Lots of CVARs and config saving [split]

[Accensus]

So if you have a mod that adds 50 CVARs (there is one such mod), and you want to have default values each time the mod starts up, you have to load each and every CVAR's default value in autoexec.cfg? Or even worse, delete the CVARs from the user's ini file? Your workaround may work, but it's exactly 0% practical, even for non-mod CVARs.

[Rachael]

First I have to wonder - what does a mod need 50 CVARs for - and secondly, is there any reason you're particular over all 50 of them?

[Accensus]

Didn't quite get your second question, but to answer the first - CustomDoom has 72 CVARs and I need those to be able to adjust each option separately. There's a lot of stuff in there. I've put a "Restore to defaults" button, of course, but that's a rare case. I think a CVAR to rule them all is not a bad idea. Being able to purposely not save only the CVARs (both mod and non-mod) may or may not prove useful. Saving the .ini like Blue Shadow said may backfire if you change your controls or other options and forget to update the .ini. You'll end up with an old copy. Been there, done that, but with a mod. Accidentally reverted a few changes which opened some work for me.

[Rachael]

The second question was asking why all 50 (or 72 in this case) needed to be explicitly set.

I guess for CustomDoom, that makes a bit of sense. For that, though, it might just be more practical to write an INI manager that can export and import CustomDoom's settings, creating a kind of "profile" system. Everything ZDoom exports for CustomDoom, specifically, will be in its own section, making it easy to extract and replace the section easily.

[Accensus]

Well, to not have them changed, that's why. Of course, you could set only the ones you want to use so they won't get overwritten, but with a mod like that you never know what you'll use at a given moment.

As for the export thingy, that actually sounds like a very good idea, but I don't really know how to make one such system. How to get ZDoom to export the CVARs in their own section? (You can PM me if you don't feel like derailing the thread.)

[Rachael]

ZDoom itself can't do it, but it wouldn't be too hard to write a program that can. That same program can translate each variable into a console command, so that you can exec them in on the fly.

[Accensus]

Seems like I lack both the imagination and skill to make such a program.

[Rachael]

Can you post or PM a config snippet? I'm not able to get CustomDoom to export settings, myself, so I am stuck trying to develop a script blind for it.

[Accensus]

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//Player menu CVARs
server float cd_player_weapon_damage_mult = 1;
server float cd_player_damage_taken_mult = 1;

server int cd_player_max_health = 0;
server float cd_player_speed_mult = 0;
server float cd_player_jump_mult = 0;

server bool cd_player_misc_enabled = false;
server float cd_player_aircontrol_mult = 1;
server float cd_player_friction_mult = 1;

//Health regeneration menu CVARs
server bool cd_health_regen_enabled = false;
server int cd_health_regen_amount = 5;
server int cd_health_regen_freq = 5;
server int cd_health_regen_cap = 100;

user bool cd_health_sound_enabled = false;
user bool cd_health_regen_pulse = false;
user int cd_health_blend_color_r = 255;
user int cd_health_blend_color_g = 0;
user int cd_health_blend_color_b = 0;
user float cd_health_blend_color_int = 0.25;

//Armor regeneration menu CVARs
server bool cd_armor_regen_enabled = false;
server int cd_armor_regen_amount = 5;
server int cd_armor_regen_freq = 5;
server int cd_armor_regen_min = 25;
server int cd_armor_regen_cap = 100;

user bool cd_armor_sound_enabled = false;
user bool cd_armor_regen_pulse = false;
user int cd_armor_blend_color_r = 0;
user int cd_armor_blend_color_g = 0;
user int cd_armor_blend_color_b = 255;
user float cd_armor_blend_color_int = 0.25;

//Ammo regeneration menu CVARs
server bool cd_ammo_regen_enabled = false;
server bool cd_ammo_regen_backpack_req = true;
server int cd_ammo_regen_amount = 1;
server int cd_ammo_regen_freq = 30;

user bool cd_ammo_regen_pulse = false;
user int cd_ammo_blend_color_r = 0;
user int cd_ammo_blend_color_g = 255;
user int cd_ammo_blend_color_b = 0;
user float cd_ammo_blend_color_int = 0.25;

//Health degeneration menu CVARs
server bool cd_health_degen_enabled = false;
server int cd_health_degen_amount = 1;
server int cd_health_degen_freq = 1;
server int cd_health_degen_limit = 25;

//Armor degeneration menu CVARs
server bool cd_armor_degen_enabled = false;
server int cd_armor_degen_amount = 1;
server int cd_armor_degen_freq = 1;
server int cd_armor_degen_limit = 0;

//Powerup menu CVARs
server bool cd_power_invisibility_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_invulnerability_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_ironfeet_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_lightamp_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_drain_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_highjump_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_infiniteammo_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_protecton_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_regeneraton_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_speed_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_strength_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_timefreezer_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_doublefiringspeed_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_flight_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_frightener_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_scanner_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_damage_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_ghost_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_shadow_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_torch_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_minotaur_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_morph_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_mask_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_weaponlevel2_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_targeter_permanent = false;
server bool cd_power_buddha_permanent = false;

