HTTP Map Download ...

[Baker]

Automatic map download is coming very soon. I have one method going; Rook has another and I figure we'll talk and figure out the one best way to do this. (Same with a built-in server browser )

But in the meantime, the infrastructure has to be in place to support this.

At http://www.quake-1.com/maps (directory not browseable at this time) , I have all 320 maps running on any server [that are not in development] in tight little individually compressed 7-zip files that at least my first version is going to check for maps at.

7-Zip is very high compression, about 30% better than .zip and makes almost all map downloads nearly instantaneous. Many of them ... or even most of them ... download in less than 1 second. It's fast enough I can imagine that even someone with dialup like Bam won't be inconvenienced.

There is 1 map missing (bunny.bsp), but aside from that all maps are accounted for:

And although I know the most likely thing someone will think is of maps to add to the list, but actually right now the goal is to get this process working, debugged if necessary.

1000zwei
23ar-a
2pyramid
2towers
9terrors
a2
a3
ac
ac4
add
aerowalk
agenda
agent
aggressr
air1
air2
air3
aircity
alk08dm
alpha001
androm9
ant
aqua_ra1
aqua_ra2
aqua_ra3
aqua_ra4
arenarg2
arenarg4
arenarg5
arenarg6
arenax
arenazap
arendm1a
arenrg3a
arma4
asylum
aucons
auhdm2
baldm3
baldm6
baldm7
baldm8
barena1
basarena
base32b
bbarena2
bless
blitz1000
blizz2
bomberman
bovine
bsdm2
bsdm7
bsdm8
bsp
bunmoo3
bunski
carddm1
cdestroy
chamber1
chesdm1
cleaver
cmc
cmt1
cmt3
cmt4
cmt5b
coagula2
coagula3
colony
commctr
could
crandome
crdm1
crdm2
croctear
ctf1
ctf2
ctf2m1
ctf2m2
ctf2m3
ctf2m4
ctf2m5
ctf2m6
ctf2m7
ctf2m8
ctf3
ctf3m1
ctf3m2
ctf3m3
ctf3m4
ctf3m5
ctf3m6
ctf3m7
ctf3m8
ctf3m9
ctf4
ctf5
ctf6
ctf7
ctf8
ctfstart
curse_st
curse1
curse2
czg01
czg04
czg07
czg07a
czg07b
czg07c
czgtoxic
dakyne
damaul3
damaul3b
damaul7
dazdm12
dazdm13
dazsp2
dazsp2b
dazsp2c
dazsp3
dead
death32c
dilcoa
dm2arena
dm3again
dmfdm1
dmfdm2
dokkur
dom2_1ra
doom37
dranzdm6
dranzdm8
e1m5duel
edc
efdm10
efdm12
efdm8
efdm9
egyptra
endif
evildead
exdm5
factory3
februus
ferrum
fiffy5
football
fort01
fragtwn2
fragtwn5
fragtwn6
fragtwn7
frostbite
gear8
gearpr0n
gendm1
gendm2
gibexpo1
gmdm1
gnurena
gomdm4
grim
gworld
halfpipe
head-shot
hill20
hipdm1
ht_norway
iarena2
id3
ikspq1
ikspq2
ikspq3
ikspq4
ikspq5
ikstart
imp1dm6
intro
intro2
jjspq3
jndm6
jokeydm3
jrdm1
jvx1
kikdm3
kikdm6
kjdm3
kjdm7
kjsp1
klzinsanity
klzvob
lacrima
lowgrav
lunar
lunar2
macarena
madness
marena2
marena3
marena4
mars1
mayan1
med
mgdm2
misexpo1
misexpo2
misexpo3
misexpo4
mncrdrug
nilsrar3
nindm2
nindm3v2
north
omdm1
orlmap4
orlmap5
orlmap6
orlmap7
orlmap8
orlmap9
orlmapbbat
orlmapstart
p3a
pen2
pitarena
pkeg1
polygon8
povdmm4
ptucket
purg3
q1dm17
q1edge
q3dm6qw
qtdm3
qurexpo1
ra_funkf
rarena3
rawspeed
rayexpo1
rayexpo2
rayexpo3
rayexpo4
rc2
rc3
rcdm7
reinc3
reinc5
rf
rf2
rf2test
rgarden
ritual
rm
rocket
rockgate
rpgsmse1
rpgsmse2
rpgsmse3
rpgsmse4
rpgsmse5
safe1
safe2
sanity
sbe
schloss
sewage
skull
slide1
slide2
slide3
slide4
slide5
slide6
slide7
slide8
slide9
slidefox
slstart
sm40zwei
sm57_pulsar_se
sofdm1
sofdm3
soyarena
spank1
spd
spd_v2
speed
spinev2
subslide
summer
terra1
terra2
terra3
terra4
terra5
terrain2
thepit
toilet4
tree
treerace
trimp
trincasp2
uarena1
ultrav
undrwrld
unholy
utressor
wolf3ddm
xarena3
xl1dm4
xntrick
yard1
zed2
ztndm2
ztndm3
ztndm3q
ztndm4
ztndm5

