How do I add mods to Quake 1?

[pondspress]

Campaign mods specifically.

[dat_potatoe]

Well, it depends but generally just drop the mod folder into your steam/steamapps/common/Quake folder. Then in-game type "game ___" into the console with ___ being the name of the mod folder.

That said the Bethesda port's mod support is pretty hit or miss. You're better off using a separate sourceport like VKQuake for broader compatibility.

[pondspress]

Originally posted by dat_potatoe:

Well, it depends but generally just drop the mod folder into your steam/steamapps/common/Quake folder. Then in-game type "game ___" into the console with ___ being the name of the mod folder.

That said the Bethesda port's mod support is pretty hit or miss. You're better off using a separate sourceport like VKQuake for broader compatibility.

Yeah. The ones from ModDB aren't working. I wonder which mods are.

[Hyper Sonic]

Which mods did you try? QuakeSpasm might be a good source port to try. There's also the console var gamedir (which lets you check which directory it's using.)

[pondspress]

Originally posted by Hyper Sonic:

Which mods did you try? QuakeSpasm might be a good source port to try. There's also the console var gamedir (which lets you check which directory it's using.)

Pesquake & Malice. Neither worked because "Missing Nightdive assets"

[Hyper Sonic]

Nightdive is the company that did this 'remaster' port, I suppose with Bethesda. I don't think it has good compatibility with many mods out there. Here's a video of Malice using QuakeSpasm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ6Z4q1nDoU
(kind of annoying though the constant changing of shading mode in the video)

[Mopey bloke]

You should drop the mods on the Rerelease folder, where the engine exe is.
Also check the guides section for a compatibility list for playing mods in this remaster's engine.

[Hyper Sonic]

Well that's where one of the engine exes is. Ya the mod folder should be in the same folder as the exe that you're using is in.

[Electric Cupcake]

Extract the base quake folder to the desktop or wherever. Decompress and drop the engine files and mod files in, and launch either from the in-game command console or with a custom shortcut, or use https://github.com/m-x-d/Simple-Quake-Launcher-2

[Hyper Sonic]

Ya wherever you put the Quake installation make sure it's setup like this

/Quake
  /id1
    PAK0.PAK
    PAK1.PAK
  /some mod
    (PAK files here)
  quake.exe
  (whatever dll files your source port uses)

[Seamus]

The tag you're looking for is code in brackets.

[Hyper Sonic]

Cool, thanks for the code tag suggestion Seamus.