Admax88 and I have finally gotten the Classbased mod working with the current SVN code. In order to try it out, you need to be running an SVN build of Nexuiz, along with a recent darkplaces build.

You can grab it here: http://omploader.org/vMXVwMw/nexuiz-classbased-test.pk3

Source code is included in the pk3, but you can also browse through it here:
http://github.com/psychcf/nexuiz-classbased/

So far, just the class system have been implemented, so we can force different classes to spawn with different health levels, ammunition levels, models, and weapons. We still have to get the special weapons in there, as well as the other things (like deployables, etc).

Since this isn't a 100% finished mod yet, I haven't put up a test server. For now, you can try it out by creating a local game.

To do this, go to the server list, hit 'create', and then click on the mutators button. Then, check 'Classbased Gameplay', and close that dialog. Then, choose any team-based gamemode, and then hit start. We still need to get it so that bots choose different classes, but it'll come in time.

I added this package to data, ran the game and started a game with this mutator on; whenever I try to spawn in I can't and I get this error message in the top left of the screen:

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s30394: gamecommand.qc:57: IFNOT    GLOBAL4567, s30402
s30395: gamecommand.qc:60: CALL0    isdemo (=isdemo())
gamecommand.qc : GameCommand : statement 35
Falling back to normal menu

When I hit escape to get back to the main menu interface I then get the following:

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You may consider adding
-basedir /path/to/game
to your launch commandline

It then gives me the choice between opening the console and quitting; I can't get back to the main menu screens.

Flying Steel wrote:I added this package to data, ran the game and started a game with this mutator on; whenever I try to spawn in I can't and I get this error message in the top left of the screen:

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s30394: gamecommand.qc:57: IFNOT    GLOBAL4567, s30402
s30395: gamecommand.qc:60: CALL0    isdemo (=isdemo())
gamecommand.qc : GameCommand : statement 35
Falling back to normal menu

When I hit escape to get back to the main menu interface I then get the following:

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You may consider adding
-basedir /path/to/game
to your launch commandline

It then gives me the choice between opening the console and quitting; I can't get back to the main menu screens.

How recent is your engine build?

Can you use this in non-team based game modes? Or does it stop you (it should allow you to do so, for completeness.)

Psychcf wrote:How recent is your engine build?

My bad, using 2.5.1

tundramagi wrote:Can you use this in non-team based game modes? Or does it stop you (it should allow you to do so, for completeness.)

I agree, it would be cool to have the option to make character classes for general purpose use (standard deathmatches and all the rest).

tundramagi wrote:Can you use this in non-team based game modes? Or does it stop you (it should allow you to do so, for completeness.)

Well, the limbo menu won't hide the team selection parts in non-team based games, but it should work in any gamemode.

how to install? (i put it into nexuiz/data)
i've svn and no plan how to install

ok i installed it like the spiderbot:
created a folder "classbased" (C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Eigene Datein/My Games/nexuiz/classbased)
andfd created a batch file:

run-wgl -classbased.bat:

@echo off

cd nexuiz
set PATH=misc\buildfiles\w32;%PATH%
..\darkplaces\darkplaces -nexuiz -game classbased -mygames -condebug +cvar_check_default bypass
cd ..



but it only gives other weapons for each class its not
and there is a bug sometimes doors dont work: i open a door (the activator is a trigger field (trigger_multiple) the door work and then the door is close and nobody can open...

but it only gives other weapons for each class its not
and there is a bug sometimes doors dont work: i open a door (the activator is a trigger field (trigger_multiple) the door work and then the door is close and nobody can open...[/quote]

That bug is not due to the mutator.
I've hit that bug too.

Here's a test case:
https://cat2.optus.nu/nexuizserv/otherm ... gmulti.bsp
https://cat2.optus.nu/nexuizserv/otherm ... gmulti.map

Trigger multi triggering a func_door on shooting.
Only works once.
Same for func_door_rotating, probably everything.
Svn bug .

hmm svn bug...

@ Psychcf: give the soldiers infinite incinctble , the electroballs from the medic can heal when a teammate touch and the normal electro shot should look like the phaser and slows enemies down too, the grenades from the engineer...the secondary shot shouls just sink to ground with lifetime of 5min could be the mines ...the primary just can disarm the enemy's mines,
...

Sven wrote:hmm svn bug...

@ Psychcf: give the soldiers infinite incinctble , the electroballs from the medic can heal when a teammate touch and the normal electro shot should look like the phaser and slows enemies down too, the grenades from the engineer...the secondary shot shouls just sink to ground with lifetime of 5min could be the mines ...the primary just can disarm the enemy's mines,
...

Well, I plan on making separate guns for all of those, just to keep everything maintainable.

Psychcf wrote:

Sven wrote:hmm svn bug...

@ Psychcf: give the soldiers infinite incinctble , the electroballs from the medic can heal when a teammate touch and the normal electro shot should look like the phaser and slows enemies down too, the grenades from the engineer...the secondary shot shouls just sink to ground with lifetime of 5min could be the mines ...the primary just can disarm the enemy's mines,
...

Well, I plan on making separate guns for all of those, just to keep everything maintainable.

