How are the latest patch zombies? I've not played yet, but I've been told they have much better vision and hearing now?

If I can automate it yes

Quote from misiek08 :

Embed ability would be propably best method, because it will allow people to put livemap into their website. Propably I will make another price for white label hosting

I'll add it to my list

Quote from Dygear :

I'm watching, I'll have a closer look tonight see if there is anything I would like to add.

Needs a bunch of things really, like track 'id' to name decoding, etc. was thinking something like lfsworld.isEq(001, 'BL1') or similar. Haven't had the time or need for that yet though

Frankly it's a bit of a waste of the word 'library' - there's nothing to it really. Realistically it's just there so I didn't have to write HTTP client requests every few minutes for super secret evening project 1239823123767.5.

Just a quick note, anyone who wants/needs to run xi4n against node >=0.8 as of right now needs the unstable git version. This isn't npm install-able at the moment, as it's unstable. I hope to have some time to work on xi4n after a few weeks

I use(d) SixUpdater (http://www.six-updater.net/) to get it installed, keep it upto date and to find servers, etc. Mostly works without issue, although the launcher ping times takes a while sometimes.

Sounds like the the standard "windows thinks this didn't install" dialog you've got there chanoman315. Probably did install However having not used the "manual" installer, that's a bit of a guess

Quote from lukelfs :

Stay away from the large towns, don't trust anyone unless you know them ofc lol, if chased by zeds then go into a building as they can only walk inside. Head off the the country side and look in barns etc for stuff. Deer stands are also good to find items.

Bleh, was playing during the euro final, on my laptop and screaming like a girl (getting the piss taken out of me by my housemates) Day 0 character and I'm stuck in up a ladder elektro with no weapons at all, no food, and only empty water bottles My problem with the countryside is getting lost =/ I never seem to find anything and just die of exposure

They removed spawning with a gun in the latest(?) patch - it makes it a lot harder, especially if you're a new player

Nothing special.

Small wrapper around a pre-existing HTTP client, to talk to LFSWorld pubstats. Written for and tested against node 0.8. May work on older versions. May work in the browser if combined with requirejs (100% untested).

Docs: http://theangryangel.github.com/lfsworld.js/
Repo: https://github.com/theangryangel/lfsworld.js

Needs a bunch of stuff added really, but it may speed up someone's project by an hour if someone else needs it. Pull requests, patches, etc. welcome.

Don't know if I'll take this too much farther as it's Just Enough(TM) for what I need at the moment.

Had a 45 min blast just now, maybe I was very unlucky, but everywhere I went was completely bone dry and devoid of anything except empty cans and empty bottles.

Spawned at a lighthouse, I visited and ran away from a heavily infested village, hit up a manufacturing establishment and found nothing, and then ran away again after a billion zombies swarmed in, found a farm building that I couldn't get into. The outside bog door opened though. Nothing but empty cans that I couldn't pick up. Found another small industrial plant in the middle of a forested area and only found some empty bottles and 1 mag of ammo - which was useless without a weapon, then got trapped (which was stupid).

Was I just unlucky or is that just how it goes sometimes? Was I likely to have just been following behind someone?

It seems like its sometimes in your favour to just cheese it in, rather than becareful - based on the behaviour of the spawning?

Been looking at this since I saw it a few weeks ago, but I've gotta get ArmaII: CO first.

As it's not on sale, and frankly I don't have a lot of time to play, is it really worth it? i.e. Am I going to shell out 24GBP and get a decent amount of play time out of it? Or is it more of a play once and then never again?

Funky Glad to see the LFS web stuff still gets security updates!

Moved over to bcrypt by any chance?

It can be done, could do it 2 different ways;

You could either query and refresh LFSW's data feed. The problem with that is that LFSW tarpits unless you pay for it.

The alternative would be to use InSim and calculate it all at your end. It wouldnt necessarily match up 100% with LFSW, but you could probably do some rough syncing of numbers at every start up or shutdown.

How live are you talking? Update every few minutes? Update every second?

What you're about to see is the result of an evening of playing around with LFS, Openshot and more importantly SlowmoVideo. It's not tidy, and it's really rough, and I've totally overrun the 3 hours I was going to spend on it (and no more )

I will say this - no more video making for TAA I don't have the patience for this shit! I have a new found respect for you all! I'll be sticking to programming in future

Anyway, the video is artifically slowed down and time is manipulated using SlowmoVideo. The benefit you get over slowing it down outside of LFS, is the pure control you can have over the timeline. Don't pay much attention to the artifacts in one section where I really fiddled with the time and slowed it down non-linearly - those can be cleaned up with sufficient time or skills - I only spent an hour or so getting rid of the worst bits, and the non-linear time fiddle was by far the worst.

