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Category:	SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Mapping, modeling, scripting, skinning and all forms of editing for the game Soldier of Fortune II
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Topic: [mini-tut]Compiling qvm's

Sevensins~rb

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 24, 2002 03:21 pm
Ok, so now you have your qvm's compiled...what do you do with them? The vm's should have been placed in the base/vm dir in the mod sdk directory. You'll need to create a folder for your mod in the main sof2 dir. I'll use the example mymod. You would have c:\program files\sof2dir\mymod. There are two ways to place the qvm's in that directory. You can pull the /vm dir and place it in your mod directory. However, this way means that any server that is run is a unpure server. c:\program files\sof2dir\mymod\vm\[all your qvm's] you should set, +set sv_pure 0 , in the shortcut command line; if you do it this way. Or you can put the /vm dir in a pk3 file. A pk3 file is just a .zip file renamed. To do this, just zip the vm dir with your program of choice and rename it to .pk3. Make sure that qvm files are in the /vm path inside the .pk3/zip file. After you do that, just place the .pk3 file in your mod directory. c:\program files\sof2dir\mymod\vmfiles.pk3 Now to run your mod, you should create a new shortcut to the sof2mp.exe file and add this to the command line: +set fs_game mymod Where mymod = your mod directory name hmmm...that should be it.

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 24, 2002 03:22 pm
Ok, now to touch on the different file prefixes. There are 6 I count. Prefix - explanation q_ - These files contain essential parts to all the code, ie client, server, ui, and even engine. For q3 modding, it was good practice to not modify these files at all, because it usually ended up in strange problems. Its probablly the same with sof2, just a warning. bg_ (both game)- These contain code that is visible to client and server. If you change anything to these, you'll most likely need to compile both client and game code. g_ (game)- These files contain code only visible to the server, the client code cannot use things defined within them. cg_ (cgame) - These files contain code only visible to the client, the server code cannot use things defined within them. ui_ - These files, of course, are code for the user interface (ie hud, menus). This code works with the .menu script files. gt_ - These are gametype files. These files are where the events from the .gametype scripts are handled.

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design
Posted: Friday, May. 24, 2002 03:23 pm

now - Adding new files to be compiled...

You'll need to edit the .bat files so that your new file is compiled with the existing files. Obviously, you'll need to edit the one that goes with which code you have added (ie cgame, game, ui).

game.bat looks a little like this

Code Sample

%cc% ../g_active.c
@if errorlevel 1 goto quit
%cc% ../g_antilag.c
@if errorlevel 1 goto quit
%cc% ../g_bot.c
@if errorlevel 1 goto quit
%cc% ../g_client.c
@if errorlevel 1 goto quit

so just add your new file in the same way as the others to the end of the list.

[edit]I also forgot to mention, you have to add the filename to the asm file so it will go through the assembler

in each of the code section there is a q3asm file, ie game.q3asm, cgame.q3asm etc.

You should be able to just open them up with any text editor. After you open them up, you'll notice all the different files for that part of the code. Just add yours to the bottom in the same manner as the other ones.

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 24, 2002 03:39 pm
One additional thing: never ever modify any of the functions that are in g_syscalls.c, cg_syscalls.c, or ui_syscalls.c. These are all the interface calls to the engine, and if you change them in any way, you will get undefined results / crashes.

Ter Roshak~rb

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 24, 2002 08:59 pm
the very MORE faster way is to add in every batch you are running the following line at the very top ! set path=%path%;x:\path\to\the\sdk\root for win2k users!!! win9x have just to make a new batch file and just run it once or your env %path will explode! win2k (xp etc...) has the very annoying feature to store the path changing just for the current running dos box! after exiting the window and entering a new one all changes will be removed ! for all lazy ppl thats the more fast version all others can make the changes in the env path but you have to reboot in the most cases (win9x)... cya ter

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Monday, May. 27, 2002 01:50 am
bump pin maybe?

GODh~rb

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design
Posted: Friday, May. 31, 2002 04:26 pm

This line is giving me a syntax error in WinME :s17:

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set cc=..\..\..\..\bin\sof2lcc -A -DQ3_VM -DMISSIONPACK -S -Wf-target=bytecode -Wf-g -I..\..\..\gametype -I..\..\gt_gold -I..\..\..\game %1

Does anyone know a solution?? Please...

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 31, 2002 04:37 pm
Problem is caused by the = from =bytecode... but my question remains the same: how to solve this? (I am using WinME)

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 31, 2002 04:42 pm
well thats obviously a new gametype you create gt_gold. The line appears to be exactly the same as the other bat files. Do you the original bat files get that same error?

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Category: SoFII Editing, Gaming, and Design Posted: Friday, May. 31, 2002 06:05 pm
Yes, i am getting a syntax error caused by the = sign in the line where the cc environment variable is set (from =bytecode). When i replace that = with a space, the syntax error is gone, but then ofcoz the compile won't work... i can compile by replacing all %cc% with the full command, but that's a real pain in the *ss