question about date/time in tribes

disclaimer:
please, if you must flame. send me an IM. please.

when you do $console::logmode=1; and it begins its write, the section of log is preceded by

-------------------------- 9/6/2003 -- 17:17:33 -----

or whatever date it is. what variables or functions can i use to get the current date/time in the game?

Get a date/time indicator script and see what that refers to.

Timestamping is impossible using default Tribes without running an annoying external program to generate a .cs file with a timestamp for you..

Luckily you can download my .exe patch that adds a working timestamp function to tribes :)

http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/project.tribes/files/t1_timestamp_patch.zip

That $Console::LogMode command is how Andrew and I came across the GetLocalTime API, and after tracing a few conditional jmp's to find the right offset, Andrew hooked the API and replaced an un-used function (then just coded it in C)

After downloading the patch, you can use TimeStamp() to call the time, then just write a script to parse the results (or download a pre-made one)

Coded it in C my azz, I just coded it straight in ASM, then found the opcodes and kept crashing Tribes until I got it to work..

You coded the final timestamp patch in C.. (is what I meant)

I fucking hate you script kiddie I hope you die of aids from a transvestite.

im sure you make vets proud, my child.

here it is, just for you cocksco:

"if you dont like me, ignore me".

to all others, thanks.

The humor is lost :(

me wonders how many other hacked exe "patches" there are out there that aren't actually useful and used for bs reasons

does this affect any other exe, aka the patched exe for crc bypass. will it break the exe if you patch a patched exe, etc.

I'd like to stick this on the servers if possible instead of using the fucking mfc timer tool, or is that possible?

Nope, it won't break anything..
I think Andrew might've already put it on Heaven (to save having to use an External timer app), although I'm not sure :

Since i'm the only one with direct access outside of CF, I know it isnt on heaven.
Heaven/Hell both use the MFC timer app, and Hell is forced to use the TimePoet tool cause MFC doesnt run on NT4.

Hell will be back online whenever I ship out the new server to Brandon, hopefully this week or next.

Dang. I meant to write a zadmin that used the internal timestamping but I never got around to it because I think I crapped up the source trying to make the upgraded version which I never finished..

Let me take a look at it, I freakin hate freakin Timepoet which stops logging randomly, and both apps will randomly write to the file right as you try and read, leaving you with a blank timestamp

btw, you never answer any of my messages/IM's and emails
so wtf man.. :o


Need to find out what the problem is with ZA and the new LT maps, for some reason a few things don't work correctly or at all... like BF suddenly won't change maps and states there is no valid next missions/first mission and the timer goes to off and the caplimit get set to 100000, wtf?

There are some other things I wanted to go over with you as well, but don't know how to get a hold of you

want me to pm you my # at home/work/cell or .....

why does everyone </3 scrit.kiddie? tell me please so i can </3 too or perhaps <3

DAMNNNNN i spent like 2 minutes trying to word that right and it still doesnt make sense

why does everyone </3 scrit.kiddie? tell me please so i can </3 too or perhaps <3
Well, it's not EVERYONE, but definately a lot...

Check out the thread 'Useful Flooding script!!!' or 'A Server of mine being nuked' (both started by kiddie; they're quite old, use forum search to find them) and ask again if you still don't know... ;)