[Archive] Sending patches to players
[Archive] Sending patches to players
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Hey!
I wonder if there is an easy way to distribute new .mpq files among the players of a private server. Preferably, without them having to do anything manually. The only way I came up with is using the Dropbox client, and storing WoW inside, but that's really weird and probably won't work.
Any ideas?
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 11:02 AM #1Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-21T11:02:05+00:00
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Hey!
I wonder if there is an easy way to distribute new .mpq files among the players of a private server. Preferably, without them having to do anything manually. The only way I came up with is using the Dropbox client, and storing WoW inside, but that's really weird and probably won't work.
Any ideas?
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Custom launcher is a possible way to go. You could check if the files are present and stream them if they're not, you could even go as far as to do hash checks etc so they've not tampered the archive/it is up to date, the same way retail works.
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 11:06 AM #2Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-21T11:06:59+00:00
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Custom launcher is a possible way to go. You could check if the files are present and stream them if they're not, you could even go as far as to do hash checks etc so they've not tampered the archive/it is up to date, the same way retail works.
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Quote: 1 hour ago, barncastle said:I found this one
Custom launcher is a possible way to go. You could check if the files are present and stream them if they're not, you could even go as far as to do hash checks etc so they've not tampered the archive/it is up to date, the same way retail works.
It says it's compatible with <=WotLK, but do you think it'll work with Cata too? Because my server is Cata and I don't see any big differences in terms of placing mpqs in the client
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 12:08 PM #3Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-21T12:08:09+00:00
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Quote: 1 hour ago, barncastle said:I found this one
Custom launcher is a possible way to go. You could check if the files are present and stream them if they're not, you could even go as far as to do hash checks etc so they've not tampered the archive/it is up to date, the same way retail works.
It says it's compatible with <=WotLK, but do you think it'll work with Cata too? Because my server is Cata and I don't see any big differences in terms of placing mpqs in the client
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I think they're all a much of muchness to be honest. I found this one, with full source on ac-web and is designed with Cata graphics.
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 12:35 PM #4Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-21T12:35:52+00:00
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I think they're all a much of muchness to be honest. I found this one, with full source on ac-web and is designed with Cata graphics.
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Quote: 6 minutes ago, barncastle said:It looks great! Thank you very much!
I think they're all a much of muchness to be honest. I found this one, with full source on ac-web and is designed with Cata graphics.
Could you suggest a file hosting that would work with that launcher?
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 12:43 PM #5Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-21T12:43:12+00:00
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Quote: 6 minutes ago, barncastle said:It looks great! Thank you very much!
I think they're all a much of muchness to be honest. I found this one, with full source on ac-web and is designed with Cata graphics.
Could you suggest a file hosting that would work with that launcher?
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Having a flick through the source it appears you can use anything with direct file access so you could potentially use Dropbox like your original plan. Just get the share like and make sure the "dl" parameter is set to 1 (https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/201).
Alternatively, if you're hosting a site for your server you could just put them on the web server.
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 03:12 PM #6Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-21T15:12:01+00:00
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Having a flick through the source it appears you can use anything with direct file access so you could potentially use Dropbox like your original plan. Just get the share like and make sure the "dl" parameter is set to 1 (https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/201).
Alternatively, if you're hosting a site for your server you could just put them on the web server.
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Quote: 20 minutes ago, barncastle said:Will GoogleDrive work?
Having a flick through the source it appears you can use anything with direct file access so you could potentially use Dropbox like your original plan. Just get the share like and make sure the "dl" parameter is set to 1 (https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/201).
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 03:32 PM #7Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-21T15:32:30+00:00
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Quote: 20 minutes ago, barncastle said:Will GoogleDrive work?
Having a flick through the source it appears you can use anything with direct file access so you could potentially use Dropbox like your original plan. Just get the share like and make sure the "dl" parameter is set to 1 (https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/201).
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It looks that way, seems some people have figured out the URL structure http://www.labnol.org/internet/direct-li...ive/28356/. I don't use Google Drive so can't test if this still works still...
rektbyfaith
08-21-2016, 04:25 PM #8Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-21T16:25:48+00:00
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It looks that way, seems some people have figured out the URL structure http://www.labnol.org/internet/direct-li...ive/28356/. I don't use Google Drive so can't test if this still works still...
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Afaik you can even deliver your patches via the client, but that probably needs some changes in your core. Iirc stoneharry had a post about this on Modcraft.
rektbyfaith
08-22-2016, 06:59 AM #9Archived author: Kaev • Posted: 2016-08-22T06:59:19+00:00
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Afaik you can even deliver your patches via the client, but that probably needs some changes in your core. Iirc stoneharry had a post about this on Modcraft.
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Quote: 3 hours ago, Kaev1695989297 said:Launcher is a safer way though.
Afaik you can even deliver your patches via the client, but that probably needs some changes in your core. Iirc stoneharry had a post about this on Modcraft.
rektbyfaith
08-22-2016, 10:47 AM #10Archived author: Skarn • Posted: 2016-08-22T10:47:41+00:00
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Quote: 3 hours ago, Kaev1695989297 said:Launcher is a safer way though.
Afaik you can even deliver your patches via the client, but that probably needs some changes in your core. Iirc stoneharry had a post about this on Modcraft.
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