for you modders- need some help

[lollllll]

Im currently interested in running a ffa rails mod with a faster railgun reload time, as seen in mods such as sconfig and matchmod. but programming goes beyond my expertise. i was wondering if there were any programmers out there who can help me mess around with the railz source as provided by quadz ?? let me know. appreciate it.

thanks

[RailWolf]

I'll take the case !

[console]

I really need to get around to checking the code into CVS...

But anyway... here's a .zip of it:

http://tastyspleen.net/~quake2/rails.cfg/railz-src-061007.zip

(There is no makefile included... I use the r1q2 makefile to build it...)

Regards,

[lollllll]

console
ive used the various makefiles in the latest r1q2 build, but none of them seem to be working. hmmm

has wheet been around? i know in the past he was working on this.

[jägermonsta]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[Wheet]

The makefile is in the build/game directory, which isn't included in the source archive above.

I haven't done any Q2 modding in a long while but try this:

Open up p_weapon.c

Go down to:
void Weapon_Railgun (edict_t *ent)
{
   static int   pause_frames[]   = {56, 0};
   static int   fire_frames[]   = {4, 0};

   Weapon_Generic (ent, 3, 18, 56, 61, pause_frames, fire_frames, weapon_railgun_fire);
}

Decrease the amount of pause frames, this should decrease the idle time.

I don't remember my shell password on tastyspleen, I need it reset!!   

[console]

ive used the various makefiles in the latest r1q2 build, but none of them seem to be working.

err... guess I forgot to include some header files needed outside the game directory...

What I need to do is check everything into CVS...


Regards,

[lollllll]

hey thanks guys

ill keep checking back...

console, can you let me know when u check everything into cvs

thanks

[console]

OK, the source is in CVS now.  (Merged back into the r1q2-cvs codebase it originally branched from.)

To obtain the code:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tastyspleen.net:/var/cvs/r1q2-ssp login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tastyspleen.net:/var/cvs/r1q2-ssp checkout r1q2-ssp

To build it:

  cd r1q2-ssp/binaries
  make game

(Note: The makefiles are currently hardcoded to -m32 and ARCH i386.)


Regards,

quadz

[lollllll]

console
ive checked out from cvs... and followed the directions... however i get this error

[root@sls-ea18p8 binaries]# make game
make -C game
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/game/r1q2-ssp/binaries/game'
../make.inc:16: no file name for `-include'
cc -fPIC -DNDEBUG -DLINUX -m32 -O2 -g -MF .depends/g_ai.d -MMD   -c -o g_ai.o ../../game/g_ai.c
../../game/g_ai.c:80: fatal error: opening dependency file .depends/g_ai.d: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [g_ai.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/game/r1q2-ssp/binaries/game'
make: *** [game] Error 2


any ideas? you think it might be a dependency issue? sorry, have very limited expertise here.

also, what about the modified rails source?? how does that fit in to all of this??

[console]

ive checked out from cvs... and followed the directions... however i get this error

[root@sls-ea18p8 binaries]# make game
make -C game
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/game/r1q2-ssp/binaries/game'
../make.inc:16: no file name for `-include'
cc -fPIC -DNDEBUG -DLINUX -m32 -O2 -g -MF .depends/g_ai.d -MMD   -c -o g_ai.o ../../game/g_ai.c
../../game/g_ai.c:80: fatal error: opening dependency file .depends/g_ai.d: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [g_ai.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/game/r1q2-ssp/binaries/game'
make: *** [game] Error 2

Hmm.. guess it doesn't make the directory on its own.. Try this:

cd r1q2-ssp/binaries
mkdir game/.depends
make game

...BTW... it is widely considered a "very bad idea" to compile code as root.

also, what about the modified rails source?? how does that fit in to all of this??

That's what that is.  There's nothing specific to rails about it.  It's just the vanilla/mutant/pygmy (etc.) code, awesomely modified by Wheet to add OSP-like cvars to control weapon spawns, weapon damage, etc.


Regards,

quadz

[lollllll]

hey thanks console

everything worked out

however, ive followed wheet's suggestion to decrease the amount of pause frames (from 56--->40--->20---->10---->0) but it doesnt seem to be working... any other alternative solutions?

[lollllll]

hey guys after plugging in values for a couple of hours... i finally got it to work

void Weapon_Railgun (edict_t *ent)
{
   static int   pause_frames[]   = {
56
, 0};
   static int   fire_frames[]   = {4, 0};

   Weapon_Generic (ent, 3, 18, 56, 61, pause_frames, fire_frames, weapon_railgun_fire);
}

had to change the weapon_generic values rather than the pause_frames

thanks!

[console]

yay! 

[jägermonsta]

yay!