Question - problem with saving changed settings in game...

[SoulNecturn]

Like in the title And yeah I am asking if anyone have any ideas how to sort it out...

Problem:
Player change in settings font or auto/manual adjust for pets .. etc ... closing game ... getting back and nothing saved...

Anyone has this working even? Solution ?

Cheers

[hio77]

Stored server side last i checked, however in some versions it is not handled.

[SoulNecturn]

what do you mean hio exactly ??

As I noticed settings that I talk about should be saved under:
ini/GameSetUp.ini
and
log/*** (certain char in certain char)

I dont see any place that settings like font changed etc are being saved under server side

there must be some bug in main soul.exe I believe ...
for example I noticed had before this with storing "blocked character names" in blacklist.. now its saving proper ... but rest still dont :/ And its saved locally not on server ...

So still hoping for anyone hit any ideas

[hio77]

Having toyed with the packet for it, i can guarantee you, its server side sent.

Could be left over code in GameSetup.ini ild say, who knows, maybe its stored in both.

ill pull back up the code for the blocked players (in current soul.exe) for you too if i remember.

[idlemonkey]

the gamesetup.ini is where it says what to save for the client ... it works with the log folder.... "it also" has a function to dump the saved data to the server as well as the uap.ini which provides logs server side of the same thing

maybe try changing ur gamesetup.ini settings and look in the settings folder in log/yourservername/setup.ini
and compare them.....
with some trial and error you could debug the settings ....
there are places to save these settings server side as well.... which is what the dumprecord is for in the gamesetup.ini and uap.ini

353 	GameSetup.Ini	The account number system data establishment document (uses in records plays when family debarkation related information, like preserved account number, picture pattern and so on)
354	 	[ScreenMode]	 
355 	 	ScreenModeRecord=2	 
356 	 	[Group]	 
357 	 	GroupRecord=3	 
358 	 	[Server]	 
359 	 	ServerRecord=8	 
360 	 	[Account]	 
361 	 	AccountRecord=900A1B1DFCDCF7	 
362 	 	[Interface]	 
363 	 	InterfaceRecord=0

with the game Im working on there is also loginset.ini but eo doesnt have it Im not sure what they do for that maybe added it to one of the other inis

[SoulNecturn]

Hmmm

well appears that nothing is helping...
I already did loads of tests with different configurations and options...
doesnt look like GameSetup.Ini and log/xx/setup.ini have any influence on saving info like: what font changed by player ... or if used background for chat ....

Strange ... its like this FONT setting for player is not mention to be saved ever :/
I dont see Any connections of font attach under server side ...
and under soul.exe and dll files for it ... I do see attached font.ini etc but honestly no where I see place to adjust by hand default "Size" of fonts etc...
And even if I would like to change "size" of fonts that are setuped under strres.ini - I fail ...


So question in this way put maybe:
Does Anyone has this saving Font "working"
Or
Had it or even seen it working?

cheers

[stedabest321]

along time ago when i was playing with fonts, all i done was EDIT

gamesetup.ini

[FontInfo]
FontName=simsun
FontSize=16
FontColor=0x0
FontOverColor=0xFF0000
FontDownColor=0x00FF00

and font.ini ?

simsun 16

Match them up, i cant remember exactly, and i aint sure if this helps at all :S

[Khalidmadkour]

Originally Posted by stedabest321

along time ago when i was playing with fonts, all i done was EDIT

gamesetup.ini

[FontInfo]
FontName=simsun
FontSize=16
FontColor=0x0
FontOverColor=0xFF0000
FontDownColor=0x00FF00

and font.ini ?

simsun 16

Match them up, i cant remember exactly, and i aint sure if this helps at all :S

Changing font name and size from this files ( font.ini , gamesetup.ini ) works fine but chaning them in game and then relog. every thing back to normal " nothing saved "

i also tried that in other eo private game and same problem , so i suggest making a tool to let the player change the font ( inside the login tool soul )
_____
What i'm trying to say is ...

