[Gtkradiant] 'mapster' project - looking for some feedback / opinions / contributors?

[Timothee Besset]

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I have been turning an idea in the back of my head for some time now. I
would probably never have time to implement it myself though, but it's one
of my pet projects. The general concept is to take the auto-download
feature of q3 servers to 'the next step' by doing some easier auto-update
on client and server side in a third party app.

The target would be any Id tech game, Q3/RTCW, any mods. Basically the
server admin would have an app where it would select some pk3s to install,
and that information would be stored on a central server. A client
connecting to the server would be able to get the list of files needed,
and auto-download through mirrors.

The idea comes from several things:

- need for download mirrors instead of relying on the server connection
for download

Legally speaking, Id doesn't want to redirect to other location via FTP or
HTTP for auto-download directly from the game, because it would make the
company responsible for the downloaded content (warez, p0rn, you name it).

- there is a lot of mappers/model makers/skin makers out there, but their
work doesn't get the exposure it deserves on servers for several reasons:

It is difficult and time consuming for player and server admins to select
and install pk3s. Admins have to make sure they put 'good stuff' on their
server, it is a time consuming process, and the players won't always like
it because on their end getting the pk3 is tedious.

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The current status of 'mapster' (that's how we've called this for now) is
that I'm still looking around for some people who would be interested in
pushing the project forward a bit. I will very likely create a mailing
list for this, reply to me if you want to be subscribed.

So far we haven't any code written, but we have a few design documents and
discussion logs. I doubt I would be able to spend a lot of time working on
that myself, I would provide resources, work on the design and stuff but
that's about it. I think it is pretty interesting technology wise, we have
been thinking of the client side stuff as a signe java app for instance,
coupled to some apache app for the central server .. we are open to a
lot of ideas.

Some resources:

polo wrote some design docs some time ago (most stuff is in French, but
there are a few graphics and english parts)
http://polo2ro.free.fr/mapster/

attaching an edited IRC log about that too

TTimo
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