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Lets' be honest, 15 years on and QuakeWorld is still where it's at for fast paced Multiplayer gaming. Quake2 is dull, Quake3 tried too hard. QW on the otherhand got it so right that we had things like RocketJumping appearing before even ID knew what was going on. But it's appeal has wained now ...

I love this, it's got a real doom/quake feel to it. What license is it released under?

Yeah I had a look through the defines, anything with an M in is a Master comm packet, the rest are all client to server.

The thing is a stoc QuakeWorld server still sends it's client count to the Master, therefore a decent master implementation must have that as a callable value.

Has anyone got a ...

So after a day of playing with the QW master server protocol I've figured out the basic commands
a is a heartbeat and followed by an incrementing value and then a client count
c is a query statement and gets the ip address and port for the server
C is the close command from the server
k is a ...

If it's cross platform then I'd find that very useful!

If it's from the shell namespace then it's very heavily non platform neutral I'm afraid. In fairness I try and avoid any of the shell namespace stuff especially from a managed environment. It's all a bit of a kludge and the MS implementation ...

One of the things that can really slow down sprite like effects is the billboarding part of the render. This is the bit where the texture is oriented to face the camera. One option here is to replace the sprite with a Point sprite. This basically allows you to apply a texture to an OpenGl point ...

I've not come across Silverlight Quake, but it's pretty certain not to be as SharpQuake uses OpenGL via the OpenTK library which PInvokes all the native calls which you're not allowed to do from with Silverlight.

If you're at all interested in C# it's worth having a look at the SharpQuake sources ...

Two votes is good enough for me... first tut is up

Objective
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In this tutorial we're going to add Compressed PK3 support to SharpQuake.


Impetus
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PAK files are pretty horrible, you need special tools to add to them and they don't provide any form of compression. This will allow us to easily add files in an industry standard ...

No, I don't mind at all :)

I'm working on 3 different Quake projects, because I've never been able to start a single project and stick to it... I get distracted and want to test out other things while I try and figure out why the other bits don't work properly :)

The first is an engine based on ...

Is anyone interested in some SharpQuake tuts? I'm not sure if there are any C# coders (or wouldbe coders for that matter) hanging around here, but since I'm playing around with it I'd be happy to share some if people will find the useful...

Ok fantastic thanks, that's a lot to digest. Unfortunately simply linking the DLL isn't really an option for me as I'm working from the SharpQuake code base this time (C# all the way...), but at least having a timeline for the connection and the ability to partially test as I go a long will help. I ...

Just tried this in a stock QuakeWorld client and it crashes it... the function looks pretty damn similar to the NQ one... any thoughts?

I know some people have added NQ support into QW and I see DarkPlaces supports QW, but how much difference is there between the NQ and QW protocol. I know it's not a trivial matter to allow NQ engines access to QuakeWorld, but has anyone looked into what's needed to get things up and running?

I took this to mean making an arbitrary monster's cpde into a full fledged bot, so more "Write a bot from scratch. Be hampered by using an existing monster's model and code as a base".

What you're proposing, a smart monster utilizing better navigation, isn't that difficult, to which I agree. With ...