Tool has a options with all fonts that works in the game and player choose it then press save and open game

that tool will work in ini\font.ini and ini\gamesetup.ini .... so the tool will replace the fonts that player choosed with the current on in font.ini and gamesetup.ini

this is like a bad idea but if there are no other choice it will do the work

about blacklist , i dunno anything about it or which file control it

crazy suggest but i'm trying to help

[stedabest321]

Sounds like a good idea, but surely there must be a way to save it, can you save it on official eo, i havnt played in along time ?

[idlemonkey]

changing the font to a font that it doesnt have the files for will result in "font not found" errors and changing back to the original one.... as well any chinese characters in your npcs and or actions will be broken have to use whats there...or add the font itself not just the name of it

[SoulNecturn]

Ok let me put it again in other way

gamesetup.ini

[FontInfo]
FontName=simsun
FontSize=16
FontColor=0x0
FontOverColor=0xFF0000
FontDownColor=0x00FF00

This part looks like simply has no meaning... does not work or catch any changes under this part... I dont see even connection inside soul.exe etc to read from this file line "[FontInfo]" etc...
IF this part would work... and this darn "16" size of Simsun would work ... Then I wouldnt even ask about ideas for this problem

font.ini
StrRes.ini
these 2 looks like only influencing on changes inside game

graphic.dll as I can see is responsible for the way how font is visible as I can guess whe watching it under dissasembler...

So ... my aim would be:

Font.ini - SimSun 16
strRes - system (and here I need to make it as 16 size but there is no where to do so)


So still leaving with question:
how to make font that is set under strRes.ini into being by default 16 in size... ?

[idlemonkey]

Im not sure if you can with the way its setup the strres.ini according to what it says

708	StrRes.ini	The string of character resources deployment document, the goal is the demonstration with the string of character related prompt, expresses in the client side.
709	Information type	Special explanation: 
This document revises only for the programmer, and in VSS synchronization. 
The semicolon (half-angle) is the annotation mark, through it and writing annotation definition prompting message type
710	 	String of character resources deployment document 
The semicolon (half-angle), is the annotation mark 
The form is: String of character ID= string of character 
The contact surface partial string of character ID space is 10000-50000 
GUI increases voluntarily which by the plan the contact surface string of character ID space is 50000-99999 (feeds specially plan use) 
3DRole the partial string of character ID space is 100000-200000 
Gui table of contents median surface ini and in the script lua string resources 200000-300000 (feed specially procedure use) 
The map partial string of character ID space is 300000-400000 
3DBaseCode the partial string of character ID space is 500000-600000	 
711 	String of character resources deployment document	0=ERROR 
; Contact surface part 
10000= requests the transaction 
whether 10001= does accept	The form is: The string of character ID= string of character (i.e. client side prompting message, a line most may support 78 bytes)

[hio77]

FontInfo was never used in 2005.

in the current pserver version (if i remember correctly, 20071031 (3758-1088)) FontInfo is not referenced.

Font handling is pretty hard to trace in disassembly due to all the random references, end up tracing GL code rather than what your actually looking for.

Fontsetup01 and FontSetup Are loaded however their origin is quite confusing.


Interestingly PetFontName is really an easy trace.

 Spoiler

push    offset aPetfontname ; "PetFontName"
mov     ecx, eax
call    dword ptr [edx+34h]
push    eax             ; PszTitle
push    offset aIniVersionsetu ; "ini/VersionSetup.ini"
call    IniDataGet      ;  char char char int& bool
add     esp, 14h
call    edi ; GameDataSetQuery
mov     edx, [eax]
lea     ecx, [ebp+var_8]
push    0               ; bCritical
push    ecx             ; iData
push    offset aPetfonttype ; "PetFontType"
mov     ecx, eax
call    dword ptr [edx+34h]

For those who want a bit of understanding, essentially IniDataGet Which is simply a complex wrapper for Ini file reading with error outputs

Why this bit catches me as so interesting, is it is loaded off ini/VersionSetup.ini Which well, Does not exist in any version i see around.

Onto more digging though


Gamesetup.ini
[EudMonsterSet]
AutoAttach=0

AutoAttach itself is written to but not read by a dynamic function. not 100% on what file its writing to due to the dynamic calls that happen 500000000 times on this function alone.

Enough digging at this for the day though, back to packets for me.