Would guns work better for those roles than deployables?

today i played around in the engine and modded your mod
(made a new class, the god class xD unlimited ammo and good weapons:laser,shotgun, rl, nex, crifle and mortar and should get unlimited invincible and strength but the life should decrease every time and only if he make frags he get hp to stay alive and the class is chooseable in the limbo-menu)

...its only for myself to learn qc but i can give you the code if you want xD

but cant compile anymore:

Source file: progs.src
outputfile: ../../progs.dat
compiling ../common/util-pre.qh
compiling sys.qh
compiling pre-builtins.qh
compiling builtins.qh
compiling extensions.qh
[...]
compiling w_tuba.qc
compiling t_items.qc
compiling cl_weapons.qc
compiling cl_impulse.qc
compiling ent_cs.qc
compiling classbased.qc
in function cb_getmaxh (line 4),
classbased.qc:95: error: "" - not a name

************ ERROR ************
Errors have occured

Error in classbased.qc on line 95


there is nothing, what i can delete

found the problem:
false:

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{
   local string maxh = strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable");

   return cvar(maxh);


right:

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{
   local string maxh = strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable");

   return cvar(maxh);
}

i forgot the "}" at the end xD

Err wow, defining a variable this way defines a constant.

Why not simply use

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cvar(strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable")) ??

Else, what you want is to first declare the variable, then set it.

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local string maxh;
maxh = strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable");

(I have no idea what happens if you define a variable the way you did inside a function... Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Who knows )

Mr. Bougo wrote:Err wow, defining a variable this way defines a constant.

Why not simply use

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cvar(strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable")) ??

Else, what you want is to first declare the variable, then set it.

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local string maxh;
maxh = strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable");

(I have no idea what happens if you define a variable the way you did inside a function... Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Who knows )

I just felt like that would make it hard to read, so I made a local variable to put the name of the maxh cvar in, so I can break it up into several lines. Local variables don't spill into the global namespace, so it should be fine, since the GC will just clean it up once the function is done executing.

I'm not the best at quakeC, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Psychcf wrote:

Mr. Bougo wrote:Err wow, defining a variable this way defines a constant.

Why not simply use

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cvar(strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable")) ??

Else, what you want is to first declare the variable, then set it.

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local string maxh;
maxh = strcat("g_balance_classbased_", e.gamerole, "_health_stable");

(I have no idea what happens if you define a variable the way you did inside a function... Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Who knows )

I just felt like that would make it hard to read, so I made a local variable to put the name of the maxh cvar in, so I can break it up into several lines. Local variables don't spill into the global namespace, so it should be fine, since the GC will just clean it up once the function is done executing.

I'm not the best at quakeC, so correct me if I'm wrong.

That might have been my line of code there. I'm rather new to quakec so I could be totally off base, but how can that be a constant if it depends on the value of variable (e.gamerole)?

My impression of quakec was that a line of code like that only defines a constant outside of a function. But I don't know that for certain, just a feeling.

The 1st rule of thumb for QuakeC is: Remember: this language sucks

That "local" thing is a synonym for "". Yeah, it means nothing. Its only point is to be able to use an IDE in C mode for QuakeC
Also, as I said, I have no clue how it behaves with this definition syntax inside of functions, but I'd expect either nothing special, or unpredictable behaviour

Mr. Bougo wrote:The 1st rule of thumb for QuakeC is: Remember: this language sucks

That "local" thing is a synonym for "". Yeah, it means nothing. Its only point is to be able to use an IDE in C mode for QuakeC
Also, as I said, I have no clue how it behaves with this definition syntax inside of functions, but I'd expect either nothing special, or unpredictable behaviour

WHAT?! THAT'S SO IDIOTIC!

wow, quakeC does suck.

You think that's bad? You got one serious headache coming your way when you find the really dumb shit abt QuakeC.

tZork wrote:You think that's bad? You got one serious headache coming your way when you find the really dumb shit abt QuakeC.

How come no one fixed it for.. umm. 15 years

alpha wrote:

tZork wrote:You think that's bad? You got one serious headache coming your way when you find the really dumb shit abt QuakeC.

How come no one fixed it for.. umm. 15 years

they havent had your brilliant insights yet on the matter ?

paperclips wrote:your brilliant insights

Thanks, but I actually haven't said anything public about qc. Thus, question stands..

Because one can't fix quakec still leaving it compatible to gazillion of quake mods.

Mr. Bougo wrote:The 1st rule of thumb for QuakeC is: Remember: this language sucks

That "local" thing is a synonym for "". Yeah, it means nothing. Its only point is to be able to use an IDE in C mode for QuakeC
Also, as I said, I have no clue how it behaves with this definition syntax inside of functions, but I'd expect either nothing special, or unpredictable behaviour

Wow this language just keeps getting better and better

Next you'll tell me that "if" means "maybe" and "maybe" means "buttsecks".

alpha wrote:

tZork wrote:You think that's bad? You got one serious headache coming your way when you find the really dumb shit abt QuakeC.

How come no one fixed it for.. umm. 15 years

Why don't you fix it, alpha.