HG Server-Manager

HG Server Manager is a .NET Windows application that eases the management of the Hydrofoil Generation game server.

Features

• 🦋 Clean and beautiful user interface
• 🧙 Zero configuration: Download and run the app, everything is detected „automagically“
• ⚙️ All server parameters editable
• 🛠️ Control your server:
  • 🚀 Start/stop game server
  • ⚠️ Get notified of the occurrence of penalties
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 See if your server is publicly reachable
  • 💬 Follow the in game chat from the user interface
• 📬 Notify players of your server launches via Discord
• ♾️ Load and save an unlimited number of different configurations
• ⛵ Instantly switch between up to 10 user-defined presets by hot key
• 📃 Open game server log file and snaps directory directly from the application
• 🏁 View regatta results and series points in formatted tables and send them to Discord
• 👨‍⚖️ Inspect and manage penalties
• 🧹 Clean up races directory and start a new series (to be exactly: archive all files to a zip file)

Installation

• Download the file HG_Server-Manager.zip from latest releases
• Extract the archive to a directory of your choice
• Start HG-ServerUI.exe

Usage

HG-Server-Manager loads the active server configuration from the file server_cfg.kl at startup. You can modify the configuration according to your requirements. All settings are saved at the moment you click the Start Server button.

Load an existing configuration from a file

Load an existing configuration from a file by opening the Menu File and selecting Load configuration.

Save configuration to a file

You can save a configuration for later use by opening the Menu File and selecting Save configuration as.

Save configuration without starting the server

Open File - Save current configuration saves the configuration to the default file server_cfg.kl without starting the server.

Manually edit configuration

Open File - Manually edit configuration to edit server_cfg.kl in the Notepad text editor. Changes to the file will be loaded to the user interface after saving the file.

Open Server Log

You can open the server log log.log in the Notepad text editor by opening File - Open server log.

Penalties

The menu Regattas - Penalties - Penalty viewer opens new window listing all penalties recorded. Click on an item in the list to view the details:

The window is re-sizable - if you to see more details, try to increase the window size.

All penalty files can be deleted by selecting Regattas - Penalties - Delete all penalties.

View results

View the results of all your regattas by selecting Regattas - View results:

The view starts with cumulated values from all boats in all races. Select a result file name to be displayed in the ComboBox at the top to display a concrete result:

Archive Results

Select Regattas - Start new regatta series to move all files of your server´s results Directory to a Zip file. The Zip file will be stored in the subdirectory archive of the directory, where HG Server is located. You can restore it by extracting the contents of a Zip archive file to it´s original directory. Afterwards, all boats and points are reset for a new series of races.

Status Bar

The status bar at the bottom of the window shows informations about the state of your server.

After launching a server process, HG Server-Manager tries to connect to the specified TCP Port via your external IP-address to determine if you are able to host a public race (marked green). If the value is true, you probably have set up your port forwardings correctly. If it´s false, you host a LAN game, not visible to the public. Note, that the result is updated as soon as the server process is launched. So after starting HG Server-Manager, it´s always False.

Protocol

The protocol text box informs you about events and problems. Have a look at it if something does not work as expected.

Penalties

Occurring penalties are displayed in the Penalties text box. New penalties are signalized with a sound effect.

Hot Slots

HG Server-Manager supports up to ten hot slots to quickly change between different configurations. Every hot slot represents a different server configuration.

Activate a hot slot

The keyboard hot keys Crtl+1 to Crtl+0 activate a corresponding hot slot. The game server will immediately launch. A previously started server is terminated beforehand.

Assigning a configuration to a hot slot

• Load (or edit) a configuration and adjust it to your needs.
• Save this configuration with the file name slot<Number>.kl. E.g. for Crtl+3 the file name should be slot3>.kl.

Discord announcements

HG Server-Manager can announce the start of your server by Discord message. Check the corresponding Switch to enable Discord messages. The messages are sent to the channel #hydrofoil-gerneration-race-annoncements on the author´s server. You can follow the channel to add the messages to your own server by clicking this link and selecting Follow.

Start Server

Click on the button Start [Crtl+s] or use the hotkey Crtl+sto start the server process. The game server process hg_server.exe will be launched and after that, HG Server-Manager tries to establish a TCP connection to the game server´s TCP Port to determine, if your server is publicly reachable. The result of this check is shown in the Status Bar. Note: If this check fails, no Discord message will be sent, even if the option is activated!