Map list, coop server

[golden_boy]

Can I have something like a maplist.txt to tell my coop server that I'm running which maps to load?

I basically want the server to cycle through like 12 singleplayer maps.

Information like this is STUPIDLY hard to find, as well.

[Baker]

Vanilla Quake mods generally have this compiled in the source.

But I'm not R00k.

R00k made the Dredd server (CAx) do this via an external file.

I'm not smart enough to know if he was using some ProQuake server enhancements to do that (QCCX hacks?). Or maybe he uses whatever Frikbots do to read .way files?

Perhaps R00k will reply to this thread.

(Quakeworld servers, on the other hand, they can set a map rotation using <memory failure ... Quakeworld servers have some method but I can't recall).

[golden_boy]

Hmm, I guess we could use our own progs.dat.

[Skrag]

BUMP

Information like this is STUPIDLY hard to find, as well.

Map rotation settings or ANYTHING really would rock, if anyone has found anything about this yet please update us!!

[turtlevan]

rquake team coop servers use their own progs.dat. Ask that genius RG for some help

[R00k]

The very simplest way is to modify your progs.dat and hard code the rotation you want...

in client.qc

void() NextLevel =
{
	local entity o;
	// episode one

	if (mapname == "e1m1") nextmap = "e1m2";
	else if (mapname == "e1m2") nextmap = "e1m3";
	else if (mapname == "e1m3") nextmap = "e1m4";
	else if (mapname == "e1m4") nextmap = "e1m5";
	else if (mapname == "e1m5") nextmap = "e1m6";
	else if (mapname == "e1m6") nextmap = "e1m8";
	// e1m7 skipped, lag city
	else if (mapname == "e1m8") nextmap = "e2m1";

	// episode two
	else if (mapname == "e2m1") nextmap = "e2m2";
	else if (mapname == "e2m2") nextmap = "e2m5";
	else if (mapname == "e2m3") nextmap = "e2m4";
	else if (mapname == "e2m4") nextmap = "e2m5";
	else if (mapname == "e2m5") nextmap = "e3m6";
	else if (mapname == "e2m6") nextmap = "e2m7";
	else if (mapname == "e2m7") nextmap = "e3m1";

	// episode three
	else if (mapname == "e3m1") nextmap = "e3m2";
	else if (mapname == "e3m2") nextmap = "e3m3";
	else if (mapname == "e3m3") nextmap = "e3m4";
	else if (mapname == "e3m4") nextmap = "e3m5";
	else if (mapname == "e3m5") nextmap = "e3m6";
	else if (mapname == "e3m6") nextmap = "e4m3";
	else if (mapname == "e3m7") nextmap = "e4m1";

	// episode four
	else if (mapname == "e4m1") nextmap = "e4m1";
	else if (mapname == "e4m2") nextmap = "e4m2";
	else if (mapname == "e4m3") nextmap = "e4m5";//start 1
	else if (mapname == "e4m4") nextmap = "e4m5";
	else if (mapname == "e4m5") nextmap = "e4m7";//2
	else if (mapname == "e4m6") nextmap = "e4m7";
	else if (mapname == "e4m7") nextmap = "e4m8";
	else if (mapname == "e4m8") nextmap = "dm1";//4

	// the deathmatch arenas
	else if (mapname == "dm1") nextmap = "dm2";
	else if (mapname == "dm2") nextmap = "dm3";
	else if (mapname == "dm3") nextmap = "dm4";
	else if (mapname == "dm4") nextmap = "dm5";
	else if (mapname == "dm5") nextmap = "dm6";
	else if (mapname == "dm6") nextmap = "e1m1";

	else nextmap = "dm3";

	gameover = TRUE;

	o = spawn();
	o.map = nextmap;

	if (o.nextthink < time)
	{
		o.think = execute_changelevel;
		o.nextthink = time + 0.1;
	}
};

[Mr.Burns]

Slightly off topic, but is there a tutorial somewhere on how to add the required code to initiate a vote within a mod. Not necessarily for maps but sometimes it might be handy to change a server setting (e.g something akin to setpent, setquad, timelimit, fraglimit, maybe vote-kick and so on) and to put the vote to the players might be a nice feature. I'll take another look at Baker's guide to Voteable maps and see if there's some way to apply that, have a browse at Inside3d assuming it is still up, but any advice would be much appreciated.

Kind regards

Monty