RestartWarner

Help You can find me on my DayZ Development Discord. Come there if you need help or have ideas! Donations welcome If you like this mod, please consider donating! <3 Tested with DayZ Expansion LBMaster's Advanced Groups Notifications by DaemonForge Description If you have been an automated server restart system, you know these issues: Players miss the restart messages in the chat Players may have the chat disabled entirely Players get kicked mid-flight in their heli because they miss the messages Extra work for admins Frustrated players This mod aims at mitigating those things. It will react to RCON (not normal ingame chat) messages in the chat and do some things: Display an eye-catching but slim banner at the top of the screen An extra banner "MOD UPDATE" can be displayed with is_mod_update Banner activation time can be configured with start_warning_at_minute Message changes with every message after that When the counter decreases, the minute square blinks a few times Supports UTF8 for non-ASCII alphabets like kyrillic, greek, korean etc In case you have to skip a restart, but the banner is already visible, you can send restartwarner clear with an rcon tool like DaRT Configuration At first install, a configuration file with these default values will be created in $profile:RestartWarner/RestartWarner.json. { "version": 2, "debug_log_level": 1, "environment": 1, "messages": [ { "restart_message_until_before_number": "(Global) Admin: Server is restarting in", "restart_number_unit": "minutes", "hide_chat_message": 0, "subtract_from_restart_number_minutes": 0, "start_warning_at_minute": 5, "is_mod_update": 0 }, { "restart_message_until_before_number": "(Global) Admin: Server is going down in", "restart_number_unit": "seconds", "hide_chat_message": 0, "subtract_from_restart_number_minutes": 3, "start_warning_at_minute": 8, "is_mod_update": 1 } ] } version Config version. Don't change this. debug_log_level Amount of log output to $profile:RestartWarner.log (client and server). 1 means only display critical errors, while 5 makes it very chatty. On your live server, always have it on 1, unless you have to debug it. Only 1 and 5 are possible. environment Can be disregarded, just for development and testing. Message configuration restart_message_until_before_number The default value is also the default CFTools value for the messages. You can configure / localize the restart message in CFTools: Go to Manage > Localization > Server restart countdown. restart_message_until_before_number has to match the configured message in CFTools until before the "minutes" variable. restart_number_unit Unit of time in the incoming restart message. "minute" and "second" are possible. CFTools sends minutes, while OmegaManager sends seconds. subtract_from_restart_number_minutes If the restarting system has a prekick, but can't do the coundown towards the kick, like OmegaManager, the prekick minutes need to be subtracted from the incoming minute amount. start_warning_at_minute You can configure at which minute of the countdown the message will activate. hide_chat_message Passthrough the restart messages to the normal chat. This applies only to restart messages after the banner activation. CFTools configuration[/h