Getting the latest ET-Xreal

Hello,

ET-Xreal is the closed thing we're going to get to ET-2 (in my opinion) and its constantly being developed by Tr3b and his team. The snapshot posted on crossfire is already out of date by a few months. Therefore I'm going to show you how to obtain the latest content through sourceforge/git.

Note this is for Windows Only!

Programs needed

• msysgit - http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
  
• MS Visual Studio 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
  

Download and install all these!

For this tutorial we're going to use msys's BASH mode which is basically like using linux in windows.

Obtaining the code

There's 3 main parts of the project we need:

• Render/Engine
  
• ETMain replacement
  
• Omni-bot
  

You can see these all on the xreal sourceforge website (http://xreal.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi).

This tutorial will not teach you how to use bash but if you follow the screenshots you should be able to work it out.

1. Open Msysgit BASH and create a new folder somewhere then perform a git clone of ET-XreaL

2. enter the ET-XreaL folder and clone the ETMain replacement

3. clone omni-bot code

4. create visual studio 2010 solution

Within this solution there are 4 important sub projects: ETXreaL, etmain_game, etmain_ui, etmain_cgame.

5. compile ETXreaL.exe

Right click on the ETXreaL project in visual studio and click build. Once finished, copy the exe file from ETXreaL/bin32 into ETXreaL (i.e. move it up one directory). If you have problems try moving from debug mode to release mode at the top.

6. compile ET dlls

similarly right click on etmain_ui, etmain_game and etmain_cgame and click build. These automatically enter etmain so no need to copy anything.

Play the game

To player load ETXreaL.exe and enter a map just as you would with normal ET. I would suggest using devmap, developer 1 and logfile 2 as if you find any bugs they'll be more information to report on sourceforge.

/devmap oasis; developer 1; logfile 2

Updating

Using the git tool again do 'git pull' in each of ETXreaL, etmain and omni-bot