Urban Terror

[Hans de Goede]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Urban Terror is a popular total conversion/mod based on the Quake 3 
> engine. It is a realistic style game similar to Counter Strike. Works 
> well already with the Quake 3 engine available in the repository.
> 
> Instructions
> ------------
> 
> # yum install quake3
> # wget 
> ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/games/urbanterror/UrbanTerror40_full.zip
> (536 MB)
> # unzip UrbanTerror40_full.zip
> # su
> # mv q3ut4/ /usr/share/quake3
> # exit
> # quake3 +set fs_game q3ut4
> 
> Trying to run it from the mod menu will fail with a "hunk alloc" error. 
> So don't bother. Let me know if it works for you.
> 
> Packaging
> ---------
> 
> It doesn't allow redistribution. The readme has this gem.
> 
> "Urban Terror is distributed free over the Internet and is covered by 
> the Quake 3 SDK licence agreement [EULA]. The mod files may not be sold 
> [in any form] or distributed on physical media unless with permission 
> from iD Software.
> 
> For further information on legal use of programs derived from Quake 3
> source code, please contact their respective authors.
> "
> 
> While it may indeed be possible to secure redistribution rights from id 
> since they are a very Linux friendly company, we could do something to 
> make this easier meanwhile. Create a package called urbanterror which 
> depends on the quake3 package and uses autodownloader to download the 
> game data, create a menu entry which calls the above command. Should be 
> pretty easy to do. Anyone interested?
> 

If someone can provide me with a:
-autodlrc file
-wrapper script for launching
-.desktop file
-icon

I would happily add this to the quake3 package, a seperate package just for 
this is overkill IMHO.

Take a look at the current quake3-demo wrapper, .autodlrc and .desktop file for 
an example howto do this.

Regards,

Hans