NPCServer updates
 

Today all servers have been restarted. Beside some bug fixes in gserver this also brings some new stuff for npcservers:

- /scripthelp now supports wild cards (*) and can combine type names and function name / description, that means you can search for stuff like /scripthelp player*hp

- added server-side support for TDrawingPanel: do temp.panel = new TDrawingPanel(), temp.panel.drawimage(0,0,"myimage.png"), temp.panel.saveimage(mynewfilename)

- improved speed

- added more stuff in /stats (shows memory usage) and admin-commands for analyzing the engine speed (so I can help better in certain cases)

Update:
- urlencode(string) - encodes urls for http GET requests (TSocket)

- /scripthelp now supports wild cards (*) and can combine type names and function name / description, that means you can search for stuff like /scripthelp player*hp

Awesome :D

okey, cool.

I used to get horrible fps lag and I've noticed it's gone. did this cause this or was it just a coincidence?

if so, definitely a big difference.

Thank you Stefan :)

Any chance this will fix Era's horrible fits of lag?

Era has sometimes lag problems because of the memory it uses.

:) Level Editor updates

wait..... what?

Ah damn, I was supposed to remind you to add the global guild messages for the toguild: command before you updated the NPC Servers again :(

Doesn't seem like to me. The server crashes around 7:00 PM constantly, and sometimes around 2-3 PM (EST, both of the times). Doesn't matter how many players are on, or what is happening. It's happened before with less than 20 players on.

The NPC-server just stalls, and /npcshutdown takes about ten minutes, as does /npcstart.

Great updates although I believe a new editor would be more desirable :D

Doh!

I read ":) NPCServer updates" and will one day wanna read ":) Level Editor updates" instead. It's nice that Stefan is putting some attention to Graal but...yeah.

There is a daily and a weekly backup running.

I like this update Stefan, nice to see work going on :)

Flying Technology?

If he got the level editor to support GS2.... That'd be awesome :D

Anyways, nice Stefan. The updates sure help some laggy servers.

So why don't you reschedule it to like 4 AM when no one is on? 7 PM is a time when we have a ton of players on, so it affects a large number of people.

Probably at a goodtime for themselves so they can quickly react if it goes wrong...

Not a good thing to cron a major update :)

Sounds to me like because of I/O going crazy for some reason or another with the backup, the server load shoots up and prevents any of the processes from working, including most of Era since it uses file-based storage not memory.
Then again this is just speculation.

want to +rep you but i have to spread..
i totally what to read that too one day.

I actually google'd Graal Online Editor and found an open sourced one. Not official, but was there.

Gonstruct?

Yeah, that was it