FuhQuake

[[chris]]

Fuh do you think it's possible in a version, sooner or later, to be able to define the location of everything inside quake? Examples:
sys_dir \sys
exe_dir \clients
uss_dir \screenshots

Thing's like that so the quake directory could be organized with clients in one folder (since there are so many quake clients) system files like dll files and such to have there own folder... And also possibly the ability to define paths when using fuhquake.exe +gamedir
Example:

fuhquake.exe +gamedir mods\fbca

more organization

Thanks.

[meez]

maybe, but so much time for something which doesnt mke that much good...

[dkure]

problem is that all quake clients would have to adopt the same standard. And no longer would normal quake work.

[Tonik]

-basedir is your friend, chris

quake/
quake/bin
quake/bin/fuhquake_security.dll
quake/bin/fuhquake.exe
quake/bin/fuh.bat

fuh.bat:
fuhquake -basedir .. -dinput -foo -bar


as for mods/, it ain't possible without breaking compatibility with almost everything out there. quake servers and clients expect the gamedir to be a single filename, not a path.
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8) Tonik

[dkure]

how many clients does that work for, all?

[Tonik]

[dkure]

thanks, this should help cleaning up my base quake dir

[[chris]]

Bleh, such commands are only known by the elite programmers Quake never had good documentation on all of it's command line variables... Or much of a manual at all I do remember one good site for quakeworld commands though, but that's all out the window with these new clients...

[Telejano]

A interesting posible feature can be to separate textures in other folder, models in other folder, an have something like this:

/quake/texturepack/textures/
/quake/modelpack/progs/
/quake/newsounds/sounds/

and do from cmdline:

fuhquake -data texturepack -data modelpack -data newsounds -foo -bar

That can be done with a code similar to that:

[Scuba Steve]

This would be useful for having different setups for spectating/gl/sw. I hate getting black skins on those redone models in sw

[Gleeb]

Argh, crap, I knew I was forgetting something