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Hi everybody,
since my return in Quake scene I was looking forward to a good engine to play online and after some quick tests I've chosen DirectQ: it feels a lot like the engines I used to play with in past years even if now I'm on a laptop with a wireless mouse. Had to say: nice job mh, the road was long since the head bug in mhquake but the results worth the waiting.
Anyway there's still some - more or less - useless stuff I miss from my past Quake experience, variables and commands present in other multiplayer oriented engines that I'm trying to implement by myself: I'm a newbie in programming world, even if this is not the first time I challenge Visual Studio. And the differences between v6 and v10 sometimes confuses me, but I was able to compile it and add some cvars.
My personal goal is to add the following:
- show_speed
- dzip support
- navigable demo folder
- gibfilter
- deadbodyfilter
- drawflame
- explosiontype
- pq_report (and %d for dead location)
- real time clock
- demo command to record automatically a yyyymmddhhmm.dz
- date in screenshots name
- fastquit command
- speedrun timer
- an internal server browser capable of reading server addresses from Qview files (!).
Obviously I'm stucked atm: the show_speed code uses width and height variables to display the speed meter and in DirectQ they are undefined. Mmm...
The real question are:
1) Are there any tutorials on how to implement those? I've searched in Quakesrc archieve but didn't find nothing about that (ok, a can still explore/copy/paste code from other engines, but things are really different from an engine to another and sometimes it's not that easy to find the right strings, expecially with uncommented sources).
2) Be patient with my future questions: it's gonna be a long autumn.
Thanks in advance for any help: I really need it!
Bye.
Arkon.
since my return in Quake scene I was looking forward to a good engine to play online and after some quick tests I've chosen DirectQ: it feels a lot like the engines I used to play with in past years even if now I'm on a laptop with a wireless mouse. Had to say: nice job mh, the road was long since the head bug in mhquake but the results worth the waiting.
Anyway there's still some - more or less - useless stuff I miss from my past Quake experience, variables and commands present in other multiplayer oriented engines that I'm trying to implement by myself: I'm a newbie in programming world, even if this is not the first time I challenge Visual Studio. And the differences between v6 and v10 sometimes confuses me, but I was able to compile it and add some cvars.
My personal goal is to add the following:
- show_speed
- dzip support
- navigable demo folder
- gibfilter
- deadbodyfilter
- drawflame
- explosiontype
- pq_report (and %d for dead location)
- real time clock
- demo command to record automatically a yyyymmddhhmm.dz
- date in screenshots name
- fastquit command
- speedrun timer
- an internal server browser capable of reading server addresses from Qview files (!).
Obviously I'm stucked atm: the show_speed code uses width and height variables to display the speed meter and in DirectQ they are undefined. Mmm...
The real question are:
1) Are there any tutorials on how to implement those? I've searched in Quakesrc archieve but didn't find nothing about that (ok, a can still explore/copy/paste code from other engines, but things are really different from an engine to another and sometimes it's not that easy to find the right strings, expecially with uncommented sources).
2) Be patient with my future questions: it's gonna be a long autumn.
Thanks in advance for any help: I really need it!
Bye.
Arkon.
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