Ensure that you have packaged up all the files your mod needs (sound, progs, models, maps, graphics) into the correct directory structure below your AudioQuake parent directory.

Furthermore, ensure that anything that isn't required is not in this directory! This includes source code (that should be distributed separately).

Ensure your mod's config instructions are included in a single file, mod.cfg. You can add mod-specific keys in this file. This file overrides settings in the user's config.cfg and autoexec.cfg files.

Later on, you must specify if you want the game launcher to keep your mod updated with changes the user makes to their config.cfg and autoexec.cfg files.

Here is part of the mod.cfg file from the “JediQuake” modification:

// Commands specific to this MOD...

bind "h" "+Blaster"
// default key to use blaster is "h"
                    

Take your mod directory and put it in a new directory that has the name of your mod. If you are naming your mod directories with an appended version number (jediquake37, for example), the name you give to the parent directory should not include this (jediquke, for example).

Construct an INI file for your mod in this parent directory, next to your mod's installation directory. The INI file should be called qmod.ini. For details of all available options, consult Appendix B, QMOD INI File Settings. Here is an example, again taken from the “JediQuake” modification:

[general]
name=JediQuake
shortdesc=Audio Quake with a Star Wars flair!
version=3.7
gamedir=jediquake37
watch_config=yes
watch_autoexec=yes

[longdesc]
00=This mod adds various Star Wars style weapons to the game along with
01=force powers, new weapons and modifications of existing weapons...
02=The bots may also surprise you as well...
03=See the jediquake folder for documentation.
                    

ZIP up the parent directory so that you have created a ZIP file with two items in it – the MOD's installation directory and the qmod.ini file.

Finally, rename the ZIP file to the name of the parent directory (i.e. the MOD's name) with a .qmod extension to replace the .zip one it pops out of your ZIP creator with.