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* ****************************** *
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* Yamagi Quake II *
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* http://www.yamagi.org/quake2 *
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* http://github.com/yquake2 *
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* ****************************** *
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===============================================================================
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This is the Yamagi Quake II Client, an enhanced Version of id Software's
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Quake II. The main focus is single player, the gameplay and the graphics are
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unchanged, but many bugs were fixed. Unlike most other Quake II ports Yamagi
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Quake II is full 64 bit clean so it works perfectly on modern amd64 (x86_64)
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processors and operating systems. This code should run on Windows XP or higher
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and on most unix-like operating systems (only FreeBSD and Linux are officially
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supported and tested, for other systems you'd at least have to edit the
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Makefile), just type "make" or "gmake" to compile.
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This code is based upon Icculus Quake II, which itself is built upon id
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Software's original code drop. Additional code and patches by many contributers
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were used. It's released under the terms of the GPL version 2. See the LICENSE
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file for further information.
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===============================================================================
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Content of this file:
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1. Installation on FreeBSD and Linux
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1.1 Supported Systems
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1.2 Retail Version
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1.3 Demo Version
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1.4 Addons
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1.5 Compiling
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1.6 Default Configuration
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2. Installation on Microsoft Windows
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2.1 Supported Systems
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2.2 Retail Version
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2.3 Demo Version
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2.4 Addons
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2.5 Binary Installation
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2.6 Compiling
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2.7 Default Configuration
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3. OGG/Vorbis playback
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3.1 Setup for the original soundtrack
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3.2 Setup for other music and playlists
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3.3 Manual control
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3.4 Console variables
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4. Configuration
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4.1 Video
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4.2 Input
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4.3 Sound
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4.3.1 The classic sound system
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4.3.2 The OpenAL sound system
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5. Bugreports
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6. FAQ
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===============================================================================
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1. Installation on FreeBSD and Linux
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====================================
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Note: If you're using Debian Linux or a derived distribution like Ubuntu, you
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probably want to use the packages that are linked in the Download section at
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http://www.yamagi.org/quake2/debian.html They'll even assist you in installing
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the game data.
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1.1 Supported Systems:
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Officially, only Linux and FreeBSD on i386 (x86) and amd64 (x86_64) compatible
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CPUs are supported. Other (Unix-like) Operating Systems and hardware
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architectures are untested and may need small changes, at least in the Makefile.
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Yamagi Quake II needs OpenGL 1.1 (better: 1.4) support in hardware and libGL;
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OpenGL ES will not work. The only tested compilers are gcc 4.2 (or later) and
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clang 3.0 (or later). Patches (or better Github pull request) for other
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platforms are welcome. :-)
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1.2 Retail Version:
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If you own Quake II, first get the official point release to Quake II 3.20:
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ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/q2-3.20-x86-full-ctf.exe Use this and
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only this file! Unofficial "linux pointreleases" or something like that will
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not work and may crash your game!
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Create a new directory "quake2/" and extract (with unzip) the file you just
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downloaded into it. Even if the file extension is ".exe" it's a self-extracting
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zip file. Now delete the following files and directories:
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- 3.20_Changes.txt
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- quake2.exe
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- ref_gl.dll
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- ref_soft.dll
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- baseq2/gamex86.dll
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- baseq2/maps.lst
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- ctf/ctf2.ico
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- ctf/gamex86.dll
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- ctf/readme.txt
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- ctf/server.cfg
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- xatrix/gamex86.dll
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- rogue/gamex86.dll
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Now put the Quake II CD-ROM into your cd drive and copy the file "pak0.pak" and
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the directory "video/" to the "baseq2/" directory of your installation.
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1.3 Demo Version:
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-----------------
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If you haven't got Quake II, try the demo version. Get it here:
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ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/q2-314-demo-x86.exe
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Unzip this file (again, it's a self-extracting zip file). Create a new
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"quake2/" directory with a "baseq2/" sub-directory and put the "pak0.pak"
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and the "players/" sub-directory, you can find them within the unzipped
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files (in Install/Data/baseq2/), in your "baseq2/" directory. No patching
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is needed for the demo, in fact it would break it.
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1.4 Addons
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Due to license issues - Yamagi Quake II is covered by the GPL and the
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addons are under the id Software SDK license - the addons are
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distributed separately. You can get them at http://www.yamagi.org/quake2,
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both contain installation instructions. But nevertheless you'll need an
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installation of the full Quake II game with our client for playing them.
