Allow redirects to push additional content ?

[Extreme_One]

Some mappers are starting to include custom music with their maps which is great (in principle) but when you download a map from a redirect only the .rom file is downloaded.

Am I doing it wrong?

In other servers I run for other games (on other engines) we can push all sorts of additional content that's not packed into the map file to be downloaded too.

It would be great if the redirect could work like :

RedirectToURL=http://www.yourhost.com/killingfloor/

and in the killingfloor/ folder you had a maps/ and a music/ folder etc. etc.

 

[Maronji]

If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that music cannot be pushed during the map download. Not sure why, and I'd have to find the thread (which, since my residual memory is rather erratic, could take some time).

 

[Extreme_One]

If only this were possible.

 

[zYnthetic]

Redirect isn't meant to serve as a map repository, just to get the player connected as fast as possible by pushing the minimum amount of content needed to play.

 

[Stixsmaster]

To be honest there was a way posted on how to include music in the map so it would be DL with it via redirect...

Only problem was that no one liked it because it required much more effort than the default/obvious...and so yea...and it would make the map larger than it really was...

---Stixsmaster

 

[zYnthetic]

No one like it because it involved adding music as an ambient sound. So not only would you be forcing players to dl a huge, very low quality audio file, but there's no way to adjust the volume or turn off the music w/o doing the same to sound.

 

[Extreme_One]

Redirect isn't meant to serve as a map repository, just to get the player connected as fast as possible by pushing the minimum amount of content needed to play.

Other games allow for additional content to be downloaded as well as the map file. Hasn't hurt their popularity.

 

[zYnthetic]

Has nothing to do with popularity. There are no game engines that I know of that push client-side (non-mandatory) content from the server.

 

[Extreme_One]

Has nothing to do with popularity. There are no game engines that I know of that push client-side (non-mandatory) content from the server.

You've not come across the Source engine then?

You can download audio across a redirect for all Source games (apart from L4D atm) the client can even choose whether or not they wish to allow it.