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Author NEWS: Hak Pak Updater Released
rtrifts
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Joined: 01 Apr 2002
From: Toronto, ON
Posted: Sunday, 25 August 2002 11:35PM
Automatic Hak Pak Downloads!: Hak Pak Updater Released


Revinor, author of mdl2ascii and a long time community member has announced that his Hak Pak Updater (beta ver 0.9.1) is now available for download.

As reported 2 weeks ago on NWVault and on the CC Forums, Revinor's Hak Pak Updater is a client/server interface for launching multiplayer games for NWN. In any module that requires a hak pak, Hak Pak Updater does the following:

- automatically logs on to the specified hak pak server and checks the status of the hak pak to see if anything has been changed;

- if you do not have all of the elements in the latest hak pak for the module, the Hak Pak Updater client will selectively download only those files in the hak pak which you do not have - saving you the download of the entire hak pak if only a few models or textures have been changed;

- Hak Pak Updater identifies files within a hak pak by identifying their unique MD5 checksum - not simply their file name. This means that if you have downloaded the file within a given hak pak as part of another hak pak on another server - you will not have to download it again;

- Hak Pak Updater stores all the files within your hak paks within its cache, permitting the client to essentially build the necessary hak pak for use in a module on the fly prior to the game commencing;

- Hak Pak Updater's server application tracks all your hak paks, building file lists and handling the selective downloading of files.

In short - Hak Pak Updater is a godsend to multiplayer NWN gaming and should be considered a must have utility by each and every player, server administrator and DM of a NWN game. If you don't have it - get it.

For news concerning HakUpdater, please check out http://nwn-j3d.sf.net. There you will find a link to the Hak Pak updater 'Project' page, which contains forum and bug/feature request tracker.

Hak Pak Updater may be downloaded at Click Here

The Hak Pak Updater online help page may be found at Click Here

To run Hak Pak Updater, you will need to download Java Runtime Environment, version 1.4
or later. This is one time download, around 8MB. There is a chance you already have it, as it is used for displaying some java applets on web pages. If not, Java Runtime Environment can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html.

8 MB is a significant download, but you will get this bandwidth back probably the first time first Hak Pak Updater downloads a single file. Every MB not downloaded after that is gravy

Bug reports or ideas for improvement in functionality or the user interface may be submitted to Revinor at the Hak Pak Updater's project page or by mailing the author at abies@pg.gda.pl.

Major thanks to Revinor - who is, in my opinion, a bona fide Legendary NWN Guru for coding this utility.

Bioware owes him a personal thank you card for this, in my opinion.

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.Robert
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DL-1 "Dragons of Despair": *Under Construction*

[ Edited By rtrifts: Sunday, 25 August 11:49PM (GMT) ]
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Posted: Sunday, 25 August 2002 11:40PM
He does indeed kick glute.

Amazing, simply amazing is all I can say.
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Posted: Sunday, 25 August 2002 11:47PM
Awesome! ..a definite godsend for modules with Custom Content! and its written in Java!
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 12:23AM
when i click the link to the file i get the messge page can not be found.
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Joined: 01 Apr 2002
From: Toronto, ON
Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 12:26AM
It's not Revinor's fault. Sourceforge is in system maintenenace mode. The DL link was active when I posted it, but I expcet it may be undergoing system maintenance as well.

Relax - it will be back up in a bit.

For now - try this one:

Click Here

(Bad timing on sf.net's part though: Bastages!)

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.Robert
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DL-1 "Dragons of Despair": *Under Construction*

[ Edited By rtrifts: Monday, 26 August 12:51AM (GMT) ]
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 12:56AM
Source Forge is down.
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 12:59AM
^ for a kicker of gluti...

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Mecha Dude
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:02AM
Java? "Wonderfull".
Since the help page is also down, what is the command line we need?
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:24AM
Ah, the command line is: java -jar hakupdate-0.9.1.jar
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:41AM
Since we I'm stumbling along with the program, I cannot tell what is a bug, and what is user error.
Here is what I get so far:
Unpack other hakpak, Put contents of hakpak into catch (no mater what file I use) spits out this error:
java.lang. StringIndexOut OfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
at java.lang. String.substring (Unknown Source)
at net.sf.nwn. hak.HakpakRep .listReal Contents(HakpakRep.java:53)
at net.sf.nwn. hak.gui.Main Frame$17.run(MainFrame.java:2146)
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Joined: 01 Apr 2002
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:46AM
Click Here

Not everything is screwed up.

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Mecha Dude
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:50AM
Well so far nothing works
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:51AM
So far nothing works
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Mecha Dude
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 01:59AM
*Tries to successfully post*

It's only giving me errors, and not doing much of anything.
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Posted: Monday, 26 August 2002 02:04AM
*About to give up with these nutty forums for the day*

Ok I'll try this agian.

After trying to get your program to work, it only gives me errors, that wich I posted, and when I attempt a backup of the override folder, I get and access denied messge.
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