where can I dl the nightly builds?

[melk]

I used to get them from http://141.2.16.3:7780/nex/files/ but that is down

[morfar]

You can find beta builds at http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~p ... iz/builds/

[Spaceman]

You can find beta builds at http://emptyset.endoftheinternet.org/~p ... iz/builds/

How do I run a separate new build? I'm running Kubuntu 7.10

I have unzipped it to /home/victim/newnex and created .../newnex/.nexuiz/data and added a slightly modified config.cfg to .nexuiz/data

I have created a desktop config file (shortcut) with the following

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/home/victim/newnex/nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh -basedir /home/victim/newnex/ +exec /home/victim/newnex/.nexuiz/data/config.cfg

Do I need to add anything to the workpath section?

[KadaverJack]

I have created a desktop config file (shortcut) with the following

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/home/victim/newnex/nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh -basedir /home/victim/newnex/ +exec /home/victim/newnex/.nexuiz/data/config.cfg

1) strip the basedir option, that's what the script you are referencing is for
2) all paths for exec and other options are relative to Nexuiz/data or ~/.nexuiz/data, full paths won't work
3) config.cfg is loaded automagically and ~/.nexuiz is used by all nexuiz installs you run, if you want that config to be loaded only for the testing build, rename it to config_svn.cfg (or something like that) and append "+exec config_svn.cfg"

[Spaceman]

Many thanks, I've changed the shortcut to

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/home/victim/newnex/nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh +exec newnex.cfg

which starts OK.

Nexuiz starts and reads newnex.cfg but when I make an alteration eg a name change, Nexuiz saves the changes to config.cfg. Which deletes the current 2.3 version configuration.

How do I save any config changes to newnex.cfg?

[KadaverJack]

How do I save any config changes to newnex.cfg?

You can't without engine changes, since the filename "config.cfg" is hardcoded.
What you could do is changing the $HOME variable and put the .nexuiz folder somewhere else that way (e.g. "HOME=/home/victim/newnex /home/victim/newnex/nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh +exec newnex.cfg". You might need to symlink ~/.Xauthority there to make it work)

[Blµb]

what? there's no writeconfig cmd like in the q3 engine? (or at least in jka there is...)
*found something to patch*

[Spaceman]

what? there's no writeconfig cmd like in the q3 engine? (or at least in jka there is...)
*found something to patch*

There is saveconfig, http://www.alientrap.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ConsoleCommands#saveconfig
but it just saves the current config to config.cfg

I tried using the Dec 20th build of Nexuiz with 'writeconfig' - command not found, and 'saveconfig 123.cfg' no errors or a file called 123.cfg

I could write a script that starts Nexuiz with special.cfg, and when Nexuiz ends (with F10) renames config.cfg to special.cfg

How is autoexec.cfg handled, will Nexuiz started with special.cfg read autoexec.cfg? Can I specify in special.cfg a different name for autoexec?


And where can I make comments about the current build?

[Spaceman]

Here is a simple script to load and save a particular config / alias file

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#! /bin/sh
/home/victim/newnex/nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh +exec victim.cfg +exec victim_alias.cfg
mv /home/victim/.nexuiz/data/victim.cfg /home/victim/.nexuiz/data/victim.cfg.bak
mv /home/victim/.nexuiz/data/config.cfg /home/victim/.nexuiz/data/victim.cfg
rm /home/victim/.nexuiz/data/victim.cfg.bak

It launches Nexuiz with two config files, the first victim.cfg is a normal config and the second victim_alias.cfg has some aliases. After quitting (F10) Nexuiz, a new config.cfg is automaticaly written.

The original victim.cfg is renamed victim.cfg.bak
then new config.cfg is renamed to victim.cfg
and finally victim.cfg.bak is deleted

[Spaceman]

I merged this message with one above, which leaves this message going spare.