Mapping (configuration guide)
This section will go over all the settings you can use to configure how your map runs on a server.
You do not need any of this to create and play a map, but the configuration options provided can greatly help fine tune your map how you want it to be played.
Contents
Configuration files
The following files go in the maps folder along with your BSP to configure it. map-name must match your BSP map name to work. For example, if your map was volcano.bsp, your configuration file would be volcano.cfg in the same folder.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| map-name.cfg | Contains the weapons and equipment you spawn with and physics settings. |
| map-name_motd.txt | Contains a message to show players when they join the map. Good place to put mission briefings or an objective list. |
| map-name_skl.cfg | Contains any modifications of the default skill configuration, found in skill.cfg. Simply copy things from the default skill configuration that you want to modify. |
| map-name_detail.txt | Contains any texture high-definition overlays. For more details on this, please see this article at TWHL. |
Weapons & equipment
In your map-name.cfg file you can put these statements inside to provide various weapons, equipment, and ammo to be provided when players spawn.
It is important that each statement is used once and once only!
Providing a weapon will also provide a small amount of the assosicated ammo with it, but not much. You should favour providing a fair amount of ammo in your configuration rather than supply rooms at the start of your map to ensure all players get an equal and fair amount of ammo.
| Setting | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Weapons | ||
| weapon_crowbar | No value for this | Provide a crowbar. |
| weapon_wrench | No value for this | Provide a pipe wrench. |
| weapon_grapple | No value for this | Provide a barnacle grapple. |
| weapon_glock | No value for this | Provide a 9mm pistol. |
| weapon_357 | No value for this | Provide a .357 magnum. |
| weapon_uzi | No value for this | Provide an uzi. DO NOT USE WITH WEAPON_UZIAKIMBO! Use one or the other. |
| weapon_uziakimbo | No value for this | Provide two uzis. DO NOT USE WITH WEAPON_UZI! Use one or the other. |
| weapon_eagle | No value for this | Provide a desert eagle. |
| weapon_shotgun | No value for this | Provide a SPAS-12 shotgun. |
| weapon_mp5 | No value for this | Provide an MP5a3 submachine gun. |
| weapon_m16 | No value for this | Provide an M16 assault rifle with the M203 grenade launcher. |
| weapon_crossbow | No value for this | Provide a crossbow. |
| weapon_rpg | No value for this | Provide a rocket propelled grenade launcher. |
| weapon_gauss | No value for this | Provide a gauss gun. |
| weapon_egon | No value for this | Provide a gluon gun. |
| weapon_hornetgun | No value for this | Provide a hornet gun. |
| weapon_handgrenade | No value to provide 1, or specify the number of hand grenade packs to provide (value x5). | Provide 5 hand grenades. |
| weapon_satchel | No value to provide 1, or specify the number of satchel charges to provide. | Provide a satchel charge. |
| weapon_tripmine | No value to provide 1, or specify the number of tripmines to provide. | Provide a tripmine. |
| weapon_snark | No value to provide 1, or specify the number of snark nests to provide (value x5). | Provide 5 snarks (1 snark nest). |
| weapon_sniperrifle | No value for this | Provide a M40a1 sniper rifle. |
| weapon_saw | No value for this | Provide a M249 saw. |
| weapon_sporelauncher | No value for this | Provide a spore launcher. |
| Equipment | ||
| nomedkit | No value for this | Do not provide a medkit. |
| nosuit | No value for this | Do not provide a hazard suit (will disable the entire HEV and flashlight), not recommended! |
| item_longjump | No value for this | Provide a long jump module. |
| starthealth | 1 to 999 | Amount of health to provide. This also becomes the maximum you can obtain from health kits, wall health kits, and being healed. |
| startarmor | 0 to 999 | Amount of HEV battery power (armour) to provide. This also becomes the maximum you can obtained from batteries and HEV chargers. |
| Ammo | ||
| ammo_9mm | Number of clips. | Provide 9mm ammo clips (17 rounds). Used by the 9mm pistol, uzis, and MP5 submachine gun. |
| ammo_357 | Number of clips. | Provide .357 ammo clips (6 rounds). Used by the .357 magnum and desert eagle. |
| ammo_buckshot | Number of boxes. | Provide shell boxes (12 rounds). Used by the shotgun. |
| ammo_556 | Number of clips. | Provide 5.56mm ammo clips (200 rounds). Used by the M16 assault rifle, SAW, and minigun. |
