Some patches the devs might be interested in :)

[Psychcf]

you need to download the sources from the nexuiz site, apply the patches, compile it using fteqcc (it should be in the repos), then put the compiled files in a pk3, then put that in your ~/.nexuiz folder.

[KadaverJack]

you need to download the sources from the nexuiz site, apply the patches, compile it using fteqcc (it should be in the repos), then put the compiled files in a pk3, then put that in your ~/.nexuiz folder.

1) you don't need to put files you don't want to distribute in pk3s
2) those patches are for the engine, not the game code, so unpack the engine sources from the zip, apply the patch and run "make nexuiz" (you might wanna run 'apt-get build-dep nexuiz' first to install dev packages you need)
(or you could try if the precompiled binary on that site works for you)

[Psychcf]

ah, I didn't know it was for the engine. In that case you want to get the engine code, apply patches, and then use make as Kadaver said

[Spaceman]

Is the engine code in nexuiz-23.zip?

I've found /Nexuiz/sources/enginesource20070531.pk3 in nexuiz-23.zip is this the correct place to start?

I assume I need to extract this and then apply the patch somehow.

The first three lines of the patch are

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diff -up orig/darkplaces/console.c darkplaces/console.c
--- orig/darkplaces/console.c   2007-05-30 16:29:22.000000000 +0200
+++ darkplaces/console.c   2007-08-23 14:52:26.000000000 +0200

Should I extract enginesource* to /Nexuiz/sources/orig/darkplaces/... and then where do I put the patch file?

Many thanks.

[KadaverJack]

Is the engine code in nexuiz-23.zip?

yes

I've found /Nexuiz/sources/enginesource20070531.pk3 in nexuiz-23.zip is this the correct place to start?

correct, except it's enginesource20070531.zip, but i assume that's what you meant...

Should I extract enginesource* to /Nexuiz/sources/orig/darkplaces/... and then where do I put the patch file?

Just extract the engine source anywhere, and do:

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cd darkplaces
patch -p1 < /whereever/you/put/the.patch
make nexuiz

[Spaceman]

Well spotted, it should have been zip not pk3

Many thanks for all the help.

I've applied the patch and run make, moved the three new files and renamed them. I had to apt-get some SDL dev files but it was relatively painless.

From Blµb's page

To be applied with patch -p0

does it matter if I used -p1 ? And what does < do? Is it some kind of pipe?

I've just tried a quick game of Nexuiz and it seems to work really well

Again many thanks

[Psychcf]

< basically sends a file to the stdin of a cli program.

In other words, it's like running a command, pasting the file contents in and pressing ctrl+d (represents end-of-file)

[KadaverJack]

From Blµb's page

To be applied with patch -p0

does it matter if I used -p1 ?

Yes, -pN strips the first N slashes from the file names in the diff. If you use -p0, it doesn't strip anything, so patch is searching for darkplaces/console.c instead of console.c (which works fine as long you are patching from darkplaces/.., but i usually apply patches from inside the source directory, thus the -p1)

[Vladimir]

I'm sorry, but I'm still not exactly clear on this. How do you apply the patch? The patch I'm applying is the sprites one. I'm sorry, but I'm a total newbie at applying patches.

[Blµb]

Uh, sorry, I should have corrected that part...

the non SVN patches are to be applied "from outside the directory"
so in the fold where you have your source folder

if you use the svn patches, use patch -p0 from within the source dir