basic scripting questions

[sasha]

hey dudes.  old q3 player, just found OA recently.  glad to have done so, too.  I played a lot of q3 and half life (tfc!).  I am 27, live in Atlanta and am a pro photographer. 

Anyhoo, I want to start messing around with my configs, but I am not sure where everything goes.  I made an autoexec.cfg and put it in my baseoa folder, but the oa says it can't exec.  Once I figure what goes where, I will probably come back with other, deeper questions.

Oh, I am running a macbook.

[Snickersnack]

Hi Sasha, put it in the folder where all your auto download maps/ pk3 files appear. For me, that's the baseoa folder.  I've never tried it on a Mac though so let us know if that doesn't work.

[cosmo]

Like on any system OA has two baseoa folders. One where you application is placed (like /Applications/games/openarena/) and the other one in your home directory (/Users/sasha/Library/Application\ Support/OpenArena/). Any config in one of those baseoa folders should work if you run the basegame and no mod. What tells you OA when executing it manually (/exec autoexec.cfg)? OA (as it uses ioquake binaries) has a nice autocompletion in it's console so type '/exec a' and press <tab>. You should see your config file appear.

[sasha]

i appreciate your help, guys.  I've got my config coming along nicely.  just had to knock the ol' rust off my brain and remember how it works.  i've got some weapon scripts and a zoomy thing that i like a lot, now.

now, if i can figure out how to get and keep my ping at or below 150, i'd be happy.

i am vaguely aware of settings that affect latency and smoothness (timenudge, snaps etc), but i lack the underlying knowledge to keep myself from screwing things up royally.  where can i learn how those settings will affect my in-game performance and what changes i should make?

[menganito]

Try
/rate 25000 //if you have a good connection
/snaps 40

But you do want to play on servers that are not too far from you, ping goes up with the distance, no matter what you do.

[sasha]

Try
/rate 25000 //if you have a good connection
/snaps 40

But you do want to play on servers that are not too far from you, ping goes up with the distance, no matter what you do.

thanks! I'll plug those in and give it a shot. 

how do i tell where a server is? 

[Cacatoes]

Sort the server list by ping, and go on some with the lowest.
No need to know the country, but if you want, you could reverse the IP address of a server ; tools like XQF automatically do this ; location is also sometimes stated in server infos.

[fufinha]

i dont care what country a server is located.  as long as i'm getting 350 or less ping and stable rate it's fine.

you can see all servers location on this page
http://clanarena.org/browse/getdata_71.php

[sasha]

one more thing: does anyone have a complete list of weapons and their weapon numbers? the list on the console page of the wiki doesn't include the nail gun, chain gun, prox, etc. 

[PaniC]

here is a list:

Code:

weapon 1 = gauntlet
weapon 2 = machinegun
weapon 3 = shotgun
weapon 4 = grenade launcher
weapon 5 = rocket launcher
weapon 6 = lightninggun
weapon 7 = railgun
weapon 8 = plasmagun
weapon 9 = bfg10k
weapon 10 = hook
weapon 11 = nailgun
weapon 12 = prox launcher
weapon 13 = chaingun

[sasha]

sweet. thanks panic.  i will post my results here when i'm done.