Adding New Games

[techmight]

Howdy,

I was wondering what is involved in adding *new* game support to cPGS?

E.g. I would like to add Quake 3 support or Tremulous support to cPGS, is there any set procedure, or recomended way to go about this? Is it impossibly time consuming and difficult?

I know Q3 is on the todo list, however I'd really like Tremulous (www.tremulous.net) support immeadeatly.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Darren]

Adding support for a new game takes me 3-10 days, depending on how much trouble it is as far as having sane command lines and such. Adding them is not an easy task unless you are very proficient in perl and can understand the general flow between the frontend and the backend by looking at the source. Another problem is that updates will overwrite your changes unless you set the immutable flag (`chattr +i`) on the files. Unless you are really wanting to maintain it, I'd suggest just requesting it and waiting. With Quake3 there seem to be a lot of games that use that engine, so adding new games becomes a matter largely of copying and pasting code blocks and changing the names to add support for it. Q3 is probably my next game to be added since it's engine will allow cPGS to support a lot of other games pretty easily. Tremulous looks like it should be pretty easy to add, however I wasn't able to get the client to launch on my workstation just now. I've added it to the list as well however and will keep looking at it.

[techmight]

Wonderful!


If you require any assisitance with Quake 3 or Tremulous itself, PLEASE contact me as I am more than willing to provide anything to help support you.

Re: Client not launching: If you provide me some details, I will more than easily be able to troubleshoot your problem

Easy way to contact me is email - Khalsa AT ioquake.org or on IRC irc.freenode.net - #ioquake3 or #tremulous

Thanks!

[techmight]

Howdy,

Hate to double post, but I think a quick necro of this topic is in order :-)


Darren - Any word on progress of quake3 and q3 derivative packages?

Please contact me if you require any assistance in packaging quake or tremulous at all. I am more than well versed with many of these games, and with running these gameservers.


Thanks!

[Darren]

It's not forgotten, I've just been swamped with other tasks lately. I'm hoping during the holidays things will slow down a bit so I can get in some more cPGS stuff I have on my ever expanding to-do list