MatterAMXX

Powered by Matterbridge, MatterAMXX is a plugin for AMXX that allows simple bridging between your game servers, Mattermost, IRC, XMPP, Gitter, Slack, Discord, Telegram, and more.

Description

Using Matterbridge API, this plugin allows you to bridge your game server with a Matterbridge installation, relaying messages from/to a growing number of protocols.

You can also bridge multiple servers together so the players can chat between each one.

Protocols natively supported in Matterbridge

• Mattermost
• IRC
• XMPP
• Gitter
• Slack
• Discord
• Telegram
• Rocket.chat
• Matrix
• Steam (Bugged for now)
• Twitch
• Ssh-chat
• WhatsApp
• Zulip
• Keybase

Tested Protocols

• Discord
• Matrix
• Telegram

Dependencies

This plugin requires the following to work:

• GoldSrc Rest In Pawn (gRIP)
• A working Matterbridge installation

Supported Games

This plugin is supposed to be mod agnostic. All official games should work out of the box

• Half-Life
• Counter-Strike
• Condition Zero
• Opposing Force
• Ricochet
• Day of Defeat
• Team Fortress Classic
• Deathmatch Classic

Kill feed feature will also work in mods where a proper hamdata.ini table is provided

• The Specialists
• Sven Co-op

Tested Games

• Half-Life
• Ricochet
• Sven Co-op
• The Specialists

Installation Instructions

• Download all requirements, plus the .sma file.
• Place include files in the /scripting/includes directory.
• Compile the plugin and install the newly generated .amxx file. (Remember to install the latest version of GRIP in your server)

Setting up MatterAMXX

This quickstart guide assumes you already have a working Matterbridge installation.

Open your matterbridge.toml file and add the following lines:

[api.myserver]
BindAddress="0.0.0.0:1337"
Token="verysecrettoken"
Buffer=1000
RemoteNickFormat="{NICK}"

Where "myserver" is goes the name of the relay, you can put anything.

Find your gateway where you want to relay the messages.

[[gateway]]  
name="cstrike"  
enable=true  
  
[[gateway.inout]]  
account="discord.mydiscord"  
channel="general"  
  
[[gateway.inout]]  
account="api.myserver"  
channel="api"

Where cstrike is goes the gateway name. By default is the mod's gamedir (cstrike for Counter-Strike, valve for Half-Life, etc) but you can change it using cvars, you can add more gateway.inout entries depending on how many protocols do you want to relay messages.

Avatar Spoofing

It's possible to set up avatars for each user on protocols that support it. Unfortunately, due to limitations of AMXX and the GRIP module, user info from the Steam API can't be retrieved because it gets truncated.

However, you can host the included PHP script to query for avatars to be used in this plugin, you just need a Steam API Key that you can obtain from the Steam Web API website.

This will also cache each avatar and they will be deleted after a while.

Remember to create the /avatars folder! The script won't do it for you.

API

The API allows other plugins to use MatterAMXX features. Just include the matteramxx.inc file in your plugin and it should work immediately.

Remember that the plugin requires the latest version of MatterAMXX to be running in the server.

Console Variables

• amx_matter_enable
  • Enables the plugin.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_url
  • URL and port where the bridge is located.
  • Default: http://localhost:1337
• amx_matter_system_avatar
  • URL pointing to a picture that will be used as avatar image in system messages. (In protocols that support it)
  • Default: [empty string]
• amx_matter_autogenerate_avatar
  • URL pointing to a picture that will be used as avatar image in unauthenticated player messages. (In protocols that support it)
  • This will mostly affect LAN servers, ID_PENDING cases, cases where Steam might be down and other specific cases.
  • This is generated on the user's nickname, so you must provide a link to Gravatar, Identicons, etc.
  • Default: [empty string]
• amx_matter_player_avatar
  • URL pointing to a picture that will be used as avatar image in player messages. (In protocols that support it)
  • Note that this is dynamic based on the user's Steam ID64, if it can't be retrieved the message won't have any avatar.
  • Upload the PHP file I provided to your file server and use it in this cvar like http://localhost/avatars/get_avatar.php?steamid=%s.
  • See "Avatar Spoofing" for more information.
  • Default: [empty string]
• amx_matter_bridge_gateway
  • Gateway name to connect.
  • Default: [varies, depends on the game]
• amx_matter_bridge_token
  • String token to authenticate, it's recommended that you set it up, but it will accept any connection by default.
  • Default: [empty string]
• amx_matter_bridge_incoming
  • Enables incoming messages (protocols to server).
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_incoming_update_time
  • Specifies how many seconds it has to wait before querying new incoming messages.
  • Performance wise is tricky, lower values mean the messages will be queried instantly, while higher values will wait and bring all messages at once, both cases may cause overhead. Experiment and see what's ideal for your server.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_incoming is 0.
  • Default: 3.0
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing
  • Enables outgoing messages (server to protocols).
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_display_map
  • Display the current map at the start of every session.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_strip_colors
  • Strip color codes from player names.
  • It will only affect Half-Life and Adrenaline Gamer.
    • No effect in other games.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_system_username
  • Name of the "user" when relying system messages.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: [your server name]
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_chat
  • Transmit chat messages.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_chat_no_repeat
  • Implement basic anti-spam filter. Useful for preventing taunt binds from sending multiple times.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_chat is 0.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_kills
  • Transmit kill feed.
  • It's recommended that you to turn it off on heavy activity servers (Like CSDM/Half-Life servers with tons of players)
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_join
  • Transmit when people join the server.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_join_delay
  • Specify how many seconds the server has to wait before sending Join messages..
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_join is 0.
  • Default: 30.0
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_quit
  • Transmit when people leave the server.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_quit_ignore_intermission
  • Specify if the server shouldn't send quit messages if the server reached the intermission state.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_quit is 0.
  • Default: 0
• amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_joinquit_count
  • Display playercount on each Join/Quit message.
  • No effect if both amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_quit and amx_matter_bridge_outgoing_join are 0.
  • Default: 1
• amx_matter_bridge_retry_delay
  • In seconds, how long the server has wait before retrying a connection when it was interrupted.
  • No effect if amx_matter_bridge_outgoing is 0.
  • Default: 3.0

Credits

• 42wim
  Main developer of Matterbridge.
• Michael Wieland
  His MatterBukkit plugin for Minecraft inspired me to create this.
• Th3-822
  Helped me finding some bugs.