Is it just me, or are test and live over-writing the same files?

[Lilith]

Whenever I go to load up test, it scans my files and then downloads what appear to be UI files.

When I load up Live it re-downloads UI files...

Is this intentional? Shouldn't these be in separate folders, like a VGUIAssetsTest or something?

Anyone else noticing this?

[Tybr]

/em Raises hand!


Yupo...seems to do it every time too...

/sigh.

[Tybr]

Originally Posted by Lilith

Whenever I go to load up test, it scans my files and then downloads what appear to be UI files.

When I load up Live it re-downloads UI files...

Is this intentional? Shouldn't these be in separate folders, like a VGUIAssetsTest or something?

Anyone else noticing this?

Clicky on the link Lilith it will take you to Venti's resolution. It might help me thinks.

http://www.vanguardspheres.com/forum...erver-log.html

[Venti]

Originally Posted by Tybr

Clicky on the link Lilith it will take you to Venti's resolution. It might help me thinks.

http://www.vanguardspheres.com/forum...erver-log.html

Here is the VBScript files that I use to shuffle directories so I don't have to wait for the patching.

Directions

Copy VGUIAssets to VGUIAssets.live and VGUIAssets.test
Then run the correct script to launch Vanguard


StartLive.vbs (Included in zip file):

LiveDir = "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets.live"
TestDir = "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets.test"
UseDir = "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets"

Set FileSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")


'Check which dir is missing and rename existing use dir appropriately.
If FileSys.FolderExists(UseDir) = True Then
	If FileSys.FolderExists(LiveDir) = True Then
		FileSys.MoveFolder UseDir, TestDir 
	Else
		FileSys.MoveFolder UseDir, LiveDir 
	End If
End If

' Move the LiveDir to UseDir
FileSys.MoveFolder LiveDir, UseDir

' Launch the launchpad
WshShell.Run """C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vanguard\Vanguard.exe""", 1, False

StartTest.vbs (Included in zip file):

LiveDir = "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets.live"
TestDir = "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets.test"
UseDir = "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\VGUIAssets"

Set FileSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")


'Check which dir is missing and rename existing use dir appropriately.
If FileSys.FolderExists(UseDir) = True Then
	If FileSys.FolderExists(LiveDir) = True Then
		FileSys.MoveFolder UseDir, TestDir 
	Else
		FileSys.MoveFolder UseDir, LiveDir 
	End If
End If

' Move the LiveDir to UseDir
FileSys.MoveFolder TestDir, UseDir

' Launch the launchpad
WshShell.Run """C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vanguard\Vanguard.exe"" /testserver", 1, False

[Tybr]

Your a little bit scary Venti....

However I try to never look a gift Horse in the mouth.

[Ysharros]

I must be missing something.

Does "Copy VGUIAssets to VGUIAssets.live and VGUIAssets.test" mean make 2 copies of that directory, named as stated? Which is what I did, and the scripts then error out telling me that those items already exist. When I try to run them without those folders, it errors out telling me they don't exist.

I am, if nothing else, quite Kafka'ed out.

That said... the whole patching/repatching every time you change from Live to Test is getting a little old, especially since the Launcher has been really unresponsive in the last week or two. I'm surprised such a cobbled-together solution has been put out. I'm usually very keen to spend time on test servers (the community is usually great), but right now I don't think I'm going to touch it with a bargepole till I know I can do both without being penalised.

(EDIT -- to be fair, I've noticed it's much wiser to restart between sessions, which I didn't do last night when I had issues and got all cranky about it. So the problems I'm seeing are likely as much at my end as anything else, as far as Launching & stuff goes.)

Thanks for the scripts, even though I clearly don't understand how to use them.

[SwordMage]

Has anyone tried just making a second VG directory and use one for live and the other for test?

[Venti]

Originally Posted by SwordMage

Has anyone tried just making a second VG directory and use one for live and the other for test?

Won't work VGPatcher seems to be hard-coded to want a binTest and AssetsTest in the default vanguard folder. With the command line options on the launcher I couldn't seem to find one that let you specify a path. My guess is they are reading out of the registry or maybe a file in the Sony launcher directory.

[Venti]

Originally Posted by Ysharros

I must be missing something.

Does "Copy VGUIAssets to VGUIAssets.live and VGUIAssets.test" mean make 2 copies of that directory, named as stated? Which is what I did, and the scripts then error out telling me that those items already exist. When I try to run them without those folders, it errors out telling me they don't exist.

I am, if nothing else, quite Kafka'ed out.

That said... the whole patching/repatching every time you change from Live to Test is getting a little old, especially since the Launcher has been really unresponsive in the last week or two. I'm surprised such a cobbled-together solution has been put out. I'm usually very keen to spend time on test servers (the community is usually great), but right now I don't think I'm going to touch it with a bargepole till I know I can do both without being penalised.

(EDIT -- to be fair, I've noticed it's much wiser to restart between sessions, which I didn't do last night when I had issues and got all cranky about it. So the problems I'm seeing are likely as much at my end as anything else, as far as Launching & stuff goes.)

Thanks for the scripts, even though I clearly don't understand how to use them.

Rename the VGUIAssets directory to VGUIAssets.live
Copy VGUIAssets.live to VGUIAssets.test
Then my script can rename the dirs as needed without conflicts.

[Venti]

Created a test server tutorial

http://www.vanguardspheres.com/forum...se-sticky.html