that makes sense though. the engine will process the commands in the order it receives them, so if you put your +map in there, it will load the map first (using the default setting for skill) and then change the skill setting after the map has loaded. 

+ commands are just stuffed into the console in the order given, after the game is initialized

- commands are handled in a predefined order regardless of the order in the command line, during initialization 

Thanks for clarifying this stuff.
Changed "skill" and "map" commands order in 1.08.

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Thanks to all for the quick reaction.

Additional thanks to MaxED for
the swift update.

Glad if I could be of any help. 

After a post over at Quakeone I thought someone should bump this thread, if for no other reason than to say the latest version (though a year and a half old) is now 1.09.

Personally, I'd like to see the program get a more prominent home. It's really handy for newbs trying to get into Quake... Anything that makes that easier can only be good for the community. :) 

I like this little program a lot.

I download the .zip files and load the maps with the SQL.

To me it's better than all the typing in the console, and also better than quake injector which is clunky. 

Agreed. It takes a little while to load and I wish there were a couple more features like load .dem and profiles. Haven't found a better launcher yet.

I also use Nercos' compiler to launch the game a lot by hitting Ctrl+R ;) 

Couple of suggestions:

1) Currently - if map is set to [no map] it forgets this when restarted - ideally it should remember to keep the [no map] preference.

2) Please include a tickbox to optionally include all maps in id1/maps as well as the mod-specific maps when you have a non-id1 mod set. 

Is map names not being read/displayed correctly a known problem: http://imgur.com/a/dgJTS ? 

Fixed long startup times when Quake directory contained lots of maps/mods.
Map titles are now displayed more accurately.
Map titles from BSP2/2PSB maps are now displayed.

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THANK YOU!!!!!!!

I've been hoping someone would come along and make some tweaks to this. 

Pretty glad to see you update this super handy tool. 

i can load quake stuff manually, but if i go away for a few months, i9 tend to forget how to do it!

QI is pretty good, although it's not perfect.

i will definitely be using this to load up stuff after i complete all the arcane dimensions maps ;)

it looks super intuitive! 

So instead of fixing how the map names look, you have now hidden them altogether? 

Sorry to bring this up here, but how is the Quake 2 n64 to PC thing going? 

So instead of fixing how the map names look, you have now hidden them altogether?
Unless a map is in a .pk3 archive, it's name should be displayed. If it's not, I'd like to see that map.

How is the Quake 2 n64 to PC thing going?
Slowly. You can play the current build (has 7 finished maps ATM) by downloading it from the github, extracting the contents of "Mission64-data-master" folder into "KMQuake 2/Mission64" folder, then running "Launch.bat" from said folder). 

The map titles in question use special characters to appear as colored letters and symbols in game which usually conflict with regular OS expressions. I'd argue it's not worth the effort of manually adding all those characters to the tool just because very few maps, this case deathmatch maps exclusively, use a non-standard naming scheme; a wildcard character like "?" seems just fine. 

Yeah, except I've already added all those characters to the tool :) 

Unless a map is in a .pk3 archive, it's name should be displayed. If it's not, I'd like to see that map.

All of them: http://imgur.com/a/sAHAX 

Your version is outdated. Download the current one. 

I had some version already on my system already installed and after reading about a newer version downloaded one in the original post, which apparently was OLDER. Heh. Now the names look correct :) 

 

Awesome tool. I suggest allowing to edit the resolution apart of selecting one of the predefined ones. I need 1680x1050. 

You can add the custom resolution toward the bottom in the additional command line box. -width 1680 -height 1050