[Xpilot-hacks] updated polygon xpilot documentation

[Juha Lindström]

Hi,

I read through your docs and one thing I think deserves some
clarifications is the new dataURL option (because I wrote it and think
it is cool :).

The purpose of the option is to tell the client where to find additional
data about the map that is not transmitted inside the normal xpilot
messaging. The option should be a URL that points to a file on an HTTP
server containing the data. The client issues an HTTP GET request to
fetch the file and extracts it into the local texture directory.

Currently the additional data contains only the textures used by the map
but it could well be used for other things like map specific sounds.

The data file is basically just a concatenation of all the files
separated by file length header and compressed with zlib. The format is
"documented" in the xpilot/contrib/mapzip/mapzip.c utility
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xpilot/xpilot/contrib/mapzip/mapzip.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
that can be used to create and extract data archives.

- Juha / Baron

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 12:12, Kristian Söderblom wrote:
> Hi.
> 	I've updated the documentation of polygon "Improved" XPilot at
> http://xpilot.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Some of the options have been documented: check links "Some information
> about new server options" and "Information about new client options".
> 
> I've also added the marahacked teamcup map to the example maps. It
> demonstrates the team zero pausing feature by Mara.
> 
> --
> kps / Samaseon
> 
> 
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