(SOLVED) How to force map to automatically change

[Broadus]

In my co-op mod, all of the players are supposed to be on the same team. When the players beat the level, I call in "teamwin allies" and the Allies win.
The problem is, they won't consider it a successful round unless there was (or is?) a player on the Axis team. So instead of going to the next map, it just restarts the current one.
Is there a way I can force the server to change maps? Like, is there a global script I can edit, or a script I can put into the map that would make it change?

[bdbodger]

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bsptransition( String next_map )


Transitions to the next BSP. Keeps player data, and game data.

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map( String map_name )


Starts the specified map.

[Broadus]

Are these scripts I put into the map?
I wrote them like this:

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bsptransition(m1l2a)

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map(m1l2a)

And nothing happened with either of them.

[bdbodger]

What else did you try did you try

bsptransition(maps/m1l2a)

What thread did you put that in ?

[Broadus]

Are you sure bsptransition works? Especially in multiplayer. I'm scripting for online multiplayer.

If I could somehow force a console command in the map script, then I could just use the console command "map ??????". I don't want to make the player, or the host, have to do the console commands manually.

[bdbodger]

In mission m1l2a when they want to go to the next mission they use this line

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exec global/missioncomplete.scr m1l2b 1

global/missioncomplete.scr

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main local.nextlevel local.bsp:
	if ($player.health <= 0)
		pause

	$player stopwatch 0	
	if (local.nextlevel != NIL)
	{
		if (local.bsp != NIL)
		{
			game.loadout = false
			bsptransition local.nextlevel
		}
		else
		{
			game.loadout = NIL
			leveltransition local.nextlevel
		}
	}

end

of course you can't use that as is . I don't know the difference between bsptransition and leveltransition they seem the same .

[Broadus]

That line doesn't work in multiplayer.

[bdbodger]

if you can enter map ??? in the console you should be able to use it in script the same way . Are you useing the Allieswin still ? I would say don't if you are .

[Broadus]

Unfortunately, trying to use console commands as scripts, as in just typing:

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map m1l2b

into a thread doesn't work.

[bdbodger]

I see OK

[Broadus]

So does anyone have any idea how to solve my problem in the first post?

[$oldier Of Ra]

Read my last post:

/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13355

Cheers

[Rookie One.pl]

I had this method of forcing map changes and restarts by faking a vote. Off the top of my head:

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// allow votes
setcvar "g_allowVote" "1"
// cancel any votes that may be in progress
for (local.i = 1; local.i <= $player.size; local.i++)
   $player[local.i] vote no
// use any player to call the map switch vote
$player[1] callvote map "yournextmap"
// force vote passing
for (local.i = 1; local.i <= $player.size; local.i++)
   $player[local.i] vote yes
// map change should occur halfway through the above loop

Now that this code snippet doesn't take 3 things into account:
1) there might be no players in the server (but, on the other hand, how would they win, then?)
2) I'm not sure how connecting (i.e. map loading) players are seen by the game; anyway, you need a player who's got the map loaded and is in game at least as a spectator to call the vote
3) this overrides the admin's setting of g_allowVote cvar; one way to overcome this would be to save off its value just before faking the vote in a game object variable:

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game.allow_vote = getcvar("g_allowVote")

and restore it at the next map's start:

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setcvar "g_allowVote" game.allow_vote

However, you'd need to put that code in every map script. I don't think it's very important, though, I've always considered admins who thought disabling votes would decrease abuse are morons.

[Broadus]

Well, now this problem has been solved in a different topic.
But, a voting system might be good to have in case of emergencies, like all the players get stuck or something... Hopefully I won't have any such emergencies, but I guess they're inevitable.