node.js + UT

[UT-Sniper-SJA94]

It's only something very small, and simple, but I made something I can use in UT that a node.js script creates.

I was thinking you could do something useful like connect to a pug bot, so the server can advertise pugs in the server like you can in IRC (SiegePug [3/12] Noob, Hamster, Toilet) I might even try and make an node.js IRC bot for fun.




I'm planning on making something to automatically organise my demos, and screenshots for me, and probably make a tool to convert UT logs to HTML.

let fs = require('fs');


function updateDate() {
  
	let date = new Date();

	let year = date.getYear();
	let month = date.getMonth();
	let day = date.getDate();
	let hour = date.getHours();
	let minutes = date.getMinutes();
	let seconds = date.getSeconds();
  
	let string = "say The current date is: "+day+"."+(month+1)+".2016 "+hour+":"+minutes+":"+seconds+" (node.js module)";
  
  fs.writeFileSync('test.txt',string,'utf-8');


}


function tick(){
	updateDate();
}


setInterval(tick,1000);

All i have to do to use it in game is to make a keybind:

set input b exec test.txt

[TimTim]

Generating a text file for UT to execute is pretty clever!

GUBER (the bot I made for GlobalUnreal years ago) was 100% Node.js. It also had the ability to control UT servers - e.g., change maps, set player limits, set game types, enable mutators, etc. Basically all I did was create a server-side UT mod that allowed the servers to accept data (with a private key) which told the server what to do, and GUBER (Node.js) would send the correct parameters to whichever server we wanted to update.