Event / scripting system

[Jay Dolan]

I can't believe I'm in agreement with WORM on this.

For auto-demo recording to be done reliably, it should be initiated by the server game.  Servers print a message like "Type autorecord to enable match demo recording," and modifies a value in the player's state if and when the client elects to do so.  On match start/end, the server should stuff record/stop commands to participating clients.  This would require about 1/10th the work, and would not impose any processing on the client.

Don't tourney mods already have chat expansion for weapon, location, and player status macros?

[Lemonzest]

is this still in the works???

[mars]

As a server admin I agree with Gen WORM and nash[EoM] - The client is already immensly configurable I really don't think it needs extending.
mars   

[juM8o]

R1ch please, make it!

[Gen]

I'm Not a worm


:p

[WORM.]

Thank doG for that!

[what]

The client is fine as is; compact, secure and fast. If players can not make their own binds and initate actions themselves maybe they need to watch TV instead.

Keep a core client without the crutches, there are other clients out with the cheaty automatic command executions.

crutches?  it enables you to do things you weren't able to do.  i don't understand how this would make a "compact secure fast" client not be so anymore.

this is a great idea

[pot-shot]

I have been waiting to see if r1ch would implement this, but it appears it is not in the works.  I would be more hesistant to want this implemented in r1q2 if it weren't already implemented to a degree in other clients.   I feel that there are more positives then negatives with an event scripting system.  But I am only coming from the perspective of an action quake2 player and server admin, I may be missing something in the bigger picture.  Until then I'm for this if it could ever happen.

[Max E.]

Terribly, terribly sorry for bumping an old thread like this-- but if anyone is interested in this feature, I implemented a similar thing for the Q2-based Alien Arena some time ago and I realized it would be relevant.

Implementation:
http://meliaserlow.dyndns.tv:8000/alienarena/lua_source/qcommon/event.c
http://meliaserlow.dyndns.tv:8000/alienarena/lua_source/qcommon/event.h

Console commands for controlling it are here:
http://meliaserlow.dyndns.tv:8000/alienarena/lua_source/qcommon/cmd.c
You will find them after the Lua and job-related commands.

This should probably be trivial to port back to another Q2 engine like R1.

[ingen]

That looks awesome, but i believe that would never finish in classic quake2 server binary.

:/