Steam Game Server Configuration

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Introduction

Used to define a Game Server's configuration

public struct SteamGameServerConfiguration

Fields and Attributes

autoInitalize

bool autoInitalize;

Indicates rather or not the Server APIs should auto initialize on start up

autoLogon

bool autoLogon;

indicates rather or not the Steam Game Server system should log on after initialization

ip

uint ip;

The uint packed IP address, this is the raw form Steam would use IP address as and is simply the 4 octives of an IP address packed into the 32 bit int value

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

each 8 bit segment storing a different octave. We have tools that can convert this to a string or a string based IP to a uint see our Utilities for more information.

IpAdress

The string representation of the IP address

public string IpAddress {get; set; }

queryPort

ushort queryPort;

The query port used by Valve

gamePort

ushort queryPort;

The query port used by Valve

serverVersion

string serverVersion;

The server version to report to Steam Game Server

serverId

CSteamID serverId;

The ID assigned to the Steam Game Server on initialization and logon. This is set by Steam and is what you would as an address to connect to this server

usingGameServerAuthApi

bool usingGameServerAuthApi;

Should the auth API be used

enableHeartbeats

bool enableHeartbeats;

Should we send heartbeats to SGS, if you do not do this then the Steam Game Server Browser will not be able to update ping and other bits of data.

spectatorServerName

bool spectatorServerName;

The name of the server to display in the spectator list

anonymousServerLogin

bool anonymousServerLogin;

Recommended (set this to true)

Should the interface logon anonymously

gameServerToken

string gameServerToken;

if not logging on anonymously then it must have a token https://steamcommunity.com/dev/managegameservers

isPasswordProtected

bool isPasswordProtected;

Indicate to SGS that this server is password protected, its up to you to set that password and handle its use this only lets the browser know one is required.

gameName

string gameName;

The name to display for the server in the SGS browser

gameDescription

string gameDescription;

The description to display for the server in SGS browser

gameDirectory

string gameDirectory;

the name of the folder in Steam content the game is running from. Usually the same as the game's name.

isDedicated

bool isDedicated;

Indicate to SGS browser this server is dedicated

maxPlayerCount

int maxPlayerCount;

Indicate to SGS what the max player count is

botPlayerCount

int botPlayerCount;

Indicate to SGS what the bot player count is

mapName

string mapName;

reports the map name to SGS

gameData

string gameData;

Delimited string used for matchmaking filtering

rulePairs

List<StringKeyValuePair> rulePairs;

The set of rule pairs for the server

Methods

Get

Gets the SteamGameServerConfiguraiton from the target. This can be used to read the configuration from files or to read the configuration applied to the current game.

public static SteamGameServerConfiguraiton Get();

public static bool Get(FileInfo configFile, out SteamGameServerConfiguration config);

public static bool Get(string configFile, out SteamGameServerConfiguration config);

public static bool Get(byte[] data, out SteamGameServerConfiguration config);

ToString

Returns the JSON formated string of the configuraiton

public string ToString()

ToBytes

Returns the byte[] representing the configuraiton

public byte[] ToBytes()

SaveToDisk

Saves the config to a file on the local disk

public bool SaveToDisk(string path)