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The same applies to the "ctf" capture the flag addon.
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1.5 Compiling:
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After you have set up the game data (from the full version or the
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demo), you have to compile the Yamagi Quake II client.
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You will need the following dependencies (by editing the Makefile
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the requirement of most of this depencenies can be removed, but
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it'll lead to the loss of features):
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- A libGL implementation (Mesa3D, nVidia, AMD Catalyst, etc.)
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- OpenGL system headers
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- libjpeg (6 or 8)
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- libogg with development headers
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- libvorbis with development headers
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- SDL with development headers and sdl-config(1)
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- ZLib
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Extract the source, change into the new created directory and type "make"
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(Linux) or "gmake" (FreeBSD). After the compilation finished, copy the following
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files from "release/" to your installation directory preserving the directory
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structure:
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- q2ded
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- quake2
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- ref_gl.so
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- baseq2/game.so
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1.6 Default Configuration
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Quake II ships with an old and for today standards "insane" default
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configuration. This is no problem since you can alter everything. To make your
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life easier Yamagi Quake II contains an updated default configuration.
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If you want to use it just copy "stuff/yq2.cfg" to your "baseq2/" folder.
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Now you are ready to start your brand new Quake II. Have fun.
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===============================================================================
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2. Installation on Microsoft Windows
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====================================
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Yamagi Quake II has full support for Microsoft Windows. All features are
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supported, including the IPv6 network code and the OpenAL sound backend.
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Installation can be done by using the binary release (this is highly
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recommended) or by compiling the source with MinGW.
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2.1 Supported Systems
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Yamagi Quake II should run on Windows XP or higher, older versions are not
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supported. You'll need a graphics card with support for at least OpenGL 1.1
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(OpenGL 1.4 is recommended). Both x86 and x86_64 Windows installations are
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supported.
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2.2 Retail Version
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If you own Quake II, first get the official point release to Quake II 3.20:
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ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/q2-3.20-x86-full-ctf.exe
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Use this and only this file! Unofficial pointreleases or something like
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that will not work and may crash your game!
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Extract the file into a new directory (we recommend quake2\) and delete
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the following files and directories:
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- 3.20_Changes.txt
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- quake2.exe
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- ref_gl.dll
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- ref_soft.dll
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- baseq2\gamex86.dll
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- baseq2\maps.lst
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- ctf\ctf2.ico
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- ctf\gamex86.dll
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- ctf\readme.txt
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- ctf\server.cfg
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- xatrix\gamex86.dll
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- rogue\gamex86.dll
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Now put the Quake II CD-ROM into your cd drive and cancel the installtion.
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Copy "pak0.pak" and the directory "video\" to the "baseq2\" directory of your
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installation.
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2.3 Demo Version
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----------------
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If you haven't got Quake II, try the demo version. Get it here:
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ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake2/q2-314-demo-x86.exe
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Extract this file into a new directory and delete everything but
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"baseq2\pak0.pk2" and the "baseq2\video\" directory. No patching
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is needed for the demo, in fact it would break it.
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2.4 Addons
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----------
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Due to license issues - Yamagi Quake II is covered by the GPL and the
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addons are under the id Software SDK license - the addons are
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distributed separately. You can get them at http://www.yamagi.org/quake2,
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both contain installation instructions. But nevertheless you'll need an
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installation of the full Quake II game with our client for playing them.
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The same applies to the "ctf" capture the flag addon.
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2.5 Binary Installation
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-----------------------
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We highly recommend, that you use our binary release of Yamagi Quake 2.
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Just extract at over the directory created in step 2.3 or 2.4. If you
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want to copy the files by hand, just copy them over by preserving the
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directory structure.
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2.6 Compiling
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Compiling Yamagi Quake II from source is unnecessary as long as you will not
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use the github version or want to develop on Windows. If you relly want to
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compile Yamagi Quake II by yourself follow these steps:
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1. Grab a copy of Nuwens MinGW distribution from http://nuwen.net/mingw.html
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Our code is tested with version 9.0, newer version may work but we can not
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guarantee that. Extract the distribution to a directory of your choice.
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2. Grab a copy of OpenAL Soft from http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
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(the binary release for Windows). Our code is tested with version 1.14.
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Extract it and put the include\AL directory into the include\ directory
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of the MinGW distribution.
