hosting textures online for faster download

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:03 pm

how do i do it? I know fooli used to host some of my texmaps on an http server instead of clientside, and it made the dl go much faster, i NEED to figure out how to do this or else xebec will be completely unplayable with all those bad arse textures and models ive got

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:01 am

ideally, you would upload the textures to a website with the same directory structure that is used in the server folder, starting from the data folder. then put HTTPSERVER,0=(site address) at the top of your names file.

for example, zoric etc have:
HTTPSERVER,0=www.tuwr.net
on tuwr.net, there's a Data folder with subfolders Models and Textures and in them are the folders for the files.

but it currently doesn't work properly.
hence why you and others couldn't get the textures to download on zoric until i fixed the local folder assignment on the server

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:18 am

it seems ive run into a strange problem. I did the full installer of the world thingy and the universal full installer. however, i still seem to be missing files.

Namely the NamesFile in my world's Data folder! whats even crazier, i tried to make a file called NamesFile (i also tried NamesFile.txt) in my worlds Data folder, (it was a blank file) so i expected all my recently changed itemnames to go back to default, but they didnt. so im having an issue, My world seems to have hidden the actual area of its Namesfile, because no matter how hard i try to create a namesfile, the itemnames stay the same. perhaps wes and i did something wrong (he was hosting my files on his website)

but i dont think the problem was on his side, i think it was on my server, i think the world has somehow hidden its namesfile.

can someone shed some light on this topic please?!

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:52 am

did you try doing a *changeitemname command on the server to change an item name? the file is only generated when its needed, so if there's no changed items or assigned models, it wont have been created.

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:25 pm

I changed a bunch of itemnames but i never found the names file. Ill try again.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:36 am

try doing a windows search for namesfile.txt?

if there's items/skills renamed or models/textures assigned, it should exist somewhere if those changes are being saved. if the changes aren't being seen or changed after server reboots or relogs, then it might be the server can't create the file for some reason like the server's data folder being set to read only.

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Sun May 15, 2011 8:19 pm

i found the namesfile, i wasnt running the world exe as administrator.

yes, this doesnt seem to be working for me either. my line i have at the top of the namesfile is:

HTTPSERVER,0=www.wes.cyberiagamestudios.com/Data

wes is kindly letting me use his site. But it doesnt seem to be working.
I know that Fooli once got it working on the old xebec for me.

wes773 · Post by **wes773** » Sun May 15, 2011 9:15 pm

Solved

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Sun May 15, 2011 11:31 pm

*flog wes

flametard · Post by **flametard** » Mon May 16, 2011 2:03 pm

wrong- HTTPSERVER,0=www.wes.cyberiagamestudios.com/Data

right- HTTPSERVER,0=http://wes.cyberiagamestudios.com