Step 1 How To Create and Edit Modern Warfare 3 Recipes
Recipe in principle is a set of match rules you assign to a given map. In this section, you will learn you can create, save, change, and load recipes in Modern Warfare 3 dedicated server. You will find several example recipes in the folder location specified below, which you can edit using any standard text editor.
Example Recipes can be found here:
\steamapps\common\modern warfare 3\admin\*.dsr
*If you cant find them here, look in the players2 folder.
How To Create a Recipes in Modern Warfare 3 Match Rules
You will find the recipe section via Private Match Game Setup Screen in Modern Warfare 3 Play > Private Match > Game Setup. Start by selecting the game mode you want to create a recipe for.
Subjected to whatever game mode you select, you will given different set of options when you select Options. You can tweak these game options here to your liking.
Once you have made all the changes, save the recipe to the admin folder used by the Dedicated Server by selecting Save Recipe To Disk option in the pop-up menu. The location to the folder, that is -\steamapps\common\modern warfare 3\admin\
How To Load Recipes in Modern Warfare 3 Match Rules
Now, you have already saved recipe that you created in the last step in admin folder of Modern Warfare 3 root directory. Which is -\steamapps\common\modern warfare 3\admin\
If you are confused by the Steam Root folder name It would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam in most of the cases. Can be different, if you have installed Steam in other than default location, hence using Steam Root folder name here makes things easy to refer to.
Recipes are saved in .dsr file formats, which can be edited using any standard notepad. You can edit them using the notepad, save the changes and select these modified recipes by selecting the Load Recipe From Disk Option from the bottom Menu of the Game Setup screen.
When you select that option, it will open a list of modified custom Recipes which you can load. Select the custom match rules recipe you want to load for your server and continue to the next step.
Step 2 Dedicated Server Playlist
Its a text file which has the match rules recipes and map rotation settings. You can also set several different settings for how map recipes pair, weight and frequency a given is rotated to and all that stuff. Playlists in Modern Warfare 3 are .dspl file format but still editable with a standard text editor.
The content inside the playlist is in the following format:
<level_name>, <recipe_name>, <weight> <level_name>, <recipe_name>, <weight> <level_name>, <recipe_name>, <weight>
For Example:
mp_alpha, Custom_1, 1
mp_bootleg, Custom_1, 1
If you want to rotate the maps on random, you can put a * to denote it. In any case, there is an example .dspl playlist that will guide you to edit playlists in Modern Warfare 3 and has all the info you need to change any Playlist Including Map Names, Recipes, and how to assign weights to a map rotation.
The example Playlist can be found in:
\steamapps\common\modern warfare 3\admin\default.dspl
When you change settings or edit a playlist or a recipe during an active session, the changes will be reflected in the next map.
Step 3 How To Start Modern Warfare 3 Dedicated Server
Once you have set up Modern Warfare 3 recipes and playlists, you are ready to start your Modern Warfare 3 dedicated server. First, make sure all the important files are in the admin directory \steamapps\common\modern warfare 3\admin
Start the Dedicated Server from your control panel.
Step 4 Load Playlist and Setup Map Rotation
Similarly, you can set up the map rotation by loading your Playlist. You can type sv_maprotationto load the map rotation playlist and then, type start_map_rotate to push the changes live!
Want to play a private match ? password protect your server. Type set g_password in Modern Warfare 3 dedicated console to password protect your server.