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3. Open the command window of Nuwens MinGW distribution, navigate to your
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copy of the Yamagi Quake II source and type "make". This'll build the
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Windows binaries.
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After compiling, copy the following files from "release\" to your Quake II
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installation preserving the directory structure:
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- q2ded.exe
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- quake2.exe
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- ref_gl.dll
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- baseq2\game.dll
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You'll need a "openal32.dll" and an "SDL.dll" next to "quake2.exe". You can use
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and rename the OpenAL DLL that came with OpenAL Soft. We recommend to use a
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"SDL.dll" from http://libsdl.org and not the one supplied with Nuwens MinGW
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distribution.
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2.7 Default Configuration
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-------------------------
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Quake II ships with an old and for today standards "insane" default
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configuration. This is no problem since you can alter everything. To make your
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life easier Yamagi Quake II contains an updated default configuration.
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If you want to use it just copy "stuff\yq2.cfg" to your "baseq2/" folder.
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Now you are ready to start your brand new Quake II. Have fun.
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===============================================================================
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3. OGG/Vorbis playback
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Since most modern CD-ROM and DVD drives don't have an analog audio output and
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most sound codecs don't have the appropriate input header, it's not possible to
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use CD audio as background music on such systems. Therefore OGG/Vorbis music
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support has been added to Yamagi Quake II.
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3.1 Setup for the original soundtrack:
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Put your Quake II CD-ROM into your drive, start your favorite CD extractor and
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rip the audiotracks into OGG/Vorbis files. These files must be named after their
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track number, beginning with 02, because the first track is data.
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If everything is done correct, you should have: 02.ogg, 03.ogg, ..., 11.ogg.
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Alternatively you can use a script which can be found in the folder "stuff/".
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It needs cdparanoia and oggenc and should work with the main game and both
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addons.
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Drop these files in "baseq2/music/", start Quake II, enter the "Options" menu
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and set "OGG music" to enabled. "CD music" will be automaticly disabled.
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Quake II will now play the OGG/Vorbis files instead of the Audio-CD.
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3.2 Setup for other music and playlists:
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You can put any OGG/Vorbis files into "baseq2/music/" or "your_mod/music/".
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If shuffle is enabled, Quake II will shuffle through all files, otherwise it
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will loop through the track associated with the map.
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A playlist is also supported. Just put the filenames into music/playlist
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(a plain text file) and start the game.
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3.3 Manual control:
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For manual control of ogg playback the following console commands are available:
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- ogg_play {file | #n | ? | >n | <n}
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Play a file, the argument can be one of (n is always a number, e.g. 42):
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* A file in "music", without the path and ".ogg" extension.
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* #n to play the n-th file in the playlist.
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* ? which indicates to play a random file.
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* >n which indicates to advance n positions (defaults to 1).
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* <n which indicates to go back n positions (defaults to 1).
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- ogg_stop
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Stop playback
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- ogg_pause
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Pause playback
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- ogg_resume
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Resume playback
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- ogg_seek {n | >n | <n}
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Go to a determinated position of the current file in seconds, the argument can
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be one of the following:
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* n, which indicates to go to the n-th second.
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* >n, which indicates to advance n seconds.
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* <n, which indicates to go back n seconds.
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You can use "ogg_seek >0" and "ogg_seek <0" to get the current position without
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changing it.
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- ogg_status
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Display status ("playing a file", "paused", "stopped", etc).
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3.4 Console variables:
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- ogg_enable {0 | 1}
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Enables the Ogg Vorbis subsystem if set to "1". Defaults to "0".
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- ogg_playlist {name}
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Use "name" as a list of files instead of listing the contents of "music".
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Note that the files must be in "music" and follow ogg_play's syntax for
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files. Defaults to "playlist".
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- ogg_sequence {next | prev | random | loop | none}
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When a file ends, start playing another one, depending on the value:
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* next: play the next file.
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* prev: play the previous file.
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* random: play a random file.
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* loop: play the same file again.
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* none: stop playing.
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Defaults to "loop".
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- ogg_volume
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Volume of the music between 0 and 2. Defaults to "0.7".
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4. Configuration
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While configuring Quake II is straight forward some rough edges can arise.
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Before reporting bugs or mailing us please read this section all the hints
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covered in it!
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4.1 Video
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For most people the options in the "Video" menu are sufficent. But there
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are some things that can and in some cases must be tuned via cvars. Here
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the most common questions are answered.
