Welcome to Traal

This site hosts the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast's Adminmod plugins. Admin Mod is a server-side add-in for half-life and its various 'mods' such as Counter-strike, Team Fortress Classic and Day of Defeat. It provides a number of useful features for both server administrators and players alike. It also provides an API allowing anyone to write plugins to expand its capabilities. This site hosts a number of such plugins.

News

12th May 2005

As the quick-witted amongst you may have noticed, I haven't been actively working on Admin Mod or any half-life development for quite some time now. I've decided to remove the older versions of my plugins from this site to free up a little web space. The latest version of each is still available. If you do need to look at an older version for some reason you can email me, however, if its because the latest version isn't working then its probably because half life has moved on in the past 2 years. I'm not aware of any bugs in the last versions of any of the plugins that aren't present in earlier versions. On the up side, new hitch-hikers movie :)

28th November 2003

If anyone was wondering why there are no graphics on this page, they are all in my b3ta gallery.

28th August 2003

How about a Metamod plugin for a change? Announcing Universal 1.00 - a metamod plugin to make Metamod compatible with every version of every Half-Life based game. (in theory ;). It might also make metamod compatible with any bots it currently doesn't work with.

7th August 2003

Fixed an important bug in plugin_blatt_whois (V3.8) - all dates in August were being recorded as being in June!

1st August 2003

Updated plugin_blatt_whois (V3.7) to integrate with Cheating-Death. The plugin can now act as a Cheating-Death mediator allowing you to use optional mode in cheating death and have the plugin enforce its use for players that have played on the server too long, that get too higher kills:deaths ratio or who are watched. Also all other plugin zip files have been rebuilt to include missing css files for the offline manuals.

26th July 2003

Important changes and bugfixes to plugin_blatt_whois (V3.6), especially for linux users. This plugin also now comes with a script for Windows users to prune the database. There is also a minor change to plugin_blatt_teamchange (V3.4); if you change a player's team it will now anounce this to all other admins with ACCESS_TEAMCHANGE. Also a number of plugins have been updated to compile without correctly on Adminmod 2.50.56 - you don't need to update the previous version if you are using a pre-compiled AMX file, but you should not compile the old SMA files against Admin Mod 2.50.56.

16th June 2003

More fixes for plugin_blatt_map (V3.9) - including a resolution to the problem of people nominating maps using the wrong case on Linux. Also some corrections have been made to the manuals for several other plugins.

19th May 2003

4 plugins updated:

• There are more new features and bugfixes for plugin_blatt_whois (V3.5) including tracking of people rejoining the server with new names.
• An update wouldn't be complete without changes to plugin_blatt_map (V3.8). There are minor bug fixes and new features for all users. Additionally, this plugin will now support coloured and longer lasting csay's when used with the new adminmod 2.50.53 beta version (requires recompilation - see the history page for details).
• To prove the older plugins aren't dead, plugin_blatt_teamchange (V3.3) has had an update after a long period of inactivity after some suggestions were posted in the adminmod forums by grygrx.
• Finnaly, plugin_blatt_monster (V3.4) has been "repackaged" to include a two versions of the Windows DLL - one for Pentium 4 / Athlon (this was in the previous 5th may package) and one that works on all processors (this wasn't). NOTE: There are no changes to the plugin or DLL code.

5th May 2003

3 new releases today: Major new features and bugfixes for plugin_blatt_whois (V3.4) including tracking of team kills and potential ghosting. Also minor bug fixes and performance improvements to plugin_blatt_map (V3.7) and plugin_blatt_monster (V3.4).

22nd March 2003

Admin Mod 2.50.52 has been released. I strongly recommend that you upgrade to this version - 2.50.50 users need only copy over the new DLL and AMX files for the standard plugins. This build contains a number of bug fixes, two of which fix serious issues with the handling of timers.

22nd March 2003

Whois plugin updated. Only minor changes to the plugin itself, but extensive enhancements to the xsl files to allow the database to be published on a website.

15th March 2003

www.metamod.org is down at the moment. You can download version 1.15 from here: Windows - Linux - Source Code.

13th March 2003

Updates to the online documentation for the map and whois plugins, and some more OAQs to answer the most commonly asked questions from the forums. NOTE: The documentation in the zip files hasn't been updated.

9th March 2003

A major new plugin relesaed - plugin_blatt_whois. This plugin creates a database containing details of everyone who plays on your server, recording the number connections, WONID / SteamID, IP addresses used, and alternate names used. Features include:

• The database is stored in mulitple XML files on disk, so it is not limited on the number of players supported. It is tested on a server with over 1000 different players.
• A hashing algorithm is used to quickly locate files, limiting limiting the lag caused
• Easy to read output in console
• Player reports can also be viewed in Internet Explorer
• Records a log of all kicks / bans / unbans on each player.
• Admins can add notes to the log against each player
• Admins can setup watches to alert other players to suspected cheaters.
• Plugin can detect people playing on a new WONID after they have been banned.

9th March 2003

Released today: Version 3.6 of the Map Plugin features extended support for natural selection and has a few bugs blatted. Version 3.3 of the Monster Plugin monster plugin contains a minor fix to some code for respawning monsters on round end but this should have no functional impact.

28th January 2003

Version 3.3 of the Language plugin released. This contains several important bugfixes, one of which means that you must also upgrade any other plugin that uses the multi-lingual features. New versions of all plugins that use the language plugin are also released. The new version 3.5 of the Map Plugin also contains some minor bug fixes and a workaround for when Admin Mod fails to change map properly. It is not necessary to upgrade other plugins if you do not use them with the language plugin.

24th January 2003

Version 3.4 of Map Plugin re-released. Previous zip file actually still contained version 3.3! Also the pages of this site now have more appropraite titles. Oh, and the various spellings of adminmod and plug in on this page are intentional.

23rd January 2003

Version 3.4 of Map Plugin released. Fixes 2 bugs in the implementation of rockthevote in version 3.3.

19th January 2003

Version 3.3 of Map Plugin released. It now prevents spaming during voting, and has improvements to the way rockthevote is handled for admins.

16th January 2003

Version 3.2 of Map, Language and Glow plugins released with updated French & German translations. Also a missing file dictionary.ini has been added to the zip file for the Sound plugin.

11th January 2003

An exploit for several Metamod plugins involving a buffer overrun when logging messages has been discovered. It seems Botman was on the ball as all versions of the monster DLL from V3.00.00 are immune to this exploit.

11th January 2003

Glow plugin version 3.2 released. This version has French & German translations. Also Language plugin version 3.2 is released with a fixed German translation.

8th January 2003

Admin Activity Utility released. This VB script scans your users.ini file and your logs and generates an HTML report on how often your administrators connect to your server.

5th January 2003

Version 3.1 released. 2 new plugins, a map pack generator and a new look to the website. Additionally, this marks the end of the plugins pack - plugin downloads are now separate zip files.

30th November 2002

Version 2.6 released. 4 new plugins, improvements and bug fixes to the map management plugin, and a version of the monster plugin that works on Linux.

Site Compatibility

This site is tested in IE 6, Mozilla 1.3 and Opera 7. It should also work in IE 5 and above. AOL can shove their browsers where the sun don't shine. I'll think about supporting their netscrape browsers when they start paying their taxes in UK instead of funneling it all to some offshore bank account. Well, actually, I won't.