VoteSys v16b

Changelog

• Fix random map selection sometimes selecting maps that could not be voted for manually
• When VoteSys is configured to not show automatically, avoid countdown announcements as well if nobody has voted for a candidate
• Fix the favorites star in the map list disappearing if the maps name is long

VoteSys v16

Changelog

• Added Map Lists Settings UI
• Added Setting bEnableKickVoting
  • Controls whether players can vote to kick other players
• Added Client Setting bShowPlayerList
  • If False, hides the player list and gives more space to the chat/logo area
• VoteSys now captures Team messages
• Fixed slow map switching with certain maps
• Added horizontal scroll bars to relevant UI elements
  • Presets list in admin UI
  • Map list
  • Player list

Map Lists Settings UI

Full Changelog: v15...v16

VoteSys v15

Changelog

New Features

• Allow Players to mark individual maps as favorites
  • Favorites apply across presets
    • Marking a map as a favorite in one presets map list will mark that map as a favorite in all other presets' map lists
  • Favorites apply across servers
    • Marking a map as a favorite on one server will mark that map on all other servers as a favorite as well
  • Map list can be sorted such that favorites are always at the top
• Added server and preset setting bOpenVoteMenuAutomatically
  • If True (the default), the vote menu gets opened automatically when the vote countdown starts
  • If False, the vote menu never gets opened automatically, but can be opened manually
  • If the server setting bOpenVoteMenuAutomatically is False, the vote menu will never open automatically. If it is True, the value for the currently active preset will determine behavior.
• Preset List in Admin UI now has a horizontal scrollbar

Bugfixes

• No longer creates objects in the Transient package
• No longer writes scary message about failed texture load to log if no logo is configured
• Logo will no longer appear in front of logo buttons
• Suggest button will now be disabled if no preset is selected
• Aligned SettingState label in Admin UI with button labels
• Settings window will now remember its position
• Banned players will now be kicked as soon as possible instead of waiting up to 30 seconds
• Bans will now be saved to disk eagerly
• Players with an empty ACE HWID can no longer be banned

Overview

VoteSys v14

Changelog

• Added "Suggest" Button between "Vote" and "Random"
  • Automatically votes for a random map from the current map list
• Added context menu to map list
  • You can change how the map list is sorted in that menu
• Added presets settings menu
• Added setting LogoDrawRegion
• Added setting bEnableACEIntegration
  • If true and ACE is running, use ACE to identify players for the purposes of enforcing bans
  • Defaults to false
• Fixed size of logo area
• Logo buttons are always clickable
• VoteSys now closes automatically when travelling due to logo button click

Admin Presets Settings UI

VoteSys v13b

Changelog

• Fixed bug where ServerActors were copied to DefaultActors unexpectedly

VoteSys v13

Changelog

• VoteMenu no longer automatically opens for spectators at the end of the match
• Fix 436 clients not being able to join servers with VoteSys
• Added player limits
  • To MapLists
  • To Presets: MinPlayers, MaxPlayers
• Allow clients to sort the map list
• Support Assault
• Make the behavior of MidGameVoteThreshold more intuitive
• Added the option of replacing the chat interface with a logo
  • Shown to players the first time they open the VoteMenu per match
  • Optionally has buttons with links along the bottom edge
• Split server settings UI into three parts to make more space

Logo Example

Admin Settings

VoteSys v12

Changelog

• Added Black theme
• Random button no longer immediately votes for a specific map, creates a placeholder candidate instead
• Added SortPriority setting to presets to allow controlling the order of presets inside the drop-down box
• Fixed spectators being counted as voters
• Fixed spectators being able to vote
• Fixed random map selection, no longer ignores MinimumMapRepeatDistance setting
• Added server-side settings to the interface

Black Theme

Server-Side Settings Menu

Full Changelog: v11...v12

VoteSys v11b

Changelog

• Added separate error message when clients cant connect to server to transfer VoteSys data
• Fixed names in ChatArea having the wrong color for messages sent before opening the vote menu

VoteSys v11

Changelog

• Add IgnoreMap and IgnoreList options to Map List Config by @PhasecoreX in #11
  • Added setting IncludeList to MapLists
  • Added setting IgnoreMap to MapLists
  • Added setting IgnoreMapsWithPrefix to MapLists
  • Added setting IgnoreList to MapLists
• Added setting Packages to Presets
  • Allows adding arbitrary packages to the list of ServerPackages
  • Requires server setting bManageServerPackages to be enabled
  • Packages containing classes listed in Mutators do not need to be specified again, they are picked up automatically
• Added setting bRetainCandidates
  • If true, candidates stay in the list of candidates when they reach 0 votes
  • Defaults to false
• Added a settings menu
  • Can be opened through the Vote Menu or using the console command mutate votesys settings
• Added a Dark theme to UI
• Fixed MinimumMapRepeatDistance preventing voting for any map of a preset unexpectedly (#16)
• Reworked how information about players and vote candidates gets replicated to clients, solving multiple bugs in the process
• Fixed multiple bugs with how MapLists were sorted [by @PhasecoreX in #17]
• Fixed map preview window overlapping preset selection list (#18)
• Fixed Tutorial maps being unexpectedly included in lists of maps for gamemodes or unexpectedly excluded from lists generated from prefixes (#19)
• Spectators can now open the vote menu and will also show up in the list of players
• You can now inherit from presets defined after the current preset, removing the ordering requirements

New Contributors

• @PhasecoreX made their first contribution in #11

Dark Mode UI

Full Changelog: v10...v11

VoteSys v10

Changelog

• Added "Random" button
  • Votes for a random map for the currently selected preset
• Added setting bAlwaysUseDefaultPreset
  • If false and nobody voted, the current preset is maintained and a random map is selected
• Added setting GameNameMode
  • Replaces setting bChangeGameNameForPresets
• Presets in drop-down list are sorted now
• Fixed ACE HWID detection when playing on maps with [ and ] in the name

UI Overview