Comments on: How-To: Fix Missing Bots in ioquake3 in Linux

By: Spike » ioquake3: no bot on Quake 3 Arena

Spike » ioquake3: no bot on Quake 3 Arena — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:07:43 +0000

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By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:54:41 +0000

Hello,

Many thanks for posting that – my Intel 64 Ubuntu system has exactly the symptoms you described, and rebuilding the package using your guide sorted it out for me.

Thank you – wanted to play Q3 on Linux for years and have never managed it up until now!!!

Adrian

By: ZiNk

ZiNk — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:37:06 +0000

Here’s a quick que on fixing the bots without the pain of recompiling – just copy a file “botfiles/chars.h” from “pak0.pk3″ and rename it to charsh” the quotation marks are nessesery (there is a typo in the source, but well, instead of recompiling it’s quicker to rename the darn file).

By: How-To: IOQuake3 Linux Tips n’ Tricks | r3dux.org

How-To: IOQuake3 Linux Tips n’ Tricks | r3dux.org — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:59:12 +0000

[...] had to build a copy of IOQuake3 (Q3 from now on) the other day, as the version I had wouldn’t spawn bots on 64-bit Linux. Did [...]

By: r3dux

r3dux — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:23:05 +0000

Well, that’s really odd…

~~I didn’t have any problems at all with OpenArena as installed through synaptic – it just worked straight off the bat, it was only ioquake which couldn’t spawn bots.~~ Actually, my bad, OpenArena does not spawn bots, so that’s broken – but the rebuilt ioquake is definitely working fine for me…

The only other thing I can think of is that there was a lot of cruft in my baseq3 folder from having it on windows with lots of mods installed and I was using a symbolic link to the windows-partition-located baseq3 folder.

As part of the experimentation to try to get ioquake working I just copied the files pak0.pk3 to pak8.pk3 into the ioquake baseq3 folder, which leaves it pretty untainted. If you’re using a baseq3 folder from any previous installs, it might be worth making sure you’ve got a clean baseq3 folder which should have these (and only these) files n’ folders in it – including the .so files which were built with the new version of ioquake, not the leftover ones from any other install:

Alternatively, and I only mention this for completeness, make sure that you’re actually running the newly built version of ioquake, not the existing non-working version by accident!

Let me know how it works out – because the rebuild and clean-up worked perfectly for me on 10.04 64-bit!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:03:27 +0000

Have this same problem, with both IOQuake and OpenArean since installing 64-bit Lucid. I did not find that recompiling and reinstalling as described above would fix the problem, however.