


In the podbot.cfg itself you can see a command like this pb_autokill 0 and pb_autokilldelay 45. You can change to these pb_autokill 1 pb_autokilldelay 1. This will make the server kill the podbots automatically when all the human players are killed. Auto kill delay is the time after which they should be killed when they are the only ones left.

Jasonmode


This is just a mode in which PodBots use only knives it seems. You can turn this on by the command pb_jasonmode 1

AK Spray vs M4a1 Spray in Counter Strike 1.6/CZ

  1. M4a1 recoil is less tha AK. So, AK can get more random hits
  2. AK gives more powerful hits than M4a1
  3. Rate of fire is More in case of AK
  4. The Spray is easier to understand in case of M4a1
  5. M4a1 Spray is good for begginers
  6. AK Spray is better for experts
  7. Reload time in case of AK is lesser than that of M4a1
  8. The horizontal deviation in the case of M4a1 is more than AK. This makes AK get easier head shots than M4a1
  9. Spraying while jumping is very random in the case of AK and less in the case of M4a1.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

How to Reduce Lag in CS1.6 while playing in the Internet or LAN

The lag will be caused because of the burden on the processor. If you have a very low capacity processor and you want to play CS in that, you may follow these. The case described here is without any Graphic Card. The burden can be reduced by the following not completely but partially
  1. Reducing the framerate. Type the command in the console "fps_max 50". This will reduce the frame rate to 50 which will be 100 by default. You can feel a little bit difference with this.
  2. If you are using the game in 32 bit, change it to 16 bit in video options. This will make a bigger difference than the above. But you are said to be 16 bitting by using 16 bit video output as the smoke grenade will show up differently in this mode.
  3. Use 640x480, the standard value id 800x600 but you can play at 640x480 to reduce the load on the processor.
These settings will help you reduce the lag at least by 20% of the normal settings.

Call of Duty Dedicated Server Console and Commands

How to start


Call of Duty dedicated server can be started from the game itself. In the multiplayer menu you need to start the server by clicking in new server and change the parameters to required and change the mode to dedicated and then LAN or internet. Firstly, the players need to have the keycode for the multipayer game to join and play.

Console Commands List


The serer console is very similar to that of counter strike. Some commands include
  • severinfo
  • map "mapname"
  • map_restart
  • kick
  • killserver
  • tell "player id"
  • cmdlist
  • clear
  • selectStringTableEntryInDvar
  • touchFile
  • fdir
  • dir
  • fullpath
  • path
  • map
  • wait
  • tell
  • say
  • set
  • statGetInDvar
  • setfromdvar
  • exec
  • uploadStats
  • map_rotate
  • setdvartotime
  • unmuteplayer
  • muteplayer
  • printentities
  • followprev
  • follownext
  • vote
  • callvote
  • follow
  • team
  • say_team
  • stats
  • jumptonode
  • setviewpos
  • levelshot
  • ufo
  • noclip
  • notarget
  • demigod
  • god
  • take
  • give
  • kill
  • mr
  • readStats
  • ragdoll_baselerp_bone
  • ragdoll_limit
  • ragdoll_joint
  • ragdoll_selfpair
  • ragdoll_bone
  • ragdoll_clear
  • ragdoll_pin_bone
  • resetStats
  • localizeSoundAliasFiles
  • toggleMenu
  • unskippablecinematic
  • timedemo
  • chatmodeteam
  • chatmodepublic
  • setPerk
  • stringUsage
  • scriptUsage
  • killserver
  • devmap
  • gameCompleteStatus
  • fast_restart
  • map_restart
  • dumpuser
  • systeminfo
  • serverinfo
  • status
  • clientkick
  • unbanUser
  • tempBanClient
  • tempBanUser
  • kick
  • banClient
  • banUser
  • onlykick
  • heartbeat
  • net_dumpprofile
  • net_restart
  • in_restart
  • writedefaults
  • writeconfig
  • quit
  • meminfo
  • con_showchannel
  • con_hidechannel
  • seta
  • bind
  • unbindall
  • statSet
  • con_visiblechannellist
  • con_channellist
  • bindlist
  • unbind
  • vstr
  • setu
  • dvar_float
  • dvar_int
  • dvar_bool
  • dvardump
  • dvarlist
  • reset
  • setfromlocString
  • sets
  • togglep
  • toggle
These can be used via rcon

Rcon


Rcon means remote controls. The console can be controlled from other players consoles just buy giving the rcon password.

Apart from these console commands, there are number of dvars which will configure the game. The number of dvars is more than a 1000. These dvars can be seen in the console by pressing the starting letter and then expanding the console by pressing Shift+` keys. The dvars can be listed by pressing Shift+Tab keys.

