Admin and director bit calculator

"Some things belong together. Some things should never share a pan." — Bourdo Dayne, Head Chef @ Dee-do-dium

Six cvars decide who can run each admin command and which story tools respond to director mode.

What director mode is, and who can put somebody in the chair, is at take the director's chair.

Set the permissions

Which rank holds each command

Set the lowest rank that holds each command. Every rank above it inherits, so a command set to community is held by clerical and leadership as well.

Command Lowest rank Shipped

Take the director’s chair themselves /director on yourself

Fly through walls noclip

Spawn and control NPCs npc

List and create community characters /communitychars list, create

Edit a community character /communitychars set

Delete a community character /communitychars delete

Fade everyone’s screen in and out /fade

Play the opening crawl /crawl

Read any player’s coordinates /origin all

Turn themselves invisible nodraw

Walk through players and objects nonsolid

Put another player into the chair, or take them out of it /director on somebody else

Change an account’s membership state /sf_setmember

Create an account /comadmin create

Raise a guest to member /comadmin initiate

Retire a member /comadmin retire

Reinstate a former member /comadmin reinstate

Promote or demote an admin rank /comadmin admin promote, demote

Make NPCs ignore them notarget

Browse and inspect accounts /comadmin list, show

Run stunt cues /stunt

Disable an account, locking it out of login /comadmin disable

Become invincible god

Overwrite a password, a membership or an admin rank /comadmin set

Place, edit and remove entities /add, /edit, /remove

Inspect whatever they are looking at /trace

Drive the cinematic camera /camera

Swap one shader for another /remap

Play music for everyone /setscore

Prepare the map for filming /prepmap

Save, load and list scenes /scene save, load, list

Set a character’s designations /comadmin status, faction, rank

Place points of interest /poi

Change the map /changemap

Teleport, and set placemarks /teleport, /placemark

Print text across everyone’s screen /centersay, /cs

Play a video for everyone /playcinematic

Kick a player, blocking reconnects briefly /sfkick

Ban an address permanently /sfban

Place and manage trigger boxes /trigger

Create and control entity groups /group

Save and load persistent AI personas /llm persona save, load

Decide which scene a map opens with /scene setdefault, cleardefault

Arm the AI NPC system, and start spending /llm on, off

Grant a character an extra language /comadmin language

Reload the animation table for the whole server /animreload

Handcuff or blindfold somebody else restraining another player

Place and control incoming weapon fire /underfire

Give a live player a weapon or item for their current life /sfgive

Paste this into your config

set  sf_comadmincmds          "988731508262855"
set  sf_clericaladmincmds     "57453778303032"
set  sf_leadercmds            "79714603499520"

set  sf_storytools            "-1"
set  sf_storytoolsblock       "33013751"
set  sf_directorrequired      "33572"

Which refusal a player sees

Which one a player gets tells you which gate closed:

The player reads	What closed
Director mode required.	The tool is in `sf_directorrequired`
A scene is in progress - only directors can use this.	The tool is in `sf_storytoolsblock` and somebody is directing
Insufficient permissions.	No director lock applied, and the rank check refused

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Admin and director bit calculator

Set the permissions

Which rank holds each command

Which tools answer to the director

Paste this into your config

Start from what your server runs now

Which refusal a player sees