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The ioquake3 project took the quake3 source code and made lots of fixes and enhancements to it. Unfortunately evenbalance (punkbuster) doesn't support it because it is open source.
However, you can use it on non-punkbuster servers. It will also work with standalone urban terror once it is released.
I have a somewhat complicated setup because I have many engines (ioquake3 for i386, ioquake3 for athlon, ioquake3 i386 for standalone, ioquake3 athlon for standalone, idsoftware quake3). I created a common directory where all the engines can share the same 3.7 and QA code. I use the same configs across all of them.
In xqf, I can't join a server with different engines easily. I wanted to use idsoftware's engine on PB servers and ioquake3 (because I like it better) on non-PB servers. So I created this script.
In xqf, replace in the games menu the path to quake3. Put that path in this script.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Script for XQF to choose which engine to use. Requires qstat.
# If the server isn't running punkbuster, then use ioquake3.
# Otherwise, use idsoftware's engine.
#
# Note: On debian, qstat has been renamed to quakestat. Replace
# that below if you are not using Debian.
#
# To use this, change the paths to your quake3 locations (idsoftware and ioquake3).
# Then setup xqf to execute this instead of quake3.
#
set -e
# Example command issued by xqf:
# /bin/sh /srv/games/quake3/engines/idsoftware/quake3 +connect IP:PORT +set cl_punkbuster 1 +set fs_game q3ut3 +set com_hunkmegs 208 +set com_zonemegs 32 +set com_soundmegs 20 +set cg_precachedmodels 20
# Check the arguments (go until $# = 1 because there must be at least 2 arguments)
SERVER="";
SAVED_ARGS="$*";
while (($# > 1)); do
if [ X"$1" = X"+connect" ]; then
# Right after +connect is the IP:PORT.
SERVER="$2";
fi
shift;
done
if [ X"$SERVER" = "X" ]; then
echo "Error! You must provide a command with +connect IP:PORT to this script";
echo "Usage: $0 <quake3 commands> +connect IP:PORT <more q3 commands>"
exit 1;
fi
# Get the rules from the server
echo "Requesting rules from server $SERVER"
SETTINGS=`quakestat -R -q3s $SERVER | tail -1`;
# Search for the server variable that enables punkbuster
PUNKBUSTER="`echo $SETTINGS | sed -e 's/.*,?sv_punkbuster=([0-9]),?.*/1/i'`"
# Be conservative. Only use ioquake3 if sv_punkbuster is 0 or if it is not present.
if [ X"$PUNKBUSTER" = X"0" -o ! X"`echo $PUNKBUSTER | grep '='`" = "X" ]; then
echo "This server is NOT running punkbuster. Executing ioquake3"
cd "/srv/games/quake3/engines/icculus_athlon";
./ioquake3.i386 $SAVED_ARGS
else
echo "This server is running punkbuster. Executing idsoftware quake3"
cd "/srv/games/quake3/engines/idsoftware";
./quake3.x86 $SAVED_ARGS
fi
exit $?
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