External Server Browser

[evilspacehamster]

Hi folks! I love nexuiz, and i wanted to make a simple server browser and integrate it with simple Instant Messaging program.

Thing is, when looking to gather the sever list, I have no idea where to start. Sorry if this post is somewhat vague. I am very new to both the Nexuiz, Darkplace and quake architecture and codebase. Where should I look? Also, another novice question, but where does the nexuiz client get it's list of servers. I am aware it will be some form of master browser, but my searches have brought me only references to the dpmaster software on the darkplaces website.

Once again i apologise for the vague nature of this post/request. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

EvilSpaceHamster

[Sepelio]

I am fairly sure people have done this before, can't remember who though. I'm not much help but good luck

You might want to check the Nexuiz Ninjaz forum. I know -z- does a lot of random stuff like this: http://www.nexuizninjaz.com/forum/

[Irritant]

You could take a look at this browser, though it's windows only, it has the browser, plus integrated IRC client. It's not the best thing ever and needs work, but there are some good starting points and some cool things in it.

http://svn.icculus.org/alienarena/trunk/Tools/galaxy/

It's fully GPL too.

[evilspacehamster]

Thanks very much, i'll look into those. I'm looking to make a fully cross platform server browser with a built in xmpp client that has functionality for joining your friends games. Got a load of techincalities to jump over, but its looking hopeful

[merlijn]

We do actually use dpmaster to get server lists. Depending on which language you will be writing in, it might be easiest to just parse the HTML output of this: http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=nex ... wplayers=1 (notice there is mirrors of dpmaster at any of the servers listed with sv_master*)