Title: Dynasty
Filename: pasdm1.pk3
Author: Ricardo "EmeraldTiger" Stevenson
E-Mail: **email removed**
Description: A large gothic-themed map, aimed towards TDM, also good for
FFA or Large CA (8v8). Team Arena support included.
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How to Play:
After downloading, unzip pasdm1.pk3 into either your baseq3 or
missionpack folder. Running vq3, open the game, go to single player,
select skirmish, then go through the list until you find pasdm1, then
click on it and run with desired settings. Running Team Arena, open the
game, start a server in FFA or TDM, and run with desired settings.
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Story:
Story? What story, bro?
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General Information:
Free For All: Yes
Tourney: No
Team Deathmatch: Yes (Recommended, 4v4)
Clan Arena: Yes (8v8)
Freeze Tag: Yes
Capture The Flag: No
Players: 8 - 16 (in TDM, 4 - 5 players per team, CA 4 - 8)
Weapons: SG**, LG, GL, RL, PG, RG, CG*
Powerups / Items: Quad Damage
Size: Large
Skill Level: Intermediate
Bot File: Yes
New Sounds: No
New Textures: Yes (See credits below)
New Music: No
*In Team Arena only
**If not running TA, there are two shotguns, one replacing the CG.
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Build Information:
Base: Built from scratch
Editor Used: GTKRadiant 1.4
Other Programs: GIMP (for custom textures)
Notepad (for readme)
WinRAR (for .pk3 creation)
Quake 3 Shader Editor (for shader creation)
Bugs: Some fog clipping issue near sky, only really
noticeable in spec mode so nothing high priority.
Build Time: About 2 months
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Changelog:
Alpha 1 (09/15/11)
- First released to the public.
Alpha 2 (09/18/11)
- Swapped RL and LG positions.
- Swapped GL and RG positions.
- Established some very basic, early architecture.
- Removed the original jump pad with quad hanging in air. It was replaced with a
platform which can be accessed with a new accelerator pad in front of it, a small
protruding brush nearby, or a new interconnection.
- Added some doors to block line-of-sight.
- Replaced fog near MH in favor of lava.
- Removed the underwater tunnel teleporter in favor of a plain slipgate teleporter.
- Removed the underwater slugs in favor of four 5+ healths distributed towards
both sides.
- Expanded the tunnel where the GL is. (formerly RG position) A grate is placed
right below the RL (formerly LG position) to allow players to look down and shoot.
- Can now shoot through grates.
Alpha 3 (09/25/11)
- Added a new room between the Quad and MH rooms. The MH room now has
a higher walkway allowing for more vertical gameplay. This new room also adds
a few walls to the Quad room, making it much less open than before. There is
an experimental Personal Teleporter platform as well. (Invulnerability if in TA and
gametype is not TDM)
- Redirected some of the teleporters. The MH tele now takes you to the platform
above MH, (mentioned earlier) and the underwater tele now takes you to were
the MH tele used to send you, at the lower walkway near the MH room door.
- Increased the size and space of the quad platform to allow more room for
fights.
- Moved the quad accel pad to the higher walkway, wedged between two co-
lumns.
- Hall between Quad and statue rooms (see below) is longer and bends 90
degrees.
- Several item placement changes, including a GA for CPMA.
- Added a statue of Ranger. (temporary, experimenting with Blender)
Alpha 4 (09/25/11)
- Changed lava to slime.
- Changed fog color to a bright green hue in accordance with slime.
- Experimental change: Crusher now must be activated via a button. (which
is attached to a new column which helps break up openness) It can be
activated every 4 seconds.
- Team location information added.
- Replaced the trigger brush for the trigger_hurt in fog pit with nodrop.
- Slightly modified geometry near MH room exit to make it less obtrusive
when tele-jumps are enabled in CPM / CQ3.
Beta 1 (10/28/11)
- Established visuals.
- Added falling sounds for fog of death.
