Capturing blockland dedicated server output...

[cucumberdude]

Hi all

I am trying to capture the output of Blockland's dedicated server. I used to do it simply by piping the STDOUT of blockland.exe -dedicated. Now with the launcher, however, I am not sure how to best approach this. Because the launcher launches blockland.exe -dedicated on its own accord, I'm not sure how I can get the output of the console. If I just launch BlocklandLauncher.exe -dedicated, I end up with the launcher output, but then it terminates as soon as the actual server launches.

Any ideas?

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[Kalphiter]

You have to start the Blockland EXE directly. Since you're skipping the launcher, you'll have to make your own.

[cucumberdude]

I thought that might be the case. I assume that I need to pass it some argument(s) to simulate the launcher?

[Kalphiter]

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ptlaaxobimwroe -profilePath E:/path/to/game
And then, add the regular arguments as usual.

[cucumberdude]

Gotcha thanks. Just out of curiosity, how did you figure that out? My launcher.log has these relevant lines:

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Launching Blockland.exe
launcherRunGame C:\Documents and Settings\sterling\My Documents\Blockland//Blockland.exe
  args: -dedicated -map skylands
Trying to launch game with CreateProcess, binary is 'C:\Documents and Settings\sterling\My Documents\Blockland//Blockland.exe'
which aren't especially revealing. Did you replace blockland.exe with a script that captures its parameters or something?

EDIT: To clear up any confusion for the sake of whoever wants to do this later, you literally need to have ptlaaxbimwroe in there... its not a placeholder, lol. So:

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Blockland.exe ptlaaxobimwroe -profilePath C:\Blockland//Blockland.exe -your -args -here


[Kalphiter]

It's intentionally not revealing. I dumped the process list in this way:

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WMIC PROCESS get Caption,Commandline,Processid
That gets PIDs, processes' paths and arguments, and the processes' names.

[cucumberdude]

Cool thanks.

Also, for anyone interested, I seem to have located the source of the(? maybe a?) blockland launcher: http://pastebin.com/CQHmCNrR

Not sure if this is the 'genuine' launcher source - but it certainly looks a lot like the launcher!

[Kalphiter]

Cool thanks.

Also, for anyone interested, I seem to have located the source of the(? maybe a?) blockland launcher: http://pastebin.com/CQHmCNrR

Not sure if this is the 'genuine' launcher source - but it certainly looks a lot like the launcher!

Looks like someone's implementation of the launcher. I have one myself but it's only an updater.

[cucumberdude]

Yeah, I guess the 'real' one is probably not written in python.

[DontCare4Free]

Cool thanks.

Also, for anyone interested, I seem to have located the source of the(? maybe a?) blockland launcher: http://pastebin.com/CQHmCNrR

Not sure if this is the 'genuine' launcher source - but it certainly looks a lot like the launcher!

That seems to be a derivative of my rewrite. :D

FWIW, my original launcher is https://gist.github.com/e989154794d8940c331e. Also, BlocklandGlass contains a JVM launcher which (in my experience) is much faster than both the stock launcher and my Python launcher. It's available at http://github.com/BlocklandGlass/JockLaunch.