Dark and Light Windows Config

[Gotteshand]

Hey BRIT, what happened to your mega thread? DnL is playing up again for my server

 

Hi. I can send you my XML which works. VG

[Monotono]

Anyone has a Working XML? Would appreciate it!

 

Greetings

 

Mono

[jungleNZ]

Not mine but his.

Dark and Light - Windows.xml

[KGM6911]

Is there something like automanagedmods that Ark has for Dark and Light? I tried setting mine up the same as I have my ark servers but that didn't work.

 

Or does anyone know how to extract the .z files that are downloaded using workshop_download_item with steamcmd?

[Karl Thomas]

You could use Ark Mod Downloader https://github.com/barrycarey/Ark_Mod_Downloader it will download the mod via the id and extract the .z file

[KGM6911]

Thanks for the reply. I had been trying to use that. I tried to modify it for Dark and Light but I was unable to create an executable that would work. I tried a few different versions of python and py2exe to do it. Have you created a .exe for Dark and Light from these scripts? If so what versions of python and py2exe did you use? Or do you use it just as a python script in tcadmin and how did you do this? I've not been successful with getting python scripts to work yet. Any help is appreciated! Thanks

[Karl Thomas]

I have never done anything with Dark and Light but you can get the exe from here https://github.com/barrycarey/Ark_Mod_Downloader/raw/master/dist/Ark_Mod_Downloader.exe i had this setup for ark i just use batch script to download the mod

Ark_Mod_Downloader.exe --steamcmd "D:\TCAdmin2\TCAFiles\Users\SteamCmd" --workingdir %ThisService_RootDirectory% --modid %ThisService_Modid%

i have Script parameter checked for the %ThisService_Modid% variable so when they run the script they get a text box and they just enter the modid

[crunkinshoe]

I have never done anything with Dark and Light but you can get the exe from here https://github.com/barrycarey/Ark_Mod_Downloader/raw/master/dist/Ark_Mod_Downloader.exe i had this setup for ark i just use batch script to download the mod

Ark_Mod_Downloader.exe --steamcmd "D:\TCAdmin2\TCAFiles\Users\SteamCmd" --workingdir %ThisService_RootDirectory% --modid %ThisService_Modid%

i have Script parameter checked for the %ThisService_Modid% variable so when they run the script they get a text box and they just enter the modid

 

 

Has anyone figured out a way to get mods unpacked? I tried editing the .exe with DnL parameters however it doesn't seem to work.

[Karl Thomas]

I had a bettter look at the ark mod downloader and it wont work without editing the .py file becuase it coded to the ark mod directory however i downloaded a DnL mod with just steamcmd it was not in a .z file this is what i used

@echo off
REM 529180 is the game id
REM 1402919630 is the mod id
D:\TCAdmin2\TCAFiles\Users\SteamCmd\steamcmd.exe +login anonymous +workshop_download_item 529180 1402919630 +quit

[crunkinshoe]

The DnL mods I looked at were all .z and in the same format as ARK as the game is basically an ARK clone. If I were to use the Ark_Mod_Downloader.py directly (with the appropriate edits) where in the TCAdmin files do I put arkit.py? I tried in the server root directory where you would put the .exe file however it was not finding it.

[Karl Thomas]

No i think you will need to put the arkit.py in the TCAdmin2\Monitor\Shared\Lib folder if im not mistaken

[crunkinshoe]

It seems arkit.py will not work with TCAdmin as it does not support Python3. I haven't had any luck trying to compile the .exe with the DnL changes either. Did anyone figure out a way to extract the mods?

[Dennis]

1. Download Python3.

2. Create a bash script that execute somethings like

python C:\path\to\downloader.py --modid <variable that stores mod id>

 

 

Easy as that

[crunkinshoe]

1. Download Python3.

2. Create a bash script that execute somethings like

python C:\path\to\downloader.py --modid <variable that stores mod id>

 

 

Easy as that

 

This is the error received when using this method:

 

C:\TCAFiles\Users\Admin\2495>C:\Python\python.exe C:\Python\DNL_Mod_Downloader.py --workingdir C:\TCAFiles\Users\Admin\2495\ --preserve --modids 1419630194

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Python\DNL_Mod_Downloader.py", line 419, in <module>

main()

File "C:\Python\DNL_Mod_Downloader.py", line 404, in main

if not args.modid and not args.mod_update:

AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'modid'

Process exited with code 1

[Dennis]

The python script is actually broken. See this: https://github.com/barrycarey/Ark_Mod_Downloader/pull/3

 

 

https://github.com/barrycarey/Ark_Mod_Downloader/blob/2207dbe2e417bf19e183761970fc27ed77e11ea7/Ark_Mod_Downloader.py

[crunkinshoe]

You are the man Dennis, thanks! One last issue is that it doesn't create the .mod file correctly. It looks to be creating a .mod file inside the mod's folder but not naming it to 123456789.mod (for example) and moving it to the root Mods directory. Any ideas on why this is?

[Dennis]

SteamCMD was updated to use the home directory of the user that runs SteamCMD. If I recall correctly, it's something like /home/tcagame_svc123/Steam.

The script looks in /home/tcagame_svc123/123/SteamCMD - you need to change this from the script.

 

 

Are you running the game server as TCAGame or user per service?

[crunkinshoe]

I'm running it as TCAGame. Just to clarify it does create the 123456789 folder with the extracted mod files and move it to the DNL\Content\Mods folder. It also looks to be creating the .mod file however it has it as just .mod and not 123456789.mod and it is leaving it in the 123456789 folder and not putting it in the DNL\Content\Mods folder.

Edited August 18, 2018 by crunkinshoe

[crunkinshoe]

It looks like you can have the .mod file in the DNL\Content\Mods folder named 123456789.mod or in the DNL\Content\Mods\123456789 folder named as just .mod

 

I wasn't aware the second was also an option as I had been doing it the first way for ARK. Everything looks to be working, thanks again Dennis!

[KGM6911]

Thanks for clarifying this Dennis!

[Gotteshand]

Hi. I have some updates seemingly the problem that my XML file is outdated. The server starts and runs but after a restart the server stops running. Has something changed? The DLL files I have missing are always manually copied to the binary folder

 

Does anyone have a current XML file?

 

Many Thanks

[Gotteshand]

Hi. Does anyone have a working config here? My seems to be no longer the last update and the server stops after a short time

 

Many Thanks

[numpty]

Hi. Does anyone have a working config here? My seems to be no longer the last update and the server stops after a short time

 

Many Thanks

I can have a look at the config and try it out sometime this week and if needed update it

[Gotteshand]

Hello. That's super nice thank you. I use the files only for me Private and my community.

 

The main problem is that after each restart the old Savefile stops running. Have already tested several files and all have the same problem. The last file was from BRIT.

 

Big Thx

dnl - Windows.xml

[numpty]

I made my own config as soon as released. It's basic. But should still work. I'll test it out and if does I'll share it with you