Making custom messages permanent?

[VentGala]

First off all, I apologize if this question has already been posted somewhere, but without the search function, it's not that easy to know...

 

I'd like to know if there is some way to make my custom messages (using the bind x "vstr chat00" command) permanent. As it is, they're gone the next time I start the game, and it takes forever to set them up again...

 

Perhaps one could enter the code in one of the .cfg files, I don't know. Any help here would be great!

[teleguy]

You have to create a textfile in your base directory . Paste in

bind x "vstr chat00" and save the file as autoexec.cfg. Make sure that there's no ".txt" part in the filename ( if there is delete the ".txt" part).

[VentGala]

Great, I thought it would be something like that, I just didn't know what the .cfg file should be called.

Am I right in thinking that putting commands on different rows in the file works the same way as hitting return in the console?

 

As in:

bind x "vstr chat00"

set chat00 "say blabla;bind x vstr chat01"

set chat01 "say yaddayadda;bind x vstr chat00"

 

And so forth...?

[bar-bar mandrel]

"YES"

 

Call it anything you feel like.

 

Most quake based games automatically load a file named autoexec.cfg, if it exists in the same directory as the game generated configuration file.

 

Personally, I like to put all my stuff in seperate files: Comms in 1 file, controls in another etc. and:

 

add a line to the autoexec.cfg:

 

exec comms.cfg

 

OR

 

bind f5 "exec comms.cfg"

 

OR

 

type at the console:

 

exec comms.cfg

 

The nice thing about seperate files is that if you want to uninstall or re-install (for instance) you just have to move out the1 or 2 custom files, and then drop them back in again when you want. (or email them to yourself at a friend's house to use there...).

 

I like to keep the graphical stuff out of the files, so that I can go back to defaults when I fuXOR something and can't get it back to normal

[VentGala]

Lots of information there, thank you!

[bar-bar mandrel]

but is it GOOD information?

[VentGala]

Yeah, it is. Forgot to state that....