PALACE HOUSEKEEPING
Maintaining a dust free palace
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How to setup a pserver
Where to put pics & sounds
The room menu explained
The door menu explained
Adding Scripts
Installing a propgenerator
Editing the PAT file |
And now for something completely different...
By now you should be neck deep in creative projects, scripting
challenges and prop editing. Before you go any further and invest any hard work and time,
there are a few chores that need doing regularly that most people don't notice until their
palace crashes.
Prop maintenence
- Cycle through your props regularly
This reduces the amount of props lost after a prop purge or prop flush.
Include rooms with all scripts utilizing props; for e.g: drink ordering
scripts, setprop scripts
- Regular prop flushing
An overly large prop file gets you in trouble with your server and can also get
corrupted thereby making you crash. Don't jus prop purge, make sure you prop flush as
well. Keep an eye on the size of your pserver.prp file. You will find it in the
...palacepsdata directory
Check the log regularly
You may choose to delete old logs. If you are on a private server, you
may have to regularly switch logs otherwise your log file will become very big. Commercial
servers do this for you automatically on a daily or weekly basis. But this soon starts
taking up space in your precious server so you are best deleting old logs periodically.
The Importance of Being Paranoid
Make sure you back up your *.pat file regularly. The more intensely you
work on your palace, the more backups you should make. The *.pat file is the nucleus and
engine of your palace. Lose it and lose all your hard work!
Other important files to backup are the pserver.prp and the
Pserver.prefs file.
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