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[kd7jeg]

Good Morning all!

I have successfully installed Bigbrotherbot 1.7 and after several hours of trial and error, reading the forums.. etc.. etc.. However, I still cannot get the plugins to work. I have installed the software to C:\bigbrotherbot. All of the subdirectories are there including extplugins and subsequent conf directory.

Now here is my question.. I have noticed through reading the forums that some users have the @b3/extplugins set for the "external_dir" value and others have c:\something. Is B3 a directory from an earlier edition of Bigbrotherbot or is it pointing at the B3 database? Is the @symbol as shorthand for the install directory? (since I see it being used later in such things as <plugin name="admin" config="@conf/plugin_admin.xml"/>.

I have been trying for hours to get several plugins to work with no resolve.

For example.. courgette's chatlogger.. I extracted the .py file to extplugins the xml file to the underlying conf directory.. opened the database and imported the chatlog table. Then I edited the b3.xml file.

    <plugin name="status" config="@conf/plugin_status.xml"/>
    <plugin name="welcome" config="@conf/plugin_welcome.xml"/>
    <plugin name="punkbuster" config="@conf/plugin_punkbuster.xml"/>
     <plugin name="chatlogger" config="@extplugins/conf/plugin_chatlogger.xml"/>

ran b3 and it crashes at chatlogger.. (or any other plugin I try no matter load order)

I have tried different variations of the external_dir and config= like c:/bigbrotherbot/extplugins

I've tried different subdirectories like c:\bigbrotherbot\plugins\config.

I would copy my entire b3.xml here and throw the log files to boot. But again everything works until I play with plugins.

Where/What exactly is "external_dir" looking for?

Thanks for any help here.. my head is about to explode...

 

[MordyT]

Hi there,
Some info:
@b3 : the folder where B3 code is installed in
So @b3 is shortcode for c:\bigbrotherbot on your system.

Now, @b3/extplugins in the field of <set name="external_dir">@b3/extplugins</set> would point to the extplugins folder at c:\bigbrotherbot\extplugins

Now, to answer why your bot won't start... simple change...
<plugin name="chatlogger" config="@extplugins/conf/plugin_chatlogger.xml"/>
Change to:
<plugin name="chatlogger" config="@b3/extplugins/conf/plugin_chatlogger.xml"/>

Let me know if that helps and if you have questions I didn't answer

[kd7jeg]

Worked great.. now I want to start a 2nd server on the same machine..

It is kinda working.. but I'll read some more here and post another help if I can't figure it out.

Right now.. the bot is talking to both games but not taking any !commands from either server.