I want to save my in game menu advanced options into separate config file that looks one to one to the in game advance options menu. So for example, at the top is a checkbox for enabling voice chat, so in the text list/file at the top would be the console command to change that setting. Kinda like in linux I want to :ls -la > text.txt. where it puts the output into a file as text. I just want a cfg file that list the console commands in the same order as the in game menu with defaults values. <3
#organized list of commands that match advanced options menu
edgy helm
stray nacelle
tf/cfg/config.cfg holds all the ones that have been changed from default. They're also not in order.
If I were to do this for you, it wouldn't be for free. It'd take ages.
edgy helm
Reading my own post, I just want to clarify. I don't want a script or some automatic thing. I just want the organized list, I know there is a whole list of all commands, but I just only want the ones that are shown with there defaults.
ok
stray nacelle
Probably faster to look through the code for the advanced options panel tbh
edgy helm
I probably will do it myself but I just didn't want to go through the hassle if someone already knew about a website that has this already
stray nacelle
Ughh I don't want to think about it anymore. Please don't make anyone do this
😭
Most people who know the console exists rarely even use advanced options...
edgy helm
My big issue for this is. I want to save my personal advance options in a seperate config file that is exec in the autoexec, but when I share the config of mine. they don't get my personal advanced options. so when they go to change ingame (becuase they don't know the commands) then it doesn't get overwritten. I know this sound like a mess
edgy helm
Looks like what you want I think
I'll look but I haven't messed with that stuff yet, just cfg only
stray nacelle
My big issue for this is. I want to save my personal advance options in a sepera...
Tell them to reset their config first, then your config on top should give them what you have.
edgy helm
it's not one friends it's five and this was in the past not now. I'm just doing config work atm
desert imp
Yeah I mean cfg/user_default.scr looks like it's the cvars corresponding to the 'advanced' options menu, in order
You can just go through those and find which ones are archived in your config.cfg
and those are your settings for advanced options
edgy helm
downloading VPKEdit for the first time, you did this, you sent me on this rabbit whole. lol
stray nacelle
Bruh, blame yourself for making it complicated
edgy helm
I know im joking
probably should have sent this
because I have reinstalled tf2 like 20 minutes ago
edgy helm
alright it seems like I don't have the knowledge to look inside a .scr file. so I'm just going to do this manually. look up one by one each console command that corresponds to the advance option and make a file that has the commands and default variables for those commands in order of the menu's order.
old panther
alright it seems like I don't have the knowledge to look inside a .scr file. so ...
can't you open it in a text editor?
edgy helm
kool that worked, don't know why i didn't try that
old panther
yeah always remember to do that first :p
if it shows up as garble, then resort to tools
edgy helm
I'll see where I can go from here
just a reminder, I wasn't asking anyone to make this list, I mostly just wanted to see if it already existed. thanks you for help.
old panther
My big issue for this is. I want to save my personal advance options in a sepera...
so you're just wanting to share your advanced options rather than your whole config?
edgy helm
other way around, I want all of my advanced options in a file separate from my other configs. so I can share config edits that contain settings you can't change in the options/advance options menu's.
old panther
i feel like it would just be easier to share your config.cfg which would contain all of that stuff as smidge said but you do you
edgy helm
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no, like I want my friends to be allowed to mess with their options menu without it getting overrided by my config that edits those options
old panther
sharing your config.cfg would be sharing all of your custom settings set (that are stored across game restarts) which includes the advanced options stuff
ah okay
edgy helm
I'm trying to have basically a whitelist/blacklist that acts like a mask to show what commands are in the games menu, and which ones arn't
so that my config doesn't conflict with in game menu's
old panther
so more like a reference of your advanced options then?
edgy helm
let me try to break it down more
old panther
i mean you're probably approaching this correctly, just checking to see if there's anything that can be done which is easier :)
edgy helm
let's say I have two files.
file A.cfg and file B.cfg.
A contains commands/variables (for example cl_interp 2) that you can't edit in game.
B contains commands/variables (for example tf_dingalingaling 1) that you can edit in game.
for my friends, I just want them to have A.cfg, they can technically edit B just with ingame menu's, but since I didn't give them my B.cfg, they can do that without it being reset
for me, I want both A.cfg and B.cfg to be exec by my autoexec, I want B.cfg because I reinstall tf2 regularly and save my config in a github.
right now I don't have a way to separate the A's from the B's, instead I have a AB.cfg
I want to separate AB.cfg into A.cfg and B.cfg. which would be easy if I had a B**'.cfg where it's just a list of B commands in there default setting in order of the in game's menu.
I can pain snakingly manual make this B'.cfg and copy it and change the default into my personal B.cfg. but before I do that manually, I wonder if someone had a similar idea and already has a "B'**.cfg" out there. or an easier way of making instead of researching each option ingame online with google. which I kinda got with the user_defaults.scr
I have a 3rd grade writing level so hope this makes sense.
old panther
well you shouldn't have to manually re-exec everything in your autoexec, and if you're going to store your own config as a backup in github then you shouldn't have to separate the commands into file a and b
but for sharing, i gotcha
edgy helm
I share with like six friends
I have shared my AB stuff with them for years but I keep running into issue's, for instance today, I just learned that one of my friends use's shift for crouch, which is understandable, but I have it bound to something else, so when they went to rebind it, it worked for a round before it was overwritten with my config, they then promptly came to me to ask for help, and this is not the first time when it came to these in-game menu's being in conflict with my shared config.
old panther
I have shared my AB stuff with them for years but I keep running into issue's, f...
ah well they can always modify the config you share, but i get it
it's simpler to share/modify with a more established structure