I was wondering if there is a way to increase the amount of maps shown in the game menu? I read somewhere its about 80, the only solution I could find was code compilation and changing a value but I'm not very tech savvy. I haven't hit the map limit yet but if there's any solutions that would be great because there are a ton of great maps here.
Thanks.
Edited 2.77 minutes after the original posting.

You can always load up the UIEnhanced mod if you really want to use a menu to list lots of maps. Most players tend to not clutter up their baseq3 with too much.
Edited 1.27 minutes after the original posting.

@Cosmosis - I keep all the maps in the original zip files, in a directory. My /baseq3 is very clean. Just the original PK3's and a few custom .cfg's

I use ..::LvL to locate the map I want to play, then use a script to unzip the PK3 from the zip file. The download name is included on the downloads page on ..::LvL - that is all I need to know :) The script can also clean up (remove) any custom PK3's.

Why go to all this trouble?

• Fast to load the game.
• Any issues identified will be limited to the small number of PK3's installed.
• The in game menu is a pain to use.
• Can only play one map at time anyway :)

> sedawkgrep@gamer:~/.q3a/baseq3$ ls | wc -l
> 1241

:-D
I use our website as well as ..::LvL to find maps. My server has them all and I download ones we choose to play. It sounds like you want to have an easy and quick way to find specific maps...but I don't think there really is one. Maybe @Tig could create a feature here where you can "favorite" maps so you can track them. ?

@sedawkgrep & @Cosmosis : Yep, you can "bookmark" a map on ..::LvL. To use the bookmark feature, click the context button (bottom right) on any map. There are four sub options (so 5 options in total) for each bookmark.

• Private
• Favourite
• Will play
• Other
• (no tag)

You can then view all your bookmarks from your profile.

And while we are showing off :)
ls baseq3/ | sed -n '$='
13

Sorry for the noob question, what script do you use to load the maps? That seems much more convenient.
Also thanks for your patience, this is a nice change from the quake live community lol.

I second that. I've got around 200 maps stored on my Downloads folder, and my baseq3 folder is pretty clean, I only keep there a handful of maps I play often.
Almost 20 years using Linux and I have zero knowledge of how to do such a simple script. Shame on me :D
Edited 15 seconds after the original posting.
Edited 39 seconds after the original posting.

@Cosmosis & @GuitarMan : The scripts are kind of personalised for my Linux set-up. Never intended to be shared. Give me a few days and I'll write something generic and upload to GitHub for everyone to access.

@Tig Thank you, what I'm looking for is not to copy someone else's script but to be able to understand how to build mine for this specific task from scratch. I'll appreciate any knowledge you're willing to share.

@GuitarMan : That is by far the best thing to do. I try to start with something like:

• what do I want to do
• what do I need to do that
• how can I get what I need

Then I start. I always think it is a good idea to be comfortable with throwing out your first (few) attempts than sticking with something that is not really working. Learn or understand why something is not really working, then start again.

A quick Google has thrown up a number of shell scripting basics links. After a quick scan, I personally think these two look like good starting points dev.to/aniket762/s...ners-guide-24hk and www.shellscript.sh/first.html

Feel more than welcome to start a new thread with your experiments or questions. I would be more than happy to help.

I wonder how hard it would be to create a launcher extension for Firefox which could then take a URL like "quake3://q3dm17" and launch quake locally...

A few years back I looked at an option like this. The problem was the security around launching an external application. There were a number of hacks that people had in place and Chrome / Firefox would come along and close them.

If you could work out a way to register "q3a://" or "quake3://" at the system level, mapped to a Quake 3 "launcher" of some kind, it would be pretty straight forward as the protocol would be registered at the system level and there is no need for the browser to launch an application (because the system would be doing the launching instead).

For Windows, this would be a registry entry. macOS would be a Info.plist file. Linux, a .desktop file.

And then you would need a launcher app / script for each OS as well. All very possible, all a lot of work if no one picks it up :)