Thanks to everyone who help with getting me up to speed with the Quake III engine. I now have version v0.03 of my demo to show. Still some design issues to work out on porting to Linux, but for mow my Arena servers are running flawlessly under Windows XP. The key piece was getting the server able to...

Solution provided in a tutorial from else-list:

http://www.rfactory.org/newfeeder.html

I can pay few dollars to get this finihsed. I shipped the demo off minus the fade in/out code but I really, really need it for version 0.02. This combined with the fill dropdown box reqeust elsethread is the next bit of coding I need to advance the ball. I am great believer in doing things for the c...

How do you add items to an ITEM_TYPE_LISTBOX? My game will be hardwired to the servers on the backend so I want to put the available servers into the drop down and then call my function to connect when the user clicks join. It would be <action on menu load: fill listbox rows with scriptsnames> <othe...

Thanky!

BTW, what does 'Quaked' mean exactly?

Well it's a hack based on the error message but I can teleport between server ports (maps). All I need now is the fade to black code.

Since it's just a proof of concept being ugly behind the scenes is not a problem.

Fade out anyone?

Making progress. This bit of code disconnects me from the server:

if(mapFlag == 0)
{
trap_DropClient(player->s.clientNum,"Teleport_29770");
mapFlag=1;
}

If I include an ERROR message the server shuts down. So I use "Teleport_29770" instead.

What next???

I think what I "really" want to do is:

Client A Server:
Execute TeleportPlayer_29770

Server Client A:
Disconnect from Server 127.0.0.1:29760
Reconnect on Server 127.0.0.1:29770

>You'll need to synchronize the client and the >server Ahh, you've made me see that what I am doing is the opposite of my intent. What I am doing is switching the map the server is using. What I intended was for the client to switch the map it is connected. So it looks like for my purposes I have to...

I've come to understand that what I want has two parts:

-- a sever command that tells the client fade to black

-- the fade to black code executed by the client

>The easiest method is by creating a random entity

Yes I have done that in the .map file. Is it oossible to add that new fucntion to the Radiant IDE?

I've been working with Quake III as a game engone for about a month after owning the product and occsionally playing it over the last five years. With the release of the GPL Q3 code I pretty much dropped all work on Torque and engaged on a crash course of learning so that I could finally do a game I...

Read your post and moved the discussion there. thx.

Anyone know how to fade to black in Q3. I have added a Teleport function that jumps the player from the current map to another map or another server. My game is more of an RPG so moving between worlds is essential. But, there is a 1-2 second delay before the map load kicks in where the user has a br...

thx

Surely some kind soul knows how to set the screen to black from g_mis.c?

I'd like to clear the client screen to black for a second or two. I have a load operation that takes a couple of seconds to get going and I have a bright white screen while that is happening.

How do I clear the sceen or load a 2D graphic from game/g_misc.c?

Originally I wanted to add a function called func_warpMap that I could apply to entities to jump a player to another map. Since then I have modifed transport_palyer to do it. Still I would like to add a custom trigger of some type ot Radiant that makes an entity into a map-to-map or server-to-server...

Got it working. But there's a period where then screen is bright white, probably an effect of the shader being used on the transporter tube I'm using.

Is there a way to immediately blank the display or show an image for the second or two before the new map starts to load?

I've added a Warp function to my Q3 code. How do add the function to Radiant so I can use it in my maps?

Here's what I added for testing:

// new mod warp
void SP_func_warpMap (gentity_t *ent) {

EXEC_NOW, va( "map addict");

}

The function, not the movie. I am building a social interaction game rather than an FPS so I want my users to be able to jump move between maps or servers by waling into a transporter.

Anyone done a setup like this? I think putting an EXEC into a new function might do the trick.

Q4 is too dark and fake looking. Q3 is "real enough" while Q4 seems like a step in the evolution of lifelike realtime avatars. Sort of like version .1 of the holodeck.

thx

Having some trouble adding ambient music that should startup when the word spawns. I used trigger_always but not sure if I implemented it properly. The music plays fine if I start it from the console so I know the path is correct and the .wav file is there. Here's what is in the map file: // entity ...

I'm assuming you're already clued in to all the legal issues surrounding your... venture...? Yes. That's why I want only a level that the author has rights to and can sell to me. Constructing the architecture of level is something I just don't have the patience for. I can't believe Radient is the b...