However I do hope that someone else sees whats capable with SlowmoVideo and has a play with it. It's interesting software. I will warn you that it is a little crash happy - thats the only downside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY84S9w_Eq0&hd=1

Quote from NSX_FReeDoM :

Not the best example. DNF was a total fail.

To be honest, LFS could only pull a DN:F if they decided that you could only fit 1 tyre to a vehicle at once, made all tracks completely straight, removed multiplayer and ensured that tracks only loaded after 10 minutes

Hail to the king, baby.

Quote from misiek08 :

I can host node.js for you. Only 1$/month/server (for livemap2 plugin).

Would embed-ability be any good for your endeavour misiek?

If anyone's interested I've just bumped to 0.0.4.

Rough changes (that are import since 0.0.3):

• Plugins can now be loaded from directories, which allows individual per-plugin node_modules - Support for automatically downloading required node modules will be baked into 0.0.5 - for now some npm install or npm link fun may be needed. I may drop support for individual files at some point in the future as I don't see the realistic use for that.
  
• Livemap fixes, such as ghost players, track orientation, etc. - A big thanks to paXton / PascalMD for the fixes on this
  
• Outgauge and OutSim support
  
• Fixed IS_SMALL so it doesn't crash out the connection
  
• Experimental hot reload of config files
  
• config.d directory, which *.json files are merged into the main configuration object
  
• Started documentation - some of which is auto-generated from the code, some of which isn't - it will be fully complete, with video guides for 0.0.5
  

My open issues for 0.0.5:
https://github.com/theangryang ... rt=created&state=open

Please, feel free to contribute, submit issues and so on.

If you're interested in something that's not necessarily Android specific, but runs in a webpage served by an application running on your PC there's the development version of xi4n, which has a preliminary Outgauge example plugin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH9P00a4FPs

Pfft, commiting without testing is the only way to ride

Cheers for the cheering up guys <3

... Where you delete the wrong branch, and you didn't merge it into another branch or push it somewhere else ye (yes I'm aware it's potentially recoverable, but mehasdasdkjkads)


Meh

I demand cheering up. Tell me your failures.

Last edited by the_angry_angel, Sat 2 Jun 2012, 18:22.

FYI anyone not watching the repo I've pushed in a bunch of changes into the master branch, including support for admin password and other ISI options. I'm done these changes on my laptop and I've not got LFS to hand to test, so it may be a little bit broken, however I don't believe it is. I'll test as soon as I can.

The npm-plugins branch needs merging, and adds support for NPM install-able and update-able plugins This means that each plugin can be installed from a URL and each plugin can be installed with it's own dependencies - so it should address the npm link fun you guys had. This is again untested, and isn't merged because it's a reasonably large change.

If both of these things survive testing that only leaves https://github.com/theangryangel/XI4N/issues/18 before I bump to 0.0.4 and start working on the stuff I've marked for 0.0.5 - so outgauge, etc. https://github.com/theangryang ... rt=created&state=open

I fully intend on working on this quite a lot during the up coming long weekend in the UK, so hopefully by Tuesday there should be lots of changes checked in and lots of fixed things

Merged into master, thanks for the patch dude

Feel free to add yourself to the contributors key in package.json, if you wish paXton Recognition where recognition is due - you've been putting in more work than me the last few weeks

Quote from misiek08 :

So it's fixed only for 1 plugin and other plugins got normal data

The converted pth files aren't just used by livemap2.js, so if you've changed the pth converter script then you've also affected anything else that also uses them. If you've not changed the converted pth files then I'm not seeing how your fix works tbh...

The only issue I have with changing the converted PTH files is that then you realistically need to alter the data in the MCI other packets that contain positions as well. That then leads to confusion when or if you ever port to something else. Or have to interoperate with another addon - you don't want users to be surprised when they get different data from xi4n in constrast to another library.

I'd personally much rather put this fix directly into the livemap plugin - which I'll try and make time for before the end of the month.

Edit: As 2 people have now asked, please feel free to fork on github.com and submit pull requests. If you do submit a pull request feel free to add yourself to the package.json as a contributor (see http://package.json.nodejitsu.com/ if you're the first or not familiar with package.json format). I can't guarantee when I'll be able to do much work on xi4n for a few weeks, but I'll try and merge pull requests as often as possible.

Last edited by the_angry_angel, Fri 25 May 2012, 17:12.