RE: [TCLUG:12515] Seeking shared time on Linux Half-Life server

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

> From: Eric Hillman [mailto:ehillman@cccu.com]
>
> > It's a chance to work with some open-source Linux apps, too.  I
> use a neat
> > TCL/Tk tool called hlds_l_admin which lets people vote for maps
> and allows
> > local and remote administration of the server, and I'm working on a Perl
> > tool called Bob-n-Doug which can broadcast the game log on IRC.
> >
>
> I'm actually planning on setting up a Q3 server, but I'd be interested in
> the tools you've cooked up.  I had an idea to set up a "Team Fortean"
> server, in which gravity, projectile speed and other fundamental
> properties
> of the game would occasionally change for no good reason...
>

hlds_l_admin is available at http://linuxhlds.halflife.org/ .  It can easily
automate the kind of server variable randomness you're aiming for.

The latest bob-n-doug beta is available from me upon request.  The nice
parts of the code were stolen from the ElizaIRC Bot project
(http://www.cflash.com/~yury/), and the ugly parts were added by yours
truly.  I know of at least two other projects that also broadcast live game
data; one to look at is "GSB Live!" (http://grid.vefurinn.to/gsblive.html)
which is written in Java.

Since Half-life is based on Quake 1/Quake 2 code, I'm going to bet that both
these tools can be adapted to Q3 fairly easily.  Hmmmm...

--
Carl Patten