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- Yamagi Quake II has full support for widescreen setups. Just select your
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favorite resolution and start a game. Now you'll need to adjust the field
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of view. Open the console with pressing "^" or "~" and set the fov cvar.
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Default is 90, we suggest 100 for 16:10 screens and 105 for 16:9.
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- If your resolution is not in the list, it's also possible to set custom
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resolutions via the console: Set gl_customwidth and gl_customheight to the
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desired values. Change gl_mode to -1 or enter the "Video" menu and select
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"Custom" as video mode.
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- Sync problems resulting in tearing and artifacts in the lower half of
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the screen: These orginiate in the fact, that in 1997 LCD flat panels were not
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widely used because they were very expensive and much too slow for gaming.
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Thus Quake II has problems when played on most flat panel monitors.
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The solution for this problem is simple: Just set "cl_maxfps" to about
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95 FPS and enable the vsync by setting "gl_swapinterval" to 1.
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This should supress all of the problems.
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- Particle effects are broken. They're just squares and not perfectly
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round: This is a problem by your graphics driver, not implementing
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a special filter mode for "points". Set "gl_ext_pointparameters" to 0
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to get better (but not perfect) particles.
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- The game is bright enough but it's also washed out and dull: You need
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more saturation. Just adjust the cvar "intensity". The default 2
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should be enough for most cases, but some setups require higher
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levels.
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- If the colors look over-saturated try setting the cvar "intensity" to a lower
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value, e.g. 1.
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- Yamagi Quake II offers hardware gamma control in realtime in the "Video" menu.
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If Quake II is still too dark, set the "vid_gamma" cvar by hand to values
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above 1.5.
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- Yamagi Quake II can draw shadows. Just set "gl_shadows" to 1. You most
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likely want to set "gl_stecilshadow" to 1 too. This enables high
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quality stencil buffer shadows.
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- Yamagi Quake II has support for anisotropic filtering. Activating it
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improves texture drawing over large distances a bit.
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Enter "gl_anisotropic_avail" in your console for the maximum amount of
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filtering supported by your video card and set the cvar "gl_anisotropic" to
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the desired value. It must be a power of 2, in most cases 2, 4, 8 or 16.
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- Yamagi Quake II has support for the high resolution retexturing pack, created
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by the community. Installation is easy:
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1. Download q2_textures.zip and/or models.zip from
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jimw/q2/
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2. Extract one or both files into the "baseq2/" directory of your Quake II
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installation, so that the new directories "baseq2/textures/" and/or
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"baseq2/models/" are created.
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The retexturing pack is used by default if it's installed. It can be switched
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off at any time by setting "gl_retexturing" to "0" and executing
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"vid_restart" aftwards.
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4.2 Input
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Quake II had a rather simple input system, even back in 1997. It just mapped
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Windows 95 mouse directly on movements. That was a very acurate way to do it,
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Quake II was - like all other id Software games - much more acurate than most
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games out there. But there were some problems. First the mouse input depends on
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the operation systems mouse driver. Another operating system or even another
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mouse and the input changed drastically. That sucked.
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Yamagi Quake II features a from scratch rewritten mouse backend based on SDL.
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It gives you the same mouse behavior, regardless of your operating system or
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hardware. But sadly it can't emulate the old behavior in all cases.
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There are some cvar to adjust:
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- in_mouse -> Set to 0 to disable the mouse.
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- sensitivity -> The sensistivity of the mouse. Adjust to your needs, via the
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cvar or via the "Options" menu.
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- in_filter -> A mouse filter. This was added in one of the countless point
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releases but it was broken. We fixed it. The effect is the same as in
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Quake III Arena, instead of using the raw movement signals, two of them are
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combined, filtering vibrations and things like that out.
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- exponential_speedup -> "0" is disabled. A very simple approach to mouse
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acceleration, much simpler than modern mouse acceleration. Sadly it's nearly
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impossible to add modern acceleration to Quake II since most of the needed data
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isn't available to the input backend.
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4.3 Sound
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Quake II featured one of the best sound systems of it's time (for example it had
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support for realtime calculated stereo effects) but sadly it was totaly broken.
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Therefore id Software rewrote it once, later it was rewritten again for the
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linux port. That fixed the most visible problems, but the code was just crap and
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broke again as time passed and sound on PCs evolved. For Yamagi Quake II 3.0 the
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sound system was overhauled, featuring a complete code audit of the upper layers
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with many bugfixes and memory leak plugs. The backend was rewritten from
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scratch. This should solve most if not all problems. Yamagi Quake II 4.20
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featured an optional OpenAL sound system, enabling better stereo calculations
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and even surround support.