Mods for COD4 Modern Warfare


Also selection of the mod is also given in the user interface in the multiplayer mode and not available in single player mode. You can have PAM4 mod for Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare. You can download the Mod from "downloads.noobwars" and you can install it as indicated in previous posts of this blog.

Also you can get the console in the single player mode by enabling the console in the options of single player menu.

Compiling GunGame Source needs fakemeta_util.inc

For compiling GunGame source, you need fakemeta_util.inc file to be included in the include folder of amxmodx\scripting. The GunGame source uses some functions of fakemeta_util.inc. Once you have the include file you can recopile and it works. You can download the inc file fakemeta_util.inc from alliedmods.net/

For information on how to compile a plugin source of AMX Mod X see the following post
http://gaminglan.blogspot.com/2008/09/installing-plugins-for-amx-mod-x-and.html

Demo Playback Config for Counter Strike 1.6 and CSCZ

Demo Playback has many features in it when you open any demo with the commanf viewdemo. This will let you see the demo in low motion, extreme slowmotion and ultra slowmotion and there is no limit. Similarly for the fast play and ultra fast play and extreme fast playback also. But if you need to write a command for everything in the console then it would ake you bored of viewing demos. This is the configuration in userconfig.cfg I use to make the dmeoplay back much easier than what it is without any config.

echo "Demo Playback Config Loaded"
echo "----------------------------"

bind "KP_END" "host_framerate 0.001"
bind "KP_DOWNARROW" "host_framerate 0.005"
bind "KP_PGDN" "host_framerate 0.0075"
bind "KP_LEFTARROW" "host_framerate 0.01"
bind "KP_5" "host_framerate 0.00; dem_pause 0"
bind "KP_RIGHTARROW" "host_framerate 0.03"
bind "KP_HOME" "host_framerate 0.04"
bind "KP_UPARROW" "host_framerate 0.05"
bind "KP_PGUP" "host_framerate 0.06"
bind "KP_MINUS" "dem_jump -10; dem_pause 0"
bind "KP_PLUS" "dem_jump 10; dem_pause 0"
bind "KP_INS" "dem_pause 1"
bind "KP_SLASH" "dem_jump -60; dem_pause 0"
bind "*" "dem_jump 60; dem_pause 0"
alias vote amx_votemapmenu

You can paste this in config.cfg of your cstrike or in userconfig.cfg. Once you have done this. You can use the demo playback config for cs1.6. All you need to do is see what key does what and start viewing demos. There wouldn't be any need for you to open the console while in the demo playback.

How to change the Config .cfg files and AMX Mod X Plugin Source.sma files

How to Open:
You can always open any file in the operating system windows with wordpad or notepad. These are called basic text editors. The notepad is much more basic than the wordpad. It is always easier and better to open a file in notepad but if you want it to be clear and formatted, then you can open it in wordpad.

What is a Config .cfg File!
The files with the extension .cfg are called as config files which will be taking part in configuring the game as the user needs it. These files will contain a number of commands and configuration variables and their values. You can edit these variables and commands by changing the text. This should be done only if you are well aware of what to do and what you are doing.

What are .sma Files!
.sma files are the program source files of the AMX Mod X pluigns. These sources are compiled and the output file .amxx is used for modification of the game. These pluigns are written in languages like c++, pawn etc. You can create your own source or .sma files by writing a program referring to the AMX Mod X Documnetation and in the amx studio which is created when you install the amx mod x with the installer. It will provide you good information about the functions available and what they do. These files can be seen in your installation in the folder cstrike\addons\amxmodx\scripting, or any other folder where you installed the addons.

AMX Mod X Docuentation:
The AMX Mod X Documentaion will provide the complete information of available commands and thier uses. These functions are those present in dlls which come with amx mod x. You can write your own plugins like CSDM, GunGame etc if you are very good at programming. All you need to do is start writing a program in wordpad or notepad and finally save it as .sma file in addons\amxmodx\scripting and run the compile.exe in the same folder. See for the errors and correct them. If you are successful, people start playing your mod, very similar to CSDM and GunGame.

Some functions in AMX dlls look like this:
  • get_user_armor
  • get_user_ammo
  • get_user_authid
  • get_user_weapon
  • get_user_health
These are used to input in the program.

