Server Steam Account

MetaMod:Source plugin for Source 2 that authorizes a game server account by +sv_setsteamaccount command line parameter or autoexec command.

Prerequisites

• hl2sdk of the game you plan on writing plugin for (the current plugin build scripts allows only for 1 sdk and 1 platform at a time!);
• metamod-source;
• steamworks-sdk;
• python3
• ambuild, make sure ambuild command is available via the PATH environment variable;

Setting up

• mkdir build & cd build in the root of the plugin folder.
• Open the MSVC developer console with the correct platform (x86 or x86_64) that you plan on targetting.
• Run python3 ../configure.py --plugin-name={PLUGIN_NAME} --plugin-alias={PLUGIN_ALIAS} -s {SDKNAME} --targets={TARGET} --mms_path={MMS_PATH} --steamworks_path={STEAMWORKS_PATH} --hl2sdk-root={HL2SDKROOT} where:
  • {PLUGIN_NAME} should be the plugin name which is used for the resulting binary name and folder naming scheme (this doesn't affect the plugin name you'd see in the plugin list if you don't modify the base plugin functions);
  • {PLUGIN_ALIAS} should be used to set the plugin alias that is used as a short hand version to load, unload, list info etc via the metamod-source menu (example being meta unload server_steam_account, where server_steam_account is the alias);
  • {SDKNAME} should be the hl2sdk game name that you are building for;
  • {TARGET} should be the target platform you are targeting (x86 or x86_64);
  • {MMS_PATH} should point to the root of the metamod-source folder;
  • {STEAMWORKS_PATH} should point to the root of the SteamWorks project folder;
  • {HL2SDKROOT} should point to the root of the hl2sdk's folders, note that it should not point to the actual hl2sdk-GAME folder but a root parent of it;
  • Alternatively {MMS_PATH} & {HL2SDKROOT} could be put as a PATH environment variables, like MMSOURCE112=D:\mmsource-1.12 & HL2SDKCS2=D:\hl2sdks\hl2sdk-cs2 (note the metamod version and that here hl2sdk environment variable should point directly to the game's hl2sdk folder and not to the root of it!)
  • Example: python3 ../configure.py --plugin-name=server_steam_account --plugin-alias=server_steam_account -s cs2 --targets=x86_64 --mms_path=D:\mmsource-1.12 --steamworks_path=D:\steamworks_sdk --hl2sdk-root=D:\hl2sdks
• If the process of configuring was successful, you should be able to run ambuild in the \build folder to compile the plugin.
• Once the plugin is compiled the files would be packaged and placed in \build\package folder.
• To run the plugin on the server, place the files preserving the layout provided in \package. Be aware that plugins get loaded either by corresponding .vdf files (automatic step) in the metamod folder, or by listing them in addons/metamod/metaplugins.ini file (manual step).

For more information on compiling and reading the plugin's source code, see:

http://wiki.alliedmods.net/Category:Metamod:Source_Development