GameCam Installation

Windows 95/98/NT

Simple: create a folder named release under C:\Quake2 (replace C: with the correct drive letter), and extract the contents of the distribution package (zip) to C:\Quake2\release\. The package contains two files: gamecam.html - the manual, and gamex86.dll - the binary.

Unix

(the instructions are for Linux, a similar procedure applies to Solaris with gamesparc instead of gamei386)

Repeat the following for every mod for which you want to add GameCam:

  1. rename the game library from gamei386.so to gamei386.real.so
  2. extract the GameCam gamei386.so to the mod directory
You should now have two .so files in each mod directory: gamei386.so (GameCam), and gamei386.real.so (the original game library).

UnInstall

Windows 95/98/NT: Delete the new gamex86.dll from the release folder.
Unix: Delete the new gamei386.so from each mod directory and rename gamei386.real.so back to gamei386.so.


GameCam and Other Plug-in Mods

BW-Admin and Q2Admin
(the following applies to both Win32 and Unix servers)

Install GameCam, create a new directory named proxy under the quake2 directory. Place the BW-Admin library under another new directory: proxy/bwadmin and/or Q2Admin under proxy/q2admin. Make sure to place all the configuration files of these plugins at their correct locations, as if they were installed normally.

To activate the other plugin you have to launch the server with either +set proxy bwadmin or +set proxy q2admin added to the command line.

Note that I don't support this configuration. Use it at your own risk.

ProxyMod Standard Mods (Win32)
GameCam can be used with any number of plug-in mods based on the ProxyMod (the "blank" plug-in) source code. These include ProxyMod itself, ZKick, EntZ, and the forthcoming GameBot.

To load any number of proxy modules you should follow the next procedure: