Hey everyone, I'm trying to make a script that if I launch it it will go through the process of automatically selecting a map I am working on in Men of War assault squad's Gem 2 editor. If anyone here is familiar with using Gameranger to play multiplayer games then that would be a visual example of what I'm trying to perform. For those not familiar with Gameranger, what I mean is when it launches a multiplayer game for you, a lot of times without clicking yourself it will automatically start the game, select multiplayer, and then create a lobby.
I am trying to create something like this so I don't have to dig through different files just to get to a map I've been working on. It would be much easier to execute a script that automatically started the editor, navigated through the map I want, and then load it without me having to do anything. I've tried doing this with a .bat file and I've only managed to start the program but I can't figure out how to make it automatically dig through the folders and select the map to load automatically. Should I look for different .bat commands or abandon the batch file method and look at a different scripting language and code?
Thanks for any info or any push in the right direction.
Best route to take for automatically going through a program
hl2.exe --console +sv_cheats 1 +developer 2 +map path/to/your/map.bsp
If your editor doesn't have a button to launch the game with your map (as does worldcraft/hammer), then check the game's documentation and see if it has any command line options.
Wow, thank you very much, I will check that out for sure!
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The console has different commands that are possible to execute, though I can't seem to find a list explaining what they are anywhere. Anyways, that's more of a personal problem though, not one that the community would be able to help me on. Regardless, I thought I'd update just for the sake of being updated. In the mean time I may just test out all the commands or keep researching online.
SikuliX is a scriptable system that lets you automate desktop interaction using image-recognition and OCR, so you can cope with unpredictable positions of windows and GUI elements.
It's ideal for automating simple GUI processes when AutoHotKey doesn't suffice.
Alright so Sikuli seems to be exactly what I need! That being said when I use the autocapture hot-key my program in full-screen turns black for the duration of me trying to capture the region I need clicked. I'm going to see if it'll work if maybe I run the program through a 3rd party software that keeps it windowed (I tried all the window commands in the target line and none seem to work.) I'll keep you updated.
[EDIT] Sikuli doesn't work with games in full screen mode so that answers my question as to why it is doing that, I'll look for another program though and see how that works.
