SHell script to start GAE and update list of Scenarios (Linux)

[jda]

Hi folks,

Someone asked a questions on the "0.2.13" thread about installing GAE and I remembered there is something specific to GAE that doesn't really seem to have gotten its own thread and I do think it deserves it.
It's something reallly very small and easy but usefull too.

Here's the "problem":

EDIT: There is a detail about scenarios...
In Glest (and I think in MegaGlest too), they're saved in folder "scenarios". In GAE, they're saved in gae/scenarios/category .
So, not only will the scenarios be loaded from a different directory, you'll have to stick them in some further down subfolder which will be used as a category name when presented the "Choose scenario" dialog ingame.
Two such categories/folders are included in the default GAE installation: glest_classic and glest_tutorials.
I have a script to update GAE's scenarios folders automatically (from the original Glest ones) but I can't post it now, have to run, will do it later. Cheers!

And here is my Glest Advanced Engine startup script (it's on my $PATH on my system ):

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#!/bin/sh

# glestadv - Edited by jda < jdalinux at yahoo dot com dot br > from Ubuntu packaged /usr/games/glest

MAINDIR=/usr/local/games/glest
DIR=$HOME/.glest
[ -d $DIR ] || mkdir $DIR
cd $DIR
#if [ -f glestadv.ini ]; then # I could NOT get this to work properly for GAE. Hence
#    # Update for Glest 3.2.1 # I just commented this out, which means that, if you
#    sed -i 's/\.lng//' glestadv.ini # happen to messup your language settings, this script
#    language=$(cat glestadv.ini | grep Lang | cut -d'=' -f2) # will not automatically fix it for you. You'll have to
#    [ -f $MAINDIR/data/lang/${language}.lng ] || \ # manually fix it yourself.
#        sed -i "s/${language}/english/" glestadv.ini
#else
#    cp $MAINDIR/glestadv.ini .
#fi # End of commented-out language-setting routine.
[ -h glestadv ] || ln -s $MAINDIR/glestadv .
[ -f servers.ini ] || cp $MAINDIR/servers.ini .
for i in data docs scenarios techs tilesets gae ; do
      [ -h $i ] || ln -s $MAINDIR/$i .
done

[ -d maps ] || mkdir maps
cd maps
for i in $MAINDIR/maps/* ; do
      [ -h `basename $i` ] || ln -s $i .
done

cd ..

# Copy all scenarios on vanilla Glest's scenarios directory to gae/scenarios/all
[ -d gae/scenarios/all ] || mkdir gae/scenarios/all
cd gae/scenarios/all
for i in $MAINDIR/scenarios/* ; do
      [ -h `basename $i` ] || ln -s $i .
done

cd ../../..

exec ./glestadv

The part concerning the "translation" of scenarios from the original Glest folder structure to GAE's folder structure is obviously that which starts with # Copy all scenarios on vanilla Glest's scenarios directory to gae/scenarios/all
That's easy to edit to make a new workable "just-copy-the-scenarios" script that will put all scenarios on the original Glest's scenarios folder to a folder that will be read as category "All" by GAE.
Or... you can just use this script as your default start script to run GAE.

If you just want the scenrios-folders translation and can't do it yourself, let me know and I'll do it for you.

EDIT: Oh, either way, you'll have to give exectuable permissions to your script. E.g. in a terminal:

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chmod -c +x glestadv (or whatever you named the script instead of glestadv).

[Dritominous]

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