Help getting started with Qrack

[enjourni]

Hello, fellow oldskool Q1ers :-) It's nice to know that Q1 (amazingly) isn't dead yet. Sweet.

So anyway I found this site, and it seems like Qrack is what I should be using. Ok, no prob- I know my way around a cfg. Unfortunately, I have one pretty massive problem. Where is the list of Qrack console commands?! Here I have this modern quake port that's supposed to make things prettier and easier to play with, yet I have no idea how to set the cfg up!

Does anyone have a list? A commented cfg I can borrow? Anything?? I honestly have no idea how to get this all-important info. Trust me, I can figure things out myself with regard to Q1... but throw me a friggin bone here :0

(BTW, Qrack and these other ports should install with a text file with all the console commands, or at least some simple cfgs. It would save noobs like me a lot of trouble without having to go on some forum and ask a bunch of questions.)

[Solecord]

I agree. I don't know much about the commands so I always ask someone like Yellow No. 5 or R00k for help

But for starts if you run Qrack for the first time it'll generate a config with all default values. You can see a list of many of the newer commands that R00k added here:

http://www.quakeone.com/qrack/

Just read through all the updates/fixes.

I'm sure Yellow or R00k will post later with their configs or list of commands or whatever.

[R00k]

Type cvarlist AND cmdlist in console for all the variables. I've been lazy and havent made a description of all the commands...

also, type cfg_savecvars 1 so that ass you tweak and make changes it will write to config.cfg AND/or use writeconfig filename.cfg (replace filename.cfg with something like autoexec.cfg)


p.s. I really need to release my latest build, has several new features that are already stable...

[enjourni]

Thanks for the help guys. Today I was looking around for mac versions of Quake (I have a mac, but I duel-boot into windows.. mostly for games), and I found this site: (http://www.quakeone.com/ctfre/ctfshots.html)

Those shots are pretty much what I'd like Qrack to look like. Right now I'm having a problem where I have to bump up the gamma to make things look out, but then everything looks washed out. I remember a post about darkness problems so I think I'll go back and take a look at that.

Update: just found for example (http://shub-hub.quaddicted.com/files/configs/ets.cfg) and it looks like I have a long way to go to understand the features of these new engines

[R00k]

Actually use -bpp 32 on the commandline ie c:\quake\GLQrack.exe -bpp 32 ...
this forces 32bit color mode and in game console use gl_gamma 0.5 (lower = brighter) and gl_contrast 2 (higher is fuller).