Freezetag (w/ Grappling Hook)

altrag | 2008-09-20 11:01

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Blurb The game of Freezetag added into Sauerbraten. Comes with the grappling hook addition.

Screenshot Freezetag (w/ Grappling Hook)

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For those of you who remember the good old Freezetag mod and Grappling hook from Quake 1/2/3 days, we've recreated them for your Cubing pleasure! Grapple can be used in any game mode, and FT in any team play game mode.

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Since I didn't think to post instructions here, I'll just copy in Gindrex' note from the comments and add a few qualifiers:
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If you use the included modified batch files/config you shouldn't need to do much to actually turn it on, other than switch to a multiplayer mode like insta team dm.
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(Altrag notes: FT is only available in team games, not regular DM games. Grapple is available in all modes. Also, the pre-built executable is ftsauer.exe, not sauerbraten.exe. Recompiling will overwrite the original sauerbraten.exe filename however. ftserver.bat and ftsauer.bat are your two basic batch files to run ftsauer. I've also changed the default port to 38785 and added a -mnomaster option in the batch file so that I wouldn't be polluting the master server with untested code. Keep that in mind if you want to start a server for non-LAN players).
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Basically, the ftserver batch file will start it with freeze turned on internally.
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(Altrag notes: FT and grapple were intended to be votable options, but I haven't gotten the voting working correctly yet, so for the moment they're both hardcoded on the server side. You will have to recompile to disable them. Voting is still planned for the future however).
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Then all you need to do is connect the corresponding client to it. Once you change to a multiplayer mode like insta team dm, etc, it will pull the mode from the server and turn it on.

Of course, you need at least 3 clients before it starts getting more fun, since a single player per team results in a team score and autothaw, so you never see the icecubes.

To use the grapple, you need to bind something to usegrapple
i.e. /bind mouse2 usegrapple
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(Altrag notes: I've actually added this into defaults.cfg now. There's also a menu option in the Input tab if you wish to rebind the key that way).
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Mod file freezetag.zip (6.71 MB)

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Comments

bigm0nkey | 2008-09-20 13:21

No instructions that actually help you to do after you install -_- such as how do you grapple and how do you go to freeze tag mode. I havent even tested so I cant give you a rating.

gindrex | 2008-09-20 18:06

If you use the included modified batch files/config you shouldn't need to do much to actually turn it on, other than switch to a multiplayer mode like insta team dm.

Basically, the ftserver batch file will start it with freeze turned on internally.

Then all you need to do is connect the corresponding client to it. Once you change to a multiplayer mode like insta team dm, etc, it will pull the mode from the server and turn it on.

Of course, you need at least 3 clients before it starts getting more fun, since a single player per team results in a team score and autothaw, so you never see the icecubes.

To use the grapple, you need to bind something to usegrapple
i.e. /bind mouse2 usegrapple

Hope this helps

Nomad | 2008-09-20 13:47

That's AWESOME!

I played around with it a little, and it's very fun!

nice modding my friend!

Calinou | 2008-09-22 15:41

I have installed separately the game, it's very good, but no players on servers ! 5/5

BlazesRus | 2009-03-03 03:26

Can this be made into a version for rpg mode?
Or edit rpg maps to work in fps mode (with of course grappling)

Suicizer | 2009-03-03 11:01

very nice 2 c, but i realy wouldnt know how 2 make it work =s.

could u plz tell in a way thats less complicated? :P

MeatROme | 2009-03-07 04:01

This MOD isn't really stand-alone, yet the current package doesn't integrate with a sauerbraten release - rather it'd overwrite crucial stuff if unzipped in a quadropolis-regular manner! Newcomers Beware!

You should be more friendly to both the "pure players" as well as the "nuts-n-bolts" people of the community;
there's tons of stuff I find offensive about your package - I'll just try and get you started down the right path:
you could, at least, split it into a media-package (just the binaries, models and documentation) and a source-package
For this there's the option of putting "attachments" onto a node, so the media-package would be the basic file, the source-package the first attachment.

Some really basic tweaks you really should do before publishing would be the editing of the Makefile to avoid it overwriting the pre-existing binary .. that's really no big deal and it's really sad you just make that glib remark about it instead of fixing it!
If you look at SauerMOD it would show you how to really go about publishing a sauerbraten MOD alongside the vanilla game - but I can understand if that's maybe a bit too much for a project just getting started .. but at least use specific sub-directories for your stuff (even if they include total copies of 3/4 of the source-tree), that'd at least be clean, if not as neat as SauerMOD.
Another issue is the cross-platform bit you've totally left out .. maybe, if I find time & interest, I'll try compiling a linux binary for myself one of these days and post a link here - but that should really be in your own interest to provide more than an EXE to the community!

BionicCryonic | 2009-10-02 19:52

I realize it must be very hard to make a grappling hook cross platform, but I'm still sad.

Also, all I really want is the hook.

Suicizer | 2009-12-27 16:24

i finally been able 2 add it and its gr8 fun :D! it only got the same princip like teeworlds, but very nice this is possible!

i dislike the shape of the hook, because it looks more like a warpstar (and, it seems thers no sound comin from the shot of the grapplinghook) but just 4 a mod its very nice, great job :D!

damn i wish there would be a mode called like "ffa grapple" or "insta grapple" and add this into release :P.
wouldnt mind if this was possible in trooper edition to (u can take bots then :P).

btw, to bad i wasnt able 2 c the freezetag :S.

Flabe | 2011-11-10 01:39

I've installed your mod, but when I activate the executable it opens, then closes out and says "missing core textures". What does that mean?

Suicizer | 2011-11-10 12:35

Have you installed it into the ctf-edition? It won't work on the current edition as it's outdated actually.

Chasester_aka_you | 2011-11-10 14:03

UMMM... NO

did you run this over your curent version -.-
The required folder (and dont quote me on this) are:

hud
textures
data
base(can be empty)
models(can be empty)
icons

all other texture, maps, models are not required to load the game

if it can not find any one of these folders (or the stuff inside of them) it will thro that error... of course if you dont have these texture u will get the notexture over all your maps ;p

Sub Zero | 2011-11-12 17:57

if he ran it over the right edition, his issue could be solved by double clicking the sauerbraten.bat, instead of the sauerbraten.exe (EXECUTABLE!), i am almost sure he did use the sauerbraten.exe, which is why it gave him that error.

Chasester_aka_you | 2011-11-14 23:08

my point is that since nothing gets removed from edition to edition stand-alone mods should run fine over any version

Suicizer | 2011-11-15 07:11

Yes, but stand-alone mods are not allowed to use the same textures, models, sounds, skybox, hud, font, etc as Sauerbraten does, except if specified it has been specified in the license of the particular texture, model, sound, skybox, hud, font, etc that you are allowed to.

As this mod seems just to add a new layer of gameplay into Sauerbraten, it wouldn't be smart to start a stand-alone mod.

Sub Zero | 2011-11-15 07:13

except the codes are now different, and so its current version (i am assuming from assassin release or so) has a different format and master server ip's. the source would have to be modded a bit and be re-compiled to make sure it works.

Suicizer | 2011-11-15 07:26

As the screenshot shows us, it has been made for the ctf-edition (because only in that release mr.fixit was also holding a crossbow and on such particular way, just like old ironsnout), so will only run on the ctf-edition...

at Flab,
The mod works fine on an win32-version of the ctf-edition and has always worked fine. So it's probably you who is messing up.

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