Quake DeveLS - Quake2 Windows
Author: Curtis
"CurMo" Moxley
Difficulty: FairlyEasy
This is a fairly simple
mod to show that it is possible to spawn windows from/in Quake2. I have never
had any problems with doing it, but Divide has told me that in some vid-modes
the window doesn't show up, or it will lock up Quake, so I'm not sure. This is
just to basically give you an idea of how to go about it. I won't go into in
depth windows programming, I'm only going to use the generic MessageBox. Some
problems you may notice right away is that in fullscreen mode it will (most
likely) pop up the MessageBox box but it will be
a) Distorted to the vid
mode you're in (of course)
b) It will be in some weird colors (Quake2 palette)
c) It will also show the Quake2 caption at the top when it opens the window
d) You must hit enter again to make Quake2 resume play (after you hit OK on the
MessageBox)
e) In some vid modes the cursor won't turn on, even if you turned it on. I'm
sure there's prolly some other way that Quake is capturing the mouse in various
video modes, but I'm not gonna worry about that here.
In Windowed Mode the
MessageBox window is in normal windows color and resolution, and the cursor
should work (it always seems to for me)
OK! Time to get started!
I'm going to keep this very generic. The MessageBox window will spawn whenever
you enter deathmatch mode in this tutorial.
First: Start a normal
quake2 project, like you can learn to do in other tutorials.
1) Add a new file to your
project, mine is called qwindow.c
2) In qwindow.c add these lines:
#include "g_local.h" //This is NOT necessary, but I put it in there for future stuff#include <windows.h> //Needed for most windows stuff void SpawnWindow(edict_t *ent) //edict_t *ent is NOT necessary, but I have it in there in case I decide //I need to do something with it in the future.{ HWND hwnd; //Holds the handle to a window (will be q2 window) HCURSOR hCursor; hwnd = FindWindow(NULL, "Quake 2"); //Get handle of the window titled Quake2 MessageBeep(0xFFFFFFFF); //Stanard windows beep :: Just to show//Another built-in in q2 for the hell of it hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); //Set the cursor to the standard arrowShowCursor(TRUE); //Show the cursor (doesn't always work) MessageBox(hwnd, "You're in Deathmatch Mode", "Quake2Window", MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION); //Messagebox(HWND, TEXT, TITLE,//ATTRIBUTES return; }
3) Now all that you need
to do is call this from somewhere, and since we want it to pop up at the start
of deathmatch, we will put it in p_client.c
4) In p_client.c look for:
void SP_misc_teleporter_dest (edict_t *ent);
At the top of the file. Under it put:
void SpawnWindow (edict_t *ent);
5) Again, in p_client.c look for:
void ClientBeginDeathmatch (edict_t *ent)
{
G_InitEdict (ent);
...
5) Right after ClientEndServerFrame (ent); add SpawnWindow (ent);
6) Compile the dll
7) Put the gamex86.dll that was just made into some directory like
quake2\window
8) Start quake2: quake2 +set game window
9) In the console of quake2, type "deathmatch 1" (no quotes) and hit
enter.
10) Type map base1 and hit enter in the console.
11) Quake should load map base1 and start it in deathmatch mode, and as soon as
it loads will pop the MessageBox up. If it doesn't seem to work try a different
video mode.
Tip: If it seems like q2
is locked up (it probably isn't), just hit enter once to get ridda the
MessageBox, and once more to return to play, most of the time it will pop it
back into q2 (it should ;).
That should do it! I
haven't done much testing with this other than to show that it CAN be done..
I'm sure it's possible to spawn a more complex window, but I really didn't want
to go into doing that in this tutorial. Again, sometimes the cursor doesn't
show up, so just hit enter twice, sometimes it might actually lock Quake2 (so
I'm told), so good luck! Remember not to get too heavy into windows junk in Q2
though, there are those linux users out there you need to think about!!
Tutorial
by Curtis "CurMo" Moxley.
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