Custom console commands

invTempest · August 2011

How would one go about making custom server commands similar to how the ns2GmOvermind mod does it?

I looked in the consoleCommands_server.lua file and saw how it was done there but how would I create my own hook to listens for that command to be entered?

Sewlek · August 2011

Event.Hook("Console_addbot", OnConsoleAddBots)

and this one i found in getWebApi

.. ' <input type="submit" name="addbot" value="Add Bot" /> '

another example: Event.Hook("Console_create", OnCommandCreate)

so, you can simply add your own command to you NS2ConsoleCommands_Server.lua, but use the prefix "Console_", since I think it will be attached automatically somewhere.

hope that helped a little bit

player · August 2011

What Mr. Schimmel said. If you wish to have a custom console-command, say "my_console_command", to call a function called MyCustomCommand, this is needed:
<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>Event.Hook("Console_my_console_command", MyCustomCommand)</div>
Whenever that console-command is run, the engine calls the lua-function 'MyCustomCommand'.

To this function a ServerClient-object is passed as the first parameter. This is the client that used the console-command. It is also possible that said console-command is run from the server-console or the web-admin, in which case there isn't a client to speak of, and the first parameter will be NIL. All parameters following the first one are arguments given to the console-command (they are seperated by spaces). So say "my_console_command" requires 2 parameters (let's run "my_console_command test1 test2"), the function will look like this:
<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'>function MyCustomCommand( Client, Parameter1, Parameter2 )
-- Do something here
end</div>
Parameter1 will be a string with the value "test1", and likewise Parameter2 "test2".

Custom console commands

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