And some commads for editing configs:
  • con_color "255 255 255" - Changes the color of the text appearing in chat to "255 255 255" which is RGB. You can ahve your own values not more than 255.
  • cl_rughthand 1/0 - whether to use right hand or not.
This is the config I use to play back demos
  • echo "Demo Playback Config Loaded"
    echo "----------------------------"

    bind "KP_END" "host_framerate 0.001"
    bind "KP_DOWNARROW" "host_framerate 0.005"
    bind "KP_PGDN" "host_framerate 0.0075"
    bind "KP_LEFTARROW" "host_framerate 0.01"
    bind "KP_5" "host_framerate 0.00; dem_pause 0"
    bind "KP_RIGHTARROW" "host_framerate 0.03"
    bind "KP_HOME" "host_framerate 0.04"
    bind "KP_UPARROW" "host_framerate 0.05"
    bind "KP_PGUP" "host_framerate 0.06"
    bind "KP_MINUS" "dem_jump -10; dem_pause 0"
    bind "KP_PLUS" "dem_jump 10; dem_pause 0"
    bind "KP_INS" "dem_pause 1"
    bind "KP_SLASH" "dem_jump -60; dem_pause 0"
    bind "*" "dem_jump 60; dem_pause 0"
    alias vote amx_votemapmenu
I think you can understand the keys and their uses from this. You can change the framerate in demos with a tap on your keyboard. Whole numpad is used as the controller for the demo playback. It is great to use. paste it in your userconfig.cfg It will help you greatly.

For more such config segments see other posts on this blog.

How to Change Spray Paint in Counter Strike 1.6,CZ with out any Decals Software

Spray Paint!
Spray Paint is the image you can put on the map walls and ground to show other what you want to. This can be done by tapping "t" key in your keyboard. This key is default key and can be changed. You can spray the image after 10 seconds which also can be changed by the server. This is called as the decal time. You might have come across the word decals many times in your playing history and this is what it means.

How to Change the Image!
You can change the image you want to spray in many ways. There are many software which allows you to change the image you like to change into the decal or spray paint. This application is called as Decal Converter and you can download it from any website you get for the keyword download Decal Converter in Google. You can get the latest version there. The application asks you to give the input image which should be conerted to the decal. The size is also asked here it self. All you need to do is, give the image and it will give you the decal. The application will compile the image and produces .bmp image. Now you should put the .bmp image or the out put image in the folder "valve\logos". This is the master folder which is same even if you are using cstrike or czero or valve.

In the second method you can create a .bmp file with the dimensions 64x64 or 32x32 or 128x32 etc. Then you can make an image you like in that bmp file. You need to set the colors such that the transparent part of the final spray should appear black here, and the colored part should be white. And again you need to paste the final image in vlave\logos.

The easiest method is go to the vlave\logos folder and open a decal which is a bmp file and edit it as you like, but dont change its size even a single pixel. Now save it as some other filename and restart the game. You can select your spray named the filename you have give.

Your friends will start asking you help if you are successful and if you did not get what this is, see the valve\logos folder in your counter strike installation or the half-life installation and read this. You will get the point so simply.

Finally!
In the game you can spray the paint once after very 10 seconds. You need to be careful with the colors you are using. Where ever the black color is there it will be transparent in the final spray and where ever there is white color, it will be shown as the color you select in the spray paint options in mutiplayer.

Age of Empires Zycat Attilla The Mayans AI Files for Computer Players

What is Zycat, The Mayans, Attilla


The AI folder in Age of Empires is the thing that controls the Artificial Intelligence of the computer players in single player games. This will change the way computer plays the game. The computer gameplay by default is very passive and not at all advisable to play for better improvement in the game. This is because the computer wont play very aggressively but it plays collectively.

If you want to play a challenging game with the computer then you must install these AI files in your AOE installation so that the computer plays according to this AI instead of the default AI. The Mayans, Zycat and Atilla these are three different parts.

How to install:


For installation of these AI you need to put the *.per and *.ai files in the AI folder of the Age of Empires installtion folder.

Where to download:


You can get the files from heavengames.com. You extract the files in the package and put the respective files and folders in the AI folder.

Only in the Single Player:


These AI can be used only in the case of the single player games and it is not possible give this Ai for computer players for multiplayer games.

What does Zycat do


Supports taunt like 100 food, wood, gold, stone. Plays based on the civilization and its strengths. Economical usage of resources. The age changes are also done very fast.

How to play Atari Roller Coaster Tycoon

About the Game:
The game is well designed with very good and attractive 3D Graphics with zoom in and zoom out with just the scroll button on the mouse. The zoom is so high that you can just view a single visitor in the game.

What to Do in the Game?

Roller Coaster Tycoon is a game in which you need to manage an amusement park like thing in which you can build attractions for visitors. Its like you need to manage everything form bathrooms to taking loans for management. You should hire worker, you need to build new attractions. you need to set the entry fee for each and every attractions. you need to put some food shops and item shops. All you need to do is get more visitors and money, finally good reputation.

You have the scenarios in which you need to finish the given tasks like number of visitors to the park and the total cost of the park. You will have amateur and enterprise type of tasks. You will get some awards based on your achievements. You will get new attractions to build. You will get new food shops and stalls.

Food items are like Burgers and Cool Drinks etc...

