E+ OpenArena

This site is undergoing considerable editing owing to the release of Excessive Plus 2.0a. The new version of Excessive Plus has caused much of the previous information to be obsolete. All updating will be completed by Monday, 8 March 2010. Until then, only the links in the “Update section,” the sidebar, and the links with the 2.0a in brackets are completely reliable

UPDATE:

Lots of players connect to the Excessive Plus (E+) Servers but fail to create a user name. Consequently, these users are all given the name of “ExcessivePlayer”. As can be seen HERE.

The main reason for this is that E+ 2.0a has its own cvar (client variable) for the player name and does not use the default player name in OpenArea/Quake III. To quickly change your name, open the console and type /xp_name Your-Name. This will not change the name that you use in Regular Openarena.

To get the full version of Excessive Plus for OpenArena download Excessive Plus 2.0a and extract the contents to OpenArena.

Then, if you want to easily create fancy colored names open the “XP_Qname_1.0_Final.jar” file that will be in openarena/excessiveplus/tools/. Your system will need Java Runtime version 6 but most Windows, Linux, and Mac users already have Java installed.

You can find HTML and TEXT User Guides in the same directory (folder). Here is an on-line version: XP Qname Web Tutorial

Here is a demo for off-line viewing: XP Qname video.

To Do List:

1. Remove all references to Excessive Plus (E+) version 1.03 and replace with new references (client configuration, server setup, etc.) about E+ 2.0a.




2. Re-create “Instant Servers” based on E+ 2.0a for those who want to host their own Excessive Plus servers with minimum fuss.

Hello, each link below will open a specific page to help you get started or to improve your knowledge and performance playing ExcessivePlus on OpenArena.

For the Curious Visitor:
1. Do you have some cool videos that I can check-out?(updated for E+ 2.0a)

Beginner Topics:

1. What is ExcessivePlus? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

2. What do I need to get started? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

3. How do I add color to my name? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

4. How do I optimize my settings? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

5. How do I record and play demos? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

6. What GameTypes does E+ support? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

7. What are server configs?

Intermediate Topics:

1. How do I use variables, commands, and radio/voice chats?

2. How do I add a game banner to my web site? (updated for E+ 2.0a)

Advanced Topics:

1. How to setup an OpenArena E+ Server in 10 minutes?

2. Can you show me examples of various client and server Configs?

3. How to setup a multi-arena server and use server variables and commands?

4. How to create a Game Style config?

MP4 web video – Basic E+ Weapon Movements in CTF