Various troubles. Any kind of help will be good.

[3xistence]

Ok, as far you know from...one year i think... my goal is to merge all the best mods of q3a. Freezetag, CPMA, osp etc...

I'm not a good debugger or programmer so i still got a lot of problems.
I will try to use only this topic in order to not fullfill the forum with my questions.

So let's begin:
1. I'm trying to add "on hud" the current time, everything looks so simple also because inside the game there's time.h ... but for some strange reason it doesn't work. One thing i hate on all quake (this is a feature i want for my own) is that i can't see realtime on my hud, so still playing, the current time. When i was young isn't a problem but right about now know if there are the 01.00am or 04.00am when i need to wake up at 05.00am in order to work can be very good.

2.There's a debug or log command or cvar in order to record anything on my game? I create a lot of new gametypes but with one (a CTF based one) my game crashes at random (so probably i made a mess with the code). Any clue in order to get detailed info about what's happend?

3.I'm trying to add a gameplay similar to Clan Arena or Rocket Arena;
A. i need to create the READY command before the warmup...can i use the one from intermission or it's better if i create a new player state?

for now that's all...i'm trying to make little steps...for now the most annoying trouble i get is the CTD i got with the CTF gameplay. It's like an Instagib CTF so probably the mess is about something i commited out (like powerup spawn etc...)

Thanks again. Any direction will be good for any kind of these troubles.
If you need more detailed code or stuff just write here. I will be glad to share it. For what i do, the only uncleary code on Instagib CTF is about the spawn and respawn. I repeat all the gameplay looks and works good, but i got random crashes on desktop. So, for sure, it's something i coded wrong somewhere.

[themuffinman]

1. There's a trap_RealTime system call for cgame and ui. You can store the data in qtime_t as follows:

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qtime_t		time;

trap_RealTime(&time);

Now if you type in "time." it'll show you a list of members such as tm_hour, tm_min, tm_sec etc that you can use to compile a time string.

2. g_log <file name>. Being ioquake3, it will save to your %appdata%/HOMEPATH_NAME_WIN folder

3. If you can find a way to use that then why not? I created a new one myself... added a readyToBegin boolean in gclient_t which toggles with a new command in g_cmds.c, checks the ready statuses of all non-bot players in g_main.c which then creates a ready mask cl->ps.stats[STAT_CLIENTS_READY] to communicate all ready statuses to clients and returns true or false to the warmup functions to say whether the match should begin or not.

You created a new gametype for insta CTF? Why not just add a g_instagib cvar? All it does is alter the damage, item spawns and starting weapons. It's not a new gametype all on its own...

[3xistence]

Thanks as ever muffin!
It's something i hate can't know what time is it when i play.

Yes i created both things: a GT_game for instagib related ones and a cvar in order to set instagib also a normal match.

so with trapRealTime i will got all the time infos inside "time" that are stored as tm_hour, tm_min etc...

can i set some vars with tm_ etc... and create a char var = va("%i,%i",var with tm_hour,var with tm_min) and use it in a draw function?

[3xistence]

that's exactly what i want to add, a realtime clock in order to know what hour's =) i'm checking it right now.
Nice stuff the 4 players split screen!