I've heard time and time again that OpenArena is dead and that everyone should move to other games. While it's true that it has been a year after the latest patch, and two years and a half after the latest full version, this in NO WAY means that development in the project has stopped [SeriousSam]FOREVER[/SeriousSam]. (And don't worry, OA won't take 14 years of development.)
To get an idea of what was already done: (A LOT)
- If you are using Windows, install a Subversion client, like TortoiseSVN.
- Do a checkout on http: //www.openarena.ws/svn. (Without spaces) Revision: HEAD.
- Run the file Build-pieced.bat in Windows or buildpk3nix.sh in Linux. Also run Build-missionpack.bat or buildmppk3nx.sh.
- Create a new folder, where you're going to throw everything OAdev based, for example, OAdev.
- Create two folders baseoa and missionpack inside of this OAdev folder.
- After you run the building files, you'll see that there are some new files with the pk3 extension in the same folder as those two batches. Move them to OAdev/baseoa.
- Now download the latest binaries from here. Uncompress them in the OAdev folder. You also need to move the dll files from your OA folder to the OAdev folder if you're under Windows.
- Now do another checkout, in a different folder, and from http: //oax.googlecode.com/svn/trunk. (Without spaces) And, again, use the HEAD revision.
- If you're on Windows, go to the folder windows_scripts and run every bat to create the files. If you're on Linux, just go to the checked out folder and run make.
- Go to the build/[release]/baseq3 folder and move the vm folder to OAdev/baseoa.
- Finally, make sure that you don't have any additional pk3 in your personal directory. (For example, C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\OpenArena\baseoa or /home/[user]/.openarena/baseoa)
And now you're ready. Just run the executable file and check out what's going on!
See ya!
