Playing Deathball under Linux (UT 2004)

[codec]

Hello guys,

I am running the linux client of UT 2004 and would like to play Deathball aswell. I've got everything set up properly (I think), even though getting the files out of the exe-installer was a bit of pain

I now got

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ut2004/Deathball/System/..
ut2004/Deathball/Maps/...
etc..

ut2004/System/Deathball.int
ut2004/System/Deathball.ucl
ut2004/System/Map.ucl  (Map beeing a Mapname, like DB-Cube)

Now, when running ut2004 -mod=Deathball, it gives me the following error:

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$ ut2004 -mod=Deathball
Failed to find object 'Class Deathball.04Sse/U24s
 
Exiting due to error

Anybody got an idea how to solve that problem?

Thanks,
codec

[Diab]

i thought you were unable to have mod files in the 2004/ directories and have to have them all in the deathball folder?

did you try it that way? or do you not do that on linux clients?

[Sixty]

As far as I know, nothing should be in UT2004/System or any root except UT2004/Deathball.
ALthough I don't know much about Lunix clients.

[Maegrim]

Unix or Linux ;D

[codec]

Well the directory/file structure is exactly the same, just the executables have a different format.

Could anybody tell me how their directory structure looks like?

I bet you got the following files aswell (placed by exe-installer):

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ut2004/System/DB-Bowl.ucl
ut2004/System/DB-Cube.ucl
ut2004/System/DB-SmallCube.ucl
ut2004/System/DeathBall.ucl
ut2004/System/Deathball.int

All the patch content ofcourse goes to the directories in ut2004/deathball/..

Thanks,
codec

[Wibble]

Hmm, I'm not at the computer with db on at the moment, but that sounds wrong.

If I remember correctly the db stuff should go in the deathball directory that the exe installer creates. The structure is something like:-

../../deathball/system or maps or whatever

I'll try and give a fuller answer tomorrow if you need it

[ShockerZ]

Nope, the only thing I got in my UT2004/System is deathball.int

[DavidM]

only things that go in ut2004\system:

\system\
deathball.int
deathball.ucl
db-bowl.ucl (one for all maps)

ANYTHING else must be in ut2004\deathball

[Icarus_LNX]

only things that go in ut2004\system:

\system\
deathball.int
deathball.ucl
db-bowl.ucl (one for all maps)

ANYTHING else must be in ut2004\deathball

These should be in the ut2004/deathball/System or the ut2004/System?

I don't have ANY of these .ucl files at all (beta zip and update) I'll try the full download again...


[edit]Hmm, I could of swarn there was a zip for the full beta...[/edit]

[Icarus_LNX]

Found that zip file, it was from early April
Extracted the db20beta.exe using wine-20040121 which by the way took forever to extract. If do not make zip files in the future (which extract 48MB in about 5 seconds), please do not use the "Nullsoft Install System v2.0" as that is extremely slow (1 1/2 hours to extract)...at least wine didn't give back any obvious errors. It was extremely CPU intensive and barely wrote to disk as it was extracting

ANYWAY

Here's the command and output

$ ut2004 -mod=deathball
Failed to find object 'Class Deathball.04Sse/U24s

Exiting due to error

And here's the System/UT2004.log

Log: Log file open, Fri May 7 21:46:19 2004
Init: Name subsystem initialized
Log: Your locale: [ANSI_X3.4-1968].
Init: Version: 3186 (127.29)
Init: Compiled: Mar 4 2004 03:07:41
Init: Command line: -mod=deathball
Init: (This is Linux patch version 3186.0)
Init: Character set: Unicode
Init: Base directory: /usr/local/games/ut2004/System/
Init: Ini:..\deathball\system\deathball.ini UserIni:..\deathball\system\deathballUser.ini
Init: Build label: UT2004 Build UT2004_Build_[2004-03-03_02.42]
Init: Object subsystem initialized
Warning: Missing Class Class Editor.TransBuffer
Warning: Failed to load 'Class Deathball.': Failed to find object 'Class Deathball.'
Warning: Failed to find object 'Class Deathball.'
Critical: Failed to find object 'Class Deathball.'
Exit: Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Exit: Exiting.
Log: FileManager: Reading 0 GByte 2 MByte 726 KByte 918 Bytes from HD took 0.997577 seconds (0.895164 reading, 0.102413 seeking).
Log: FileManager: 0.000000 seconds spent with misc. duties
Uninitialized: Name subsystem shut down
Uninitialized: Log file closed, Fri May 7 21:46:27 2004

I think it's not reading the .ini's

Init: Ini:..\deathball\system\deathball.ini UserIni:..\deathball\system\deathballUser.ini

Which is how Windows filesystems look, but in Linux it should be

Init: Ini:../deathball/system/deathball.ini UserIni:../deathball/system/deathballUser.ini

and even then I'm not sure that will work since Linux is stricly case sensitive and the files and paths are exactly

deathball/System/Deathball.ini
deathball/System/DeathballUser.ini

Unless once the game launches it enters it;s own little psuedo-OS. I don't know uscript so I can't say on that.

Any ideas from here?

[makush]

You could try to edit the Deathball .ini files and correct the paths if it helps.

[GreaseMonkey]

Kinda old post, but did you get it working Codec?
Has anyone got deathball running in linux? I haven't spent a great deal looking at it, but I don't know if i can be bothered to find a solution if no-one has got it running in linux, if not then i will probably just leave it and not play deathball

[-plær-]

It's being worked on:

http://forums.gameservers.net/showthrea ... adid=13868

[GreaseMonkey]

Thanks alot, dunno why i missed that thread tbh.