Impulse on start

[Blackstar1000]

I'm having some trouble finding a way to start the game with my Impulse 20 activated at launch.
it also reverts when I change levels. Its finally driving me mad as it helps run my camera.

any advice?

[thorn3001]

you just have to edit a file called default.cfg, this is in the id1 folder or data folder.


if you use Darkplaces that file is in My Documents/My Games/Darkplaces

[Spirit]

The better method would be editing the quake.rc (at least I think this is the better approach).

[Nahuel]

[ceriux]

why would you call an impulse to start a camera?

[Blackstar1000]

For one, I am using darkplaces.

"Why would you call an impulse to start a camera?" <- Why is a tough one; haha.
Perhaps I am asking incorrectly? My game uses a third person camera. It simply needs to be started every time by typing impulse 20.

If I am going to code this into quake.qc I painfully ask for a more in depth explanation. (I'm an actionscript guy crossing over)

I also want to have any of the stuff I modify be confined to my C:/quake folder and subfolders to allow for easy copy and paste to other computers.
I guess there is no way to call this impulse once automatically from autoexec.cfg or config.cfg?

[leileilol]

if you're coding a game that uses probably the old crappy albin chase cam you can throw a camera start command on putclientinserver

if not, chase_active 1.

[Blackstar1000]

No, it's a custom cam that works much like anachronox or mass effect. I'll have to keep working on a fix I guess.

[ceriux]

why not just call the function somewhere that makes the camera start?

[Nahuel]

why not just call the camera function in "putclientinserver"

[necros]

ceriux and nahuel have the right idea i think.

if you're still interested in .rc and .cfg files...
.rc is the only config file hard coded by the engine to run. if you open up pak0.pak, there's a quake.rc file in there and if you open that, you can see it is actually running the exec config.cfg and exec autoexec.cfg files in there.

the reason they are saying to edit that rather than autoexec or config is that almost all players have their own custom autoexecs and configs (for key binds or alias scripts, especially with modern engines) so you don't want to annoy players by either wiping out their binds or forcing them to merge theirs with yours.

by editing the quake.rc file, you can add another exec myconfig.cfg line where you put in all the extra stuff you want for your own mod, without messing with anyone elses.

on top of that, you can even control when your config file is run in relation to command line arguments. the 'stuffcmds' line is where the engine is given all the command line arguments the user used to launch the engine (like +map) so you could always make your mod start on a certain map, for example, regardless of what the user typed as long as you put your command after stuffcmds.

[Blackstar1000]

Ugh, sorry guys. Thanks again for the advice, I was trying so many things to get this right and it seriously came down to mixing up a TRUE/FALSE in my code.