This is how it begins ...

[golden_boy]

The non-qc code might also make it more unlikely for anyone to "fix" Nehahra.

[Frenzy]

Lets get it on!

[LordHavoc]

Compatibility

Please respect darkplaces compatibility.

For example the discussion of web download urls - darkplaces already has a solution.

On the server:
sv_curl_defaulturl http://whatever/ - put your base path for URL downloads here
sv_curl_serverpackages test.txt - this lists a set of space separated filenames that must be present to play on this server (NOT the names of paks to download, but the files inside them).

The server checks on each level load which paks it loaded the current map and all the serverpackages content from, and issues a series of commands of this form to the client:
curl --clear-autodownload
curl --pak --forthismap --as blah.pk3 --for maps/blah.bsp http://whatever/blah.pk3
curl --pak --forthismap --as test.pk3 --for test.txt http://whatever/test.pk3

The map is automatically requested (maps/blah.bsp in this case, found in blah.pk3), and then the serverpackages are requested (test.txt in this example was loaded from test.pk3).

An internal function called FS_WhichPack is used to find which pack contains each of these requested files.

When the client executes these commands, it checks if it has the file in the --for option, and if not it loads the pak specified in the -as option (if it can find it in dlcache/) or retrieves the pak at the url and stores it with that name.

This is just one of many instances where I've seen people trying to reinvent the wheel...

[Baker]

Please respect darkplaces compatibility.

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This is just one of many instances where I've seen people trying to reinvent the wheel...

More a transition period than a reinvention. Nothing is intentionally DarkPlaces incompatible. My preferences are the way that DarkPlaces does things as a general rule ... especially the way DarkPlaces clients can load up all the map data without all the models and load them on the fly.

More at Inside3D as this progresses ...