==================================================================== Gib Me Liberty ... A Quake 2 level by Ed Cope ==================================================================== filename : gml.zip version : 1.0; 1-10-98 author : Ed Cope aka Scope contact : e-mail: scope@wt.net homepage : http://web.wt.net/~scope/ description : Single player Quake2 level beta testers : Paul Taylor Other levels by author : QUAKE LEVELS: Cope's First The Locks Mines & Mayhem Introducing the Blarg Gib Factory MALICE LEVELS: D3 and D12 from the commercial release Testosterone DM level ==================================================================== * Boilerplate information * single player : Yep cooperative : nope deathmatch : Yes difficulty settings : Yes demos replaced : None new graphics : No new sounds : No new monsters/weapons : No new Code : No music : No track pre-selected * construction * base : new level from scratch editor(s) used : Worldcraft 1.5, Qoole 2.3 shareware, Quark, and notepad build time : About 40 hours number of brushes : 1,299 compile time : On a P150 w/ 32 Megs RAM QBSP3: 58 sec QVIS3: 24 minutes QRAD3: 40 minutes known Bugs : None ==================================================================== * installation * Unzip the file gml.bsp into your Quake2/Baseq2/maps directory, start Quake2 and type "map gml" at the console. ==================================================================== * Credits * - id Software for another game that's as fun to edit as it is to play. - Paul Taylor for beta testing. Check out AWOQ2 for the best single player maps: http://www.quake2.com/awoq2/ - The various Quake2 level editing sites that created tutorials to help me along: Quake Workshop Rust Quakelab2 - Obiwan and Taskmaster for taking the time to patch together some sort of Q2 support for Worldcraft. - Crash and Matt Sefton for pimping my levels in the past. Check out their SPQ2 pages at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1481/ http://www.planetquake.com/spq2/ - All the level authors that have motivated me by raising the bar with some truly awesome levels. - Team Epochalypse ===================================================================== * Other information * I welcome any feedback on my levels. This level was a nightmare to put together. I am dissapointed with Worldcraft due to the lack of Q2 support and hardware acceleration. To fill the void, I ended up using Qoole, Quark, and notepad for surface editing, some entity editing, and level compiling. I also downloaded BSP and QERadiant but didn't really spend much time with either one. For those of you interested, here are my first imrpressions with all the editors: Qoole: I like it. Easy to learn, powerful features, and has the best Q2 and GL support. Shareware version limits you to 300 brushes so I couldn't use it as much as I would have liked. I may try Qoole to start my next level. Quark: I like Quark for it's entity editing and level compiling capabilities. QERadient: Didn't play with it enough to develop an opinion. BSP: Sorry, but BSP did not catch my fancy. I know a lot of people out there swear by it but I found it slow, cumbersome and difficult to learn. I will say that it does have a lot of nice features. * secrets * There are three secrets and two hard to get items: 1. In the first room, there is an invulnerability hidden behind an exploding object. 2. There is a quad hidden behind an exploding wall behind the first elevator shaft on the ground level. 3. There is some ammo/health under the exploding glass in the first computer room. 4. There is a 100 health in the last computer hallway which can be obtained by shooting out the computer console which it sits on. 5. There is some armor and other items at the top of the last room. Hitch a ride on one of the elevator cells to get up there. ===================================================================== * legal stuff * This level is copyright 1998 by Ed Cope. Permission to use, copy and distribute unedited copies of this file (gml.zip) is hereby granted, provided that no fee is charged for the use or availability of this file (other than the normal connection costs for on-line services, if applicable). The above copyright notice and this permission notice must be left intact in all copies of this file. By using this file, you have agreed to the terms and conditions set forth in this document. 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