My version of GameCam gets installed a little differently under Windows than Avi's original instructions call for. Avi originally had GameCam installed in \quake2\release\ and in this case the Q2 engine would load the GameCam DLL (gamex86.dll) from that folder and then load the (gamex86.dll) of the game mod from whatever mod you were running. The Linux installation calls for renaming the *.so files and to place the GameCam module into the mod folder to make the game engine load the GameCam module first and then the mod. The inconsistency to this and certain debug methods I was using caused me to change the way GameCam works. The QW version of GameCam gets named gamex86.dll and the LOX mod gets named gamex86.real.dll just like their counterparts in Linux.
Why not use the \quake2\release method? Well, when I debug LOX I often use the debug version of R1Q2 or Quake2.exe and when they are in DEBUG versions they load from quake2\debug instead and I ended up with some strange things happening depending on how I started the servers on my Windows boxes so I opted to install GameCam on Windows the same way it is installed on Linux. This way all my modules get copied to the mod folders I designate and I can control what modules get included. It made more sense to me to make it act like Linux at the time. There's even more fun happening when you start adding Q2admin to the mix... but that's another story.
Avi's code was probably some of the best mod code around, I found only this issue and one trivial bug when closing down the dedicated server and these were easily fixed.
All the GameCam functions are server side, no client code is needed so if you are not a server operator you don't need to install this mod on your computer.
Installation on LOX for Windows:
1. Rename the LOX dll to gamex86.real.dll
2. Copy gamecam dll (gamex86.dll) to the lox folder
3. Add GameCam cvars to server.cfg file as needed for flavor.
4. Start LOX dedicated server per LOX instructions.
GameCam will post a startup banner to the server console and LOX will post its startup banner. It's all good. Yum.
Linux users, you are already hackers, get to work.
