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#10169: Re: New Levels and Questions

by SanHolo on 03/01/2008 18:07, refers to #10165

And: Your website still reads "SuaerWeb" despite me having pointed that out several times already...

Add lights und nice textures and ask us again if you should publish this map. As it looks ATM: No, don't publish.

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#10170: Re: New Levels and Questions

by mayhem on 03/01/2008 21:59, refers to #10165

The effort is there but you need to scale down. My humble advice is take what you have learned and start over with something ..smaller..
Instead of a tower, make a bomb-shelter or something confined like that and you will find it is easier to make it look more 'finished'. Don't be afraid of lights, they are well explained in the docs and it makes a world of difference. Look at maps like aard3c in edit mode and see how small and simple make for decent environments. After you finish a few small maps you can copy/paste to make a larger map for SP or whatever.
Save this phallic symbol somewhere and come back to it when you feel you've honed your editing skills a little more. Show us a small finished map and you will certainly get respectable honest reviews.

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#10171: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by samslembas on 03/02/2008 03:15

Sauerbraten seems to be impossible to play using Dvorak. The wasd keys on a Dvorak keyboard are .aoe, and Sauerbraten does not seem to support keymapping to the . key. Is there a trick to getting around this? I can just change my layout to Qwerty to play, but then it is a pain to type messages in multiplayer, thus making me anti-social ;)

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#10172: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by graham on 03/02/2008 05:00, refers to #10171

/bind period up
...

See data/keymap.cfg

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#10173: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by IllvilJa on 03/02/2008 11:31, refers to #10172

Thanks for the advice. (I'm a Dvorak user too, BTW)

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#10174: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by MeatROme on 03/02/2008 13:54, refers to #10171

As graham pointed out the "bind" command can help you setup your own personal keybinding;
the data/keymap.cfg file can also be supplemented by keycodes currently not yet understood by the engine.
You might want to compare http://cube.wikispaces.com/configuration for your first steps :)

Oh .. and since IllviUa is probably not the only one sharing in your predicament ... how about publishing your work as a suggested Script/Mod on quadropolis ?!? :)

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#10175: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by samslembas on 03/02/2008 17:27, refers to #10174

Ah, thanks for the help. I was trying to use "bind , forward" rather than "bind comma forward". As for publishing my work, it is going to take me quite a while to get used to this stuff enough to not only have a good keymapping made, but actually know *how* to publish it ;) I cannot locate this /data/ directory that was mentioned a few times. I am on a Linux system, and there seems to be a .sauerbraten directory in my home folder, but all that is in there is config.cfg init.cfg packages servers.cfg. I suspect that there is no data directory on Linux, and that this is the replacement, but that still leaves me wondering where the keymap.cfg file is.Is it optional and needs to be created, or am I in the wrong place?

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#10176: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 03/02/2008 18:19, refers to #10175

Put all of your custom binds into 'autoexec.cfg' which should be created inside the root Sauerbraten (not the .sauerbraten) directory. Then people can just copy and paste the binings into their own autoexecs, or just put your one in the Sauer folder.

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#10177: Assassin, Summer, Spring?

by tcc on 03/02/2008 19:03

Where is the difference between those 3 versions? I cant find any information about it.

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#10178: Texturing question

by MovingTarget on 03/02/2008 19:03

I have a question about texturing.
Say I'm making a map (unlikely, huh?), and say I'm doing it after the style of Quake 3.

Since I don't want to use the original textures included in the game (although I can't resist using sonic1 for music!), I download a very large pack of Quake 3-like textures. This pack contains well over 200 textures (and I may download more). Now, I use a script to automatically index the textures and make a package.cfg for my map's configuration file to execute (I'm not too keen on typing texture 0 "movingtarget/q3/blah.jpg" 200 times).

The problem is, when I'm done texturing, I'm not going to have used all those textures, and including them all in the package will drive it up to somewhere around 30MB, maybe more. But if I delete the entries for the textures that I don't use, most of the texturing will be ruined, and I'll have to redo it all over again (not an easy task).

Any ideas on how I could get around this?

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#10179: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by ezombie on 03/02/2008 21:57, refers to #10176

Wouldn't it be cleaner to make a *dvorak.cfg* file with the bindings, then exec it from your autoexec.cfg?

Makes sharing/installing much easier, no?

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#10180: Forum Update?

by ezombie on 03/02/2008 21:58

OMFG!!!

Quotes work now! Huzzah!

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#10181: Re: Forum Update?

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 03/02/2008 22:09, refers to #10180

Because you used asterisks. It's 's that don't work. Maybe if i /' it might work.

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#10182: Re: Forum Update?

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 03/02/2008 22:10, refers to #10181

OMG they do work! (Sorry for useless spam)

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#10183: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout

by MeatROme on 03/02/2008 22:18, refers to #10175

the ~/.sauerbraten is the ideal place for your personal configuration!
I also place all custom maps in there;
but you should go to the installation folder to find the ./data/ directory ... it sounds a bit like you installed it via your package-manager (which almost always results in this question (and non-current version problems)) ... try "locate keymap.cfg|grep sauerbraten" ;-)

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#10184: Re: Texturing question

by MovingTarget on 03/03/2008 02:22, refers to #10179

Oh well, I just hoped there would be a more 'elegant' way to do it. I always have hated files that look like that (50+ repeating 'texture 0 "dummy.jpg"').

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#10185: Re: Texturing question

by demosthenes on 03/03/2008 02:32, refers to #10184

The replace command wouldn't work?

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#10186: Re: Texturing question

by a`baby`rabbit on 03/03/2008 03:34, refers to #10184

so use sauerscript, something like:

loop i 50 [ texture 0 "dummy.jpg" ]

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#10187: Re: Texturing question

by MovingTarget on 03/03/2008 04:26, refers to #10186

Heh, I guess that would make it much cleaner, thanks! Didn't think of that.

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#10188: Re: Texturing question

by MovingTarget on 03/03/2008 17:06, refers to #10185

Could you please enlighten me as to the usage of the 'replace' command? The description in the docs is not really clear.

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