the maps selection on cube2-servers, who chooses this?

BdR | 2010-05-01 13:02

I've been playing cube2 for a while now, and I was wondering. When playing online, a lot of the same maps are used on the servers.

In the "new content" section here on Quadropolis a lot of maps are available, yet most of these are not used during online play.

So my question is, who chooses which maps are used during online play, on the servers? Or are these just the maps that are in the default Cube2 distribution?

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skiingpenguins | 2010-05-01 13:19

The maps that are used in the server rotations are determined by eihrul when people use vanilla servers. if someone has modded their server, they sometimes use a custom rotation of maps. the maps included in these rotations are almost always the ones that come in the cube 2 distribution.

Quin | 2010-05-01 15:32

Addendum: Sauer requests the map rotation from a client, the server is not aware of it at all.

skiingpenguins | 2010-05-01 17:45

yea.. i couldnt figure out a good way to say that

Suicizer | 2010-05-01 17:00

still wouldnt be a bad thing to take some rotation of unofficial maps, like on quadropolis, even tough this brings us back to the quadropolis maps server content ;).

FischKopF | 2010-05-01 17:28

There something called "Quad map server"

It's a server with selected custom quadropolis maps. In order to play, you have to download the mappack from the site.
Unfortunately this server is always empty. Well i'm not even sure if the server is still online.

http://www.quadmapserver.com/

Quin | 2010-05-01 20:27

I seem to be saying "this is in Blood Frontier" all the time, but again it is true. In BF, the rotation is stored in a server-side variable, and it loads a copy of the map from its own packages if available. People without the map are automatically sent it, if the server does not have the map it requests someone give it to it first.

Suicizer | 2010-05-02 00:49

too bad for you, assaultcube came first with such idea :P. they already had other players were able to send the map even not in coop edit (like sauerbraten requires), so other players can still just play on the map too.

Quin | 2010-05-02 09:20

Yes, but if you re-read the original post, this topic is centered on Cube 2, not Cube 1. AssaultCube can get away with just getting the client to send the map because the map format is so small (no lightmaps, etc). Blood Frontier has the server load a local copy of the map if it can, meaning you can actually set up a server with a custom rotation and even one person playing by themselves can get the map (the other half of the point of this discussion). There were plenty more obstacles involved in getting this semantic other than just enabling sendmap in all modes.

Windecker | 2010-05-05 23:53

I haven't gotten a chance to really abuse the system yet, so I've a single question. Are lightmaps sent with the map with this method?

Quin | 2010-05-06 19:16

Only in non-editing game modes, it's pretty pointless to send lightmaps when you're editing as they get destroyed (and note other games don't allow sendmap unless in editmode).

Calinou | 2010-05-06 13:25

@Windecker : No, lightmaps are not sent, but light entities are. just /calclight
the cfg, waypoints and the preview are not sent too. :-[
FS|FM|Calinou

Q009 | 2010-05-07 18:01

read quin's post above....

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