Zandronum

Hello,

I have a Zandronum server running with a map I made. How do I get the client to automatically download this map when they join? Is there a server flag?

Sorry for the noob question but I couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

Upload the files somewhere publicly accessible like tspg or dogsoft and put the download link as the server's wad url. I think its sv_url or some crap like that (cvarlist *url*).
use the zandronum wiki for all the server hosting secrets (mostly 100 carnevil tainted svars)

Thank you!

I would be hosting this server myself so serving a .wad from apache would be trivial.

However, what exactly is the server's wad url?

Is that like doing -file https://foo.com/path/to/maps.wad when launching the server? And that will work?

Thanks!

As far as I know, the Zandronum client cannot download wads itself - A wad url must be set in the server info, then players have to use a utility like getwad/wadseeker (built in to most server browsers) or visit the wad url and manually download it. Hope this clarifies a bit

Understood! Thank you!

Combinebobnt wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:55 am

Upload the files somewhere publicly accessible like tspg or dogsoft and put the download link as the server's wad url. I think its sv_url or some crap like that (cvarlist *url*).
use the zandronum wiki for all the server hosting secrets (mostly 100 carnevil tainted svars)

The sever variable bob is referring to is sv_website.

So what you could do, is upload your wads to some location on your server (e.g., a dedicated wads directory) and then in your config, just use sv_website like this:
At some point (over the past 7 years) I remember there was some kind of limitation as to what kind of protocols wadseeker supports (e.g., ftp / http) but that might have been fixed.