[Dooomer]

Good work. Keep it going.

[Spirit]

Don't forget about the usual "keep the textfile" and the casual "do not tinker with the zip file or anything inside".

[Baker]

Don't forget about the usual "keep the textfile" and the casual "do not tinker with the zip file or anything inside".

I have that in the back of my mind, because I do care about the textfile ...

That being said, my process only extracts the specified .bsp from the 7-zip archive (which is deleted after use) and installs it in place (for security reasons) so these individually wrapped files are merely to facilitate a fast version of .bsp/model download.

I don't plan on the www archive being browseable, either. There are plenty of more than adequate map archives (let alone better!), like yours for instance, for people looking for maps.

/I might allow a method to see what maps are available. But I plan on this being a dedicated client only download area and might deny Internet Explorer and FireFox (etc) the ability to access the actual files because that isn't what this is for.

[Baker]

For clarity of what this is and is not, I have made the access to the files restricted only to the client download process.

This isn't a "gee, I'd like to look for maps" thing for bored knobsters learning about Quake.

This is to provide convenience to players on a server, similar to the UDP download in Quakeworld or DarkPlaces and/or the HTTP download process that might be in ezQuake 1.9 and I think is in FTEQW.

Eventually I'm going to add UDP download with 7-zip compression and really that's a lot easier than this, but that would involve upgrading a lot of servers so I don't want to start there.

[spooker]

this is long overdue, gj bakester

[Baker]

this is long overdue

That's for damn sure. :d

[allibow]

can this be downloaded somewhere?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

its featured in the clients Qrack and GLpro, and possibly even EngineX.
it is not a seperate download.

[Baker]

DirectQ has http download too. Engine X at this time, doesn't. It will, of course.

[Efess]

Baker, I own a VPS that has 10gb and no clear bandwidth limit, so I can mirror maps if you need.

Also, server browser development is still open if you need any changes.

[monoz]

you dont have some custom ctf maps on that list.

[Phenom]

Good stuff here! Baker's-ah-fire'n-his-laser!!

[leopold]

DirectQ has http download too. Engine X at this time, doesn't. It will, of course.

Played some QW FFA lately with ezquake, and I have to say, auto downloading is working great there and is pretty awesome!

[Baker]

you dont have some custom ctf maps on that list.

This thread is actually 2 years old and obsolete.

This was back when I was working with Phenom to make a (crappy) version of HTTP download for ProQuake with a major emphasis on supporting the Dredd server. I jettisoned that crappy method and adopted R00k's Warsow derived method ages ago (August 2009 or some such thing).

The ProQuake default download depot includes ALL the CTF stuffs as far as I know. Whatever was in this list is very old. That being said, the ProQuake HTTP download depot might be missing an uncommonly played CTF map or 2.

And if it is --- my perspective is different --- I'm not loading up the download depot for random server operator's favorite map preferences (although there should be a mechanism to control that) but rather stacking the deck for the eventual use of Universal Server.

Universal Server will be standardized and offer a consistent and identical playing experience on every server with no variation. The same set of complete and identical mods and maps available on every participating server (and same Universal white-listed control mechanism for players to join). 98% of gain with 2% of loss of customization giving any player the ability to play on his/her best ping server any mod available --- massively increasing the utility of any given server.

Whenever I ever actually find time to complete all that, which is in the next few months look iffy ... stupid real life.

(But yeah, efess I'll take you up on the server space at such a time ... right now there is not looking to be soon, but I never stop working on ideas only postpone them.)