Tag Archives: UT2004

UT2003/UT2004 Map pictures

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As you may have seen I have written my own server query script for my Unreal Tournament Server mainly because I wanted to learn how to code UDP packets in Perl. However, when the script was finished I wanted a good picture of each map to show which map was currently playing so, to cut a long story short, after much messing around I created animated GIF’s for all the maps that that I used using the screenshot images from the maps themselves.

I figure that these pictures may be of use to other people with server query scripts so I am making them available for people to use, all I would ask for is a link back to my page somewhere on your site (it’s not much to ask for). This thing has now ended up so huge and I have created 629 map pictures for UT2003 and now UT2004.

How to use
There are two ways to use these images, you can either download them and put them on your server for your script to use or you can call the images from my site. There are advantages and disadvantages to both…

  • You will have to script what happens if the map picture doesn’t exist. If requesting the image from my server and the map GIF doesn’t exist the Unreal logo will be sent automatically.
  • You will have to make sure the script that calls to the images are done in lower case.  Requests to my server can be made in any case ( dom-aphrodite, DOM-Aphrodite, DoM-aPHroDitE, etc.) and will return the correct image.
  • Uses YOUR disk space and bandwidth compared to using MY disk space and bandwidth.

View all the maps currently in the collection

Download the map pictures for your site – utmaps.zip (44MB)

…and please remember to link back to my site, I don’t ask much.

Link to the images on my site.
This is easily done…

  • Prepend “https://www.dogsbody.org/utmaps/” to the beginning of the map file name.
  • Append “.gif” to the end of the map file name.
  • Call this URL as part of an image tag in your script.
  • All GIF’s have a width of 256 and a hight of 128, if you specify this in your image tag the image will load faster.

If your script calls a map that doesn’t exist the Unreal logo will be returned.

Examples of the GIF’s
br-skyline ctf-face3 dm-antalus dom-ruination

Adding to the collection
I’m afraid I am no longer creating these map pictures.

Thanks
I owe a big thank you to Lance (Throckmorton) and Konstantin (Inf*klarissa_(rus)) who have both created a bumber of new map pics that were perfect for the collection.

Feedback
If you have any questions or problem with these GIF’s then please don’t hesitate to contact me.

I would also love to hear any comments you have, good or bad.

UT2k Query Script

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This is only the second script that I have actually published so I hope you like it. This script came about due to the huge interest in the script I wrote for my website that queried my UT2003 server and returned as much information as possible about the game to a page. Lots of people e-mailed me asking for the source so I tidied it up and that is what you see here.

This script works fine with UT2004 I just haven’t removed all the references to UT2003 yet 🙂

I never claimed to be a professional Perl programmer and as such I would class this script as permanently in BETA. I am always looking for comments on my work so if you see an improvement that can be made to the code, have an idea for another project or just like the script then please take a moment to contact me .

What it does
This script queries the game server on the GameSpy query port (usually +10 from the base port), the results are then parsed and cleaned up to make them easier to understand (e.g. True/False is turned into Yes/No) before being output to an HTML page. The resulting page also includes the meta tag to refresh and so the browser window can be kept open and the page will automatically update itself. There are a number of configuration settings that allow you to tweak the timeout, refresh & title as well as page colour settings and as an optional setting you can include your own HTML before and after the query which allows you to keep the same look and feel of your site.

Screenshot

Download

ut2003-query.tar.gz

Dependancies
This script requires the following things…

  • Perl – It’s a perl script!! You will require v5.003 or above.
  • A webserver – Anything that can cope with with CGI scripts written in Perl.

Installation
The setup should be pretty easy…

  • Download the script from this site.
  • Put the download where you want it.
  • Uncompress the file using ‘gunzip ut2003-query.tar.gz’.
  • Extract the tar using ‘tar xvf ut2003-query.tar’.
  • Run ‘chmod 755 ut2003-query.cgi’
  • Edit the path to perl in the first line of ut2003-query.cgi.
  • Try running the script without changing any of the configuration, by default it should query my UT2003 server as long a your webserver can ‘see’ my UT2003 server ‘gamer.dogsbody.org’ e.g. your not on a LAN.
  • Edit the configuration lines at the top of ut2003-query.cgi for your details…
    • $server – Server hostname or IP address.
    • $port – Server’s main game port.
    • $queryport – The Gamespy query port offset, this should be “+10”.
    • $timeout – How many seconds to wait for a response from the server.
    • $refresh – How often to refresh the results page in seconds.
    • $title – The title of the page returned which will be used in the header and at the top of the page.
    • $bgcolour – The background colour of the page returned.
    • $fgcolour – The text colour for the page returned.
    • $lncolour – The colour of hyperlinks on the page returned.
    • $headerfile – Optional: You can leave this field blank which will return the results in a generic page however you can set this to the path of an HTML file that can be included before the results page, this allows you to include whatever else you like on the results page to fit in with the rest of your site. Be warned the “” tags are returned at the top of all pages so your HTML should carry on from there. If you use this $bgcolour, $fgcolour & $lncolour will not be used as you can specify your own tag and $title will only be used for the text at the top of the page.
    • $footerfile – Optional: As with the headerfile, this is the path to an HTML file that can be used to close off any tables used in the headerfile. This file SHOULD include the & tags.
    • $pictureurl – Enter a URL or relational path to images of maps that this query should use. The text “MATCHTHIS” will be replaced with the map filename in lowercase. The default for this links to the images in my site which you are welcome to use, more details.
    • $script – This should be set to the filename of the script (yes the file you are editing), this is used to call the script back and refresh the HTML page. If you set this to “$ENV{SCRIPT_URI}” it will automatically be set to the correct name on most web servers (tested on Apache, iPlanet & Netscape Web servers).
  • And hopefully it will all work 🙂 Happy Fragging

Notes / Known Bugs
The numbers of players on the server is returned twice, once as a player count which is reported in the bottom left table and also as each individual player statistic. Sometimes these two counts don’t tally up with the player count reporting a higher number. As far as I can tell this is correct as the player count reports on the number of connections to the server which does not necessarily mean they are playing the game (e.g. they are downloading the map or haven’t pressed fire to join the game)

The translocator field doesn’t work, data should be returned to show is the translocator can be used on the server however the data is empty each time. This seems to be a bug in UT2003, If anyone sees that this is fixed in a patch or something I will see if I can query that and turn this back on.

Changelog

  • 3.00 – 04 Jun 2003
    • First public release of code – removed all site specific stuff and tidied up.
  • 2.xx – Various Dates
    • Complete re-write of code using own UDP query to UT2003 server.
  • 1.xx – Various Dates
    • First write of a query script that used qstat to get details from server.