Music files not searched in the game install directory

[nvidia]

Music files not searched in the game install directory

[liam-middlebrook]

Hi, as of commit 78e7257 find-retail-paks.sh file has the ability to find music files from <Quake II Install Directory>/baseq2/music.

You can re-run this script via Steam by selecting the Play Find Retail Quake II Content option when launching the game, or by right-clicking on the game in your library.

If you've installed the game through the Debian/Ubuntu package you can find this script in /usr/share/quake2rtx/bin/find-retail-paks.sh.

[Lastique]

This bug is not about the find-retail-paks.sh script but the game itself. The game does not look for music files in <Quake II Install Directory>/baseq2/music, where all game data is installed.

Note: I'm not storing game data in $HOME. I have one location where the game is installed and I want to keep all game-related data in that location.

[liam-middlebrook]

Okay, that clears things up. Can you try setting the fs_gamedir Cvar to <Quake II Install Directory> at launch-time? If that doesn't work and you're comfortable building the game yourself, try to revert f05589b.

[Lastique]

How can I set fs_gamedir on launch? None of the command line variants I tried seem to change it from ~/.quake2rtx/baseq2.

[Lastique]

When I run the game like this:

./q2rtx.sh +seta fs_gamedir "$PWD"

I can see "fs_gamedir is read-only." in the console output, and fs_gamedir in the in-game console is still ~/.quake2rtx/baseq2.

[CKWarner]

As far as I can tell, it's because the ogg.c is using fs_gamedir directly (which is necessarily the home directory), rather than the internal Quake filesystem. Doesn't the game already prioritise user directories rather than the other structures if the same source is in both?

[TobiasKarnat]

This is fixed in my patch here: #87 (comment)