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I noticed watching an online game that only the weapon is visible from a bot player named "Grunt". I understand Grunt does not exist anymore in v0.7.7, which I use. This explains why some players are invisible all the time. Rarely, but it does happen. It's obviously fun to make them your favorite target. I only hope everybody does the same. ;)

What can I do to have them visible? How do I specify a default player model in case a player has an unknown player model?

Thanks!

do you have any older openarena versions installed ? maybe this messes up 0.7.7

I don't remember exactly how I "upgraded" to 0.7.7, I certainly did not use an installer. Some configuration files are probably the same (in ~/.openarena).
Do you use 0.7.7? Can you see Grunt when you play online?

First you upgrade to 0.7.6, THEN you upgrade to 0.7.7

I probably missed the note that we should stop using the ioquake* executables. I copied the 0.7.7 files over 0.7.6 and the main screen was showing 0.7.7 so I was thinking the "upgrade" went fine.

Why are there no openarena-smp* executables anymore?

I choose not to compile them. They have always been considered experimental and just gave more files to choose from.

They can still be compiled from source if you want them.

I ran the old ioquake-smp and noticed only a single core was running at 100%. I'm not sure what the advantage would be to use the smp version.

BTW, the README file could mention what the different executables are for, including oa_ded* - it would just save the trouble of searching on the website.
BTW2, I'm wondering whether a COMMANDS file with all the commands you can use in the console would be a good idea. I think it would.

Thanks!