- Added a second button that also activates the crusher, but also has a viewing
screen which allows you to see someone going for RA, as otherwise the crusher
is obscured behind the walls.
- Atmospheric sounds added.
- Water in main room replaced with fog, teleporter and it`s respective destination
have been removed and a jump pad leading up to the invulnerability hatch has
been added where the teleporter destination was.
- Slightly widened the hallway next to the RG, added some CG belt ammo.
- Bridge in the LG room is now a sloped platform which can`t be walked under.
- Fixed issue with crusher not killing players instantly. (hopefully... :p)
- LG platform has been changed to not have it`s own ceiling anymore. Column
extended for cover. Floor is grated so you can damage someone from below
with a hitscan weapon like LG or RG.
- Hint brush placement for FPS optimization. Max r_speeds peak around 16,000
traingles.
- Numerous other things.
Beta 2 (11/05/11)
- New, more contrasting skybox from ra3map7. (The Houses of Infliction)
- Removed the Persian rugs in favor of metallic flooring in places.
- More atmospheric sounds added, including some flame sounds that I forgot to
add for Beta 1.
- Reduced the contrast and saturation of several green-colored objects. Green
lighting has either been toned down or removed.
- Clipped the rocky GL tunnel.
- Re-clipped the trees.
- Several other clipping adjustments made.
- Some minor brushwork and texture fixes.
Release Candidate 1 (11/17/11)
- Renamed map from "Domain of Red Snakes" to "Dynasty".
- Reworked the terrain at YA to use terrain blending.
- Some more clipping adjustments.
- Fixed some visible caulk areas, albeit only reachable by rocket jumping or
spectating.
- Slightly lightened the item spawn markers.
- Fixed (hopefully) possible shader conflict issues.
Final Release (11/19/11)
- Intermission added.
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Tips and Strategies:
- In Team Arena, use the invulnerability if you are under attack in a room
you are controlling and need to fight the resistance. You can even deny
access to a few areas by activating it while using the accelerator pads.
- Additionally, the invulnerability can be used at the crusher to stop
yourself from being squished. The crusher will hit the bubble and you
will take no damage.
- In CPMA, use the accelerator pads to your advantage to gain very high
running speeds. Despite the map`s large size, you can reach any point
very quickly.
- The crusher can be activated by two buttons, one that can be seen
while you are going to RA, and another one which only the presser of
the button can see, not you. Before grabbing RA, call for a teammate in
teamchat to use the lower GL teleporter and clear anyone camping the
viewing screen. Unless they have good reflexes a SG blast in the face
will get rid of them, and you are safe to go. Well, unless you have an
abusive teamkiller. But then you can /callvote a kick, or shout at him
for his incompetence.
- The GL is right next to the teleporter spawning you next to the RA
accel pad. Spam some nades at the exit and you`ll probably catch a
few people attempting to come out.
- You can also spam nades through the LG grate (it allows weapons
to pass through) for the same purpose.
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Thanks To:
My family, for always being there for me, both through the good times and bad times.
Let us always be together.
Victor "DaEngineer" Karp for allowing me to use his fantastic tree models.
TheMuffinMan for helping me fix some model issues.
Simon "Sock" `O Callaghan for the wonderful plant textures and terrain blending
tutorials.
CGTextures for many of the textures.
Yan "Method" Ostretsov for the arched trims (yan_test) and a (slightly modified) brick
texture.
Pawel "ShadoW" Chrapka for the door designs (used from the q3shw26 .map source)
and for some of the primary textures.
Dan "Inflict" Haigh for ra3map7 sky.
All testers:
- Ferdinand "cityy" List
- Victor "DaEngineer" Karp
- Jerry "Eraser" Laman
- "KittenIgnition"
- "obsidian"
- Adam "pikaluva13" Trowbridge
- Dan "TheMuffinMan" Da Costa
id software for Quake.
id software and Loki Software for GTKRadiant.
Anyone else I forgot to mention. :)
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