Windows UT using a 20x4 lcd screen it is possible!!!

having recently purchased a parallel lcd screen and wireing it up i decided i had better find a game related use for it to justify haveing it (really should have thought about why i was getting it 1st but nevermind) as i am a gamer. i came up with a cunning plan!!! use it to display stuff like the score table and payer teams / pings after mailing the bloke who made NIUT (its a mutator that rules) he suggested using the built in http server function of UT after about 5 hours of playing ive finally got the hang of the small ammount of unreal script i need to dump lots of into from all of the players into a webpage that could be read by a program and then dumped into a file (to be read by lcd smartie).
the only prob ive got is im lame at programming if ive sparked yr interest please reply i kinda need some help writing the software to dump the info from the webpage into a file in a ordered readable fashion (readable hmmmmm unlike this message )

Eaterofpies

 

It sounds like this would work. Just needs a bit of programming skills. Let me know how it turns out.
If you need some help with the programming end, my friend Arien has a nice webpage dedicated to online tips.

www.turtletips.com

-Dawg

 

ive got it working already it displays the player list with scores in order if u run my patch on a server and a lave vb app i wrote to sort the player list and put it into a file so that lcd smartie can read it

 

wanna give me the cop-y of the proggy so i can use it at alan or tell me how u did it

 

righty then the first thing u need is access to the ut server and download this and bung it in the servers ut folder
then open the servers unrealtournament.ini file and find a section called [Uweb.webserver]
find the first free application and applicationpath and change them so they look like this

applications[X]=LCD.LCDPlayer
applicationpaths[X]=/lcd

where X is the first free number

start a ut dedicated server and open IE then type in yr IP address then /lcd

so the address u type in ie will liik a little like this
127.0.0.1/lcd/

if u get an error somethings gone wrong

if u get a webpage then its ok

thats ut server set up i will post again with the local machine setup in a second

 

local machine setup

next u need to download this and mebbe some VB5 Runtime files but i cant remember where to get em

run the software there r 3 items on it a button marked GO and the text box next to it are the only ones in use (couldnt be bothered to delete the other 1 )

in the text box next to go type the servers ip thats all nothing else so it will look like

127.0.0.1

start the server up

then click go

the scores r dumped in order into scorelist.txt u can read em with lcdsmartie

if it works have fun if u write some good software can i have a copy as mine sucks