The Staff:
You can hire janitors, mechanics, entertainers, security personals etc...

The mechanics are need to fix the buildings which will brake with time.

You can set the fee for all. You can set the entry fee to get more profits. But if the price is too high visitors wont take it.

very similar to zoo tycoon, you can know the visitors thoughts and build the respective facilities. In zoo tycoon you have very less to manage. But in this Roller Coaster Tycoon you need to manage many things.

By default the entrance fee for the main gate will be 0$ and for any building the highest fee will be 10$.

Coasters:
You can design the coaster so that you can have your own ride views and all. All you need to do is select the coaster and start construction.

Visitors:
Visitors come in individuals and families. They buy things, they eat food, they enjoy the rides. They look for tidiness.

Buy Land:
You can buy land for your park and start expansion plans.

Statistics:

You can see the statistics from the menu and know every thing in the form of graphs. You can know how much you spent month by month and how much you got the profits. And also the funds you get and the awards you receive. The graph includes the maintenance costs and the salaries to the staff etc...

Finally, you can save the game and play them later.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Mouse and Keyboard for games Call of Duty and Counter Strike

For First person Shooter games like Call of Duty and Counter Strike, the selection of good mouse and keyboard also matters not a lot but little.

In the game counter strike you can see an option saying smoothen mouse movement. This will help you a lot if you have a low DPI mouse.

DPI:
DPI refers to dots per inch which will decide how smoother and how faster your mouse moves. You can even see in som eusb mouse rate checker applications in which you will get the frequency more than 120Hz for mice with higher DPI. Higher DPI means a better mouse.

When you try to move the mouse, you need to see how well you can aim at something. If you are continously struggling to get an aim over some object, you are not only neglecting the sensitivity of the mmouse but also the smoothen mouse moveent option in counter strike. Similar setting also in avialable in Call of Duty.

While the keyboard is better if the keys in it are easy to slide over kind and not like tapping as hard as a typewriter. This will create a lot of damange to the finger tips and hands.

AMX Mod X and MetaMod for Call of Duty Frag Statistics

A Mod? -Modification
A mod is a modification of the game. The games generally consist of different mods because, the basic core of the game remains same for all. Like in the game of Counter Strike, the main resources include, the Models, GUI Resources etc and the main game play is completely dependent on the dll file mp.dll.I think, this mp.dll file is overrode by the metamod.dll file and the metamod.dll file can be suitable directed for the game play by the AMX or Admin Mod. And these mods are again modified their own plugins like CSDM by bailopan and GunGame, Warcraft, Diablo, SuperHero Mods etc.

Example? -Cstrike
statistics for the game Call of Duty. Very similar to Half-Life, Counter Strike 1.6/CSCZ, the game Call of Duty should also have the MetaMod Plugin on which AMX Mod X could be installed which could provide onscreen ingameMetaMod supports good number of games on which the required plugin can be installed and used to modify the game play. It also should extend its support to Call of Duty and its Mods like Modern Warfare in Call of Duty 4 etc. If the Metamod is not supported, then there is no way of even installing AMX Mod X as the AMX Mod X plugin itself runs on MetaMod.

Call of Duty
The game Call of Duty is designed with great creativity and each and every object is presented at its best possible with current technology. It would be great to have the addons very similar to those games like Counter Strike Source.It would be great to have statistics like, number of frags, number of headshots and damage, distance of attack. These statistics will increase the interest in the games. That too in multiplayer games, players have the tendency of showing up their skill to everyone. This would help a great deal.

In the Future
Mostly there will be a statistics plugin for the game Call of Duty in its latest versions or may be there is one right now, I dont know. But it will make a lot of difference in the gameing interests. How ever big the game may be people prefer to play multiplayer games than playing in themselves. Even for single player games like UbiSoft's Prince of Persia series, people tend to play in groups than playing alone.

Call of Duty Statistics
AMX Mod X provides the following statistics ingame onscreen in the game Counter Strike and other supported mods.
  1. The total damage done by a player.
  2. Highest damage done by player.
  3. Number of headshots.
  4. Number of Frags.
  5. Distance Statistics.
  6. Attackers
  7. Victims
  8. Ranking
If not AMX Mod X, there should be some other Mod which could be installed in the game as a mod and it should provide the data very similar to the data in counter strike game to the greatest possible similarity or much superior to it. These statistics would provide not only very interesting data but also lets the learners get in to the game much quicker than others.

Ranking in Call of Duty
The game will be very interesting if some ranking is given to each of the player based on their performance in the game. Also some virtual designations which are supposed to be attained by the experience and performance would make the game look much cooler. This may be not so concerned on the internet, but in the case of Local Area Networks like in institutions and other places where the players are many would make it much cooler to play.