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OpenArena => Multiplayer => Topic started by: christooss on November 15, 2008, 09:28:47 PM



Title: Connecting to servers
Post by: christooss on November 15, 2008, 09:28:47 PM
1. Can I connect to IP with terminal option outside the game? Like this: ./openarena.i386 --connect IP

2. How could I use XQF with openarena? Bigest problem is geting master server for listing. Any known IPs for master server?. Than I think there would be no problem listing servers under Q3A.

Thanks for the anwsers


Title: Re: Connecting to servers
Post by: fufinha on November 15, 2008, 11:06:53 PM
http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=openarena


dpmaster.deathmask.net is a functional master server. You could query that. I dont think you necessarily need a master as the server list are sent to the main q3 masters so you could probably grab a list by using some filters. Here are a couple of queries I use... dunno if it'll help but I guess you are talking about pulling a list of ip's or directly connecting to the master. I used qstat and also gslist (cos I couldnt work out the filter stuff on qstat) :D

Quote
system("$QstatPath -timeout 120 -nh -q3m,71,  dpmaster.deathmask.net:27950,- > $
{browser_cache}_71");

system("$QstatPath -timeout 120 -nh -q3m,70,  dpmaster.deathmask.net:27950,- > $
{browser_cache}_70");

system("gslist -q -o 5 -n quake3 -f \"(protocol = '43' OR protocol = '68') AND (
gametype LIKE 'NoGhost') AND (Mod_Build LIKE '873') \" > ${browser_cache}_874");
system("gslist -q -o 5 -n quake3 -f \"(protocol = '43') AND (gametype LIKE 'NoGh
ost') AND (Mod_Build LIKE '880') \" > ${browser_cache}_877");



Title: Re: Connecting to servers
Post by: christooss on November 16, 2008, 05:16:53 AM
I have tried dpmaster before but I wrongfully added http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=openarena in XQF.

Now I added only dpmaster.deathmask.net and than filter with baseoa string

Thanks


Title: Re: Connecting to servers
Post by: christooss on November 16, 2008, 05:50:24 AM
Now I noticed that XQF is listing old (0.7.x baseoa - no 0.8.1 games!) and only few servers. I get 30 overall (with som nexius games listed) servers.

Id server lists only two 0.7.6 servers.


Any ideas?



Title: Re: Connecting to servers
Post by: fufinha on November 16, 2008, 07:12:40 AM
It's probably the protocol version that isn't supported. I have a small java browser which I managed to add the new protocols but would have no idea how to do that with XQF.

What you said about the two servers showing sounds right because there are a couple of 0.7.6 servers that show in my protocol 68 listing.

You could try using JockTF's browser which is open source and python based...
http://rainbow.furver.se/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1174&start=0

He has been updating this with new stuff so it might be worth checking out and save you the time messing around. I also got poor results when using the advanced search at http://www.game-monitor.com/ :( I guess the protocols above 68 may not get listed.


Title: Re: Connecting to servers
Post by: christooss on November 16, 2008, 07:28:41 AM
rn launcher works great. Thanks. No favorties though but great app. Maybe I will add Favorites feature in there.

BTW if I add OpenArena server to Favorites list XQF properties gets puled corectly.


Title: Re: Connecting to servers
Post by: Cacatoes on November 20, 2008, 08:45:20 AM
XQF works fine with 0.8.1, go on Q3 Arena preferences, "options", then you can set protocol number to 71.
If i'm not wrong, SVN's version of XQF has OA support.