The Ultimate Quake Live Guide

[PrA]

Nah, I added that comment manually when writing the post just so I wouldn't be pasting all of my config and letting you know that I was just focusing on the LG script.

I downloaded your config and tested it right out of the box and it works, just like you said. I really don't know what is wrong with mine.
I'm gonna try and see if I can fix it and paste the results. Thanks for your help.

[PrA]

Oh man, I'm such a ******. Although I binded all the weapons correctly I forgot to bind MOUSE1 "+zfire", I left it as MOUSE1 "+attack".
Sorry I ever doubted your config. Works great now, thank you very much.

[Mr_Bombadil1]

anyone know what r_floatingpointFBOs does? thx

[Yakumo]

anyone know what r_floatingpointFBOs does? thx

OpenGL Floating Point Frame Buffer Objects.

mostly (only?) used for post processing effects in quakelive, can alter performance on cards do, or don't support it properly.

[RustyLazer]

More advanced users may like to create YourName.cfg in the same
directory with all your permanent settings & scripts, and just have
'exec YourName.cfg' in autoexec.cfg

\Exec name.cfg is the console command to run a config.

...

In autoexec.cfg I just have :

Code:
exec Yakumo.cfg

//end

Just wanted to say, this was a HUGE help for me. I was having terrible issues with my cfg loading correctly and would have to manually input some final adjustments every time I joined a game. Thanks this this simple, but huge time saving tip for me!

And sweet job on the rest of the guide!!

[Yakumo]

A nice QL icon for use with prism or Chrome applications instead of the QL websites current favicon which is quite ugly when stretched larger as prism/chrome does by default.

It looks like this but with an opaque background so it shows as a circular icon :

http://cdn.quakelive.com/web/2010083...10083102.0.jpg

created with IcoFX (free)

[KittenIgnition]

my icon for QL in prism is:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/739/q3v0.jpg

but since its an .ico, i opened it in paint and saved as .jpeg so its really ugly

[*Beefcurtan]

okay im totally new to quake ......
anyway..
my mouse wont work to aim, shoot, or even move for that matter.
can anyone help me.??????? D;

[Yakumo]

okay im totally new to quake ......
anyway..
my mouse wont work to aim, shoot, or even move for that matter.
can anyone help me.??????? D;

Sticky: The Mouse Fix

[Yakumo]

putting this here for a bit, going to check the algorythm and maybe update the guide with it.

your sensitivity and mouseaccel will be scaled when you zoom in, rendering your normal sensitivity and mouseaccel numbers completely different. To correct for this you have to know the scaling algorithm used by quake live, this is:

arctan[ 0.75 * tan( cg_zoomfov / 2 ) ] / arctan[ 0.75 * tan( cg_fov / 2 ) ]

Note: tan(90°) is undefined so use 89.999999999 or so in the case of cg_fov 180 or it will not work. Also make sure to specify that you are using degrees as many programs will assume radians. ALT+0176 is the degrees symbol.

It produces a decimal which is the scaling ratio that the sensitivity and mouseaccel are both multiplied by. So, if my fov was 180, and my zoomfov 95, I would have a ratio of 0.4367.

If I used sensitivity 5 it would change my sensitivity to 5*0.4367 = 2.1835
If I used cl_mouseaccel 0.15, it would change it to 0.15*0.4367 = 0.065505

Now that you have this information it's just a manner of algebra to set your sensitivity and mouseaccel to a corrected value:

Corrected Sensitivity = Previous Sensitivity / ScalingRatio
Corrected Mouseaccel = Previous Mouseaccel / ScalingRatio

So for the above example, this would be sensitivity 5/0.4367 = 11.4495
and mouseaccel 0.15/0.4367 = 0.34348523

Now when zoomed in from fov 180 to zoomfov 95, my sensitivity will be the one I was using before this monkey business.

Personally I don't use this because it is a hassle, and I also like to use a zoom key, so I had to calculate everything again for that fov. I'll make an example vstr for that if you are interested.