[UT3] BiaVote-0.5.3

Description

NAME
BiaVote -- UT3 Voting Mutator

Version 0.5.3 BETA
Release, January 28, 2008

DESCRIPTION
[BIA]Vote is a Voting Mutator for UT3 which replaces the game's end-game
voting system and allows for mid-game voting as well as voting on game
types, etc.

See the CHANGES section below for release notes.

Current Features
* Replaces the in game voting system.

* Can be activated during the game -- configurable key mapping, or via
the console command "mutate biavote"

* Game type Voting -- if a game wins the vote, maps for that game type
are reloaded and the voting round starts again

* Map Voting -- different maplists for different game types

* Kick voting -- can be enabled/disabled

* Vote to add Bots -- can be enabled/disabled

* Configurable vote time limit

* Configurable *welcome screen* that will show on server login -- May
be disabled, enabled to display once per server login or every time
a new game starts on the server

* Configurable for different *game types* that you may define in the
INI file

* Squashes the UT3 MidGameMenu on pre/post map load/server travel --
MidGameMenu is still accessible

* Works with custom game types -- can distinguish between multiple
*configurable game types* that you define even if they all have the
same Game Class

* Translocator or Hoverboard may be enabled or disabled for any type
of game on a per-game or per-map basis

* Actor Removal -- Remove Items/Actors by group, configurable per game
-- ex: play UTDeathMatch on a WAR map without any Power Cores.

CHANGES
BiaVote-0.5.3
This is a bugfix release, I tried to quash some of the reported
issues with UI integration.

* Fixed bug causing the BiaVote menu to display empty lists when
end-game vote round begins and BiaVote was already displayed.
* BiaVote-0.5.3 Fixes some of the bugs and annoyances associated
with integrating with the UT3 menu system. There are still
some issues but many were addressed.
* The "disconnect" button was removed from the BiaVote menu and
replaced with a "Change Teams" button. The presense and
functionality of this button will be configurable in the next
update (it will respect the game's setting).
* NOTE: The Maps=( Options=() ) config entries are not yet supported
please ignore references to this in the README and .INI.
This will be supported in the next update.

BiaVote-0.5.1
This is primarily a stability release. Several reported issues were
fixed or partially fixed and a few new features were added.

* Fixed README.txt referring to the wrong name for the mutator
* Fixed some of the things that may cause "input lockup"
* Fixed RoundOver being confused with MatchOver in Team Games
* Fixed AddBots, no capped at NumPlay value
* Enhanced logic used to determine when voting should end
* New Feature: Enable/Disable of Hoverboard/Translocator
* New Feature: Actor Removal, per-game type, by groups
* New Feature: Strip prefix from Maps when no Title= is given in .ini

BiaVote-0.3.0
* Initial release as a Mutator

CONTENTS
The files contained in the release archive are as follows:

README.txt
LICENSE.txt
Config/UTBiaVote.ini
CookedPC/BiaVote.u
CookedPC/BiaVoteMenu.upk

INSTALLATION
Installation of BiaVote is as simple as copying a few files around.

Note that BiaVote does not work in single player mode -- If you want to
try it out you will have to run a LAN game. To do this,
simply run "ut3 server DM-Diesel?Mutators=BiaVote.Bia​VoteMutator" -- and
then fire up UT3 and on the server filter, select LAN match.

Installation Procedure
1. Stop your server.

2. Copy all of the .u and .upk files to your server's UTGame/CookedPC
directory.

3. Copy "UTBiaVote.ini" to your servers Config directory. Edit it to
customize it for your server - Instructions are embedded within
comments.

4. Edit your server's startup command line -- see below -- BiaVote's
mutator should be first in your mutators list.

5. Start your server!

Configuring Your Server Command Line
The name of the mutator is BiaVote.BiaVoteMutator. You need to include
it as the first mutator if possible. Note that you do not have to wory
about adding it as an option in UTBiaVote.ini file, as BiaVote will
always add its self when restarting a new map, etc.

If you have multiple mutators, remember to include only a single
Mutator= option in your command line -- assign it a comma-separated list
of mutators.

Examples:

DM-Deck?NumPlay=5?Mutator=BiaV​ote.BiaVoteMutator

DM-HeatRay?Mutator=BiaVote.Bia​VoteMutator,UTMutator_BigHead,​UTMutator_Arena

DM-HeatRay?Game=UTTeamGame?Mut​ator=BiaVoteMutator?TimeLimit=​10?EnableTranslocator=true

UTBiaVote.ini Configuration Hints
* You can not enable/disable the translocator or hoverboard with an
INI setting. Instead you must include the option in the Options=
member of your Maps=() or Games=() entries. Example:

Games=( Game=DM, GameClass=UTDeathmatch, Title=DeathMatch, Options="EnableTranslocator=tr​ue" )
Maps=( Map=DM-Heatray, Games="DM,TDM", Options="EnableTranslocator=fa​lse" )

* Quoting. You do not strictly need to use quotes in the values you
assign to things in the .INI file. If you always use quotes for
string values then you will be ok. Note that the UT ini parser will
try to make arrays of strings out of anything it sees with commas in
it unless it is quoted, so:

Maps=( Map=DM-HeatRay, Games=DM,TDM ) <--- WRONG! Maps=( Map=DM-HeatRay, Games="DM,TDM" ) <--- Ok * Options. You may include Options in the Map Name by following the map name with a question mark and options. It may be best however to use the Options= entry for the map, which is a little cleaner. PROJECT This project is maintained on Google-Code. The project web site is at: http://code.google.com/p/ut3-s​niper-game If you find issues, bugs or wish to make a feature suggestion, please drop by the issues list at: http://code.google.com/p/ut3-s​niper-game/issues/list Source code access is available via subversion (but the code is really, really a mess just now - lol!). If you wish to get involved with the coding effort for BiaVote or other planned projects then let me know. AUTHOR [BIA]DarthMushak * http://code.google.com/p/ut3-s​niper-game * http://groups.google.com/group​/ut3-sniper-game * http://bia-2k4.com LICENSE New BSD License -- see the included LICENSE.TXT file. * http://www.opensource.org/lice​nses/bsd-license.php