Update Empires is now supported out of the box with recent versions of SourceMod. However, when Empires is updated, the gamedata files can change, and it takes time for those changes to be included by the SourceMod developers. Updated files will be provided here until they are included in a SM release. The changes from 2.25 -> 2.26 only effected games.empires.txt, which has been updated to support 2.26 and attached to this post. Hello Everyone, As many of the server admins know, SourceMod hasn’t worked properly with Empires since the release of 2.2. SourceMod uses configuration data specific to each game (called gamedata) in order to work correctly. Empires 2.0 – 2.12 had gamedata included with SM, but with the release of 2.2x, those entries were no longer valid. In spite of the total lack of documentation on the subject, Theowningone and I have found the gamedata entries for Empires 2.2x. Instructions Download engine.ep2.txt and game.empires.txt and copy them to empires/addons/sourcemod/gamedata/sdktools.games/custom. Download common.games.txt and copy it to empires/addons/sourcemod/gamedata/core.games/custom. By default the custom folders don't exist, so feel free to create them. If you want sm_vote to work, download basevotes.phrases.txt and copy it to empires/addons/sourcemod/translations. If you want mapchooser votes to work properly, download mapchooser.phrases.txt and copy it to empires/addons/sourcemod/translations. These files have been tested with SourceMod 1.2 and Empires 2.24 on Windows.
Thanks for getting this together! Has this been tested on linux? For some reason i'm still not getting a response. I used 1.1 SM will try 1.0.4
No this has not been tested on Linux. It should run just fine though. If Empires server plugins are still messed up under Linux, there's very little I can do.
Yeah I tried both 1.0.4 and 1.1. No go. I might be doing something wrong but I am pretty sure I installed it right.
Could you provide more details about what happened to make you post "no go"? Does SM work properly with the basic commands like kick and ban? If it doesn't, there is probably a plugin bug in the Linux build. You're joking right? You think I "blackmailed" them for a little piece of text that appears under my name? Um...... No...... I didn't even ask for the title. I was offered it after I asked around about getting some kind of credit for my work. When I say spoken with, I mean that I talked with them about releasing the SM support files, and I was asking if they could bind the radio menu commands so we wouldn't have to use the ESC menus. Maybe someone misinterpreted what I said, or maybe I didn't say it the way I meant it, or maybe I just didn't say it the way I should've. I'm not sure what you guys think, but this is the real story.
On SM wiki in the tutorial there is a note that says that Linux offsets are different (-1 or similar).
The Linux offset is the Windows offset plus one. I don't think it's the offsets tbh, since I heard there were issues with server plugins and Empires on Linux. I'll fire up a Ubuntu box some time this weekend and see what's going on.
I cant get a meta version in console or any other commands to work, so no basic commands are being recognized. I can give you access to our server (ubuntu) if that will help. LMK
If meta version isn't working, it's not a problem with SM. This is what I guessed in my other post. Plugins may not be working properly with the Linux build. If you want to PM me, I can check into it in more detail.
I think I'll wait to see if MetaMod will even load on Empires under Linux before I spend more time on it.
Addons have been notoriously bugged in Linux servers since 2.0 (at least, that's what 90% of the community says).
/me picks up Junk 2.x and throws it into the trash. Now that you don't have that junk, you can learn SourceMod :D
