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This page provides information about the command-line application, or spawner, of Chaos Arena. 

Overview

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The spawner is a command-line application which that can be started from either Windows Explorer or from a Windows Command Prompt. Alternatively, you can run the spawner via a batch script (*.bat). 

Go to "..\Chaos_Arena\arena_server\" and double-click on "arena_spawner.exe". 

It provides you with useful information about:

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  • The IP address of the machine on which it is running (for example, 10.0.0.106 )
  • The network interfaces available on the machine (for example, "Ethernet 2" and "Loopback Pseudo-interface 1")
  • The "Broadcast" address, which you'll later need for configuring Arena Server (to look for Operator and Render Nodes) on the respective network.
  • The port on which the spawner is listening ( 20711 by default )
  • Example commands for running the spawner

The spawner can be started before or after the server. It acts like a service that can be started once and left running indefinitely until the current user is logged off, or Windows is restarted.


Windows Command Line options

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In case "arena_spawner.exe" is started from the Windows Command Line, or through a batch file, there are a few command-line options that have to be passed to the spawner on each machine:

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Examplecommand line for running the spawner with ID “center” and a server running on IP address 10.0.0.5 (assuming that your "Chaos_Arena" folder structure is located in the root of drive "C:\") 

Infocode
arena_spawner.exe -id center -server 10.0.0.5 -vantage C:\Chaos_Arena\arena_renderer\vantage.exe

Optionally you can set up a script or a configuration file for easy startup of the spawner with the server IP (or auto-discovery), renderer ID, and the path to the installed renderer (vantage.exe).

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