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[Doom.Player.Mod]
cd_health_sound_enabled=false
cd_health_regen_pulse=false
cd_health_blend_color_r=255
cd_health_blend_color_g=0
cd_health_blend_color_b=0
cd_health_blend_color_int=0.25

cd_armor_sound_enabled=false
cd_armor_regen_pulse=false
cd_armor_blend_color_r=0
cd_armor_blend_color_g=0
cd_armor_blend_color_b=255
cd_armor_blend_color_int=0.25

cd_ammo_regen_pulse=false
cd_ammo_blend_color_r=0
cd_ammo_blend_color_g=255
cd_ammo_blend_color_b=0
cd_ammo_blend_color_int=0.25

[Doom.LocalServerInfo.Mod]
cd_player_weapon_damage_mult=1
cd_player_damage_taken_mult=1

cd_player_max_health=0
cd_player_speed_mult=0
cd_player_jump_mult=0

cd_player_misc_enabled=false
cd_player_aircontrol_mult=1
cd_player_friction_mult=1

cd_health_regen_enabled=false
cd_health_regen_amount=5
cd_health_regen_freq=5
cd_health_regen_cap=100

cd_armor_regen_enabled=false
cd_armor_regen_amount=5
cd_armor_regen_freq=5
cd_armor_regen_min=25
cd_armor_regen_cap=100

cd_ammo_regen_enabled=false
cd_ammo_regen_backpack_req=true
cd_ammo_regen_amount=1
cd_ammo_regen_freq=30

cd_health_degen_enabled=false
cd_health_degen_amount=1
cd_health_degen_freq=1
cd_health_degen_limit=25

cd_armor_degen_enabled=false
cd_armor_degen_amount=1
cd_armor_degen_freq=1
cd_armor_degen_limit=0

cd_power_invisibility_permanent=false
cd_power_invulnerability_permanent=false
cd_power_ironfeet_permanent=false
cd_power_lightamp_permanent=false
cd_power_drain_permanent=false
cd_power_highjump_permanent=false
cd_power_infiniteammo_permanent=false
cd_power_protecton_permanent=false
cd_power_regeneraton_permanent=false
cd_power_speed_permanent=false
cd_power_strength_permanent=false
cd_power_timefreezer_permanent=false
cd_power_doublefiringspeed_permanent=false
cd_power_flight_permanent=false
cd_power_frightener_permanent=false
cd_power_scanner_permanent=false
cd_power_damage_permanent=false
cd_power_ghost_permanent=false
cd_power_shadow_permanent=false
cd_power_torch_permanent=false
cd_power_minotaur_permanent=false
cd_power_morph_permanent=false
cd_power_mask_permanent=false
cd_power_weaponlevel2_permanent=false
cd_power_targeter_permanent=false
cd_power_buddha_permanent=false

I suppose the CVARs is what you need. Here are all of them with their default values. And, Eruanna, thank you for taking your time to write that script. Putting your name on the special thanks list. May not mean much, but it's better than nothing, I guess. Even if you don't succeed, the name will stay. Efforts like these are greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Thanks go to wildweasel, too, for moving the thread.

[Rachael]

I'm creating a cmd script - I mostly just needed the section name. Having the actual entries will be useful too, though, as it will allow me to test.

[Accensus]

Still, I don't even remember the last time I wrote a batch file. Most useful one I've written was a simple copy, rename, delete to automate a mod backup. I thought you were writing it in Python or something.

[Rachael]

Okay, wow, this is going to be harder than I thought. I thought ZDoom separates each mod's CVAR list to its own section, I was wrong. I'll have to use the CVARINFO after all. This script is going to be a little lengthy, but I am using subroutines as much as possible to cut down on repeated code.

[Accensus]

Could you give me more info on how the script is expected to work? Do you feed it external values from a file which it reads and modifies in the actual config file? It might be kinda pointless in the case of CustomDoom to keep the values to their defaults as there's a "Reset to defaults" button which is handled directly by the mod. Unless the point of this is to make a profiling system.

[Rachael]

Well, what I thought you wanted was a script where you would type at the command line, something like:

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> custom-doom-export super-hard-profile.cfg

And then it would export the variables from your zdoom.ini file (using a bit of a "search" to find where it is) and export all custom doom variables into a file, like this:

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set custom_doom_var1 0
set custom_doom_var2 3
... etc

so that you could later execute in ZDoom's console this command:

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exec super-hard-profile.cfg

And bam.

[Accensus]

Hmm, I gotta try this out for myself. I am starting to understand now. One question, though: what will happen if I add more CVARs? I suppose I'll have to edit the source code of the script in order to reflect the changes and whatnot.