[bf1942] Downloading maps

[Kingsley Foreman]

it would be nice if all games had that
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at barrysworld.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Downloading maps


> If this is an option, do what UT does and use a http redirect server
> so the bandwidth / load of the download can be handled else where.
> So you just have a config option which points to a URL which
> contains the required map files e.g.
> RedirectURL=http://myredirect.server.com/files/bf1942/
> Compression=True
>
> Compression always helps keep the client download size down
> wouldn't have to be custom compression like UT zip would do
> if theirs no licensing issues.
>
>     Steve / K
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Gurney" <james at globalmegacorp.org>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Downloading maps
>
>
> > Miguel Filho wrote:
> >
> > > I don´t think so, BF already uses a lot of bandwich, and BF´s maps
could be
> > > much bigger than any CS/HL map.
> >
> > Very true. The problem is, in the case of DC, there's a lot of good
> > custom maps out there, but most people are going to just disconnect and
> > find another server rather than go and locate the custom map and
> > download it, so I was hoping there was a way for it to be automatically
> > downloaded. Bandwidth isn't really an issue (in my case anyway), so it
> > would be a useful option. Oh well.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
>