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4.3.1 The classic sound system
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------------------------------
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This is the original sound implementation, as used in the first release of Quake
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II in 1997. It featured stereo calculations for most samples. It's disabled by
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default and can be reenables by setting "s_openal" to "0", followed by
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"snd_restart. Common problems are:
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- The earthquake sound sample is distorted
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This is not a fault of the sound code but of the sound sample itself.
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It's mostly made of very low frequency noices and sampled in only 22kHz,
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bringing cheap onboard soundcards to the limit. The only solution would be to
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change the sample...
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- The sound is stuttering and cracking
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This is most likely a problem on your side! First make sure that your SDL
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sound backend is installed properly. Does the sound work in other SDL games
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like ioquake3? If possible remove all sound servers from your stack and use
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plain OSS or ALSA via libasound. If everything fails try create an ~/.asoundrc
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with this contents:
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pcm.!default {
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type hw
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card 0
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}
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ctl.!default {
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type hw
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card 0
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}
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4.3.2 The OpenAL sound system
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-----------------------------
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This is a sound system based upon the popular OpenAL audio library. It features
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surround playback which gives a huge improvement in sound quality and gameplay
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experience. It's enables by default, but can be disabled by setting "s_openal"
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to "0", followed by a "snd_restart". To work correctly it's in the need of a
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correctly configured OpenAL! OpenAL is configured in the file ~/.alsoftrc (for
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the openal-soft implementation, other implementations may vary). The most
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important options (tested with OpenAL Soft 1.14) are:
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- channels = surround51 -> Enable 5.1 surround support. Other values are "mono",
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"stereo", "quad", "surround61" and "surround71".
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- stereodup = true -> If set to "true" all raw stereo samples (in Quake II the
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background music and video sounds) are duplicated behind the listener.
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Otherwise they're played only through the front speakers.
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- resampler = cubic -> Use cubic resampling. While this requires more cpu power
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than the default linear resamling it's highly recommended since Quake II has
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several hard to resamples sound effects. Especially the earthquake sound can
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distort if a low quality resampler is employed!
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===============================================================================
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5. Bugreports
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=============
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Something is not working as expected? An elevator is broken? An enemy doesn't
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move? Or the whole game is just crashing? Just open an issue at
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https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2. Please include a problem description and
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- if possible - a screenshot of the problematic situation and the name of the
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problematic map. In case of crashes, further helpful information (and
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instructions) are printed to stdout (your terminal).
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But first, read this little FAQ:
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My sound is not working!
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- Most reported sound problems exist between keyboard and chair. Please make
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sure, the the correct SDL sound backend is installed and configured!
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Does the sound work in other SDL games? Does your setup support at least five
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virtual channels? In most cases it's better to not use sound servers like
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Pulseaudio but the plain sound system like OSS or ALSA with libasound instead.
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Also see the "Sound" section in this file!
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My OpenGL is not working!
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- Make sure, that OpenGL is working in other games. Use "glxinfo" and
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"glxgears" to make sure, that hardware rendering is available.
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Otherwise, fix your setup. If reporting OpenGL bugs please include a copy of
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your xorg.conf (if available) and the Xorg.0.log.
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The game is crashing!
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- Make sure that your installation is complete. Missing files will crash Quake
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II on random occasions and will produce strange backtraces! This just wastes
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our time, so please check first and report then!
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Valgrind reports many, many memory leaks!
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- Yeah it does. But they're usually false positives due to Quake IIs caching
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architecture. There some real memory leaks in SDL, Mesa3D, X11 and so on but
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they're out of our scope. So before reporting memory leaks please read the
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code, understand the code and be sure that's a real leak!
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===============================================================================
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6. FAQ
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======
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How do I open the console?
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- Press "^" or "~", depending on your keyboard layout.
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How do I get the frame counter?
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- Set cl_drawfps to 1
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How do I make a benchmark?
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- Set timedemo to 1 and play a demo.
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How do I play demos?
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- "demomap name.dm2". Note that the extension .dm2 is important!
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How do I record a demo?
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- "record name" and "stop" to stop.
