How to automatically create multiplayer game on startup?

[hykul]

Hi all --

So very long story short, I'm running Quake on 4 Raspberry Pis and I need one of those to automatically start a multiplayer game on startup.

I'm looking for the relevant command to put into the autoexec.cfg file:

It will need to start a multiplayer game, set the max # of players to 4, and set the map to fallingdm.bsp.

For reference, the other three Pis will connect to this game using "connect 192.168.1.xxx" in their autoexec.cfg files.

Thanks in advance, I know this just requires a ****tail of console commands but I'm not finding the relevant commands..

[Mr.Burns]

Hi all --

So very long story short, I'm running Quake on 4 Raspberry Pis and I need one of those to automatically start a multiplayer game on startup.

I'm looking for the relevant command to put into the autoexec.cfg file:

It will need to start a multiplayer game, set the max # of players to 4, and set the map to fallingdm.bsp.

For reference, the other three Pis will connect to this game using "connect 192.168.1.xxx" in their autoexec.cfg files.

Thanks in advance, I know this just requires a ****tail of console commands but I'm not finding the relevant commands..

Hi Hykul
I'm no expert but you could try editing the command line, rather than your autoexec, on your Server machine. For example, assuming you were using Myquake.exe as your quake engine of choice you could try something like...

Myquake.exe -ip 192.168.1.xxx -dedicated 4 +map fallingdm.bsp

This will mean that instead of opening the usual quake game on your server, it will open a server console and run a dedicated quake server. If you need the server to be a machine you can actually play on you might also try experimenting with

Myquake.exe -ip 192.168.1.xxx -listen 4 +map fallingdm.bsp

but I'm not certain if it will automatically start the server for you.

Hope this helps

Monty