| ammo_ARgrenades (case sensitive) | Number of assault rifle grenade pairs. | Provide two assault rifle grenades. Used by the M16's M203 grenade launcher. |
| ammo_crossbow | Number of clips. | Provide bolt clips (5 bolts). Used by the crossbow. |
| ammo_gaussclip | Number of modular batteries. | Provide gauss/gluon battery modules (20 charge units). Used by the guass gun and gluon gun. |
| ammo_rpgclip | Number of rocket pairs. | Provide rocket packs (2 rockets). Used by the RPG. |
| ammo_762 | Number of clips. | Provide 7.62mm ammo clips (5 rounds). Used by the sniper rifle. |
| ammo_sporeclip | Number of spores. | Provide a spore. Used by the spore launcher. |
| Alternative weapon modes | ||
| weaponmode_wrench | 0 or 1 | Enable this to remove the power swing |
| weaponmode_9mmhandgun | 0 or 1 | Enable this for the secondary function to add/remove a silencer |
| weaponmode_357 | 0 or 1 | Enable this to remove the scope |
| weaponmode_mp5 | 0 or 1 | Enable this to remove the scope |
| weaponmode_shotgun | 0 or 1 | Enable this for the secondary function to be a classic double blast (as in HLDM) |
| weaponmode_crossbow | 0 or 1 | Enable this to remove explosive bolts |
| weaponmode_m16 | 0 or 1 | Enable this to remove the grenade launcher |
| weaponmode_rpg | 0 or 1 | Enable this to remove the laser sight |
Variables
| Setting | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| skill | 1 | The skill level your map will run on.
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| sv_accelerate | 10 | The speed players accellerate while on ground. |
| sv_airaccelerate | 10 | The speed players accellerate while in the air. |
| sv_airmove | 1 | Allow players to change movement direction mid-air. |
| sv_friction | 4 | The amount of friction created by the ground. |
| sv_gravity | 800 | The amount of gravity (maximum units/second). |
| sv_maxspeed | 270 | The speed players can run on ground -- exluding aid from various triggers and effects (explosions etc) that can allow players to move faster. |
| sv_maxvelocity | 2048 | The speed players can be moved by force (trigger_push, explosions, etc). |
| sv_wateraccelerate | 10 | The speed players accellerate while underwater. |
| sv_waterfriction | 1 | Whether friction also applies to water. |
| mp_allowmonsterinfo | 1 | Allow monster information HUD messages. |
| mp_banana | 1 | Allow players to throw banana bombs. |
| mp_disable_autoclimb | 0 | Deny players to use the auto-climb feature. |
| mp_disable_player_rappel | 0 | Deny players to use the Barnacle grapple on each other. |
| mp_disablegaussjump | 0 | Disable vertical knock back caused by the gauss cannon's charge up shot. This can sometimes be used to exploit maps or get places players aren't meant to go. This is a direct copy of mp_allowgaussjump, which for some reason got inverted in Sven Co-op 3.0. |
| mp_dropweapons | 1 | Allow players to drop weapons and ammo. Miniguns and shock rifles can always be dropped. |
| mp_falldamage | 1 | Use realistic fall damage. If disabled, when players get hurt from falling they will always lose 10 health points. |
| mp_flashlight | 1 | Allow players to use their flashlight. |
| mp_fraglimit | 0 | Map changes after someone obtains this many frags. Currently obsolete in Sven Co-op. |
| mp_grapple_mode | 1 | Players are pulled to monsters bigger than headcrabs when grappled rather than the monster being pulled to a player. |
| mp_multiplespawn | 1 | No anti-telefrag behaviour is required for respawning. If you switch this off the actual player respawn position will be shifted up to 92 units away from where the respawn point actually is, to help prevent telefragging. |
| mp_no_akimbo_uzis | 0 | Deny players to have akimbo uzis. This may help balance power on some maps or large player capacities. |
| mp_noblastgibs | 0 | Deny monsters to be gibbed (ripped apart) when killed with explosives. |
| mp_npckill | 2 | Set the behaviour of killing allied NPC's. This replaces the old killnpc setting.
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| mp_respawndelay | 5 | The time (seconds) a player must wait before respawning. This is 5 seconds by default to help encourage use of the new reviving feature. |
| mp_timelimit | 60 | Map changes after this amount of time (minutes) if the map hasn't been completed already. |
| mp_weaponstay | 1 | Weapons can be picked up multiple times, with the exception of miniguns. Disabling this will result in a couple of players taking all the weapons leaving others with nothing. |
For security reasons map configurations can only use settings for altering physics and game play. For example, you can't modify the server or RCON password from your map config, but you can modify the gravity or maximum running speed.