KAG.as

While I was talking with @Rayne recently I discovered a lot of modders have been unaware of why their gamemodes cause broken icons, build menu and the like.

A while back we added a file called KAG.as to the game, which holds a lot of common code to initialise icons for menus, set a few common constants, that sort of thing. The affected gamemodes do not include this file in their scripts.

The reason for this is those modes were started before KAG.as existed, and were not updated when KAG.as was added to the game. We should not "force" this script on everyone, because the engine is meant to be more or less game agnostic - including KAG.as by default would mean that everyone would be stuck with its contents even if they wanted to make a total conversion or completely new game.

To fix the affected mod gamemodes, add KAG.as as the first script to gamemode.cfg - like so

Code:

# config file for game rules
# rules name: CTF   
# rules description:
   
    teams                              = team1.cfg; team2.cfg;
   
    gamemode_name                      = CTF
    gamemode_info                      = Capture the Flag
   
    scripts                            = KAG.as;

... (more scripts and variables here)

If you could share this around with modders that don't read the forums often, that'd be great. Would be nice to have old mods updated so that we have fewer reports of "BROKEN MODDING" when it's simply a missing script.