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When playing in window mode my cursor is locked onto the window. Can I change
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that, so that Quake II behaves like a normal window?
|
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- Open the console by pressing ~ or ^. If you want Quake II to never grab the
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mouse set "in_grab" to 0, if Quake II should never release the mouse set 1,
|
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for releasing the mouse when the console is opened set to 2. The default is 2.
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|
Hey, my screensaver crashes Quake II or I experience strange crashes after a
|
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fixed amount of time!
|
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- This is a known bug in some linux distributions. SDL fails to disable
|
|
the screensaver even if we tell him to do so. See this Ubuntu bugreport:
|
|
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/32457
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As a work around use the startscript in stuff/quake-start.sh It deactivates
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|
the screensaver before starting Quake II and reenables it after exiting the
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game.
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|
|
Okay, Yamagi Quake II is for single player and coop. But what's with us
|
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deathmatch and / or CTF freaks?
|
|
- Use another client. There are clients out there which offer far better multi-
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|
player experiences. They're featuring greatly improved network code and a
|
|
better client<->server integration. Take a look at EGL, r1q2 or AprQ2. At
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|
least r1q2 should work on unixlike operating systems.
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|
|
|
The movement is fucked up! I can jump much higher and longer as it used
|
|
to be! What's wrong?
|
|
- You're experiencing the Quake II version of the famous Q3A 125hz bug.
|
|
When Quake II draws more than about 100 FPS the movement calculations go
|
|
wrong and you can jump much higher. To solve this set "cl_maxfps" to about
|
|
95 FPS. And no, we won't fix it since it would be very invasive and most
|
|
likely break a lot of other things.
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|
|
|
I'm creating a package or port for my system. Is a system wide install
|
|
possible without patching the source?
|
|
- Yes. Just set -DSYSTEMWIDE. If you want to change the default
|
|
directory from /usr/share/games/quake2/, just set -DSYSTEMDIR
|
|
to the desired path.
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|
|
|
How do I disable friendly fire in coop mode?
|
|
- The same way as in team deathmatch. Via the menu select "deathmatch options"
|
|
and set teamplay to "by skin" or by "by model" and friendly fire to disabled.
|
|
Make sure, that all players have the same model or skin! If you're using the
|
|
dedicated server or are already in the game, open the console and type
|
|
"dmflags 336" für skinbased teamplay and "dmflags 400" for modelbased
|
|
teamplay.
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|
|
|
Can I connect to an IPv6 server?
|
|
- Yes, the same way as connecting to an IPv4 server. Since the Quake II console
|
|
has problems with the characters ":", "[" and "]" we suggest to submit the
|
|
connection command as command line argument:
|
|
./quake2 +connect "[2001:db8::1]"
|
|
If you want to connect to a server with a non-standard port use the following
|
|
syntax:
|
|
./quake2 +connect "[2001:db8::1]:12345"
|
|
For your server to show up in the server list you need to supply a multicast
|
|
interface to both the client and the server:
|
|
./q2ded +set multicast eth0
|
|
./quake2 +set multicast eth0
|
|
Normaly the server will listen to all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. You can bind
|
|
it to an address with:
|
|
./q2ded +set ip "[2001:db8::1]"
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|
|
|
Where can I find the configuartion file?
|
|
- It's located at ~/.yq2/game/config.cfg (FreeBSD and Linux) or
|
|
C:\Users\Username\Documents\YamagiQ2\game\config.cfg (Windows).
|
|
Replace "game" by the mod name, e.g. "baseq2/" for the main game.
|
|
|
|
My mod crashes at startup.
|
|
- This is known problem, yet to be analyzed. A workaround is to create the
|
|
working directory by hand:
|
|
mkdir -p ~/.yq2/$moddir (FreeBSD and Linux)
|
|
C:\Users\Username\Documents\YamagiQ2\$moddir (Windows)
|
|
|
|
Only parts of the maps are rendered!
|
|
- By default the maximum view distance is 2300 units. You can widen it up
|
|
to 4096 units by setting "gl_farsee" to "1".
|
|
|
|
Why has Yamagi Quake II no support for joysticks?
|
|
- Because nobody has implemented it yet and egoshooters like Quake II
|
|
are not really meant to be played with joysticks, gamepads or anything
|
|
like that. If you really need joystick support you can use a joystick
|
|
to keyboard translator like joytran (for FreeBSD and Linux):
|
|
http://chiselapp.com/user/beyert/repository/joytran/index
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==============================================================================
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