> Ah. I thought that's what it was. Can anyone suggest a workaround for not
> being able to change the mod in-game?
>
> Or should I abandon the whole idea :)
It can't be done through the engine itself. There's no mechanism to unload
one game DLL and load another one in it's place.
The only method that I can think of for Win32 is to create a batch file that
starts the dedicated server. Write a metamod or AdminMOD plugin that can
intercept a command ("changegame valve" or whatever), overwrite the batch
file used to start the server with a new batch file that adds "-game valve"
to the command line and have the batch file go back to the top of the file,
like this...
:loop
hlds.exe -game whatever +maxplayers 16 +map startmap
goto loop
...then have your plugin execute 'SERVER_COMMAND("exit\n")' to quit the
server. The batch file will continue with the next line which will go back
to the top and execute the dedicated server again (this time with a
different game DLL).
I doubt this techinque would work under Linux because Win32 batch file
execution has the peculiar behavior of re-reading the batch file each time a
new line is executed (i.e. it doesn't cache the open batch file in memory
anywhere). At least it didn't do this under MS-DOS 6.x, the behavior might
not be the same under Win2K/WinNT/WinXP, you'll have to try it yourself and
see.
Jeffrey "botman" Broome
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