The one’s which affect you when making mods are the following three:Īs you probably already know, these three correspond to the three “mod’able” game DLL’s or QVM’s (qagamex86, cgamex86, and uix86 – if you’re running on a non-Intel platform, the suffix will be different than “x86”). Not all command line parameters behave this way, but most do. This can be very confusing and naturally results in methods never getting tested. For example, if you launch the game with, “quake3.exe +set vm_game 0” and later use just “quake3.exe,” those two instances will behave no differently.

Then, the next time you run the game, even if you don’t set the same arguments as in the last instance, the game will still run as if they had been set. This is the main problem: when you run Quake III using command line options, some parameters in the q3config.cfg file (under /baseq3) get overwritten in order to remember what was last set. If you have successfully installed QVM’s on the v1.32 point-release, please contact me here or leave a comment on this post. Therefore in this post I’m going to explain the installation of mod DLL’s only, not QVM’s. Since Quake III will behave the same way regardless of whether a mod is installed via DLL(s) or QVM(s) (although DLL’s are a bit faster), I didn’t see the point in continuing to beat my head against the wall over those QVM files.

😉 And, in the end, I was only able to install it via the compiled DLL’s – the QVM files, even though they all compiled successfully, just refused to load. It was a very simple mod where I changed the rocket launcher’s trigger rate and rocket speed – so it could rapid fire like the plasma gun. I had massive problems with the first mod I tried. OK, let me start off by saying if you are having trouble installing a Quake III mod, you’re not alone.

(I will be writing a post about how to create a mod in the near future, but that’ll be after I’m done with the Quake III. This post can be applied to solve both problems, but I’m not going to cover how to actually make a mod I’m just going to explain what common pitfalls exist and how you can overcome them. You programmed your own mod but couldn’t get it to actually run.You downloaded a mod from a third party, followed the installation instructions, and nothing actually changed in the game.I’m assuming you’re reading this post for one of two reasons:

Quake 3 player models not loading